Mashup platforms that make it easier for consumer to create mashup applications, such as Yahoo! Pipes, Dapper, or Microsoft Popfly, are beginning to have analogues in the enterprise space. "Mashup platforms are in the pole position and ready to grab the lion's share of the market -- and an entire ecosystem of mashup technology and data providers is emerging to complement those platforms," says Forrester analyst G. Oliver Young. | source : www.readwriteweb.com
This mashup demonstrates the influence of British MPs in newspapers, showing those MPs who have been paid to write newspaper articles, and the potential influence of party politics in mainstream media. (Rollover the newspapers, for further info). | source : dharmafly.com
FlowingData has rounded up 17 Ways to Visualize the Twitter Universe together with pretty pictures and brief descriptions. Here's the list in link form only. | source : blog.twitter.com
Températures, vents, nuages, précipitations, pressions atmosphériques et humidités pour les 7 jours à venir visible sur Google Maps. | source : www.isitsunshine.com
In this post, I’ll refine that pattern a little more and show how to use delicious to bookmark a “processed” form of the output of the query, along with all the ingredients needed to generate that output. In a later post (hopefully before Christmas) I’ll try to show how the pattern can be used to share queries into other datastores, such as Google visualization API queries into a Google spreadsheet. | source : ouseful.wordpress.com
A Web site called CleanScores, for instance, tracks restaurant inspection scores in various cities and explains each violation. After School Special combines data from San Francisco schools, libraries and restaurants so parents can plan after-school activities and see how children’s nutritional options compare by neighborhood. And Trees Near You, available for the iPhone, lets people identify trees on New York streets. | source : www.nytimes.com
Throwing a few markers on an interactive map? That's so last year. The next generation of online maps or bigger, bolder and incredibly detailed. They provide a unique service to the viewer and push the envelope of data visualization and the distribution of information. | source : www.10000words.net
[article long et comme toujours fouillé].... Toujours sous l'angle de la distinction Cathédrale/bazar de Eric S. RAYMOND...notion, entre autres, de "démocratie sémiotique" : "depuis une décennie, le régime des médias de masse dominant depuis le xxe siècle a été durablement déstabilisé par des innovations techniques qui ne lui appartiennent pas (Internet, p2p…). Cette mutation a donné lieu à une mutation sociale irréversible, celle-là même dont parle Henry Jenkins, et dont le premier signe est l'échange des rôles culturels institués ; une réversibilité des rôles auteur/diffuseur/programmeur/spectateur.(...) la read/write culture [Cf. Lawrence Lessig "Remix Culture" ] (...) Dans une atmosphère de « démocratie sémiotique », telle que l'a métaphorisée John Fiske [24 Routledge, 1988 ] (...) le « pouvoir-dire » des praticiens d'Internet en cet âge expressiviste peut se documenter et se décliner suivant différents registres..." (lire la suite) | source : www.fondapol.org
Simply enter a bill number (the database goes back to 101st Congress) and then select what you would one of the two mapping options. You can either map where the sponsors of a bill are from or what a vote looks like on a map. In other words, Google Map “pins” are placed inside the state where the congressperson is from and colored either green for “aye” or red for “nay.” | source : www.resourceshelf.com
Companies Open House is an app that parses company data and gives you a nice page with the basic details about each company at a permanent URL. From that page, you can get to the company details on the government's site (provided it's open) via a link that redirects you one of their temporary session URLs. | source : companiesopen.org