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Jan
4
2008

Finding a Fit with opensourceCMS

Open Source CMS

This site hosts 150 live demos of open source content management systems with both the public interfaces and the administrative interface exposed for you to experiment with.

Jan
3
2008

Brainstorming Bubbl.us

Bubblus

There are some activities that are immensely suited to web applications. I’ve run a few brainstorm sessions in my time. I’m more than familiar with the rustle of flip-charts and the smell of marker pens; but although the process is dynamic, paper can be such a static medium for generating ideas. Bubbl.us is a web application that aims to make brainstorming simple and creative. The interface is attractive and uncluttered. The features a kept deliberately [...]

Jan
2
2008

When did you last check for vandals?

Wikipedia Vandalism

Wikipedia and Freebase both show that, given the opportunity, altruistic individuals will collectively build and maintain large databases of public information. As storage and bandwidth costs fall more of these systems will be developed, and organizations will increasingly need to consider them when forming information strategies.

Jan
1
2008

24IM Instant Messaging

24IM

This is a good instant messaging solution for small businesses and dispersed project groups, and is able to scale to meet enterprise requirements.

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