Swivel is a California based startup which was founded in December of 2005. It realizes the value of data and allows users to explore data and share their insights with others.

Users can:

1. Explore data
2. Compare data
3. Share insights from data
4. Upload data

For any data, one can see the graph, the data, cloud view and the map view (newly introduced Swivel Geography). You can also get custom code to embed the views for the data in your blog. Like the one here:

or this one:

You can visit their featured graphs page to see many more interesting insights.

This is indeed a very novel way to encourage people to share data and carry out analysis on them and compare with other sources of data. I believe this tool will present to us many new insights which were hidden in data silos.

Swivel  | Intro to Swivel | About Swivel | Swivel Blog | Most Viewed Graphs 

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Webware is running a awards program Webware 100 for which they are asking users to vote for their favorite apps. The competition is about best web applications.

More About The Competition

There are 10 categories with 25 nominations in each of them, which makes it a total of 250 entries. Top 10 in each category will be declared winners, a total of 100 winners! One user can cast one vote per category.

The categories are:

• Browsing: Web browsers, extensions, widgets, and security
• Communications: e-mail, chat, VOIP
• Community: social networks, groups
• Data: search, storage, backup, sharing, and sync
• Entertainment: Games and contests
• Media: audio, video, photo
• Mobile: portable utilities and apps
• Productivity: apps, business tools, commerce
• Publishing: blogging, web content, design tools
• Reference: Mapping, reference works, and education

Deadlines Etc.

The voting closes 9:00 AM Pacific time on June 11, 2007 and results will be declared on 18th June, 2007.

What Is WebWare?

Webware.com is the site dedicated to helping users learn about new and useful web applications. Webware.com is edited by Rafe Needleman who was Editor of CNET.com in the early days, 1997 to 1998.

Vote Here | About WebWare | Resources for finalists

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Web site stats tracking tool StatCounter now allows free users to increase their log size from 100 to 500!

To increase your log size,

• Log into StatCounter
• Click the wrench icon beside your project
• Click ‘Adjust Log Size’, and enter 500 in the box.
• Click ‘Adjust Project Log’ and you’re done!

This will enable you to see the last 500 pageloads for your sites.

If you are new to StatCounter, try it out, it is free and very easy to configure.

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Any link in your outlook or any other application when clicked opens up in Internet Explorer (assuming default browser is IE). The annoying part is that the click ends up using the same Internet Explorer window that is already open (instead of opening the site in a new window or tab) and you lose the site which you had open.

The way to avoid this and configure your IE to always open any link clicks in a new tab or window is to do this:

Tools -> Internet Options -> Advanced

uncheck the checkbox “Reuse windows for launching shortcuts…” and click ok.

Now all clicks will open in new IE window (IE6) or in new tab IE7.

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It is always frustrating to call the railways enquiry number to get information about train arrival as no one picks the phone. After having similar experience yesterday, I started looking for any websites which provided an updated status information on trains in India.

The quest led me to this page: http://www.trainenquiry.com

The site asks you some basic information about your train number or you can even enter the train name and soon you know the upto date information about that train.

Here is a snapshot of the application:

the site has been developed and is maintained by CENTRE FOR RAILWAY INFORMATION SYSTEMS (CRIS). Besides this they have several other project running:

• Passenger Reservation System (PRS)

• Alpha Migration

• Internet Enquiries

• Booking of Tickets on Internet

• Unreserved Ticketing System (UTS)

Popularity: 3% [?]