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Just two years after starting its business, Cloudkick has been acquired by Rackspace. The terms of the deal were not disclosed. What this means for Cloudkick is a big

Financial services company Morgan Stanley released an incredibly ambitious new application this morning called Matix and many of its features will make hard-core web users hopeful that apps like this

toxiclibs is a library of computation design tools built in Java and Processing. The classes can be used for a variety of purposes, including, "generative design, animation, interaction/interface design, data

While in New York earlier this month, I attended New York University's annual ITP Spring Show. ITP is a graduate program for communications studies and the Spring Show is a

Tibco has launched a business intelligence tool designed for the small business market that it is making available for free over the next year. TibcoSilver Spotfire is part of Tibco's

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 the

Wednesday in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation announced the winners of its annual Knight News Challenge, a contest funding innovative ideas for disseminating news and

Today Google announced the Google APIs Explorer, a Web-based interface for experimenting with the company's various APIs. So far only seven APIs are supported, Google the company promises to add

jStat is a JavaScript library for statistical operations. It aims to provide a JavaScript-based alternative to MATLAB or R. The documention is unfinished, leaving the range of features unclear.

On my visit to Seattle last month, I visited the office of data visualization company Tableau. As more and more data gets uploaded to the Web, it needs to be