Online file sharing service Box.net made Webware’s list of the 100 best Web 2.0 applications for 2008 for three very good reasons. The award's not for its file storage capability (there are other free or low-cost backup and file storage options to challenge the modest amount of space that Box.net offers). And not for the ability to access and ...

The trick to effective mind mapping is finding the right tool for the job — whether that tool is pen and paper, as Guy Lewis used to unravel his personal life, or dedicated software, as Patrick Lynch used to explain Wild Apricot’s features to his colleagues. What is Mind Mapping? Mind mapping is a non-linear, highly visual method of ...

''Welcome to the age of the crowd,'' wrote Jeff Howe in The Rise of Crowdsourcing (2006). In coining the term crowdsourcing, Howe pointed to the rise of the open-source software movement; to the success of user-created Wikipedia; and to profitable businesses like MySpace and eBay ''that couldn't exist without the contribution of users.'' Howe put ...

In the first part of this article, we talked about various ways to show data in tables on your website or blog -- their strengths and their limitations.  Here, we'll take a closer look at how to use Zoho Sheet, Google  Spreadsheets, or DabbleDB to create a searchable, interactive table that you can easily embed in your web page, ...