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8 Open Source Projects from Google

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The resident geeks at web server host 34SP.com say GWT is a packaged toolkit designed to make building browser-based applications easier. It is a simple browser bookmark that opens the application within your website, making it easy to create sprites, even if you already have a fully-functioning site in place. OpenSocial.

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Why as a Developer, I Switched to Blogger.com and Why I'm Staying With It

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It was klunky, and seemed very limited compared to my self-hosted Wordpress install I had been on for years. Just last year, I was running this blog on a self-hosted Wordpress instance, the same server I was running SocialToo.com. All that and I would still not be able to fully integrate the design I had from my own hosted solution.

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Your Guide to the Crowdsourced Workforce - ReadWriteWeb

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Generally, these sites exist in the form of graphic design contest web sites where clients put up a call for submissions for a piece of graphic design work, and designers compete for a cash prize by submitting designs. 99designs is very likely the largest graphic design contest site on the web. Graphic Design.

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The Next “Facebook Platform” for the Modern Web, and Why Twitter’s Running the Wrong Way

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Kevin Marks (who led the OpenSocial platform at Google) mentioned the irony in a tweet earlier today of installing the open source social network Diaspora as we were discussing Twitter’s very centralized real time streaming API and federated environments. That’s a really powerful concept!