Product Reviews IdeaScale - Crowdsourcing R&D The hot idea of the moment for large companies is to outsource their research and development efforts to their customers. Who knows your product better than your most loyal fans? If they can collectively agree on the best way to improve it, it must be good, right? Dell did it with IdeaStorm (our coverage), Starbucks did it with My Starbucks… Josh Catone View comments
Product Reviews Semantify Your Web Apps with Triplify Alright, "semantify" may not be an actual word, but you can probably guess at its meaning: "add a semantic layer to." In this case, we're looking at a small plugin called Triplify that reveals the semantic structures of web applications by converting their database content into semantic formats. Sarah Perez View comments
Music BBC Launches Social Media Music Chart BBC Radio 1 announced a major update to their music charts about a week ago. Traditionally, mainstream music popularity has been measured by album sales or radio plays -- or a combination of the two. But with albums selling fewer copies through traditional channels and radio losing ground to online music, the Beeb decided to take a look at the… Play Josh Catone View comments
Product Reviews SproutBuilder Grows Up, Releases SDK SproutBuilder, the drag and drop Flash authoring environment for widget building we fell in love with at the DEMO conference, released a much more sophisticated version of its service today. Authoring controls are much improved and the new Software Development Kit offers a taste of the kind of extended functionality that will now be available to… Marshall Kirkpatrick View comments
Product Reviews Etelos Goes Offline with MediaWiki, WordPress and the Apps You Build The Etelos Application Framework today launched a key new feature: the ability for applications there to run offline and sync when connectivity is available. The company requires zero code changes to be made in order for apps to go offline. From apps developed natively for the Etelos marketplace to enterprise installs of Google Apps, MediaWiki… Marshall Kirkpatrick View comments