OpenHeatMap turns geo-located data into an animated heat map in under a minute.
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See all posts on posterous with this tag »Nov 29 / 8:30pm
Twiangulate: Common Twitter friends of EllnMllr, timoreilly and pahlkadot.
Awesome tool for finding interesting tweeps - wish they had something like this for Google Reader...
via twiangulate.com
Nov 23 / 5:58am
Walk Score Blog » 2,500 Cities & 6,000+ Neighborhoods
You asked: “Why don’t you have neighborhood rankings for my city?” and “How come my city doesn’t make your list of most walkable cities?”
We listened: We’ve processed over 8 million data points and now have Walk Score heat maps for the 2,500 largest U.S. cities and neighborhood walkability rankings for many of these.
Nov 2 / 4:05pm
Geospatial Revolution Project | A Public Media Project
The Geospatial Revolution Project is an integrated public service media and outreach initiative about the world of digital mapping and how it is changing the way we think, behave, and interact.
Oct 4 / 5:37pm
Google Fusion Tables is a home for crowd-driven infographics.
Google Fusion Tables is a modern data management and publishing web application that makes it easy to host, manage, collaborate on, visualize, and publish data tables online.
Oct 2 / 6:44am
nothingtoinstall.com now live! - Joel on Software
nothingtoinstall.com is a place to get help with web applications. Want to know how to email huge files? How to delete your Facebook account? How to secretly follow someone on Twitter? How to backup Wordpress blogs, ahem, Jeff? This is the site.
Sep 13 / 1:01pm
OK, now I'm taking Twitter seriously:
The t.co URL shortener -- similar to those from bit.ly, awe.sm, and tinyURL -- might seem like a relatively small addition to the company's offering. But it's a massive power shift in the world of analytics because now Twitter can measure engagement wherever it happens, across any browser or app. And unlike other URL shorteners, Twitter can force everyone to use their service simply because they control the platform. Your URLs can be shortened (and their engagement tracked by Twitter) whether you like it or not.
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This is why short URLs are so important. URLs survive the share. Because the interested reader is forced to go to the URL shortener to map the short URL to the real one, whoever owns the shortener sees the engagement between the audience and the content, no matter where it happens. That's why URLs are the new cookies.
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By now, it's clear that Twitter is not just a site. It's a protocol for asymmetric follow. It's a message bus for human attention. It's able to force every Twitter user to let it know when an interaction happens, simply by changing URLs.
