• Caspio Charts

    Caspio Adds Charting

    by  • June 17, 2010 • 1 Comment

    The latest release of Caspio Bridge Online went live this week. Its major enhancement is the ability to create charts. Other enhancements include auto-thumbnail maker. According the company the charting capabilities of Caspio is compatible with iPhone and iPad. This comes after a recent release of iPhone kit that makes it possible for Caspio customers [...]

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    Quickbase Customers Complain on Twitter

    Quickbase Experiences Extended Downtime

    by  • June 17, 2010 • 0 Comments

    Quickbase database service and many other Intuit online services including Quickbooks and merchant services went down for over 24 hours. The message posted on Quickbase status page at 5:30 PM ET on June 16th didn’t provide details into the causes but indicated they “…are making progress toward restoring a number of websites affected by a [...]

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    Caspio Kit for Easy iPhone, iPad and Android Apps

    by  • June 17, 2010 • 1 Comment

    Caspio iPhone Kit

    Android, iPhone, iPad and other mobile platforms for apps are becoming mainstream and businesses find it necessary to make their apps compatible with them. Caspio has announced the availability of a kit that simplifies the creation of web apps for these devices. The kit provides a framework that is an iPhone website-in-a-box. It also includes [...]

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    No more DabbleDB

    by  • June 10, 2010 • 0 Comments

    DabbleDB

    Twitter today announced the acquisition of Smallthought Systems, the owners of DabbleDB. Their interest in DabbleDB is rooted in Trendly, an analytics program. DabbleDB customers seem to be in limbo for the time being. This is not very reassuring for business users. On the company’s website customers are told that no more future enhancements to [...]

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    Quickbase Review

    by  • May 19, 2010 • 1 Comment

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    Quickbase is an online database by Intuit that has been around for many years. Our intention was to build an online application with Quickbase and place a submission form for data entry purposes on our site. The application was going to have multiple users for administration of data. As you see later we could not [...]

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    Free Online Databases

    by  • May 10, 2010 • 0 Comments

    Free Online Databases

    You can find many free online word processors and spreadsheets, but when it comes to online database the universe is much smaller and the choices for “free” online databases are even more limited. The main reason is that databases are typically more complex applications and more goes into maintaining them. Furthermore, they are marketed to business who supposedly can afford to pay for it.

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    Online Databases Missing From Google App Marketplace

    by  • March 20, 2010 • 0 Comments

    Earlier this month Google App Marketplace was launched with much fanfare. We’ve been following the growing list of apps on this directory to see if any of the leading online databases appear. So far none are present. For the time being if you are looking for an online database you’re better off visiting vendor websites [...]

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    Web Form Design Best Practices, 2010

    by  • December 9, 2009 • 0 Comments

    Andrew Mager of ZDNet has posted an informative blog on best practices in web form design. Online database professionals can find his post useful. Unfortunately, online databases currently don’t give you most of the design capabilities that are needed to implement what is discussed here. As a result these remain primarily an option for developers. [...]

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    InfoDome announces beta

    by  • December 3, 2009 • 0 Comments

    InfoDome announced its entry into the online database market with the beta release of its solution. The December 2 announcement says that InfoDome enables import from a variety of file formats and a drag-and-drop form creator. The formal launch of the service is scheduled for Q1 2010. The online database market is dominated by long [...]

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    Microsoft Access 2010 to provide online capabilities

    by  • November 29, 2009 • 1 Comment

    Microsoft Access the grandfather of desktop databases has been falling behind in giving its users tools to use the database on websites. Now Microsoft plans to change that in Access 2010. A beta that was announced recently showcases some online application building functionality. Online databases such as Quickbase, Caspio and Zoho Creator have been taking [...]

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    Caspio SEO databases

    by  • November 29, 2009 • 0 Comments

    Caspio, the provider of Caspio Bridge announced the availability of search engine optimized data publishing through its platform. Users can import their datasets into Caspio Bridge and using its tool create searchable interfaces to their data. These data listing widgets can be placed on websites in such a way that search engines can see them [...]

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