The open source community has contributed many applications in the past years. We would like to spotlight some of the great efforts in each web application niche and present you with the best open source software available.

Social Networking Application

Dolphin

Dolphin, from Boonex, is a popular free community-building application that is being used for a number of dating sites. Many modifications are available, some are available for a fee. If you would like to remove the companies logo from your site, you will have to pay a fee.

Elgg

Elgg is primarily used for educational purposes. Many prominent universities have used Elgg as their social networking widget.

Mugshot

Mugshot is an application that was developed by Redhat to handle the sharing of snapshots between friends. You can take pictures, send them to your friends, and share comments.

Around Me

Aroundme is a social networking app that primarily uses openID as its security authentication utility.

Pligg

Pligg is known as the clone to Digg. With the use of pligg, you can easily create your own Digg and promote your digg version across the web.

Project Management Application

Dot Project

A major feature of Dot Project is the supporter base around Dot Project. Dot Project has many supporters and developers working within the project which makes this project a very good candidate for the best open source software in its application type.

active Collab

Active Collab is a very sleek type of web application. With its own API and many libraries and tools available you can easily fit active Collab to fit your needs.

Open Workbench

Open workbench is very similar to Microsoft Project, some would call this application the free and more powerful version of Microsoft Project.

Ecommerce Application

Oscommerce

Oscommerce is used widespread among many shopping carts and ecommerce companies because of the amount of features that have been developed. Oscommerce also has a very good strong point in being the best open source software in ecommerce because of the flexibility of the application to allow for custom skinning and template integration.

Zencart

While Oscommerce is good in its ease for developers, Zencarts major strong points lies in its front end interface. Zencart has a sleek Web 2.0 type of design which attracts customers and companies to buy products from your storefront.

Magento

Magento is an application that allows you to have full control over every aspect of your store. Once you install the store, Magento will create clean SEO friendly URL's and provide you unlimited flexibility to work within the application.

Content Management Application

Joomla

Joomla in one word is "website in a box". Once you install Joomla, you will have an array of choices available. You can start a membership site, a blog, a photo gallery all with just a few clicks of the mouse.

Drupal

Drupal is more than a CMS, its a way of life. Many Web 2.0 companies have used Drupal as their applications framework and CMS. Unlike Joomla which is more webmaster friendly, Drupal is a common framework and CMS used by many developers.

Framework and Library

CakePHP

CakePHP is a very easy to use, robust solution for developers at all levels to rapidly develop web applications.

CodeIgniter

Codeigniter is a framework that prides itself on having exceptional performance and the ability to "hit the ground running".

Dojo

Dojo is a popular javascript library that provides graphical UI tools and also many complex functions such as AJAX to developers at all skill levels.

Jquery

Jquery is a very easy to use library, while many will argue that Dojo is a bit difficult to get into, jquery is quite the opposite with its simplistic design and also very documented API guides.

Blogging Application

Wordpress

Wordpress by far is the easiest to use blogging application available online. Wordpress also features an easy installation and a very simple user interface. We have voted that Wordpress is the best open source software in the blogging application category.

 

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