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Mashups can be fascinating, layering data over maps to provide insight into trends and patterns. That kind of data manipulation would seem beyond the scope of the merely curious, but thanks to DataMasher you can instantly create a mashup. DataMasher pull

Explains how to create a timeline using MIT's SIMILE API.

There are lots of things you can do on Twitter besides tweet - and interactive storytelling just became one of them. Neil Gaiman, famed author and creator of The Sandman comic series, and BBC Audiobooks America have gotten together to produce an interest

Smart commentary by president of Beth Isreal hoaspital on why the decision to block use of social networking sites at a Boston hospital was a bad idea

Now that everybody and his mother is on the site, is it time to look for the next big thing in social networking?

United States intelligence agencies will have a tool to read blog posts, Twitter tweets and chatter across the Internet. In-Q-Tel, the independent strategic investment arm of the U.S. government, has infused cash into Visible Technologies with plans to ma

On October 19, Secretary Clinton, accompanied by Ambassador Rice and myself, released the Obama Administration's new comprehensive strategy to confront the serious and urgent situation in Sudan. As mentioned in my past blog post, the strategy focuses on t

Python-based repository viewer, including side-by-side diffs (differences) between two revisions. Helps track changes in a Subversion repository.

Acquia Search is included for no additional cost in every Acquia Network subscription. Basic and Professional subscribers have one "search slice" and Enterprise subscribers have five "search slices". A slice includes the processing power to index your sit

Open source ruby based crm

Google SMS Tips and Google Trader represent the fruits of unique partnerships among Google, the Grameen Foundation, MTN Uganda and local organizations

Adaptive Blue, Favika, and others have defined a common tag format. A step toward untangling the folksonomy cunondrum?

Drupal module that will use either Yahoo Term Extraction, Open Calais, or TheTag.net services to automatically classify and catagorize site content.

Great video on linking data by Tim Berners-Lee at the 2009 Ted Conference

Global Health Council's blog

Consider yourself a conscientious voter? Legistalker makes it easy to keep an eye on the officials you voted in and see if you voted for hope, change, or solid dose of the status quo.

OpenRegs.com is an easy-to-navigate regulatory portal. Every day, federal agencies issue dozens of rules that affect you, your business, and your family. We make it easy to keep track of proposed and final regulations and to submit comments to the agencie

Outgrowth of the Tea Party movement, site lets you graph and download federal and state spending data, with some data as early as 1972.

"We want to limit the length of a review in our application to 140 characters, because we may want to use SMS at some stage. That's a tiny change, right?" Wrong. There are no tiny changes when you're committed to delivery quality software.