Social Source Commons

Google Earth combines satellite imagery, maps and the power of Google Search to put the world's geographic information at your fingertips.

A Firefox extension that removes unwanted information (like ads, tracking and spam) and adds links from other sources to the search results.

Nice little bundle of free tools from Google

Gmail is a web-based email with very user-friendly interface and huge storage capacity

Google is the quintessential search engine.

Hosted web/email/usenet discussion groups.

Upload and share your own videos.

Google Talk enables you to call or send instant messages to your friends for free, anytime, anywhere in the world.

Now covered by Google Drive.

Web-based word processor and spreadsheet tool. Formerly Writely.

Google Browser Sync for Firefox is an extension that continuously synchronizes your browser settings – including bookmarks, history, persistent cookies, and saved passwords – across your computers.

Customizable Search Engine

Service for shopping and transfering money on-line. Now with a specialized service for nonprofits.

The Google Notifier is an application that shows you alerts in your menu bar, so you can see when you have new Gmail messages or upcoming Google Calendar events without having to open a web browser.

Google Scholar provides a way to broadly search for scholarly literature.

Google Outlook Calendar Synchronization Tool

Calgoo brings the Google Calendar to your desktop.

Gmail Browser is a web browser that is dedicated to running Gmail (and Google calendar)

Synchronize Google Calendar and Apple iCal.

Google Maps mashup for basic map viewing of community data, easy to use

gSpell is a service for Mac OS X that provides spelling suggestions from Google.

3D modeling software and design tool.

Google Web Toolkit (GWT) is an open source Java software development framework that makes writing AJAX applications like Google Maps and Gmail easy for developers who don't speak browser quirks as a second language.

Gives directions using public transit in certain municipalities.

Arc2Earth was created to convert and publish your ArcGIS data to view in Google Earth, Google Maps or Virtual Earth

Provides basic geospatial capabilities for Plone, enables content to be marshalled into Google Earth or OpenLayers maps.

Google maps on your cell phone.

Probably one of the most accurate open source OCR engines available. The source code will read a binary, grey or color image and output text. A tiff reader is built in that will read uncompressed TIFF images.

Show how many subscribers to the feed with google reader.

Google Apps Team Edition is a set of collaboration tools for verified users of a domain. The suite includes the following Google services: Sites, Docs, Calendar, Talk, Mail, and Start Page.

A utility for uploading, downloading, and transcoding GPS data among GPS devices, GPX files, and KML files (for Google Earth).

The Google Email Uploader is a open source desktop utility for Microsoft Windows. It uploads email and contacts from desktop email programs (like Microsoft Outlook® ) into your Google Apps mailbox. It preserves information such as sent dates and sender/recipient data, as well as the folder structure used by email programs.

Google Friend Connect lets you grow traffic by easily adding social features to your website. With just a few snippets of code, you get more people engaging more deeply with your site.

Sets your computer to have the correct settings to save energy when you're not using it. For Google Desktop.

The Google Maps API lets you embed Google Maps in your own web pages with JavaScript. The API provides a number of utilities for manipulating maps (just like on the http://maps.google.com web page) and adding content to the map through a variety of services, allowing you to create robust maps applications on your website.

The Google Chart API lets you dynamically generate charts.

Google Map Maker is a Google Maps service that allows you add or edit features, such as roads, businesses, parks, schools and more. Using Google Map Maker tools, you can visually mark locations and add detailed information about these locations.

Site software to organize and customize Google applications.

With Google Insights for Search, you can compare search volume patterns across specific regions, categories, and time frames.

An easy, web-based event planner. You can add guests, change times and send invites. It can also mash up with Google maps to provide easy location information.

Integrates your Google Calendar in to your Gmail account plus some other improvements.

enables anyone to run Q&A sessions efficiently by allowing audiences to submit questions to a common forum and then vote on which ones they think should be answered. the most representative questions bubble up to the top, helping you make the most of your Q&A time.

Launch a Google Talk client for users who have recently visited your webpage to ask them for feedback.

Integrated social messaging app, enables managing Facebook, Twitter, Google Reader, Flickr, Reddit and other feeds from 1 dashboard.

Google VOIP service.

GMail, Google Calendar, Google Docs, Google Sites and Postini attached to your domain to be used as organization-wide tools.

Free and Discounted versions for nonprofits:
http://www.google.com/a/help/intl/en/npo/index.html

Google Buzz is Google's foray into the world of status messages similar to Twitter and Facebook. Sets up automatically if you're using Gmail, it is also accessible on your mobile phone.

Lets you create editable XLS files and re-use tables and spreadsheets from PDF files in Microsoft Excel, OpenOffice, Google Docs, and WordPerfect Office.

Backupify is a hosted service with three monthly pricing plans (the basic is free) that offers hosted backup of social media sites, Google and photo hosting services.

Ghostery tracks the trackers and provides a roll-call of the ad networks, behavioral data providers, web publishers, and other companies interested in your activity.

The Priv3 Firefox extension lets you remain logged in to the social networking sites you use and still browse the web, knowing that those third-party sites only learn where you go on the web when you want them to.

Sync your various Google Calendars with this iPhone app. Much nicer presentation than the Apple calendar.

Project and task management integrated with Google Apps

Android is an open-source software stack for a wide range of mobile devices and a corresponding open-source project led by Google.

The NOGAPPS package - a set of applications and frameworks with the goal to fill the gap of missing proprietary Google apps package.

Makes up for lost functionality by providing:

BlankStore (An open source Google Play Store client)

Maps API (A replacement of the often used google maps api with an open source one using OpenStreetMap.)

Network Location (Geo-location using wlan and data from Apple or a database of gsm phone cellphone towers)

Not useable yet:
LoginService (used by some Tasks/Feed -Apps) [Development]
Services Framework [Development]
Maps API v2: This time with onboard map rendering, so we can use it offline even for navigation purposes and search

Description:

Google apps track users more than most other apps as they are system-apps and therefore have full rights on android.

There are several problems with avoiding Google apps:

You won't get regular updates for your apps. Google's apps are not bad in functionality, but are in privacy.

No access to Play Store (There are many alternative markets, but nothing is as good for free apps as Play Store) Meanwhile, F-Droid provides nearly everything you need.

Some apps do not install because of missing Google Maps API

Some apps Force Close at start-up because of missing Maps API or market license check issues

Some apps hard-coded links to several Google Apps and therefore Force Close or react unexpectedly on certain cases.