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12 Open Source Microblogging Applications

1. StatusNet(Laconica)

StatusNet is a Twitter clone, built with PHP + MySQL. It’s an opensource microblogging application, widely used by lots of microblog sites, such as Twitterfeed, Hellotxt and Gravity. It’s mature and it offers a smooth usage. The source can be found here.

2. Jaiku Engine

Jaiku was the microblogging site of Google. However, they decided no longer to develop the code but make it open source under the name JaikuEngine. Anyone can setup and run their own Jaiku on GAE. There is an open source mobile client & frontend.

3. Yonkly

Yonkly is an Asp.Net-powered Twitter-clone for creating your own microblogging community network.Besides the open source version, it has a hosted & an advanced standalone version.

4. Floopo

This free microblogging script is built with PHP & MySQL.It functions very similar to Twitter & provides a powerful backend to manage the whole system. The office site is http://www.floopo.com/.

5. Jisko

Jisko is a PHP microblogging application that offers a Twitter-like API for developing it further. Users can have their profile pages, message with each other easily & Jisko is compatible with mobile devices. It can be found here.

6. PageCookery

PageCookery is a single-user microblog which can pull data from social networks like Flickr, last.fm, etc. It offers an Ajaxed interface where users can comment to the entries easily.P.S. The original page is Chinese. However, you can view the English version behind Google Translate.

7. EchoWaves

EchoWaves is a ready-to-use hosted application where the source code is offered for free. It is a collaboration tool & a social network which is focused to conversations rather than the users.

8. P2 Wordpress Theme

This is a Wordpress theme which can convert your blogging engine into a Twitter-like interface.It has real-time updates where new posts & comments come in without reloading. There are also inline comments, posting from homepage & more.

9. Motion

TypePad Motion enables publishers and marketers to create vibrant, branded communities that deepen loyalty and increase
page views while giving you total control of your brand. It is based on Pownce & MovableType Motion and built with Django.

10. Blurt.it

Blurt.it is a fresh microblogging application that requires PHP/MySQL to run. Very similar to Twitter, users can easily connect with each other with open or private threads. Source

11. Asaph

Asaph is a micro-blogging system, focusing on collecting links and images from other pages. It allows you to post content directly from any page you are on. Asaph is not a full blown blog and it does not aim to be one – it just does this one task, but it’s pretty good at it. the source code can be found here：http://www.phoboslab.org/projects/asaph .

12. Sharetronix

Sharetronix is an open source microblogging system, built with PHP and MySQL. Demo Download the source code

HTML Parser Libraries for .Net

HTMLParser.Net

HTMLParser.Net is a .Net library built on codebase of popular javabased HTMLParser available on sourceforge.net. If you are building applications that involve screen scrapping of HTML pages or data extraction from the web sites, then you definitely want to have a tool like HTMLParser.Net in your arsenal. Parsing of a page is as simple as writing 4 lines of code and you are on your way home. And if you want to little bit more creative with your parsing and query of results, then the API offer more advanced features that are easy to use.

HTML Agility Pack

HTML Agility Pack is an agile HTML parser that builds a read/write DOM and supports plain XPATH or XSLT (you actually don’t HAVE to understand XPATH nor XSLT to use it, don’t worry…). It is a .NET code library that allows you to parse “out of the web” HTML files. The parser is very tolerant with “real world” malformed HTML. The object model is very similar to what proposes System.Xml, but for HTML documents (or streams).Html Agility Pack now supports Linq to Objects (via a LINQ to Xml Like interface).

SgmlReader

SgmlReader is an XmlReader API over any SGML document (including built in support for HTML). A command line utility is also provided which outputs the well formed XML result.

HTML Tidy with .Net Wrapper

There’s lots of .Net Wrapper of HTMLTidy:

Others

7 Open Source Projects Built on ASP.NET MVC

MvcCMS

Mvc Cms is focused on the core needs of having a simple but effective
content management system that allows full control of url’s and makes
page editing and processing easy. If you are looking to create or
manage a small or medium size website that has multiple contributors
and want to be able to easily manage the html created by your web
application Mvc Cms may be a good fit for you.

AtomicCMS

Open source Content management system based on ASP.NET MVC platform.This CMS developed using ASP.NET MVC 1.0.

OpenForum – MVC Forum

OpenForum is a plugable forum module for ASP.NET MVC applications.
OpenForum allows you to quickly add a forum to any MVC application with
almost no setup/configuration required. OpenForum is highly
customizable and extremely flexable.

Oxite

Oxite is an open source, web standards compliant, blog engine built on ASP.NET MVC.

NerdDinner

An open source website system , it should be a good sample of ASP.NET MVC.

ASP.NET MVC 2 – Commons.Blog

A powerful ASP.NET MVC 2 Web Application Template providing core
features ( environment selection, config, logging, email services,
account management, administration console ) out of the box. Uses TDD,
DDD, Linq2Sql, Model/Code Generation, CommonLibrary.NET. Good
tutorial/sample.

Xpress

An opensource blog system built on ASP.NET MVC.