Social Source Commons

Arc2Earth was created to convert and publish your ArcGIS data to view in Google Earth, Google Maps or Virtual Earth

ASPIRE® is a desktop evaluation application installed on your organization's PC. This program evaluation tool guides users in writing a logic model and allows users to create surveys and generate reports using graphs and tables.

Online data protection.

Backup to CD-RW, DVD, FTP or LAN with Scheduler, ZIP compression and Encryption

Add-on for the built-in backup software in Windows.

BeInSync is a straightforward package, installed on each computer, that allows users to sync files across multiple computers.

Data recovery software

Online data backup.

CDex is a tool that enables you to extract digital data directly from an Audio CD into plain WAV files (useful for making compilation audio CDs) or compressed using an audio encoder.

UNESCO develops, maintains and disseminates, free-of-charge, two interrelated software packages for database management (CDS/ISIS) and data mining/statistical analysis (IDAMS).

Secure data storage. The project uses information dispersal algorithms IDAs to separate data into 11 unrecognizable DataSlices™ and distribute them, via secure Internet connections, to 11 storage locations throughout the world, creating a storage grid.

Automatic offsite backup. Leave your computer connected to the net, and files are backed up to a remote server on a regular schedule.

Design and analyze reports drawing from multiple data sources.

DeltaCopy is an open source, fast incremental backup program.

Desktop spreadsheet and data analysis application.

Online backup service.

Conference calls for businesses, organizations, and individuals. Scheduled or on-demand. Free and premium services available.

Grants management software for funders.

With Google Insights for Search, you can compare search volume patterns across specific regions, categories, and time frames.

HTML parser for Ruby on Rails

Data management and electronic forms

Jungle Disk is an application that lets you store files and backup data securely to Amazon.com's S3 ™ Storage Service.

LOTE is an easy to use geographical projection converter, downloadable application

Web 2.0 website for data graphs and charts.

An freeware administrator tool, N.E.W.T. scans all remote networked machines on single or all domains and attempts to retrieve a wealth of detailed information. It shows this data in a spreadsheet-like format for a concise, overall view of your network.

NoteMind helps you to collect and to organize information centrally in one single place.

Shadow 3 enables automatic, continuous back up of photo, music, data, and video files to virtually any attached storage device.

OpenDX is a full-featured software package for the visualization of scientific, engineering and analytical data: Its open system design is built on a standard interface environments. And its sophisticated data model provides users with flexibility in creating visualizations.

PolicyMap is an innovative geographic information system which allows you to easily create custom maps, tables, and charts.

Prefuse is a set of software tools for creating rich interactive data visualizations. The original prefuse toolkit provides a visualization framework for the Java programming language. The prefuse flare toolkit provides visualization and animation tools for ActionScript and the Adobe Flash Player.

Prune is an application for managing coordinate data from GPS systems.

Network backup software that runs on Windows

SEOmoz's trifecta tool, analyses a site with data from various web services and rolls them up into a score from 0 to 100.

SimplePie is a class, written in PHP, for reading RSS and Atom syndication feeds.

Mac OS X data backup software.

Social Explorer provides easy access to demographic information about the United States, from 1940 to 2000.

Spanning Salesforce lets you track your most important Salesforce.com information—including leads, opportunities, contacts, events, tasks, documents, and more—using RSS. And by using the same technology that powers podcasting, Spanning Salesforce deli

Splunk is an application that specializes in indexing and searching on time-based data from heterogeneous sources. It has decent ad-hoc reporting tools to generate various reports and charts. Base version is free; gradual pricing for "enterprise" features.

Data backup software.

Swivel is a place where curious people explore all kinds of data

Program that allows you to add classy, unobtrusive styling to tables—particularly useful if you have a lot of data and want to make it more accessible.

Automatic backup program for Mac Leopard.

Transana is software for professional researchers who want to analyze digital video or audio data.

Online search engine of a large variety of databases.

The Ushahidi Engine is a platform that allows anyone to gather distributed data via SMS, email or web and visualize it on a map or timeline.

WebCite®, a member of the International Internet Preservation Consortium, is an on-demand archiving system for webreferences (cited webpages and websites, or other kinds of Internet-accessible digital objects), which can be used by authors, editors, and publishers of scholarly papers and books, to ensure that cited webmaterial will remain available to readers in the future.

Wufoo provides an easy way to collect information over the Internet. It is an HTML form builder to help create contact forms, web surveys, invitations, registrations and online payment pages without writing any code.

Website that provides a quick summary of demographic data for any US Zip Code.