A little dabble will do ya

I recently stumbled upon a cool web 2.0 application called dabbledb. As the name might suggest, it’s an online database. So what you say, DBs are everywhere. The difference here is that for a very low price (free if you don’t mind other people seeing your data), you can house a number of databases and build an application interface which can link data from one DB to another. You can import data from almost anything that you can get into a CSV or Excel file. With Excel it’s a simple drag and drop, and dabble automatically figures out field (column) names, and creates picklists from repetitive data.

Essentially you can easily build your own web application and share it with almost anyone. This would be a great option for companies (or departments within companies) that need to have multiple people update Excel spreadsheets, or that have someone consolidating spreadsheets completed by multiple individuals. Why not create the spreadsheet in Dabble and have everyone access it in one place.

Dabbledb is not yet a competitor to a professionally developed database application, but it’s plugin capabilities will allow you, given enough time and creativity, to do almost any data manipulation you could dream of.

This is definitely something to keep in your arsenal of tools. You can try it out, free for a month with their special promotion that is on now.