ReadWriteWeb:
Designer Nicholas Felton formalized his passion for personal infographics in 2005 when he issued his first Annual Report. He tracked his time spent working, the countries he'd visited, his favorite books and even his favorite refreshment. The report was a mix of pie charts, bar graphs and lifestyle-based statistics. Today, (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
Editor's note: we offer our long-term sponsors the opportunity to write 'Sponsor Posts' and tell their story. These posts are clearly marked as written by sponsors, but we also want them to be useful and interesting to our readers. We hope you like the posts and we encourage you to support our sponsors by trying out their p (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
If you're a lobbyist / advocate, conspiracy theorist or Freakonomics fan, then you'll love DataMasher. The map-based mash up site just took the Sunlight Foundation's $10,000 grand prize in theApps for America 2: The Data.gov Challenge. DataMasher offers users with no programming experience a chance to compare government dat (Read More)
Mashable!:
Last year Mashable covered the launch of Mufin, a music recommendation engine that works by actually analyzing the sound characteristic from songs in your music collection. You can use Mufin from the web or, if you’re a Windows user, via the Mufin Player. Today the company is launching Mufin Player Pro, which adds 3-D visua (Read More)
mashable:
Like every complex network, Facebook offers unlimited possibilities of visual representation of the various connections between its users. We’ve chosen six beautiful visualizations that will awaken the (visual) geek within you. You don’t have to stop at merely watching. Some of the visualizations on the list come with tools (Read More)
Mashable!:
Mashable is currently running a social media charitable campaign, The Summer of Social Good, equally benefiting LiveSTRONG, The Humane Society, WWF, and Oxfam America. We’ve raised $25,000+ ahead of the campaign’s official conference next week.We’ve learned a lot from this campaign so far and received a great deal of helpf (Read More)
mashable:
What if Twitter only had 100 users? How many would be chatty, how many lazy? Based on the data from previous surveys – InsideTwitter and the PearAnalytics study – the InformationIsBeautiful blog has constructed these gorgeous graphics showing the Twitter community represented as 100 people. While beautiful, the data is b (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
Did you know that your tweets have an expiration date on them? While they never really disappear from your own Twitter stream, they become unsearchable in only a matter of days. At first, Twitter held onto your tweets for around a month, but as the service grew more popular, this "date limit" has dramatically shortened. Acc (Read More)
mashable:
Earlier this year, Apple submitted a spec to the IETF for live streaming multimedia content over HTTP, leading some to suspect that a live video protocol would soon be making its way to iPhone and iPod devices. With the new 3.0 version of the iPhone OS, that HTTP live streaming protocol became a reality, and while there we (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
A winner at this year's mini-Seedcamp in London, Timetric is an app from Inkling Software, a three-principle shop composed of chemistry and physics PhDs.The premise is fairly simple: Timetric was created to store, share, and analyze data over time. For predicting trends, proving assertions, or recommending actions, time ser (Read More)
Junk Charts:
The NYT team just put up a fantastic visualization of the American Time Use Survey data, which purports to measure how the average American spends the time of a day. (Apparently, thousands of people recalled what they did every minute of an average day.) The amount of data collected is massive, and this graphic allows rea (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
At its peak, a search for "Iran" on Twitter generated over 100,000 tweets per day and over 8,000 tweets per hour. The plot just below shows the growth in volume of information in the number of tweets per hour.How does an Internet junkie, news organization, or political operative monitor rapidly evolving real-time events, fr (Read More)
mashable:
When Facebook Connect first launched for the iPhone in March, we said that it would “[open] up many new avenues for developers (and users).” Indeed, Facebook Connect means that iPhone developers have access to rich social graph and profile data from Facebook, and can build applications that leverage status updates, profile (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
During my recent visit to MIT in Boston I met with Joseph Paradiso, Associate Professor and Director of the Responsive Environments Group at MIT Media Laboratory. He showed me some demos of what his lab is up to, focusing mostly on what is termed "Cross Reality". This is when sensor/actuator networks meet online virtual wor (Read More)
Mashable!:
Elliott Kosmicki is the founder of GoodPlum.com, a productivity and personal development blog for home business owners. You can also follow Elliott on Twitter.With iPhone 3.0 OS upon us, we’ve finally seen the delivery of much-needed push notifications from Apple. Applications that take advantage of this new feature contin (Read More)