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Data.gov to Face a Challenger From Sunlight Labs
Written by Marshall Kirkpatrick / July 16, 2009 11:10 AM / 3 Comments
Data.gov, the US federal government's new catalog of sets of public data for outside developers to mashup and analyze, now faces some friendly competition. The Sunlight Foundation, a non-partisan non-profit Continue reading »


DocumentCloud Gets Funding to Create Research Memory Bank in the Sky
Written by Marshall Kirkpatrick / June 17, 2009 1:22 PM / 2 Comments
A team of journalist-engineers from ProPublica and The New York Times has been awarded the Grand Prize in this year's Knight News Challenge and will receive $700k to build DocumentCloud, Continue reading »


Why Smart Grids Could Be Slow to Beat Web 2.0
Written by Marshall Kirkpatrick / June 11, 2009 12:17 PM / 5 Comments
Smart electrical grids that deliver energy consumption data from the home to a utility company, through software for analysis and back to consumers at home again, are believed to be Continue reading »


Open Government: Berners-Lee and the UK to Show Obama How It's Done
Written by Marshall Kirkpatrick / June 10, 2009 9:12 AM / 4 Comments
"So that government information is accessible and useful for the widest possible group of people, I have asked Sir Tim Berners-Lee who led the creation of the world wide web, Continue reading »


Google Squared is Live: Who Knew Structured Data Could Be So Unhelpful?
Written by Marshall Kirkpatrick / June 3, 2009 12:29 PM / 47 Comments
Three weeks ago Google demonstrated a new product in Labs called Google Squared; it's a search engine that creates structured data from big piles of information and lets users compare Continue reading »


StatPlot: Create Beautiful Sports Charts in Minutes
Written by Marshall Kirkpatrick / May 27, 2009 12:49 PM / 4 Comments
StatPlot is the newest project of sports statistic aggregator StatSheet and you're likely to enjoy it whether you're a sports fan or not. The site makes it easy to assemble Continue reading »


ClearSpring Sees What 1/2 The Internet is Doing (API Coming Soon)
Written by Marshall Kirkpatrick / May 27, 2009 10:12 AM / 1 Comments
It's a little bit scary, but widget and sharing service ClearSpring said this morning that the company's media widgets and newly acquired AddThis plug-in are now seen by more than Continue reading »


Real Time Noise and Air Quality Monitoring Over Mobile Internet
Written by Doug Coleman / May 24, 2009 11:59 AM / 6 Comments
Air pollution is one of the number one factors that affect our quality of life and health. Currently, pollutants are measured at different stations in a city and that data Continue reading »


Real-Time as a Service? Check Out What Notify.me is Working On
Written by Marshall Kirkpatrick / May 20, 2009 12:18 PM / 21 Comments
Can being "present in the now" be packaged and sold as a service? A number of companies believe that it can be and are aiming to offer a "real-time" layer Continue reading »


Twitter Crowns Bit.ly As The King of Short Links; Here's What It Means
Written by Marshall Kirkpatrick / May 6, 2009 11:11 AM / 38 Comments
A little startup called Bit.ly has unseated TinyURL as the default link shortening service on Twitter. This isn't just about shortening links, though. "The truth about Bit.ly," enterprise software analyst Continue reading »


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