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Answerbase: Add a Q&A Site Instantly (3 Annual Licenses Giveaway)

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In a web where the huge portion of the content is created by communities and users, Question & Answer websites became very popular.

They are perfect platforms for helping users find answers with the help of other users or expert staff, minimizing support requests and collecting experience. Also, building Q&A websites on niche subjects to create a community can itself be a good idea.

Answerbase, a hosted service for creating full-featured Q&A websites easily, is giving away "3 Annual Business Level Accounts" to WRD readers and details about the giveaway are mentioned at the bottom of this article.

What is Answerbase?

Answerbase is a service (which is already used by popular brands) where anyone can build a complete Question & Answer website very quickly without any programming or installation.

Users can easily register (there is support for Facebook, Twitter and oAuth sign-in) to post questions and replies. Replies can include text, image and video to provide the best information.

Other users can vote the replies to help determining the best answers. Also, the answers by the staff are automatically highlighted so they can be distinguished from others.

The front-end is white-labeled and design of the website can be completely customized. There are 3 ready-to-use templates offered and it is possible to change every image, color or text. For maximum customization, you can add your own CSS styles as well.

Depending on the selected plan, there is a powerful API provided to pull the content and/or better integrate the functionality with your own system.

Q&A websites are a good way of getting organic and related traffic to websites considering there is a continuous content generation. Answerbase does its best on getting the right traffic with SEO-friendly URLs, dynamic page titles, sitemap and more.

Also, using "widget builders", users can setup widgets and insert relevant content + functionality to their own sites which will end up in a more activity on the main website.

The reports module of the application displays all the metrics you need to find out how the system is performing like the growth of userbase, questions, answers and the overall activity. And, there is support for Google Analytics integration.

A great feature is the website automatically having a mobile-friendly version which can be viewed correctly from iOS, Android and many other mobile devices.

And, the system accepts "data import" which is nice if you are switching from another system (data can be exported too).

How to win the licenses?

In order to win one of the annual licenses:

• sign-up for a free trial of the Answerbase service
• submit your Answerbase site name to the comments

Winners will be picked randomly with the query below 1 week later (04 July 2011):

SELECT * FROM wp_comments WHERE comment_post_id=2321 AND comment_approved=1 AND comment_type='' GROUP BY comment_author_email ORDER BY RAND() LIMIT 3

Good luck everyone.

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Open Source Music Identification System: Echoprint

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We have all seen applications that enable us to find the song name or the artist by simply playing a small part of that song.

Echoprint is an open source resource that makes this possible and easy-to-integrate into any website/application.

It is a music identification system which listens to music signals, compares them with the ones in its database (of 150,000+ items) and tells you what song is playing.

The system has 3 parts:

• code generator which converts the audio data into a unique code
• server (Apache-based) which responds to the queries made with the generated code
• data which includes hashes of 150,000+ songs

You can choose to run your own server or Echoprint already hosts one where you can send queries to (using code generator is still needed).

P.S. There is also an Echonest PHP API for easily reaching the datastored.

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CSS Color Spectrum Inspector – CSS Prism

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While inspecting and editing a CSS file, it is not easy to understand which HEX value represents which color.

CSS Prism is a web-based CSS color spectrum inspector that loads the colors used in a CSS file as a grid and shows us in which rules they exist.

The application also enables us to edit the colors with a color-picker and download the edited CSS file.

CSS Prism is very useful for easily viewing the color palette and making sure it is consistent.

Besides inserting the URLs of CSS files manually, a bookmarklet is provided that eases this process.

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Open Source Educational Programming Language: Write programs that create interactive 2D and 3D graphics and animations

Thinking of learning a programming language, or perhaps teaching your students or children programming? A new language originally designed for such a purpose has been added to the Free Educational Programming Languages. This language, Processing, gives you an easy way to create interactive programs that deal with 2D and 3D graphics and animations. Other languages designed for teaching programming can also be found on that page.