Social Source Commons

Tool to convert paper documents into searchable Portable Document Format (PDF) files. Accurate OCR, page and content recognition, and cleanup tools.

Android is an open-source software stack for a wide range of mobile devices and a corresponding open-source project led by Google.

Backupify is a hosted service with three monthly pricing plans (the basic is free) that offers hosted backup of social media sites, Google and photo hosting services.

Sync your various Google Calendars with this iPhone app. Much nicer presentation than the Apple calendar.

ChatSecure (Gibberbot) is a secure chat client capable of firewall and filter circumvention, surveillance blocking and end-to-end encryption. It works with Google, Facebook, any Jabber or XMPP server, such as OpenFire or eJabberD. Unlike Blackberry BBM’s broken single key security, Gibberbot uses the Off-the-Record encryption standard to enable true verifiable end-to-end encrypted communications.

Free unlimited, private, secure messaging with your friends over Facebook Chat, Google Talk, Hangouts, Jabber, Dukgo & more! Works with Android, iPhone, Mac, Linux or PC.

Google Maps mashup for basic map viewing of community data, easy to use

Satellite Dish Pointer / Alignment Calculator with Google Maps

Live, collaborative text-editing

Google Earth plugin that lets you quickly and with high precision find the direction to the satellite from any location.

Gmail is a web-based email with very user-friendly interface and huge storage capacity

Googlized Groupware

Integrates your Google Calendar in to your Gmail account plus some other improvements.

Google is the quintessential search engine.

Google Analytics tells you everything you want to know about how your visitors found you and how they interact with your site. website

Useful, web-based services from Google

GMail, Google Calendar, Google Docs, Google Sites and Postini attached to your domain to be used as organization-wide tools.

Free and Discounted versions for nonprofits:
http://www.google.com/a/help/intl/en/npo/index.html

Google Base is a place where you can easily submit all types of online and offline content, which we'll make searchable on Google (if your content isn't online yet, we'll put it there).

Google Bookmarks allows you to mark web sites and feed reader content as special (starred) to come back to later. You can then share, export, import and manage your lists.

Google Buzz is Google's foray into the world of status messages similar to Twitter and Facebook. Sets up automatically if you're using Gmail, it is also accessible on your mobile phone.

Google Calendar Sync allows you to sync events between Google Calendar and Microsoft Outlook Calendar.

Service for shopping and transfering money on-line. Now with a specialized service for nonprofits.

Fast file search for Windows computers.

Google Earth combines satellite imagery, maps and the power of Google Search to put the world's geographic information at your fingertips.

The Google Email Uploader is a open source desktop utility for Microsoft Windows. It uploads email and contacts from desktop email programs (like Microsoft Outlook® ) into your Google Apps mailbox. It preserves information such as sent dates and sender/recipient data, as well as the folder structure used by email programs.

Google Friend Connect lets you grow traffic by easily adding social features to your website. With just a few snippets of code, you get more people engaging more deeply with your site.

Hosted web/email/usenet discussion groups.

Google Map Maker is a Google Maps service that allows you add or edit features, such as roads, businesses, parks, schools and more. Using Google Map Maker tools, you can visually mark locations and add detailed information about these locations.

The Google Maps API lets you embed Google Maps in your own web pages with JavaScript. The API provides a number of utilities for manipulating maps (just like on the http://maps.google.com web page) and adding content to the map through a variety of services, allowing you to create robust maps applications on your website.

enables anyone to run Q&A sessions efficiently by allowing audiences to submit questions to a common forum and then vote on which ones they think should be answered. the most representative questions bubble up to the top, helping you make the most of your Q&A time.

The Google Notifier is an application that shows you alerts in your menu bar, so you can see when you have new Gmail messages or upcoming Google Calendar events without having to open a web browser.

Web-based RSS aggregator

Google Scholar provides a way to broadly search for scholarly literature.

3D modeling software and design tool.

Google Talk enables you to call or send instant messages to your friends for free, anytime, anywhere in the world.

Add-in for Internet Explorer and Firefox, featuring pop-up blocker, spell-checking, and search engine.

Google's version of Babelfish.

Google VOIP service.

Suite of tools to monitor how your website is viewed by Google and to gauge your website's performance

Nice little bundle of free tools from Google

Project and task management integrated with Google Apps

Personalized home page from Google.

Application that allows you to manage Google Calendar and Contacts through Microsoft Outlook.

A FUSE-Compliant File System Implementation Mechanism for Mac OS X

MapBuilder lets you tag locations on a map and publish it on your own site.

The Minimap Addon gives you a suite of in-built maps and mapping tools for Firefox.

The NOGAPPS package - a set of applications and frameworks with the goal to fill the gap of missing proprietary Google apps package.

Makes up for lost functionality by providing:

BlankStore (An open source Google Play Store client)

Maps API (A replacement of the often used google maps api with an open source one using OpenStreetMap.)

Network Location (Geo-location using wlan and data from Apple or a database of gsm phone cellphone towers)

Not useable yet:
LoginService (used by some Tasks/Feed -Apps) [Development]
Services Framework [Development]
Maps API v2: This time with onboard map rendering, so we can use it offline even for navigation purposes and search

Description:

Google apps track users more than most other apps as they are system-apps and therefore have full rights on android.

There are several problems with avoiding Google apps:

You won't get regular updates for your apps. Google's apps are not bad in functionality, but are in privacy.

No access to Play Store (There are many alternative markets, but nothing is as good for free apps as Play Store) Meanwhile, F-Droid provides nearly everything you need.

Some apps do not install because of missing Google Maps API

Some apps Force Close at start-up because of missing Maps API or market license check issues

Some apps hard-coded links to several Google Apps and therefore Force Close or react unexpectedly on certain cases.

Lets you create editable XLS files and re-use tables and spreadsheets from PDF files in Microsoft Excel, OpenOffice, Google Docs, and WordPerfect Office.

Open source web analytics, similar to Google analytics but you can host it on your own server, helps you target your site better, see how it's being used.

Provides basic geospatial capabilities for Plone, enables content to be marshalled into Google Earth or OpenLayers maps.

The Priv3 Firefox extension lets you remain logged in to the social networking sites you use and still browse the web, knowing that those third-party sites only learn where you go on the web when you want them to.

Synchronize Google Calendar and Apple iCal.

Google Outlook Calendar Synchronization Tool

Probably one of the most accurate open source OCR engines available. The source code will read a binary, grey or color image and output text. A tiff reader is built in that will read uncompressed TIFF images.

Vocito allows you to use GrandCentral on your Mac Desktop.

GrandCentral consolidates your phone calls and messages into a single number and now you can access that simplicity from your desktop.

Volunteer, Donor, and mailing list management - from right within Gmail