LIST: TOP 50 Web2.0 Software Platforms

Top 50+ platforms for web 2.0 development. Feel free to suggest more.

Connecting any 2 platforms creates 2^50 opportunties - or 1,000,000,000,000,000 (sextillion or 1,000 trillion) combinations. That's a lot of opportunties for software developers. The trick is selecting the right combinations, making it work, and outperforming the competition. 

Device Platforms

• Adobe Air
• Android (Google)
• Apple iPhone
• Apple Mac OS
• Google Desktop API
• Google Gears
• Linux (embedded)
• Microsoft Windows Mobile
• Microsoft Windows
• Palm OS
• Symbian (Nokia)
• Yahoo Gadgets (Konfabulator)

Browser Platforms

• Internet Explorer (Microsoft) IE8
• Firefox (Mozilla) Add-On's
• Flash ActionScript (Adobe)
• Google Toolbars API
• Javascript (Sun)
• Opera
• Safari (Apple)
• Yahoo Toolbars API

Gadget/Panel Platforms

• Bebo (Open Social)
• Facebook App
• Google Gadgets (iGoogle)
• LinkedIn (Open Social)
• Myspace (Open Social)
• Ning (Open Social)
• Salesforce.com App Exchange

Cloud Platforms

• Amazon Web Services (AWS) S3, EC2, Simple DB, SQS
• Google App Engines - Big Table, Python

Server Platforms

• apache
• Cold Fusion (Adobe)
• dotNet (Microsoft)
• php
• Sharepoint (Microsoft)
• Silverlight (Microsoft)

Web Services for Mash-Up

• Amazon Flexible Payments Service
• Exchange Server Protocols (Microsoft)
• FlickR API (Yahoo)
• Google checkout
• Google AJAX Search API
  
• Google Chart API
  
• Google Maps API
• Google Financial Data API
• Google FriendConnect
• Google Health API
• Live Search SDK
• Microsoft Health SDK
• oAuth (Google/Microsoft/Yahoo)
• OpenID (Google/Microsoft/Yahoo)
• Paypal
• Yahoo GeoPlanet
• Yahoo Search API
• Yahoo Weather RSS Feed
• Youtube Data API