Computerworld: The White House's data.gov effort is spurring the creation of some entertaining and informative applications from private developers.
Take for instance, DataMasher, which allows you to take two sets of data and merge them. Popular mashups
Imagine a way to explore and have fun with government data.
The winners of Sunlight Labs Apps for America 2 contest say that 'fun' was part of their winning formula.
The Alexandria-based Forum One just won the $10,000 first place prize at the O'Reilly M
Forum One`s DataMasher took first place out of 47 entries in Sunlight Labs Apps for America 2 contest, a competition in which participants were challenged to build a web site or internet application that makes federal data more accessible, interesting, an
I found this over on ReadWriteWeb, and it is a very interesting example of future transparency and accessibility of government data and statistics.
The post over there highlights the recent Sunlight Foundation, Apps for America 2: The Data.gov Challenge
A new CareerBuilder survey reveals that prospective employers use social networks more than ever to check out job applicants--45% of them--and they use Facebook more than LinkedIn. What's even more interesting is how they're using personal info to reject
Katrina's devastation of New Orleans was BSM (before social media). It's hard to think that we lived during a period of time without social networking, but only 4 years ago Facebook was barely one year old, and Twitter was yet to be inked out on a restaur
This tool allows you to input an Ical URL and you can change the time zone so it shows appropriately in your gcal. Great because gcal doesn't currently let you do this for calendars you import.
DataMasher is relatively new site that collects data produced by the federal government (much of it pulled from Data.gov) and makes it available as a downloadable spreadsheet or interactive map.
The estimated number of people displaced in the Philippines by a devastating storm on Saturday has doubled, to more than 435,000, according to government officials. Officials are calling tropical storm Ketsana, which dumped a month's worth of rain in six
Gary Chapman, of the University of Texas, has created this way of envisioning the relationship between income and obesity. Concept: the shading varies with the obesity rate divided by median household income. This is a not-immediately-obvious way to prese
From Chronicle of Philanthropy: As part of an effort to create a broad discussion about the future of the nonprofit world, Independent Sector has created a new Web site.
The organization, which is a Washington association of about 600 charities and grant
