Sunday, February 24, 2008

Massively Multiplayer Word Game

Not really a game, but playful on a large scale.
And has kind of a fun tag-cloud UI.
http://www.humanbraincloud.com/

Swivel warrants a look

Swivel's mission is to make data useful so people share insights, make great decisions and improve lives.

In an era of spin, opinion, and apathy about statistics, Swivel is a Web site that makes it easy for everyone to collaborate and explore data together — because better informed people make better decisions: in voting booths, in corporate boardrooms and at neighborhood meetings.

We believe data is most valuable when it's out in the open where everyone can see it, debate it, have fun, and share new insights. Swivel is applying the power of the Web to data so that life gets better.


See, e.g. a sample data set

Hans Rosling: Debunking third-world myths

Hans Rosling: Debunking third-world myths with the best stats you've ever seen

Drat, the embed doesn't work. Here's the link:
http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/92

Wednesday, February 20, 2008

daily widget

The Dilbert widget is very smooth and looks sharp, and of course it's soooo useful



A couple of other useful ones:
* Transform "arbitrary" HTML into a widget: http://www.widgetbox.com/widget/html-text
* URL-to-PDF translator

Tag Clouds

A few from MemeMapper

Visualizing Email Traffic:





















Email conversation between six researchers over a period of 22 days:

Tuesday, February 19, 2008

How important are we?

This series of images from Techdo helps put it all in perspective




If you see only the Earth wait few seconds


 


Shalom Y'all

Let's start with change. Knowledge changes. Information gets stale.
Data is moveable. Data moves. Data runs.


Information R/evolution


The Machine is Us/ing Us

Two of my favorite videos. Helps to free my mind.