Open-Source Web-Conferencing

OpenMeetings is a free browser-based software that allows you to set up instantly a conference in the Web. You can use your microphone or webcam, share documents on a white board, share your screen or record meetings. It is available as hosted service or you download and install a package on your server with no limitations in usage or users.

http://code.google.com/p/openmeetings/

Open-Source Web-Conferencing

It has the most of the features of Dimdim Enterprise and is based on open source streaming and media components. Dimdim Enterprise is based on commercial streaming and media components (Adobe Flash Server) and runs on top of our SynchroLive Communication Platform to ensure robust scalability and reliability and is fully supported and certified by Dimdim, Inc. The Open source community supports the Open Source Community Edition.

http://www.dimdim.com/

Product catalog and shopping cart software

http://www.virtuemart.net/

Blog engine

http://www.wordpress.com/

Open-source polling system

http://www.limesurvey.org/

An award-winning content management system (CMS), enabling the creation Web sites and powerful online applications using shared, open-source code.

http://www.joomla.org/

The leader in next-generation messaging and collaboration.

http://www.zimbra.com/

• OpenMeetings
• DimDim

In order to take full advantage of any software, there must be some personal customization. At the lowest level, there are the 'options' that are already built-in. All software has some capability of minor adjustment. With 'open-source' code, we can go far beyond that!

Most are aware of the term "hosting" and relate it primarily to "the place where you park your web site". Yes, that is true. That is one service that can be hosted with a provider... but there are many more. Think Twitter, Facebook, Google Apps and even Quickbooks On-Line.