Using the Ribbit Voice Platform, voice is now a programmable feature that is free from the traditional device. Going way beyond the call, Ribbit is an open platform for multi-protocol communication, empowering a new market of voiceware applications and services.
It can go anywhere… on a phone, on a webpage, inside email, and in an existing app. Voice can now live inside any environment including online communities or stores, CRM systems, call center applications, media properties – you name it. It can be captured, stored and sent in traditional and non-traditional ways…it is totally free for your innovation across any industry.
Coding voice as a feature is easy. Build your rich voice applications in either Flex or Flash. Their voice components are available in both flavors. Now you can easily add the ability to make and receive calls, record, send and receive voice messages, as well as add and organize contacts to your applications with the Ribbit API. Leverage the Ribbit Voice Platform to enrich your applications with voice, others have.
Requirements: –
Demo: http://developer.ribbit.com
License: Read License
There is a lot of money being made in Open Source, although the profitable companies are not always the ones you would expect.
While many companies don’t disclose detailed financial information we have dug around to find numbers for some well-known open source companies and projects to see how they are doing financially. Royal Pingdom has collected the financial information of some of the most popular open source companies.
One of the great examples is Mozilla which has the famous Firefox web browser and the Thunderbird email client. In 2006 the Mozilla Corporation generated $66.8 million in revenue with 85% of the revenue coming from Google for being the default search engine and ads placed on search result pages. Google and Mozilla recently extended the deal to 2011 (just before Google launched Chrome, ironically).
You can have look at other popular open source companies like Canonical, Novell, Sun Microsystems, Red Hat, Yahoo and Nokia.
Source: This is the money being made TODAY in Open Source
Kaltura has built an open source video platform to empower online video management, creation, interaction and collaboration on any site and across sites. The platform is geared to serving both premium rich-media content and user generated content: from management and display of content to advanced interactive functionality.
With one click, any site owner can embed full interactive video capabilities: an interactive video player including an upload/import tool and a web-based video mixer. Their skinable interactive player allows you to have full control over the look and feel and allows to pick from a long list of functionality.
However, the Community Edition is still under development. It offers the full Kaltura collaborative media platform, running on your site. It enables you to host and stream the videos from your data center, behind your firewall. And it’s 100% free, and licensed under the GPL. Stay tuned.
Requirements: –
Demo: http://corp.kaltura.com/
License: GPL License
Cheat sheet is a reference tool that provides simple, brief instructions for accomplishing a specific task. We have collated a set of best cheat sheets for web developers. It includes some of the popular programming language, e.g. jQuery, Mootools, Prototype, PHP, MySQL and etc… Please feel free to suggest some of the cheat sheets we did not mention.
1. jQuery Cheat Sheet
2. Mootools Cheat Sheet
3. Ruby on Rails Cheat Sheet
4. Django Cheat Sheet
5. YUI Cheat Sheet
6. Prototype Cheat Sheet
7. Scriptaculous Cheat Sheet
8. extJs Cheat Sheet
9. Javascript Cheat Sheet
10. HTML Cheat Sheet
11. CSS Cheat Sheet
12. Mod_Rewrite Cheat Sheet
13. Regular Expressions Cheat Sheet
14. PHP Cheat Sheet
15. MySQL Cheat Sheet
16. SEO Cheat Sheet
SimpleCart(js) is a simple paypal shopping cart in under 11kb that you can setup in minutes. It uses cookies to keep track of the items in the cart. Therefore, simpleCart(js) doesn’t require any databases or programming knowledge. You simply need to know some basic HTML and have the ability to copy and paste. However, it can easily be expanded to use databases or contain more advanced options. It’s lightweight, fast, simple to use, and completely customizable.
Requirements: PayPal Account Required
Demo: http://www.thewojogroup.com/simpleCart/
License: MIT License
Shocking, shocking. Is it the end of complex CSS layout techniques, and will be the final nail in the coffin of using HTML tables for layout. Finally, producing table-like grid layouts using CSS will be quick and easy?
When released, Internet Explorer 8 will support many new values for the CSS display property, including the table-related values: table, table-row, and table-cell—and it’s the last major browser to come on board with this support.
Perhaps you’re feeling slightly uncomfortable—after all, haven’t web standards advocates been insisting for years that you shouldn’t be using tables for layout?
Applying table-related display property values to web page elements causes the elements to mimic the display characteristics of their HTML table equivalents. Digital Web Magazine published “Everything You Know About CSS Is Wrong” which demonstrates how this will have a huge impact on the way we use CSS for web page layouts.
Source: Everything You Know About CSS Is Wrong
Thank you for all of the participants of Giving Away 10,000 Free Business Cards with U-Printing. We are happy to announce the following 10 winners. Congratulations. U-Prinitng will contact you guys shortly.
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4. Leif Miltenberger
5. Bramus!
6. Oliver
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8. Jim
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WebAppers will continue giving away some really nice web development tools and resources to our readers. Please feel free to suggest what you would like for the next Giveaway under this post. Thank you.
Free CSS Drop-Down Menu Framework does not only separate HTML from CSS, but even CSS definitions are categorized into structural and thematic types. Thus creating a new drop-down means creating only a new theme since structure is permanent.
Your unordered List can be transformed by changing class name only. Available transformations including horizontal, vertical left-to-right, vertical right-to-left, horizontal linear and horizontal upwards. Free CSS Drop-Down Menu is cross browser that there are some configurations available for Windows Internet Explorer 5 or later, Mozilla Firefox 1.5 or later, Opera 7 or later, Apple Safari 2 or later.
Requirements: Internet Explorer 5+, Firefox 1.5+, Opera 7+, Apple Safari 2+
Demo: http://www.lwis.net/free-css-drop-down-menu/
License: GPL License
Peppy is a lightning fast CSS 3 compliant selector engine with no external library dependencies. Peppy can be used along side other libraries seamlessly.
As it stands now Peppy is faster1 than all other major JavaScript libraries with DOM querying capabilities (Prototype 1.6.0.3, JQuery 1.2.6, MooTools 1.2.1, EXT 2.2, DoJo 1.2.0, YUI 2.6.0). It is faster2 than Sizzle by John Resig and it also is cross browser (IE included). You can take a look for yourselves by using SlickSpeed Selectors Test and download Peppy here.
If you are designing your own JavaScript library or want to replace your existing libraries selector engine then Peppy is an ideal candidate.
Requirements: –
Demo: http://jamesdonaghue.com/static/peppy/
License: FreeBSD License
WYMeditor is a web-based WYSIWYM XHTML editor. WYMeditor has been created to generate perfectly structured XHTML strict code, to conform to the W3C XHTML specifications and to facilitate further processing by modern applications.
With WYMeditor, the code can’t be contaminated by visual informations like font styles and weights, borders, colors, …The end-user defines content meaning, which will determine its aspect by the use of style sheets. The result is easy and quick maintenance of information.
WYMeditor has been integrated in many open or proprietary applications, such as: Drupal, Symphony, Radiant, TYPO3, WordPress, Rails, CakePHP and etc…
Requirements: –
Demo: http://files.wymeditor.org/wymeditor/trunk/src/examples/
License: MIT, GPL License
