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Springbase – real SQL relational database online

admin — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 10:00:24 +0000

Springbase is the way to build powerful database applications on the web, without the hassle and expense of servers and software installation. Springbase works entirely through the browser.

You can design web pages using visually intuitive visual interfaces, and create and deploy applications on the web faster and easier than ever.

Create online databases with the built-in SQL relational database, printable reports, and support for CSS style sheets. Scalability is built in, so your application will handle any level of demand.

Springbase is free for developers. For businesses with high-volume needs, pricing is per-user, per-month.

Springbase

Concharto – An encyclopedic atlas of history and happenings that anyone can edit.

admin — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 22:39:36 +0000

Concharto is an online encyclopedic atlas of history and happenings that anyone can edit. It is a geographic wiki. It looks like Google Maps and works like Wikipedia. It has the all of the illustrative power Google Maps and all of the strengths and weaknesses of Wikipedia.
Unlike virtually all other mapping sites on the internet today, Concharto is not about places – it is about events. Unlike Wikipedia, it is about small discrete bits of information, rather than comprehensive articles. Like Wikipedia, there is a complete history of changes to events.
Concharto is a for-profit organization that is dedicated to creating a lasting freely available atlas of history and happenings. Its organization is patterned off of other commercial organizations that create a public good without being registered as a Not-for-profit company. Some notable examples include: Firefox, CraigsList, WikiHow, Wikia, Wikitravel.

Concharto

NationMaster – Where Stats Come Alive!

admin — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 19:30:54 +0000

NationMaster is a massive central data source and a handy way to graphically compare world nations. NationMaster is a big compilation of data from different sources such as the CIA World Factbook, UN, and OECD. You can generate graphs and maps on all kinds of statistics with ease.
You can also view profiles of individual countries including their maps and flags, use correlation reports and scatterplots to find interactions between variables, and refer to integrated encyclopedia with over 1 million articles.

NationMaster