INTERNET APPS - Social

Contents

• Communication
• Social networks
• Dictionaries and translation
• Data
• Social networks
• Activism
• Content
• ...

• Fediverse - federated universes - distributed social media
• Overview - Wikipedia
• Discord
• Gnu Social
• Gnu Libre.fm
• Libre.fm
• Diaspora Foundation
• Diaspora pod uptimes
• YouTube
• YouTube downloading
• Scribd.com - social publishing
• Facebook
• MillatFacebook - Muslim Facebook
• Flickr.com - sharing pictures
• Linkedin.com
• OpenBC.com
• Friendsreunited.com
• MySpace.com
• Lostfriends.com
• M-tribal.be (SMS distribution lists)

Activism

• Scientists for XR
• Mobilizon.org - XR
• Mobilizon docs
• Avaaz.org - on-line activist network
• Alaa Abd El-Fattah (Manal wa Alaa - Misr)

Data

• PURL - Persistent URLs

GLEIS

• Legal Entity Identifier - LEI resolver
• GLEIF.org - Global Legal Identifier Foundation, established by the FSB in 2014
• GLEIF.org - LEI challenge
• BRIS - to be determined

Europe

• data.europe.eu
• European Data Portal
• EU Open Data portal, including SPARQL query engine
• Open government data
• UK Open government data
• BE Open government data

Data validation and authentic sources

• DE - Postaddress.de - global address validation

Big data

• BE - DataScienceAtWork - David Martens
• Apache's Hadoop
• MongoDB
• Recommind

Content

Journals etc

• PlosOne.org

Encyclopedia, dictionaries, wikileaks - etc

• Commons.WikiMedia - images
• commons.wikimedia.org - including images
• creativecommons.org - including images
• Wikipedia.org
• Wikipedia.com
• Wikileaks
• Wikileaks Storage (files and torrents)
• Archive.org - software, music, text - OpenSource audio ...
• etree.org - OpenSource audio, using lossless SHN compression
• Webster
• Dictionary
• Brittanica
• Free On-Line Dictionary of Computing

Software repositories

• www.belnet.be - Belgium software mirror site
• ftp.belnet.be - ftp only

Education

Online/open learning

• Khan Academy
• Smart University.eu
• wiki.internet2.edu - see also educause.edu
• Self-education including Berkley etc
• UK - Distance learning RHUL etc
• UK - Open University

Employment

• Stepstone.be
• Monster.be

Selling

• US - Data Trust - sells information on e.g. voters
• Ebay.be
• Priceline.com
• Kapaza.be

Traffic

• BE - TomTom - livetraffic
• NL - ANWB - verkeer/huidige situatie
• NL - van A naar Beter - wegenwerken

Search engines, portals, etc

• Apache - Lucene and Solr
• Elasticsearch - open source text search engine and much more
• Open Semantic Search
• WebSiteGrader - suggestion from Joao F
• Copernic - desktop search engine
• Google
• Baidu.com - the Chinese search engine
• Birchbob - search engine for licensing and IPR (Dirk Avau)
• Jacob Appelbaum's weblog
• Clay Shirky's Writings About the Internet
• Yahoo - don't forget Lycos, HotBot, Ask Jeeves,...
• Ad Valvas
• Infobel - on-line Belgian telephone directory

Image processing

• MPEG homepage
• JPEG.org
• JPEG-FAQ
• NL - Blender
• EarthGoogle
• BE/NL - TeleAtlas
• UK - Maporama - link your webpresence to the real world - part of TIBCO

Other

Other stuff

• Samir Fahim's blog
• Luc Van Braekel.net - weblog - VLD
• YET2COM - tip from Anthony B.