There are 4 open source projects that we need on the web. If these existed I could die a happy man and finally have all the tools I need as an Organic Internet Marketer. Hopefully we see some development in these area. Here they are:
1. Lightweight & Highly Extensible Shopping Cart
We all know of the big open source ecommerce platforms in the market. Magento, Zen Cart just to name a couple. But i’m talking about something truly lightweight and easy to use for the common user. Basically the “Wordpress” of the ecommerce world. This project would be licensed under the GPL so that it’s a true open source project unlike the others.
Because of this GPL license more people would contribute plugins to the core, giving the cart as much functionality as a Magento or Zen Cart.
2. Lightweight & Highly Extensible CRM
SugarCRM and vTiger CRM are the two big PHP [...]

Twitter with all it’s bells and whistles should be pretty hard to duplicate right? Actually yes! It is! But for you it won’t be as difficult as you think. Here’s why. There’s a fantastic open source project called Status.net, which is an open source microblogging system. Yes that’s right, an Open Source Twitter alternative. Status.net is built in PHP5 and MySQL5 and runs best on a LAMP server.

Why Would I Want This?
So you can build your own Twitter with Status.net. Why would you want this? Let’s take a look at a few reasons why you might need something like this.

Focus on a particular group or topic
Self-hosted and in your own domain
Private communication from the outside world
Integrate with your existing online community
Promote your own brand and web presence

Main Features of the Status.net App
This app is phenomenal to say the least. It is one of the most “flushed” out and detailed open [...]

What if you could build your own Google Analytics program? What if instead of having to use a 3rd party service such as Google Analytics, I told you that you could host your own application and keep all your website statistical information private? That’s what Piwik is for! Piwik is an open source web analytics application written in PHP and MySQL that you can install and manage on your own web server. I literally just finished installing it 5 minutes ago on my Dreamhost server and it is working like a charm.

Why would you want to do this? Well there are several reasons and benefits behind hosting your own analytics application. Let’s talk about a few of these.
Reason #1: Your information is private. Keep it that way!
Not that Google is interested in throwing your information around to the world or anything. But it’s nice, especially when you work online for [...]

Pubwich is an open source data aggregation application built in PHP. In human words, it’s an application that you can run that aggregates RSS feeds from various locations into one, slick looking html webpage! Pubwich only needs an Apache server, with PHP and Pear configured properly to run. The screenshot below gives you a better example of what i’m talking about:

Pubwich is currently able to display content published with these social media applications:

Facebook
Twitter
Delicous
Flickr
Last.fm
Vimeo
Youtube
Readernaut
And any other RSS feed

My Recommendation!
If you have not already purchased a domain name for your name I would recommend doing so. You can use this open source application as the page for your domain name that aggregates the data from all of your social activity. Simple! In a couple of minutes you have a slick html webpage that is up to the minute information on your online internet activities.

Joobsbox is an open source job board application built using PHP and MySQL. To explain it to you in a practical sense, you can use this open source application to build your own job board where you and/or others can post job postings and organize those job postings into different categories. After spending some time thorugh the demo it appears that the application is pretty easy to use and the functionality appears to be quite extensive. This new application creates some pretty awesome business opportunities…some of which include the following:

1. A Local Job Board
Let’s say you live in South Dakota. You can use this open source app to create a local “south dakota job board” where you can have businesses from all over your local area post there job postings on your job board website. You could create a “premium” job postings category where you charge money for those postings [...]

There are many Elgg plugins to help you add additional functionality to your Elgg core. The idea of this post was not to put together “the best” list of Elgg plugins, only it’s a list of 10 Elgg Plugins that I have found to be extremely useful. I have used and tested each of these plugins with the most recent version of Elgg which at this time is Elgg 1.1. All have installed and worked perfectly and have been a great advantage to the Social Networks I have used them with. I hope they will do the same for you!
1. Default Widgets
This plugin gives you the ability through a web interface to control the default widgets for new users profile and dashboard. This is an extremely helpful plugin because you can’t always assume that your users will know how to customize their profile & dashboard pages. (even though it’s [...]