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Glam Media has announced the Glam Apps Platform, a new, open-source application-maker that is cross-platform and can be monetized with embedded advertizing.

This extremely cunning model enables the building of apps that can be priced or monetized with advertising from multiple sources. The Platform is designed (presumably) for mashing content from the Glam Network, but as it's open source, this is great news for everyone. In any case, the Glam Network is huge. Still in private Beta, you can apply for an invite to the developers resource at the link below.

Everybody's gone widget and app-wild, but few are helping rein in the beast. With good eyes for a new niche, MindTouch has today released Deki Wiki "Hayes," a free open source (licensed under GPL v2) and wiki-centric platform that pinches together all the APIs running awry.

With the introduction of its Premiere Apps suite into the marketplace, we posited Google was getting its ducks in order to turn Apps into a major enterprise-ready contender.

But the search giant has pulled a surprise move, having released their "educational" edition of Apps, dubbed the Google Apps Education Edition, to registered non-profits in the US at no cost.

Along with announcing its Google Apps for your Domain pricing scheme, many in the Googlesphere believe that a Powerpoint competitor dubbed "Presently" is in the works for the near horizon.