Just released into the wild, GQLx is a SQL-like language that wraps the Google Doc's spreadsheet API with a scripting language for retrieving and updating information stored in a spreadsheet by executing simple statements - as you would with a database.
An experimental implementation of the concept behind FISHMS that makes use of the low cost of instant messaging and the emerging mobile phone IM clients to provide more information and a much more interactive experience.
At the moment its in public beta - more information is available at the FISHMX website:
A joint project with SASSI (the South African Sustainable Seafood Initiative) and iVeri Payment Technology, FISHMS made the conservation status of seafood from the South African coast available to the restaurant going consumers by SMS.
Two years later its answered almost 60 000 requests from 15 000 conservation-minded South African's....
A joint project with iVeri Payment Technology, IMPI is a mobile phone point-of-sale terminal designed for use in Africa - where high speed robust communications is not always conveniently available to enterprising businesses.
Currently available in South Africa to Nedbank merchants.
