The Community Kit for SharePoint is a set of best practices, templates, Web Parts, tools, and source code that enables practically anyone to create a community website based on SharePoint technology for practically any group of people with a common interest.
Listen to David Berlind’s podcast interview with Linus Upson, a director of engineering at Google about the back story on Gears and what Google is aiming to accomplish with this broadside.
Then visit Techmeme's section on Google Gears for all of the info you may ever want to read on the subject:
Creative Commons provides free tools that let authors, scientists, artists, and educators easily mark their creative work with the freedoms they want it to carry. You can use CC to change your copyright terms from "All Rights Reserved" to "Some Rights Reserved."
If you want to share a folder with only certain users, you can use the Net command line tool to essentially hide your computer and shared network folders from the rest of the network.
Check this little guy out!
