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1. Krawler[x]: Personal media aggregator and community networking tool
2. Cooperation Commons: Online resource about collaboration, sharing economy and cooperation
3. Eventful: Online events manager helps track, find, share and promote favourite events
4. Starterbase: Online team collaboration platform lets you create, organize and share your web applications with others over the Internet
5. Ipipi: Send SMS messages worldwide from email, mobile phone or the web

1. Krawler[x]
   
   
   
   Krawler[x] is the first tool that comes close to be an effective personal media aggregator. For everyone else this is a desktop based social collaboration network tool. Krawler[x] in fact, allows you to create, share and search multimedia content while building your own vertical community around it. Krawler[x] lives on your computer desktop making it easy and immediate to use, interact with and connect with the people you like. Among other cool features Krawler[x] enables contextual P2P document search from:
   1. Office documents
   
   
   2. presentations
   
   
   3. help-files
   
   
   4. tutorials
   
   >li>project data
   
   Krawler[x] integrates also an instant messenger, forums and full file transfer capabilities. Windows and .NET Framework 1.1 required. Free.
   http://www.krawlerx.com/home/index.html





2. Cooperation Commons
   
   Cooperation Commons is an open, shared, knowledge base of insights and resources relevant to cooperation and collective action. Developed in parallel with the Stanford University course, The Literacy of Cooperation Lecture Series, conducted last year by Howard Rheingold, Cooperation Commons creates a hub for people to get together and share information about the nature of cooperation. For practitioners and curious alike, it allows participation, contributions, and it lists annotated pointers and links to uniquely valuable resources in the fields of collaboration, cooperation and the sharing economy. It also focuses on problems of: health care, economic development, political and interpersonal conflict, environmental sustainability, resource allocation, disaster relief, urban planning, civil society, democratic governance, technological innovation, intellectual property and public education. The Cooperations Commons resource now showcases also all of the video clips of the course classes recorded during The Literacy of Cooperation Lecture Series. Free.
   http://www.cooperationcommons.com/resources





3. Eventful
   
   Eventful is a tool that allows users to find events that they care about, share their discoveries with friends and also receive alerts about events that haven't even been announced yet. Events come from the community, as well as EVDB's partners and web crawling. Users can create calendars and then publish them anywhere online using pre-built designs or their own styles. For every event posted, Eventful offers a set of iCalendar and RSS feeds that anyone can subscribe to. Free to use.
   http://eventful.com





4. Starterbase
   
   
   
   Starterbase lets you create and share web applications like a CRM database, a bug tracking system, a to-do list or a product catalog without any coding knowledge. You share your application by inviting users to your account, or you can share it on a website. Application data can be exported in a variety of formats (such as RSS, XML, and SQL), and you can import from a lot of different formats, including Microsoft Excel. Starterbase basic account is free to use. You can upgrade at any time to the Pro Account, which contains more features and costs $49.99 (USD) per year.
   
   http://www.starterbase.com/





5. Ipipi
   
   
   ipipi is a service that allows you to send SMS text messages worldwide from the web, email, or from any mobile phone. ipipi works anywhere around the world with an official global coverage of over 140 countries/networks. Not only. You can also send email from your own mobile phone to any email account. For businesses, a Corporate Account is available that includes:
   • unlimited user accounts under one admin account
   • corporate reporting to view usage patterns for your users
   • central user management - admin can add, delete or modify user privileges
   • calendar feature to create future text alerts for meetings, bill payments, etc.
   . ipipi is a pay-as-you-go service. Rates depend on how many credits are purchased at once starting from 50 credits for $.15 per SMS. There is a one-time set-up fee of $99 for a Corporate Account.
   http://www.ipipi.com/