Computer programming services, namely, software-as-a-service (SaaS) services, application services in the nature of application service provider featuring application software, and cloud computing services, all featuring software for publishing, editing, managing, sharing, and utilizing discrete data items containing frequently-used phrases and images ("snippets") using customized short abbreviations which save the user keystrokes and improve productivity, enabling development and transfer of individual and team knowledge and for accessing remotely-stored data for such applications; software-as-a-service (SaaS) services, application services in the nature of application service provider featuring application software, and cloud computing services, all featuring software allowing use of snippets in fill-in-the- blank fields, in an organization within groups, and for the import and export of snippets via external sources, for insertion of date and time in user-preferred formats, for insertion of editor-independent text and code templates, and invocation of scripts of snippets into documents; providing temporary use of online non-downloadable software and applications software which enables the compilation and processing of snippets for a central database though local and global networks and for accessing remotely-stored data for such applications; providing temporary use of online non-downloadable software for online access to, editing of, grouping of, management of, and sharing of a database of snippets, including a directory of publicly published snippet groups