in·Progress™ is a Southern California based media technology incubator providing resources and solutions for starting up internet ventures. A pioneer in web based education, social media servers and semantic web publishing systems, we have innovated web technologies since 1993 and shipped commercial web software as early as 1995. We're looking to invest our technology and know-how in passionate entrepreneurs eager to grow brilliant ideas into great companies with valuable products and services. Our focus for 2010 and beyond is on seed- and early-stage startup ventures with a substantial on-line media component. If you're starting up a company that matches this profile, we invite you to contact us to discuss what we can do to help.
Inspiration for the month of September: What Startups Are Really Like

Interaction is our core asset: a
web application server for building dynamic, social websites that adapt to the visitor. It provides a foundation for virtual communities, web-based education, on-line commerce, personalized websites, customer support, digital exchanges, vertical portals and more. Interaction is not for sale, but you can download and use the basic version for free.
Free / Open Source Software

Repel HTTP:BL is a free, open source contribution for Apache webservers that uses the DNS blacklist registry compiled by Project Honeypot to identify friendly search engines and detect malicious web bots such as email address harvesters and comment spammers.

Emilé is the
first XML editor for Macintosh. It is used to author documents using XML and Extensible HTML. The application adapts depending on the document type and editing context to facilitate efficient markup. Emilé can save an XML document as standard HTML for compatibility with legacy web browsers.

XPublish is a
Macintosh website publishing system based on extensible markup. It is used for efficient building and maintainance of middle-sized and large websites. XPublish generates HTML pages from XML documents and Cascading Style Sheets, so you can immediately take advantage of XML and CSS when building websites accessible for all browsers.

Cascade is the first comprehensive
Cascading Style Sheets editor. It is used to design a consistent look & feel for your websites. Cascade can emulate CSS using markup so that you can benefit from style sheets while still keeping a reasonable presentation for older browsers.

WebSlides is a
free droplet to efficiently
create presentations for display in a web browser.