8 Free, Offbeat Open-source Social Tools
December 21st, 2009 admin
Tweeting, status updating…you don’t have to look very hard to see how the most popular social networks encourage a kind of groupthink among their users. If you’re a maverick, though, or your organization wants to customize social tools for internal use, here are eight free, open-source resources. Storytlr is an open-source “lifestreaming” application that was recently released on Google Code . It can collect and let you share content you have on social media sites, blogs and elsewhere, but it’s best known for allowing you to make tapestries and slideshows along a timeline representing your online social activities…
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