UK Says ‘Show Us a Better Way’ With Mashups
The UK Power of Information Taskforce is challenging developers to mash up their public data. Today it launched Show Us a Better Way, collecting ideas and offering £20,000 (about $40,000) to develop...
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Google Adds Insight to Trends
Google released another data-mining tool meant to help its advertisers spend wisely. Google Insights looks a lot like Google Trends. In fact, I wonder why both tools still exist (Google has done it...
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Make Data Not Look Like Data
Just about every web page has some sort of data behind it. This blog post, for example, has a title, a date, categories, tags, and the body of the post itself, in addition to some other metadata. All...
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Dashboard Shows Our Open Data Future
Sprint’s beautiful dashboard is full of widgets showing a glimpse into what’s going on in the world. Among the things it tracks: sticky notes being produced, organ transplant operations, and...
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Share Your Mundane Details
The web has all sorts of data, but it’s sorely missing yours. If you request an account from Daytum, you can change that. The site lets its users collect data about themselves and share it via...
View ArticleMining Flickr to Build 3D Models of the World
Microsoft’s PhotoSynth tool is jaw-droppingly awesome. But, because it’s a Microsoft project, the technology is unlikely to appear on some of your favorite non-Microsoft online apps, like Google Maps...
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