Affero enables recognition and reward for valuable contributions to online communities. Services combine a rating, commerce and reputation system whereby individuals can rate the value of community contributions as well as make donations on behalf of the efforts extended by community participants. Reputations are tracked for others to see and use in future interactions

Amazon.com, a Fortune 500 company based in Seattle, opened its virtual doors on the World Wide Web in July 1995 and today offers Earth's Biggest Selection. Amazon.com seeks to be the world's most customer-centric company, where customers can find and discover anything they might want to buy online at a great price. Amazon.com and sellers list millions of unique new and used items in categories such as apparel and accessories, electronics, computers, kitchenware and housewares, books, music, DVDs, videos, cameras and photo items, toys, baby items and baby registry, software, computer and video games, cell phones and service, tools and hardware, travel services, magazine subscriptions and outdoor living items.

Apple Developer Connection (ADC) programs offer a full range of services for new and experienced developers. The programs provide convenient, affordable access to the tools and technical support needed to work efficiently and productively-reducing development time and costs. The support doesn't end with the development process. ADC programs provide critical business information and comarketing resources to help successfully market and distribute products.

Benetech is a non-profit venture that uses a social entrepreneurship business model to help disadvantaged communities around the world. Benetech is exhibiting Bookshare.org, an Internet library of digital books for people with disabilities, as well as the Martus, a system for the creation, encryption and secure storage of reports of human rights abuses.

CPSR is a public-interest alliance of computer scientists and others concerned about the impact of computer technology on society. Members provide the public and policymakers with realistic assessments of the power, promise, and limitations of computer technology, and direct public attention to critical choices concerning the applications of computing and how those choices affect society.

Creative Commons is the collaborative effort of practitioners and theorists of law and technology to bridge the world of copyright and the public domain. Our first project, in December 2002, was the release of a set of copyright licenses free for public use. The licenses are designed to help authors and other creative people share their works with the world online-on certain conditions-while retaining their copyright.

Digitalconsumer.org is a consumer-advocacy group started in 2001 with a mission to restore the balance of copyright law so that artists and creators can prosper while citizens have reasonable flexibility to use content in fair and legal ways. The group is composed of entrepreneurs, investors and consumers, and it is proposing a set of principles - a Consumer Technology Bill of Rights - that it intends to have passed into law. These principles would preserve consumers' historic fair-use rights that have been recently diminished by changes in copyright law made at the request of media companies. To learn more about the Consumer Technology Bill of Rights, please visit: www.digitalconsumer.org.

Foresight Institute's goal is to guide emerging technologies to improve the human condition. Foresight focuses its efforts upon nanotechnology, the coming ability to build materials and products with atomic precision, and upon systems that will enhance knowledge exchange and critical discussion, thus improving public and private policy decisions.

Google is the world's most popular search engine and conducts more than 150 million searches daily for users worldwide. This includes searches at Google.com and at partner sites, such as Yahoo!, Netscape and WashingtonPost.com. Google's products include the Google Search Appliance for corporate networks, hosted web and site search, and keyword-targeted advertising.

Laszlo Systems provides a new generation of server software that enables rich Internet applications to be deployed into any browser today. Laszlo's technology allows companies to rapidly build Internet applications that combine the usability of desktop software with the administrative advantages of server-based deployment. The end result is a quicker, richer, smarter and more fluid Internet.

SSC Publications, publisher of Linux Journal, is an established leader in the Linux, Open Source and UNIX fields. Now celebrating its eighth year of publication, Linux Journal is the premier magazine of the Linux community. To learn more about LJ and other SSC resources visit Linux Journal online.

Macromedia is passionate about the web. Its award-winning products empower designers and developers to efficiently create and deliver the most engaging experiences on the web, and enable innovative Internet business applications. Headquartered in San Francisco, Macromedia is available on the Internet at www.macromedia.com.

nerdbooks.com is a family-owned, technical bookstore (Brick & Click) located just outside Sacramento, California. With over 27,000 computer and electrical engineering books in stock, nerdbooks.com's selection is second to none. Serving customers in a world-class manner, nerdbooks.com routinely ships orders the same day and offers many other not-so-common services to customers.

O'Reilly Network is the Online Resource for Open and Emerging Technologies. You trust O'Reilly to help you do your job more efficiently and effectively. And you can trust O'Reilly Network to deepen your knowledge and technical skills. O'Reilly Network offers information beyond O'Reilly books, from thought-provoking articles to extensive, searchable resources. It's your essential technology site before and after conferences: www.oreillynet.com.

Safari Tech Books Online pinpoints solutions to your urgent technical problems by allowing you to search, read, and annotate the full text from hundreds of books by top publishers like O'Reilly, New Riders, Addison-Wesley Professional, and Prentice Hall PTR.

Techieindex.com is the largest technology resource index for enterprise knowledge on software products, solutions and services. Powered by proprietary enterprise application tool eDRM, the portal includes corporate channels with innovative features that enable technology companies to interact with their developer community. eDRM comprises of a customizable portal building tool and support teams aimed at enabling businesses to reach out to it clients and partners effectively, efficiently and in a cost effective manner.

Web Crossing is a cross-platform, high-performance server application providing online collaboration solutions through discussion forums, newsgroups, email, chat rooms, blogs, wiki webs and numerous other tools. A plugin architecture provides extensibility without programming, exceptional flexibility is available to the site designer, and excellent language localization tools permit using two-byte languages.

Xythos Software, develops leading Internet file management software for secure file access and sharing. Xythos' WebDAV compliant server and client technologies help business and education customers easily find and share information from any Internet location while improving file system security and reducing the load on email and messaging systems.