All you need is a PC running Google Media Server and a UPnP-enabled device (e.g. a PlayStation 3). At the touch of a button, you can then: Access videos, music, and photos stored on your PC, View Picasa Web Albums, Play your favorite YouTube videos...

Why Windows?
...the only way to connect the XBox 360 to a UPnP server, was to have a service that is only found on Microsoft services ... and for the server itself to be claimed to be made by Microsoft. Legal would not allow us to pretend to be Microsoft (although there are other servers out there that do).

sources:
Google Media Server
YouTube in your Living Room
From the desktop to your TV
related:
Create a Wii media server

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Labels: google, microsoft, networking, software, web2.0

Dipity takes automated timeline creation to a new level. If you have a Blogger, Flickr, WordPress, YouTube, Twitter or any of the other supported social networking site just enter in your user name, URL or an RSS feed and dipity will do the rest.

http://www.dipity.com/user/webmove/timeline/personal

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Labels: communication, consumer_cloud_computing, networking, sharing, software, Twitter, web2.0

authorSTREAM is a powerful online presentation sharing engine that not only allows you to upload your PowerPoint presentations online for free, but also assists you to share them with your friends, students or co-workers located across the globe

http://www.authorstream.com

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Labels: collaboration, communication, consumer_cloud_computing, file_sharing, freeware, networking, sharing, software, video, web2.0

With a beautiful Mac-like interface, email and subversion integration.... -> Beautifully simple issue tracking.

Open Source Loves Lighthouse
lighthouseapp.com

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Labels: administration, collaboration, development, freeware, networking, sharing, web2.0

...crazy for the most unique and high quality videos around the web?

Openfilm specializes in ambitious, well-produced, licensed video content. We showcase our own line-up of original productions and web serials called “Openfilm Originals”, as well as content from an ever-growing list of contributing individuals and organizations, the ranks of which any serious content creator has the potential to join!

http://beta.openfilm.com/

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Labels: collaboration, communication, networking, video, web2.0

Yes, WatchDoIt is yet another instructional/education videospace on the internets. Yes, you can learn how to play golf or make a cosmo, but you can also learn things like how to walk the catwalk or distinguish among different Asians (talks, looks, dress). It’s got videos that are actually entertaining rather than merely educational

http://www.watchdoit.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-Learning

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Labels: collaboration, networking, video, web2.0

According to webware,

News Corp.'s MySpace is set to release a major redesign next week; a number of features have been revamped to improve user experience...

additionally Myspace has a data portability project, "Data Availability," with Yahoo, eBay, Photobucket and Twitter on the way.... [read on]

Facebook, is also set to unveil a redesigned profile page in the near future

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Labels: collaboration, mashup, networking, Twitter, web2.0

[via smashingapps]

The open source version of AtMail provides users with a lightweight, yet powerful webmail client...the future of email is via a web interface...

http://demo.atmail.org
http://atmail.org/

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Labels: ajax, collaboration, communication, freeware, JavaScript, networking, software, web2.0

DokuWiki is a standards-compliant, simple-to-use wiki which allows users to create rich documentation repositories. It provides an environment for individuals, teams and companies to create and collaborate using a simple yet powerful syntax that ensures data files remain structured and readable outside the wiki.

DokuWiki is available at http://www.splitbrain.org/go/dokuwiki

more wikis are available from http://www.wikimatrix.org/

p.s. try also mindtouch's vmware deki wiki box http://wiki.mindtouch.com/Landing/WikiMatrix01

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