Free colleagues software for linux

Search engines like Google do a fine job when it comes to search, but they do little to help us organise our past searches, nor do they make it easy for us to share our search experiences with others. This is more than just an inconvenience because very often we waste time re-searching for results that we know we found earlier. And even more often we find ourselves looking for information that one of our friends or colleagues has already found.

Enhancements:

• Added promotion filters that restrict result promotions in Google to results that have been selected numerous times, that have been tagged, or that have been voted up more times than they have been voted down.
• Added positive/negative promotion filters to stak creation so that users can cause URLs with the specified string to always or never be promoted on Google result pages.
• Result site favicons are used to annotate URLs promoted by positive filters (where available).
• Added timeouts which reset to the private "My Searches" stak after prolonged inactivity, and that expire the use of query terms as default tags and vote terms.
• Voting and page sharing have been added to the activity feed
• Share and remove options are greyed out in the stak menu for staks where this should not be possible (e.g. "My Searches").
• Added "Preview" feature via an icon next to results on the Google result list users can now browse through the result pages without leaving the result list.
• Enabled page sharing and preview features for non logged-in users.
• Improved the formatting of the icons inserted next to results on the Google result page so that they don't "jump" when results are moused-over.

Requirements:

• Mozilla Firefox

Hard Token Management Framework is used to manage the complete livecycle of an organizations Smartcard and/or USB dongles.
It communicates with the tokens through a PKCS11 interface so it is possible to change hardware as long as they supply it with a good implementation of PKCS11.
It comes along quite with a few ready made modules that can be composed to fit the need of the organization. The Hard Token Management Framework is an Add-on to EJBCA Certificate Authority (see http://www.ejbca.org).
Main features:
- Support of Setec 4.3.1 and 4.4.1 cards (TODO check)
- Issuing cards with 1 or more certificates
- Support for 2 PIN, basic and signature
- Contains a Card Analyser that analyses the card for the card administrator to give a suggestion of what is wrong with the card
- Possibilty to issue ordinary, temporary and project cards with different validities
- When a ordinary or project card is generated is all previous cards revoked
- When a temporary card is issued is the ordinary card set on hold until the ordinary card is reactivated
- Userdata is fetched from existing user data source.
- Possibility to unlock cards without exposing the PUK. The PUK is stored encrypted in EJBCA database.
- Easy to renew an expiring card
- Cards not used anymore can be revoked and ereased.
- It is also possible for a card administrator to do some management remotely (without having the card) such as revoking and activating a ordinary card.
- For 24/7 working environments where a card administrator might not be available it is possible for a colleague to issue a card unlock or issue temporary card request that is sent to a central support unit for approval
- TaLiMa also have error reporting functionality where unexpected error can be sent to the technical administrators for analysis
Enhancements:
Bug:
- [HTMF-2] - Wrong error message analysing card
- [HTMF-10] - Applet works badly when closing and reloading the page
- [HTMF-11] - Only jdk 1.6 can be used to build, Arrays method used not supported in 1.5
Improvement:
- [HTMF-8] - Support certificates generated by other CAs
New Feature:
- [HTMF-12] - Check if card data is uploaded to DB during analysis

BuddySpace is an instant messenger with four novel twists: (1) it allows optional maps for geographical & office-plan visualizations in addition to standard buddy lists; (2) it is built on open source Jabber, which makes it interoperable with ICQ, MSN, Yahoo and others; (3) it is implemented in Java, so it is cross-platform; (4) it is built by a UK research lab, so it is 100% free with full sources readiily available. But BuddySpace is about more than just messaging, as we explain below.

One of the key factors that led to the widespread popularity of Instant Messaging applications from 1997 onwards (including ICQ, AOL, Yahoo!, MSN, Odigo, and Jabber messengers) was the concept of pushed presence: the automatic notification of the appearance of friends and colleagues online.

However, Instant Messaging (IM) is just one of many possible presence-related and presence-dependent applications. For example, presence-enabled applications can facilitate safety-tracking of children by mobile phone, support for emergency services, blind-date radar, group teleconference management, multiplayer games, and anything involving the collaboration of individuals separated in space and time.

Why phone a contact only to receive an engaged tone or pre-recorded message, when the telephone network already knows what state your contact is in, and could indicate this directly on your contact list? All of these concepts embody varying degrees of what we refer to as enhanced presence management.

The concept of presence has matured in recent years to move away from the simple notion of online/offline/away, towards a rich blend of attributes that can be used to characterise an individuals physical and/or spatial location, work trajectory, time frame of reference, mental mood, goals, and even intentions! Our challenge is how best to characterise presence, how to make it easy to manage and easy to visualise, and how to remain consistent with the users own expectations, work habits, and existing patterns of Instant Messaging and other communication tool usage.

BuddySpace generalizes the concept of Buddy List (popularised by Instant Messaging tools such as AOL Instant Messenger, ICQ, MSN Messenger, and Yahoo Messenger) to provide multiple views of collaborative workgroups according to users needs and tastes. Our aim has been to provide a personal dashboard or radar screen so that one can observe the availability and interaction state of colleagues worldwide in a manner that exhibits the following desirable properties:

* immediate: real-time updates need to be pushed instantly to users rather than pulled in by request -- the push approach helps keep updates more palpable and informative
* peripheral and therefore non-intrusive: users lead busy lives, and dislike being bombarded with yet more information, so we aim to keep awareness of colleagues available in a compact manner that can be noticed peripherally
* customisable: some people prefer simple or hierarchical lists, some prefer visual maps, some prefer status lights, and so on; some prefer a Windows look-and-feel, some a Mac-- we need to cater for diverse user preferences and capabilities
* scaleable: we have to provide ways to indicate the presence of potentially enormous numbers of people, even given that these numbers will be filtered down for personal use -- researchers inhabit workspaces with many hundreds of colleagues around the globe; the Open University has well over 150,000 students online; large peer-spaces like music swapping communities have many millions of users connected simultaneously
* interoperable: with several hundred million users of the Big Four (AIM/ICQ/MSN/Yahoo!), it is crucial that any approach allow interopebility with systems to which our users already subscribe; this is one of the many reasons we built BuddySpace entirely on top of Jabber (www.jabber.org), which provides gateways to the Big Four products.
* cross-platform: we need to service a community not only on Windows, Unix/Linux, and Mac desktop and notebook configurations, but also on PDAs and mobile phones -- we therefore develop entirely in Java
* XML-literate: for future intelligent applications, communication transport needs to be about more than just string-transmission; another we adopted Jabber is that it is based entirely on a generic XML transport architecture, ideally suited for this purpose.
* open source: for the research community to join us and to gain leverage via our research output, we have ensured that BuddySpace is open source, available on SourceForge.
* clean: BuddySpace adheres rigorously to the Jabber specification, which means that it interoperates with other Jabber clients and servers without danger of the rogue behaviour that non-standard implementations inadvertently allow (e.g. the semantics of users inhabiting multiple groups is undefined in some clients, and can cause crashes).
* extendable: BuddySpace deploys a plug-in architecture which means that additions, such as new visualizations, and new concepts such as gaming interfaces, are readily achievable

BuddySpace fulfills all the above criteria, and provides a compelling user interface that can be highly compact, yet provide users with an important feel-good factor, akin to seeing nearby office lights turned on when entering ones office building at night. By studying the semantics of presence, we can also augment the existing impoverished presence states in a principles manner, providing capabilities that are more representative of the way real users work. Forthcoming capabilities will include automatic location updates via mobile devices, and the use of semantic matchmaking via intelligent profile handling, in order to help users quickly find and filter colleagues of particular interest.

"You don`t have to be an America Online member to experience the immediate cross-Internet communication made possible by AOL Instant Messenger.
This program allows Internet users to communicate via private, personalized text messages.
The program indicates when friends, family members, and business colleagues are online, making Internet communications faster, easier, and more efficient.
AOL Instant Messenger combines AOL`s popular Buddy List and Instant Message features, enabling users to send and respond to messages immediately."
Enhancements:
- Improved Popups Preferences
- Support for @mac.com addresses
- The wireless icon is the visual indication on the buddy list that a buddy is using a mobile device.
- File Transfer (with Drag&Drop support)
- Displays idle time
- Ability to install anywhere. (Extract everything into a single directory and then run aim with option "--install_dir %path" where %path is the path to directory containing all the libraries)