Digital communication

• http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/how-we-talk-online-a-history-of-online-forums-from-cavemen-days-to-the-present/

Web

• http://justinjackson.ca/words.html

See Web, Social web, Platforms

Chat

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online_chat

MUD

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MUD

• http://www.mud.co.uk/richard/hcds.htm

Talker

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talker

IRC

• IRC - Internet Relat Chat

Server

• https://github.com/fluffle/goirc

Web clients

• https://github.com/Fauntleroy/relay.js

• https://github.com/thedjpetersen/subway

• https://kiwiirc.com/

Articles

• http://royal.pingdom.com/2012/04/24/irc-is-dead-long-live-irc/

IM

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instant_messaging

• Bitlbee - Instant Messaging

• http://www.miranda-im.org/

Jabber/XMPP

• XMPP - Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol

Powers Jabber/GChat/GTalk/AIM.

Server

• http://www.igniterealtime.org/projects/openfire/

• http://www.ejabberd.im/
  • https://raymii.org/s/tutorials/Set_up_a_federated_XMPP_Chat_Network_with_ejabberd.html

Service

• OneSocialWeb XMPP based social network

Web

• http://strophe.im/strophejs/

• https://xmpp-ftw.jit.su/
  • http://blog.superfeedr.com/easy-xmpp-ftw/ - 'jmpp'

Modern chat

HipChat

Service. "HipChat is hosted group chat and IM for companies and teams. Supercharge real-time collaboration with persistent chat rooms, file sharing, and chat history."

• http://hipchat.com/

echoplexus

• https://echoplex.us/ [1]
  • https://github.com/qq99/echoplexus

Hubot

Like HipChat.

Made at GitHub.

• http://hubot.github.com/
  • https://github.com/github/hubot/wiki
  • https://github.com/github/hubot-scripts

Bitmessage

• Bitmessage is a P2P communications protocol used to send encrypted messages to another person or to many subscribers. It is decentralized and trustless, meaning that you need-not inherently trust any entities like root certificate authorities. It uses strong authentication which means that the sender of a message cannot be spoofed, and it aims to hide "non-content" data, like the sender and receiver of messages, from passive eavesdroppers like those running warrantless wiretapping programs.

Forums

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_forum

BBS

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulletin_board_system

Usenet

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usenet

• http://www.google.com/googlegroups/archive_announce_20.html

Web

• https://www.phpbb.com/

• http://meta.discourse.org/

• http://www.debiki.com
  • http://www.debiki.com/-9qb49-solving-problem-first-comment-gets-all-upvotes#.UU5sDnEQ_p1
  • http://www.debiki.com/forum/-61859-forum-software-for-the-future#.UU5ta3EQ_p1

• http://pivory.com/

• http://hozumi.github.com/2012/02/pizzatimes.html [2]

• http://moot.it/

• http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/internet-forums-reimagined-future-of-online-discussions/?utm_content=buffer39a04&utm_source=buffer&utm_medium=hacker_news&utm_campaign=Buffer

Blogging

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weblog

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_blogging
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glossary_of_blogging

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blogosphere
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collaborative_blog - group blogging

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linklog - developed into social bookmarking
• tumbelogs - short form posts developed into microblogging/twitter, multiformat form into tumblr

Systems

See WordPress

• http://www.movabletype.com/

Social news

• http://slashcode.com/ - shashdot
• http://scoopdev.org/ - kuro5hin

Reddit

• http://reddit.com
  • http://code.reddit.com/

• my techy multireddit

• http://metareddit.com

• http://redditsnapshots.com/

• Raerth's Moderation Guide

• http://www.reddit.com/r/theoryofreddit
• http://www.reddit.com/r/structureddebate
• http://www.reddit.com/r/subofrome

• http://redditstuff.github.io/sna/

Articles

• http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-57561466-93/reddits-visitors-skyrocket-in-2012-with-37-billion-page-views/

• http://williamedwardscoder.tumblr.com/post/15581427232/self-organizing-reddit
• http://www.dailydot.com/business/steve-huffman-built-reddit-fake-accounts/

• http://moteandbeam.net/reddits-bildungsroman

Hacker News

• http://news.ycombinator.com/
• http://news.ycombinator.com/over?points=55

• http://hckrnews.com/

• http://lessmeme.com/less.html

• http://hnpickup.appspot.com/
• http://jacquesmattheij.com/The+Unofficial+HN+FAQ

• http://us2.campaign-archive1.com/?u=193b767bbb3b0eb0d949d5924&id=0c3a567f95&e=5603c292b3
• http://www.linkedlistnyc.org/archive/issue_081.html
• http://bradconte.com/files/misc/HackerNewsParodyThread/

• http://hn-karma-tracker.herokuapp.com/superstars

• https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hacker-newsd/njdndkhkelkeepcnmookckfhleebcokl - show if page has been posted*

Culture

• http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5253773
• https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5361511

Aggregation

• http://techmeme.com/ http://memeorandum.com - auto and curation

• http://ushahidi.com/ - collaborative curation of news, mapping and SMS focus
  • http://swift.ushahidi.com/

• http://managingnews.com - Drupal aggregation of news

• http://telesc.pe/

Networks

• http://livejournal.com/
  • http://code.livejournal.org/trac/livejournal
  • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LiveJournal
  • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dreamwidth

...

• http://natewienert.com/codename-obtvse

• https://github.com/iamues/Simvla-Network

• Syte is a really simple but powerful packaged personal site that has social integrations like Twitter, GitHub, Dribbble, Instagram, Foursquare, Tumblr, Wordpress, Last.fm, SoundCloud, Bitbucket, StackOverflow, Flickr and Steam. svtle clone

• http://www.teehanlax.com/story/medium/index.html

Microblogging

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microblogging

• http://kottke.org/05/10/tumblelogs

• http://www.dailydot.com/business/origin-tumblr-anarchaia-projectionist-david-karp/

• http://www.techradar.com/news/internet/8-of-the-best-free-twitter-clients-for-linux-677176?artc_pg=2
• http://pillaticos.com/twitter-applications-for-linux-and-ubuntu/

• http://www.tweetdeck.com/
• https://launchpad.net/gwibber

• http://choqok.gnufolks.org/
  • buglist

• http://www.hotot.org/

• http://tyrs.nicosphere.net/

• https://github.com/shellex/Hotot

• http://turpial.org.ve/
  • http://ashu-geek.blogspot.co.uk/2012/02/turpial-20-microblogging-client-for.html
• http://duskfire.wordpress.com/2012/03/25/three-twitter-clients/

• https://launchpad.net/polly
  • http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/polly-fast-customizable-native-twitter-client-linux/
  • very nifty, but no search yet!! no fb.

• http://pino-app.appspot.com/
  • no multicolumn? development stopped last year

• http://getspaz.com/
  • no multicolumn?

• http://code.google.com/p/gfeedline
  • no multi-account

Twitter

See also Twitter

• Handling the London Waterloo rush hour on Twitter

• http://headrush.typepad.com/creating_passionate_users/2007/03/is_twitter_too_.html
• http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/08/24/twitter-developers-and-the-food-trucks/

Syndication

• http://twitterfeed.com/ - publish once, syndicate to all social presences

• http://dlvr.it/

Mixed

• http://meowc.at/

Culture

• http://www.newrepublic.com/article/113053/new-york-times-buzzfeed-andrew-sullivan-herald-death-blog# - frigin mainstream opinion

Comments

• This Story Stinks

• http://jshakespeare.com/no-comment/

• http://www.reddit.com/r/reddit.com/comments/17913/reddit_now_supports_comments/

Social bookmarking

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_bookmarking

• http://boingboing.net/2012/08/24/how-the-entire-worlds-media.html
• http://news.slashdot.org/story/12/10/02/1428209/jeff-bates-on-niche-communities-and-why-partisan-news-is-normal

• You just shared a link. How long will people pay attention?

Idea voting

• http://firespotting.com/
• http://www.upboat.us/

Other

• http://hubski.com/ - social

• http://www.quotered.com/ - bookmarking

• http://www.mendeley.com/ - academic

RSS / Atom

• http://blog.superfeedr.com/state-of-readers/
• http://www.marco.org/2013/03/26/power-of-rss

• https://github.com/samuelclay/NewsBlur

• http://battellemedia.com/archives/2013/02/an-apology-to-my-rss-readers-but-i-had-to-do-it.php

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/News_aggregator

• https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5750057

Clients

• http://brassreader.com/

Web aggregation

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planet_(software) - old skool

• http://rsslounge.aditu.de/

• http://selfoss.aditu.de/

• http://tt-rss.org/redmine/projects/tt-rss/wiki

• https://github.com/swanson/stringer

• http://www.commafeed.com/
  • https://github.com/Athou/commafeed

Services

• http://readable.cc/ - nicely minimal
• https://yoleoreader.com/

Library

• https://github.com/simplepie/simplepie

Collaborative systems

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collaborative_software
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collaborative_editing

• https://wiki.internet2.edu/confluence/display/collabsig/Home - SIGCE

Wiki

See also Learning#Wiki

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiki
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_wikis

• http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_is_not_paper

• http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?ContentCreationWiki
• http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?ContentClassificationWiki

• http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?PersonalWiki
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_wiki

• http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2012/02/github-revisited/

• http://www.wikipatterns.com/display/wikipatterns/Wikipatterns

• http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?CategoryWikiUser
• http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?WikiGnome
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiFauna
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiGnome

Ecosystem

• http://web.archive.org/web/20070624072115/http://wikinodes.wiki.taoriver.net/

• http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?WikiNode
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiNode
• http://www.communitywiki.org/WikiNode
• http://s23.org/wiki/WikiNode

• http://wikiindex.org/Welcome
  • http://wikiindex.org/WikiIndex#EN_.E2.80.94_a_wiki_of_wiki.2C_wiki_people_and_wiki_ideas

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sau6l9TOhgk

WardsWiki

The original wiki, on software development patterns.

• http://c2.com/cgi/wiki

• http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?WikiWikiWeb
• http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?WikiHistory
• http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?WikiCopyRights

MeatballWiki

For discussion of Wardswiki and online communities in general.

• http://meatballwiki.org/

• http://meatballwiki.org/wiki/MeatballBackgrounder

• http://meatballwiki.org/wiki/WhatIsReworking

Wikipedia

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:How_to_read_an_article_history
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Refactoring_talk_pages

Culture and process

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Processes

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Consensus

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Five_pillars
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Policies_and_guidelines
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:What_Wikipedia_is_not

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:What_is_consensus%3F
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Follow_consensus,_not_policy
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Edit_warring
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Arbitration

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WHY
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:BOLD
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:IAR
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:POINT
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:GOOG - digital literacy
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:BREAK

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:ESL

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:TM
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Template_standardisation

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Infoboxes
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Infobox_templates

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Page_Curation - new tools

• http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page

• http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Conflicting_Wikipedia_philosophies
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deletionism_and_inclusionism_in_Wikipedia
• http://www.roughtype.com/?p=525
• http://orthomolecular.org/resources/omns/v06n18.shtml

• http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/How_to_win_an_argument
• http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Don%27t_be_a_dick
• http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikipediAhimsa

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikiholic

• http://notabilia.net/

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Viewing_and_restoring_deleted_pages#Deletion_archive - why oh why not make the non copyvio and like deleted articles available somewhere else?

• http://www.academia.edu/152850/Scaling_consensus_increasing_decentralization_in_Wikipedia_governance

• http://mako.cc/copyrighteous/the-institute-for-cultural-diplomacy-and-wikipedia

• Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/IncidentArchive791/Class of 1700 students fill Wikipedia with plagiarism. Response from prof is accusation of illegal behaviour by editors
  • https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5481690

Semantic

• http://semantic-mediawiki.org/

• http://semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/Data_visualization

Wiki engines and systems

See MediaWiki

• MoinMoin is an easy to use, full-featured and extensible wiki software package written in Python. It can fulfill a wide range of roles, such as a personal notes organizer deployed on a laptop or home web server, a company knowledge base deployed on an intranet, or an Internet server open to individuals sharing the same interests, goals or projects.

• Gitit is a wiki backed by a git, darcs, or mercurial filestore. Pages and uploaded files can be modified either directly via the VCS’s command-line tools or through the wiki’s web interface. Pandoc is used for markup processing, so pages may be written in (extended) markdown, reStructuredText, LaTeX, HTML, or literate Haskell, and exported in ten different formats, including LaTeX, ConTeXt, DocBook, RTF, OpenOffice ODT, and MediaWiki markup.

• TiddlyWiki a reusable non-linear personal web notebook

XWiki

• http://www.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/WebHome

• http://platform.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/
  • http://platform.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/SecondGenerationWiki

• http://extensions.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Extension/RealTime+Wiki+Editor

TikiWiki

• http://info.tiki.org/
  • http://dev.tiki.org/Realtime

Other

• http://www.pmwiki.org/
• http://moinmo.in/
• http://info.tiki.org/
• http://pukiwiki.sourceforge.jp/

Smallest Federated Wiki

• https://github.com/WardCunningham/Smallest-Federated-Wiki

Hosted

• http://www.wikiservice.at/prowiki/wiki.cgi
  • http://www.wikiservice.at/prowiki/wiki.cgi?WikiFractality

• http://www.tryscribble.com/ - markdown, live preview

• Wikispaces Classroom is a new product from the people who brought you Wikispaces. We think of it as social writing with formative assessment. That means that its a great place for your classroom to work, connect, and communicate. Wikispaces Classroom has brand new tools to keep track of everything going on in your class, communicate better, and for you to assess your students in real time so you can provide the help and encouragement each student needs.

Operational transformation

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collaborative_real-time_editor
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operational_transformation

Wave

• http://incubator.apache.org/wave/

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache_Wave

Etherpad

• http://etherpad.org/
  • https://github.com/ether/etherpad-lite - rewritten in node.js
  • https://github.com/ether/etherpad-lite/wiki/Available-Plugins
  • https://github.com/ether/etherpad-lite-jquery-plugin
  • https://github.com/ether/etherpad-lite/wiki/Third-party-web-services-that-have-support-for-Etherpad-Lite

• http://www.reddit.com/r/Etherpad

• https://moodle.org/plugins/view.php?plugin=mod_etherpad

• http://primarypad.com/ - etherpad
• https://hackpad.com/ - etherpad

Share.js

• ShareJS is an Operational Transform library for NodeJS & browsers. It lets you easily do live concurrent editing in your app.

• http://sharejs.org/wiki/Main

Open Cooperative Web Framework

• http://opencoweb.org/
  • http://opencoweb.org/ocwdocs/tutorial/install.html

• https://github.com/opencoweb/coweb

WikiNEXT

uses share.js

• WikiNEXT - JavaScript Semantic Application Wiki
• http://www.slideshare.net/pavelarapov/wikinext-application-semantic-wiki

• http://wikinext.herokuapp.com/wiki/4f2ff4cdd294db0100000001

Hosted

• Substance is an open platform for collaborative creation and sharing of digital documents. Be your own publisher and produce stories, books and documentations.

• http://www.firepad.io/ - uses substance and propitiatory server backend

• http://collabedit.com/

• http://www.document.ly/ - real time wiki, markdown

Infinote

• Infinote protocol provides real-time collaborative editing of documents with the main focus being on collaborative plain text editing. In the meanwhile there are quite a few solutions out there, but all of them implement a different protocol and thus cannot be used with other tools. Our goal is to provide a flexible yet powerful open framework and clients for various environments that can interoperate with each other.

• https://github.com/sveith/jinfinote
• https://github.com/jvanveen/py-infinote

Software

• Gobby is a free collaborative editor supporting multiple documents in one session and a multi-user chat. It runs on Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, Linux and other Unix-like platforms.

VoIP and video

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voice_over_Internet_Protocol

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IP-PBX

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asterisk_(PBX)
  • https://wiki.asterisk.org/wiki/display/AST/Asterisk+as+a+Swiss+Army+Knife+of+Telephony

• http://www.gnutelephony.org/index.php/GNU_Telephony

• Sqwiggle is an always on online workplace for your remote team to work together throughout the day.
  • http://techcrunch.com/2013/04/11/sqwiggle-makes-working-remotely-less-lonely-more-awesome/

SIP

• http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3261.txt - sip

• http://www.sipml5.org/

• http://www.gnutelephony.org/index.php/GNU_SIP_Witch_1.0_Announced

Skype

Run multiple Skype sessions [3];

skype --dbpath=~/.Skype2 &

• http://beta.skype.com/en/download-skype/skype-for-computer/#skype-for-linux

• Karaka is a Skype/XMPP gateway that connects the Skype and XMPP clouds.

Client software

• http://www.voip-info.org/wiki/view/Open+Source+VOIP+Software

• https://jitsi.org/

• 5 Skype alternatives for Linux users

• http://ekiga.org/
• http://www.pidgin.im/

Other

• sscall - A simple UDP based voice chat program. Currently we use libspeexdsp for its resampling capabilities and opus as the audio codec. There will also be ssl support in future versions. We basically need something that works well on many UNIX flavours. Skype is not really the answer to that. We also want something simple so that we can build on top of it. The plan is to create another program called ssvideo for video streaming.

SMS

• http://ryanhoover.me/post/48126005449/sms-first-startups

Stacks

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unified_communications

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elastix

• http://www.bigbluebutton.org/

• https://www.freedomboxfoundation.org/learn/