Automation is a big theme and tools like Puppet (backed by Puppet Labs) and Chef (backed by Opscode) are popular tools.
IceRocket.com, a blog search tool backed by Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban, is about become the latest addition to Think Partnership's motley collection of Internet properties.
This means it's essentially a combination of a CRM and accounting tool, backed by a secure data storage service that is up to SEC standards.
Here's a cool tool backed by science that will totally help you become a morning person.
What began as one fashion writer's mission to build an app for her blog has morphed into an app-building tool that's backed by $2 million in seed funding and being used by actress Kristin Cavallari, model Molly Sims, web magazine xoJane and about 200 others.
While innovation could proclaim underlying political and strategic intentions when it was still in the early stages, it must now assert itself in the form of tangible and measurable methodological approaches backed by tools that are designed to provide stakeholders with services at every phase of the innovation process.
From machine learning to detect patterns in perpetrator behavior to complex data integration to the design of simple and useful UX, backed by tools such as semantic classifiers, for law enforcers to prioritize cases on online escort boards that may involve minors, it's technology that's providing new tools to fight back against these predators. .
They also offer a means of fact-finding and public education, through tools of discovery that are backed by the force of law, and adversarial processes of advocacy and presentation, that are superior to conventional journalism or government investigation and reporting.
I wasn't in Silicon Valley: I was in Johannesburg, South Africa, meeting with a firm that is designing machine learning (ML) tools for a local project backed by the U.S. Agency for International Development.
I was at the bureau last week to find out more about an online case management tool - called CourtNav and backed by the City firm Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer.
