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If there’s one thing most people consider the Web to be, it’s free. Not just for speech, but of charge (outside of that mammoth monthly ISP bill). But that doesn’t always hold true for Web apps—those online-only applications you access from the Web browser. (via The Best Free Web Apps of 2013 | PCMag.com) We’ve got a lot of those “freemium” services here amid this collection of 180 useful, Web-only apps because, well, they’re too good not to include. In a ‘free starter package,’ you get usability and a thorough introduction to a product that you might not otherwise ever try—and some of them you may never have to upgrade, as the free tools are good enough. But among the 180, you’ll find 72 products marked with a seal to indicate they are utterly and totally free. As in, they have no cost at all. No premium versions, no extras needed. (OK, so you may need to create an account with the company that provides the service, but “free” is a relative term, kids.) We’re talking full office suites, complete image and video editors, small biz collaboration tools, readers of books and RSS feeds, backup services email clients, Internet radio, and more. There are 26 categories of Web apps to choose from in this story.

If there’s one thing most people consider the Web to be, it’s free. Not just for speech, but of charge (outside of that mammoth monthly ISP bill). But that doesn’t always hold true for Web apps—those online-only applications you access from the Web browser. (via The Best Free Web Apps of 2013 | PCMag.com)

We’ve got a lot of those “freemium” services here amid this collection of 180 useful, Web-only apps because, well, they’re too good not to include. In a ‘free starter package,’ you get usability and a thorough introduction to a product that you might not otherwise ever try—and some of them you may never have to upgrade, as the free tools are good enough. But among the 180, you’ll find 72 products marked with a seal to indicate they are utterly and totally free. As in, they have no cost at all. No premium versions, no extras needed. (OK, so you may need to create an account with the company that provides the service, but “free” is a relative term, kids.)

We’re talking full office suites, complete image and video editors, small biz collaboration tools, readers of books and RSS feeds, backup services email clients, Internet radio, and more. There are 26 categories of Web apps to choose from in this story.

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thenextweb:

In an attempt to create the “definitive resource” for all open Web technologies, Apple, Adobe, Facebook, Google, HP, Microsoft, Mozilla, Nokia, and Opera have joined the W3C to launch a new website called ‘Web Platform‘ (via Apple, Facebook and Others Team Up To Launch New Web Standards Website)

awesome. hopefully, now they’ll stop serving screwed up CSS for Opera :)

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futurejournalismproject:

Building Passionate Communities the Slashdot Way

For geeks of a certain age, Slashdot was a revelation. Founded in the late 90s, the site aggregated news and views about software, science, gadgets, tech policy and more, all under the umbrella of its tag line: “News for Nerds. Stuff that Matters.”

In a Web before social bookmarking and user generated content, Slashdot was (and still is) a rolling curation of the nerdiest news found online.

Behind all this was Slashdot’s creator, Rob Malda, who was known on the site as CmdrTaco, and his classmate at the time Jeff Bates.

But after fourteen years, thousands of posts and the sale of the site to Andover.net (which later became Geeknet), Malda had enough and announced last fall that he was moving on. As he told me when we met at a conference two weeks ago, after years of doing the same thing it’s time to try something new.

That something new is Chief Strategist and Editor at Large for the Washington Post Company’s WaPo Labs, a team of technologists and journalists exploring new ways to create, work with and present information.

In this video though we focus on what Rob learned running Slashdot, and how to create and nurture passionate niche communities. The long and short of it is be authentic, follow your passions and an audience will follow.

on Opera browser, just type /. to get to this site :)

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