by Brian Solis
As a member of the selection committee for the Upcoming Under the Radar Conference, The Business of Web Apps: Where the Web Goes to Work, I am responsible for actively evaluating nominated companies for inclusion in the official event.
One of the finalists we’re currently evaluating is blist, a company that I had the pleasure of both observing and meeting at this past DEMO 08 in Palm Desert.
Touted as the “World’s easiest database,” blist focuses on discovering, sharing, publishing, distributing, and subscribing to data at home and at work.
blist makes relational database creation and management as easy as using a spreadsheet, and after creating my first “blist,” I have to agree. blist’s visually rich and intuitive UI enables non-technical people to work with data – it’s just simply elegant.
blist makes it easy for just about anyone with the slightest experience in building a database, (think Act, Access, Goldmine, Filemaker in software terms) to create private or collaborative databases for anything from party or wedding guest lists, fantasy football statistics, and personal finances to professional information such as sales contacts, project management sheets, campaign tracking, status reports, among others.
Here’s a video of their demo at DEMO.
A community of data and data templates allow you to get started right away, which keeps you from reinventing the wheel and duplicating data entry work if it already exists. For example, there’s a dashboard component that allows you to see not only your files, but also those made public by other users. Cool idea for polling and stats.
Head over to blist and give it a shot. If it was good enough for DEMO, it might have some benefits to you as well. BETA is open now.
Here are a couple of additional pictures from blist at DEMO.
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