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Data Tools

  • Advene

    An ongoing project aiming at providing a model and a format to share annotations about digital video documents.

  • Algolia

    A powerful hosted search engine API platform for building search into organisations.

  • Awesome Table

    Build little web apps from Google Spreadsheets.

  • Blockspring

    An ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) tool for non-coders, with lots of integrations: it allows to connect web apps and start collecting data from them, to be transformed and reinjected anywhere (ie. in a Google spreadsheet).

  • Caesar0301’s Github

    A topic-centric list of high-quality open datasets in public domains. By everyone, for everyone!

  • CartoDB

    A complete Web GIS (Graphic Information Systems). Create drag and drop analysis, visualize complex data, and deploy location applications in the cloud with fully customisable location intelligence applications.

Design Tools

  • Aesop Story Engine

    A collection of thirteen unique components wrapped in a plugin that can be used to present rich, interactive stories or articles in any WordPress theme.

  • App Inventor MIT

    An intuitive, visual programming environment that allows everyone to build fully functional apps for smartphones and tablets. Anyone can have a simple first app up and running in less than 30 minutes. The blocks-based tool facilitates the creation of complex, high-impact apps in significantly less time . This project seeks to democratize software development by empowering all people, especially young people, to move from technology consumption to technology creation.

  • Bubble.is

    Introduces a new way to build a web application with its point-and-click programming tool, entirely without code. Bubble hosts all applications on its cloud platform.

  • Coggle.it

    A freeware, mind-mapping web application using hierarchically structured documents, like a branching tree.

  • Creative Cloud

    A set of applications and services from Adobe Systems that gives subscribers access to a collection of software used for graphic design, video editing, web development, photography, along with a set of mobile applications and also some optional cloud services via a monthly or annual subscription service.

  • Crowdin

    A localization management platform that helps organisations translate their software, content, websites... We used it for this very document.

Leftovers

  • Aha!

    Aha! is for roadmapping collaboratively, for product and marketing teams — work independently or collaborate better together.

  • Communecter

    An innovative societal network at the service of citizens who are agents of change.

  • Discourse

    Discourse is the 100% open source discussion platform built for the next decade of the Internet. Use it as a mailing list, discussion forum, long-form chat room, and more!

  • dokie.li

    dokieli is a clientside editor for decentralised article publishing, annotations and social interactions.

  • Fizen

    Anytime is a Neobank for companies, professionals, associations, and private individuals. Fizen allows you to save time on your management and manage your activity in real time. Designed and used by chartered accountants for VSE executives.

  • Kirby

    Kirby is the content management system, you build your own ideal interface. Combine forms, galleries, articles, spreadsheets and more into an amazing editing experience.

Knowledge Management Tools

  • Airtable

    Database meets collaborative spreadsheet. Quick and easy way to have a collaborative, personnalized database that can both integrate with other tools and be usable by normal, non-tech, humans.

  • Authorea

    Write, manage, and publish your documents alongside 100,000+ writers and researchers. Works with GitHub, Jupyter, markdown... Incredible capacities - we love it. Here's an example of what you can do with it:

  • Document Cloud

    An open-source software as a service platform that allows users to upload, analyze, annotate, collaborate on and publish primary source documents. Since its launch in 2009, it has been used primarily by journalists to find information in the documents they gather in the course of their reporting and, in the interests of transparency, publish the documents.

  • Draftin

    Very web writer orientated, and very good at that, as shown by the features. Sleek version control and collaborative draft writing.

  • Evernote

    A cross-platform app designed for note taking, organizing, tasks lists, including a web content clipper and archiving capabilities. Evernote Web Clipper, used with tags and Zapier, is a very powerful automation tool.

  • Feedly

    A news aggregator application for various web browsers and mobile devices running iOS and Android, also available as a cloud-based service. It compiles news feeds from a variety of online sources for the user to customize and share with others. We use it to manage our RSS feeds.

Infrastructure & Development Tools

  • Amazon Web Services (AWS) Platform

  • Appear.inOrganisation & Communication Tools

    An online video collaboration tool that lets you have video conversations effortlessly. Create a room with no required registration.

  • AsanaOrganisation & Communication Tools

    A web and mobile application designed to help teams track their work. Founded in 2008 by Facebook co-founder Dustin Moskovitz and ex-engineer Justin Rosenstein, who both worked on improving the productivity of employees at Facebook.

  • Atom

    Atom is a text editor that's modern, approachable, yet hackable to the core—a tool you can customize to do anything but also use productively without ever touching a config file.

  • Azure

  • BufferOrganisation & Communication Tools

    A software application for the web and mobile, designed to manage accounts in social networks, by providing the means for a user to schedule posts to Twitter, Facebook and Linkedin.

References

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