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Abduzeedo - Free illustrations for all.

AbiWord - Open source word processing app.

Ad Slicer for MySpace - A Greasemonkey script that removes both the ads and the ad spaces that inhabit MySpace.

Adblock Plus - Easily the best advertisement/image blocker available for Firefox today.

Adobe AIR A programming runtime that allows various online tools to essentially become desktop applications. AIR's main competition in the field is Google Gears.

Adobe Buzzword - Online word processor powered by Adobe AIR.

AlfaBetic - Translate your blog into several different languages.

Alliance P2P - Creates a "private" peer-to-peer network.

Amazon.com Video on Demand – Purchase and watch video directly from the famous online megastore. Think of it as an odd combination of iTunes and Hulu.

Animoto - Upload a song and few images and let Animoto do the rest.

Archaeologist for Digg - Analyze the keywords used in Digg searches.

Artist's Sketchbook - Edits pictures directly from Opera.

ArtWeaver - An open source, Photoshop-style editor from Germany.

Ashampoo ClipFinder – Easily download video clips from sites such as YouTube and DailyMotion.

AT&T Pogo - Firefox, but with a distinct 3D flare. Pogo is currently in a closed beta state.

Avant - A "pre-tweaked" derivative of Internet Explorer.

AVG Free - Free to use anti-virus software.

Aviary - A powerful, but complex, editing system.


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[1] Bakumatsu Koshashin Generator - Give your digital photographs a quaint, 1940's makeover.

Bebo - A fairly new but popular network, especially in the United Kingdom. It has been linked with the likes of Microsoft, Adobe, and celebrity biologist Richard Dawkins.

Beehive - Social network for IBM employees. Beehive is a part of the IBM Social Software project.

Big News - A news site powered by Ask.com.

BitStrips - Make your own webcomics.

[Blank Must Die - Stop websites from opening up "dummy" tabs and web instances.

Blender - A powerful, yet open source, 3D graphics engine. Blender was used in the production of Spider-Man 2.

Bluemail - A web 2.0 email reader. Bluemail is a part of the IBM Social Software project.

Blinklist - An interesting, “stream of consciousness” style of social bookmarking.

Blogs.com - Blog directory run by Movable Type maker Six Apart.

Blog It - Simultaneously post your update to nearly any blogging platform.

Blog TV - Internet TV "shows" on mobile phones.

BlueTunes – Backup your music files to the web. Said files can then be streamed or shared with others via ‘’’Facebook’’’.

Box.net - Yet another file storing and sharing service.

Broong – A bizarre combination of note-taking and social networking.

Bubbles - Run any website as a free-standing application in Windows'.

BuddyPress - Full-on WordPress social network due in December. BuddyPress will be built upon WordPress MU.

BuddyWave - An oddball, but interesting, combination of Internet Explorer and MySpace.

Buffer.me - A video service based upon YouTube’s own API.

BuildASearch - Simple search engine creation using BOSS.

Bungee Connect - Create software online.

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Cake Financial Facebook App - View your friend’s stock portfolios.

Calameo - View full magazines online, complete with page-turn animation.

Cameroid - Add some wackiness to your webcam stills.

Camino - A Mac-only browser designed to compete with Safari.

Candystand - Wrigley’s Gum's pioneering synergy of gaming and marketing.

Canned Responses – Add automated “away” messages to Gmail.

Cappuccino - Free version of Apple’s Objective C.

CBS Social Viewing Room – Watch (and comment upon) your favorite CBS programs in grand web 2.0 style.

Chrome - Google's entry into the browser market. Since its debut in September 2008, Chrome has been called everything from "the next step in computing" to "just another fad."

CinemaForge – Easily convert, upload, and watch video files of all shapes and sizes.

CloudO - A fully-featured desktop system that is compatible with the iPhone.

Clusty - Search results are arranged in "clusters" - relevant information is bunched together. Clusty is also a meta search engine, meaning that it searches several search engines at once.

Collabrio - Facebook app designed to study keyword creation.

Colour Lovers - An easy to use DHTML color picker.

Color Palette Generator - Add some nice color to your site.

CommentKahuna - Find WordPress blogs that relate to your site.

CommentSniper - Be the first to comment on a blog post.

Comment Relish - Sends a personalized welcome message to first-time posters.

CookThink - A search engine for recipes.

Cooliris – Get the content of a link without actually clicking on it.

CorePlayer - A media player designed to work on everything from Windows to PDAs.

Craigslist Reader - All of the fun of Craigslist, but without the browser.

Create Your Own Font - Your very own font, made quick and easy.

Cross Language Enterprise Search - Actively translate a variety of Google-based websites on demand.

Crossover Chromium - Chrome for Mac and Linux users. Somewhat unstable, but completely usable.

Crowdvine - Don't like the choices out there? Create your ow

CSS Optimizer - Make your CSS the best it can be.

Cuil - Results come back in a unique, three-column format. Cuil is the brainchild of former Google employees Tom Costello and Anna Patterson. Cuil also claims to have more sites in their search database that Google.

Cushy CMS - Easily edit materials on your site.


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Dailymotion - A video site with a social networking twist.

Dance Jam - The “YouTube” for dance videos.

Dealipedia - A wiki designed for business deals.

DeepDyve - Explore the "dark web" in style!

Deletionpedia – A shrine dedicated to the material deleted from Wikipedia.

Delicious for Internet Explorer - Internet Explorer users get to join the link sharing party that is Delicious.

Delver - Search the web with your social networking profile in mind.

Devunity - Social network dedicated to both programmers and their projects.

Digg Mobile - A Digg site designed for newer cell phones.

Digg River - A Digg site optimized for older cell phones.

Diigo - Community-based social bookmarking

Dipity – A surprisingly powerful social networking aggregator.

Doggyspace - Social networking for dogs and dog owners.

Domainr – An offbeat, yet intriguing way of finding potential domains

Download Statusbar - Moves the Firefox "download" list from a separate window to the bottom of the screen.

Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog - The online supplement to Joss Whedon’s “musical tragicomedy."

Dropbox - Online file storage. New users get five gigs of space free.

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Evernote - An innovative way to take and share notes.

EveryCall.us – Find out who that telemarketer really is.

Evri – Find new and interesting things simply by following related ideas. Think of it as “Six Desgrees of Kevin Bacon,” only more rewarding and meaningful.

EyeOS - A completely open source online operating system.


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Facebook - The "other" network. While it's the most popular network in the world, it's a distant number two the US and Germany, and number three in Japan. Facebook is perhaps best known for its wide array of proprietary applications.

Facebook Anthem - A Facebook parody video.

Facebook Lexicon - Facebook widget that monitors popular Facebook keywords.

Faintheart - The MySpace movie.

Fancy Numbered Tabs - Adds -- you guessed it -- fancy, numbered tabs to Firefox.

Fast Company - Another business network in the vein of LinkedIn. It also doubles as the official site for Fast Company magazine.

Fedora - A powerful, though not necessarily user-friendly, Linux distribution. Users and programmers are sometimes referred to as "Red Hats" due to their affiliation with open source developer Red Hat.

Fiesta - Free online RPG similar to Worlds of Warcraft.

Firefox - The web browser from Mozilla, the creators of the legendary Netscape browser. Firefox is the first major browser to make tabbed browsing a standard feature. It is also considered to be the main alternative to Internet Explorer.

FlickrVision - See where in the world Flickr pictures are coming from.

Flock - A Firefox derivative with advanced social networking capabilities.

Flowgram – Make complex, web-powered slideshows with ease.

Fluid - Run any website as a free-standing application in OS X.

Fontspace - Free fonts for everybody!

FoxyTunes - Control the media player of your choice, find lyrics and more, all without minimizing the browser of your choosing.

Free BSD - Easily the most popular out of all of the BSD desktop derivatives.

FriendFeed - Easy share and discuss your favorite sites with everyone.

Friendster - One of the first social networks. While its popularity has dissipated in the United States, it remains a favorite in Asia.

Fring – Run web 2.0 services such as Skype and Twitter on your mobile phone with ease.

Fuelly - A social network centered around gas prices.

Fundable.com - Raise capital now


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Games Factory 2 - Make your own games.

GAudi - Google indexes audio. At the present moment, it's only politicians.

Gazopa - The “draw a keyword” search engine.

Geni - A network that helps you build your family tree.

GENI Network - Scientists attempt to "reboot" the Internet.

GIMP - Open source image editor. Many consider the GIMP to be Photoshop's chief rival.

GimzoSMS - Web-based texting.

Glide OS - A desktop system that looks like OS X.

GNU Privacy Guard – A powerful, yet incredibly hard to use, open source security program in the same vein as Pretty Good Privacy.

GoAnimate - Make your own short animation.

Google - Arguably the most popular search engine in the world. The one web service that almost everyone has heard of.

Google Account Multi-Login - A Greasemonkey script that lets you easily access all of your Gmail accounts without signing out.

Google Ad Manager - Online ad management tool from Google.

Google Book Search – Easily scan through several books online. The overall service is meant to simulate a real “bookstore experience.”

Google Display Ads – Add professional looking display ads to AdWords in minutes.

Google Election Video Search Applet - Search YouTube videos by word.

Google Gears - Runtime that makes Google programs available offline, similar to AIR.

Google GrandCentral - Make free phone calls through Google Talk.

Google News - News stories and like, similar to Yahoo News.

Google Talk Chaback Widget - Add Google Talk functionality to your blog.

Google Insights for Search - Search for the popularity of a keyword across the Internet.

Google Video for Business - YouTube for Inter-office communication.

Goosh - Unofficial Google shell.

GotVoice - Store your old voice messages as MP3 files.

GPG - Encrypt your Gmail account.

GreaseKit - A version of Greasemonkey specifically designed to work with Safari and OS X.

Greasemonkey - Allows user scripts to be run in Firefox. There are also official versions available for Firefox-derivatives Flock and Epiphany, and "unofficial" versions for SeaMonkey and musical database Songbird.

Greasemonkey for IE - A version of Greasemonkey specifically designed to work with Internet Explorer.

GTD Inbox Plugin - Add database functionality to Gmail.


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History of the Google Logo - Google throughout the years.

How to Stalk Twitter Gurus - Jason Moffatt shows you how to follow the best users on Twitter in style.

Hoffspace - Social networking for David Hasselhoff fans or all ages.

Hulu - Video service brought to us by NBC Universal and Fox.



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