Best and useful web based application

What is web based application?

Web application is an application that can be access via web browser such as Mozilla Firefox, Internet Explorer, and Google’s Chrome over internet or intranet. Type of web application such as simple office software (word processor, spreadsheet, and presentation tools) and also can be more advance application such as video and picture editing, point-of-sales, computer-aided design, project management, and so on. Web applications has ability to update and maintain without distributing and installing software because upgrade automatically with new features on server and more importantly it’s need some or no disk space on the client.

Below are the list of web application by categories:

Audio

Last.fm – Every track we play will save in our Last.fm profile as something about what we like. After that it searches from other people that also like something what we like and recommend songs from their and our music collection.


ilike - iLike is the Web's leading social music discovery service and the dominant music application on the Facebook, Orkut, hi5 and Bebo platforms. iLike helps people share music recommendations, playlists, and personalized concert alerts.


Resources

Google reader - Google Reader is a Web-based RSS feed reader which is we can subscribe to as many RSS feeds as we want, and then browse them in a simplistic two-pane story browser alike Gmail.


Commerce

Amazon.com - Amazon.com was one of the first online retailers in the world. It started out with books and now sells nearly every consumer goods, including groceries and over-the-counter medicines.
Ebay.com - eBay is The World's Online Marketplace, enabling trade on a local, national and international basis.

Paypal - PayPal was one of the first services to let people exchange money online. Faster, Safer and easier way to pay online without exposing credit card.


Communication

Gmail – Google’s email.

Meebo – offer chat for a lot of IM network such as AIM, Yahoo!, MSN, Google Talk and Gmail, MySpace IM, Facebook Chat, and more


Productivity

google doc– contain word processor, spreadsheet and presentation tools


Rememberthemilk – The best way to manage our task. It’s available in Twitter, Google Calendar, Gmail, via SMS, the iPhone, Windows Mobile devices, Skype, and popular IM clients.

Microsoft Office Live Workspace – Allow sharing Office documents and mission critical files between multiple users.

basecamp - project management

Google Calendar- calendar

Mint – It is Financial management service that will interface directly with our bank and credit card companies (there are more than 3,500 institutions on the system) to keep our accounts up to date.


Publishing and photography

Photobucket- is a photo-sharing and hosting site addition to photo hosting, Photobucket lets its users upload video clips, which can be edited with an integrated video remixing tool designed by Adobe

Flickr - almost certainly the best online photo management and sharing application in the world

Sumopaint - MS Paint alike but more features and it’s online.


befunky – cool picture editing and can make your picture like cartoon and also can make as a gift as it can be place at mug, t-shirt, cap and so on!

Blogger - Web-based blogging platform owned by Google. Users can create and customize their own blogs using a drag-and-drop editor, and have them hosted for free on Google's massive server arrays.

FotoFlexer - The world's most advanced online digital photo editor. It performs advanced effects previously only available to professionals using expensive software.

Twitter - Twitter is a service that lets us broadcast short messages to our friends or "followers."


Search and reference

Google Search – world no 1 search engine

Google map – world map

Wikipedia - A free encyclopedia with millions of articles in dozens of languages


Social

Facebook - is a social utility that connects people with friends and others who work, study and live around them

Myspace - An international site that offers email, a forum, communities, videos and weblog space

Friendster - is a leading global social network emphasizing genuine friendships and the discovery of new people through friends

Deviantart - Art - community of artists and those devoted to art. Digital art, skin art, themes, wallpaper art, traditional art, photography, poetry / prose.


Utility and security

OpenId – it lets us to verify credentials from one site in place of having to sign up for yet another login.

logmein - gives us the flexibility to access and control your computers from anywhere.


Video

Youtube – Share the videos with our friends, family, and the world

Joost - is your place for online video - TV shows, music videos, movies and more


Travel

Travbuddy - Honest hotel reviews, millions of travel buddies, and thousands of travel blogs to help plan our next trip.


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