Magnolia Community Edition provides all the functionality needed to quickly set up a website, be productive as a content author, ensure stable operations and easily maintain the site.

Key features include:

- Inline editing
- Web-based user interface runs with any browser
- Move, copy, re-order by drag and drop
- Human readable web addresses (a.k.a. “friendly URL’s”)
- Digital asset management
- Role-based user management
- Access-controlled full-text or meta-data search
- Multilingual user interface and content
- Time-based publishing
- Workflows
- High-performance caching system

And more…

Google will expand the 200K lines of code they’ve released under the Google Wave Federation Protocol to work towards a more complete application or “Wave in a Box.”

This project will include:

- An application bundle including a server and web client supporting real-time collaboration using the same structured conversations as the Google Wave system

- A fast and fully-featured wave panel in the web client with complete support for threaded conversations

- A persistent wave store and search implementation for the server (building on contributed patches to implement a MongoDB store)

- Refinements to the client-server protocols
gadget, robot and data API support

- Support for importing wave data from wave.google.com
the ability to federate across other Wave in a Box instances, with some additional configuration

Note that the project will not have the full functionality of Google Wave as it exists online today, although the intention is to provide developers and enterprising users an opportunity to run wave servers and host waves on their own hardware.

Further Reading & Resources

If you’re interested in learning more about Google Wave’s current capabilities in anticipation of the open source “Wave in a Box” version, consider Gina Trapani and Adam Pash’s Complete Guide to Google Wave.

Alternatively, you might want to take a look at the multi-author volume Beginning Google Wave for a comprehensive overview of the application and its relevance to online collaboration.

Diaspora offers an alternative to Facebook replacing FB’s centralized social web model with a more secure and convenient decentralized network.

Users have the choice of saving and controlling their data on their own hosting platform, or buying into a Diaspora one-click service. In both cases, private data is exportable across a range of platforms.

Diaspora will officially launch on the 15th September 2010. This entry will be updated with a full feature list as soon as the information is available.

Liferay Portal is an enterprise web platform for building business solutions.

Key features include:

- Content & Document Management with Microsoft Office® integration
- Web Publishing and Shared Workspaces
- Enterprise Collaboration
- Social Networking and Mashups
- Enterprise Portals and Identity Management

Further Reading & Resources

If you’re starting out with Liferay or want to deepen your knowledge of the platform, you might consider Jonas X. Yuan’s Practical Guide to Building a Complete Corporate Intranet with Liferay and/or Rich Sezov’s Liferay in Action: An Official Guide.

MediaCore features:

- users can browse video or audio added to the CMS from any device such as an Android, iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch.

- Create a podcast and publish unlimited episodes to it. The CMS generates the iTunes Feed and the RSS automatically.

- Store media anywere: YouTube, Vimeo, Google Video, on the Amazon S3 cloud, or on any server.

- Track comments, views and likes on published video and audio. The CMS automatically ranks the most popular items.

- Categorize and tag media to make it more searchable. Users can browse categories or search for videos.

- Support for both closed captioning and audio descriptions for the visually impaired is built into MediaCore Video CMS.

- Users can comment or share video or audio with their friends through the Twitter and FaceBook sharing features.

- Users can upload media via the upload interface. An admin is notified and can review and approve new content.

Key features include:

* Follow a user, mutual following is friending.
* User-to-User Messaging
* Profile Comments
* User Blogs with Comments
* Photo Gallery with Captions
* Site Search for Friends
* Profile Bio and Information
* User Dashboard (Recent Activity of Friends)
* Emailed Activity
* Flickr Integration
* YouTube Integration

Like an application server, WebGUI handles all the mundane tasks such as database connectivity, session
management, and security. Then, WebGUI goes one step further. In WebGUI, custom applications can be built; once
built, those applications can be reused over and over throughout a site.

WebGUI provides power, versatility, and security. Everything in WebGUI is a template; this means everything in
WebGUI can be customized to meet an organization’s specific needs. Navigation menus can be configured and site
styles can be branded to make any site look and feel the way the organization intends. Existing applications can be
modified to perform and look as envisioned. WebGUI is made to perform to your standards. This is why WebGUI is
Web Done Right.

* Simple. Intuitive and user-friendly
* Flexible coding framework (MVC)
* Scalable. From 1 page to a million
* Standards Compliant. Fully XHTML compliant
* Modular. Easy to extend
* Template Freedom. No restrictions on the look and feel of your site
* Open source. It’s free (BSD) and you can contribute to the project.
* Cross platform. (Windows/Linux/Mac) and easy to install (PHP based)
* Supported. Professionally backed by the developers