Plurk Open Source – LightCloud – Distributed and persistent key value database * Built on Tokyo Tyrant. One of the fastest key-value databases [benchmark]. Tokyo Tyrant has been in development for many years and is used in production by Plurk.com, mixi.jp and scribd.com (to name a few)… * Great performance (comparable to memcached!) * Can […]

Ushahidi :: Crowdsourcing Crisis Information (FOSS) 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. Our goal is to create the simplest way of aggregating information from the public for use in crisis response. (tags: software opensource crisismanagement […]

Haystack – Search for Django Search doesn't have to be hard. Haystack lets you write your search code once and choose the search engine you want it to run on. With a familiar API that should make any Djangonaut feel right at home and an architecture that allows you to swap things in and out […]