Note: Software Technology has wide meaning, therefore assume for the simplicity of the current article that software technology maps to a software library and/or solution (framework, development tool & etc.)
Keywords:
“browse software technologies map”
“software technologies browser”
Results:
http://opensourcegis.org/ ->
This effort represents an attempt to build a complete index of Open Source / Free GIS related software projects. The effort has some way to go, especially for projects in languages other than English. The definition of GIS has been kept loose to encompass a broad range of projects which deal with spatial data.
and while digging in found http://wiki.gis.com/wiki/index.php/GIS_Software_Technology which indeed is quite nice representation of software (development) evolution atm:
Indeed that is the way “it” goes…
keywords:
“browse software libraries”
“browse software libraries map”
“software libraries browser”
As well as any other combination between the above returns results without a solution on
how a software developer can view/search/query/navigate within current state of software technologies (at least web ones 
?
Google for them… But those “new” onces? Twitter?
As side note I’ll describe mine approach atm (which I’m trying constantly to improve imho) in newest to latest order:
1) follow twitter (http://twitter.com/obiwon/webtechs)
2) http://github.com/explore
3) follow amazing number of RSS feeds (web related blogs, magazines, persons & etc…) As one may say “You name it, I’m reading it.”
So all those three give me constant flow of 24/7 information. It is “huge” (meaning if I need to include side flows like facebook, email groups & others)
And there is no single service which would combine those all into one meaningful chaotic rendered map of software technologies been developed before, today & maintained tomorrow ?
Here are some of which I would like to have bits & peaces:
http://en.wikipedia.org/ – it has the data per every mature software technologies out there. Detailed one in some cases, short in others. But it has it at some extended at least.
https://github.com/ & http://sourceforge.net/ & http://www.codeplex.com/ & … (well they are a lot http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_open_source_software_hosting_facilities ) – they all hast the actual source of the technologies
http://www.ohloh.net/ – here are the stats (or at least how they should look like in general)
Alternatives & Additions grow as time goes by atm. So it won’t give any result in numbering them here (try googling 
)
So the data is actually there. But it is just not centralized & presented in nice manageable user experience. At least it takes hell a lot of time to keep track and in the same time test/evaluate/will not mention contributing as it goes out of the scope… So here is a challenge. And here is a architecture for how I think things may happen:
It is not final at all. But hopefully gives major idea on what I envision as “to be able to browse for software technologies” at least. And they are really quite big number to be browsed at once. But at least to be able to follow and research the trends or “new comers” would be nice feature. So here are the use cases (at least in the beginning):
At the above use case isn’t shown the following (which has been considered useful in long terms system implementation):
- Technologies Browser web interface is user frontend application. It is not strictly said that only one will exist, but at least one will
- Security & Moderation aspects on the topic are left outside of this scope to keep things simple & evolution ready.
Keep things simple right? Who knows what is waiting us around the corner
http://www.codeplex.com/
