IdeaTorrent is what can be defined as an "open innovation software": it lets people submit their ideas, brainstorm them, and vote on them. The most popular ideas and requests are then easily assessable.
GTG focuses on usability and ease of use. Its main objective is to provide a simple, powerful and flexible organization tool to the GNOME desktop environment.
"The Semantic Web is a vision where data on the Web can be defined and linked so that it can be processed by machines, not just for display purposes, but for use in various applications. By utilising Semantic Web technologies in social software systems, we can create new methods for connecting people to other people and also to the information that they have created. "
Web testing system. Script a test of something to be done on a web site, and you can replay/retest it later, or export to your favourite language and use there. "Selenium IDE is a Firefox add-on that records clicks, typing, and other actions to make a test, which you can play back in the browser."
"XMind.net is the best place to share your ideas and thoughts with the world. Adding an embedded XMind map viewer into your blog will enable more people to visualize and learn from your ideas. If you want to share privately, or brainstorm ideas with selected friends, just upgrade to XMind Pro."
"Welcome to the Pliny project homepage. The Pliny project aims to promote some thinking that looks broadly at the provision of tools to support scholarship. One of its products is a piece of software, also called Pliny, which facilities note-taking and annotation -- a key element of Humanities research for many scholars. It attempts to go further than this, however, by providing a set of facilities allowing its user to integrate these initial notes into a representation of an evolving personal interpretation -- perhaps one of the key goals of scholarly research. "
"Planet Venus is an awesome ‘river of news’ feed reader. It downloads news feeds published by web sites and aggregates their content together into a single combined feed, latest news first."
"RDFLib is a Python library for working with RDF, a simple yet powerful language for representing information. The library contains an RDF/XML parser/serializer that conforms to the RDF/XML Syntax Specification (Revised) ."
Spontaneous, unobtrusive usability testing software for designers and developers. * Capture screen activity * Video the participant’s reactions * Record the participant’s voice * Add chapter markers on the fly * Control recording with the remote * Export to Quicktime
"Wink is a Tutorial and Presentation creation software, primarily aimed at creating tutorials on how to use software (like a tutor for MS-Word/Excel etc). Using Wink you can capture screenshots, add explanations boxes, buttons, titles etc and generate a highly effective tutorial for your users."
"The BibApp is a Campus Research Gateway and Expert Finder....BibApp matches researchers on your campus with their publication data and allows you to mine the data to see collaborations and to find experts in research areas. BibApp makes it easy to see what publications can be archived for greater access and impact and makes it easy to push those publications directly into an institutional or other repository. "
Tor is a software project that helps you defend against traffic analysis, a form of network surveillance that threatens personal freedom and privacy, confidential business activities and relationships, and state security. Tor protects you by bouncing your communications around a distributed network of relays run by volunteers all around the world:
"Opengazer is an open source application that uses an ordinary webcam to estimate the direction of your gaze. This information can then be passed to other applications."
"Use Morae to record exactly what customers do and say, discover patterns in the data, key in on significant moments, and build a compelling case for how to improve the customer experience."
"Labs Code (for want of a better name) uses the Drupal project and project issue module to list projects, link back to Basecamp, and into our subversion repository." NYPL's local simpler Basecamp kind of thing.
"The CDL eXtensible Text Framework (XTF) is a flexible indexing and query tool that supports searching across collections of heterogeneous data and presents results in a highly configurable manner."
"Project Ungava is a test-bed for innovative search, indexing, navigation and visualization of library catalog and scholarly journal article metadata and full-text."
"This has been the main thing I’ve been working on for the past 8 months or so, in the middle of all my regular duties. Umlaut is sometimes called a “link-resolver front end” or a “middle-tier link resolver”. In fact, the Umlaut is a link resolv
"Anyway, we’re now in a soft launch phase of a library-wide collaborative web space. Our Systems Department (and a wide assortment of non-systems staff) pulled together an instance of Clearspace software which we have dubbed Lib-Share. It offers a suite
I'm not so much tied to any specific idea of "how should we blueprint software," so much as I'm into the idea of, "Just blueprint your god-damned software! I'll *figure out* your blueprints, however you write them out; Just *do it,* period, however makes most sense to you!" ...
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