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Google Correlate
New Labs tool allows you to upload data to compare it with changes in search term frequency.
google  labs  data  correlation  analysis  searchengine  search  user  behaviour 
june 2011 by adriancooke
Event tracking guide [Google Analytics]
How to set up event tracking and things to consider.
google  analytics  event  tracking  howto  configuration  data 
june 2011 by adriancooke
Google Analytics jQuery Plugin
Automates a lot of features including event tracker.
google  analytics  jquery  plugins  data  configuration 
june 2011 by adriancooke
List of Energy monitoring tools: Devices, software and home automation [mapawatt]
Includes Black and Decker Power Monitor/Blue Line PowerCost Monitor and TED (i.e. The Energy Detective). Good list of links to other products and information.
home  energy  usage  monitoring  devices  data  logging  electricity  consumption 
december 2010 by adriancooke
Public perceptions of energy consumption and savings — PNAS
Analysis of survey data shows that most people underestimate energy usage magnitudes for household appliances, transportation and recycling. The researchers speculate that the 100W light bulb example serves as an anchor point for energy usage, and that people make insufficient adjustments when estimating the energy consumed by other things.
energy  consumption  household  appliances  survey  data  research  estimates  consumer  education 
december 2010 by adriancooke
Net Index by Ookla
Ranks various locations (from cities to countries), and service providers, on Internet bandwidth.
bandwidth  broadband  data  international  internet  speed  performance 
july 2010 by adriancooke
10 reasons to delete your Facebook account [Business Insider]
Contains a link to the account deletion page, which is apparently quite difficult to find.
facebook  privacy  information  security  user  data 
may 2010 by adriancooke
The state of web development 2010 [Web Directions]
Data from John Allsopp’s 2010 “state of web development” survey.
data  industry  web  development  survey 
april 2010 by adriancooke
Census 2010 - mapping the hard to count population
Interactive map showing hard to count areas in the 2010 census, by CUNY’s Center for Urban Research.
census  data  map  research  utility  tools  usa  states  cities 
march 2010 by adriancooke
Star rating control with jQuery [SitePoint]
Craig Sharkie’s step-by-step guide to making a star rating control UI element using HTML, CSS and jQuery.
development  front-end  css  javascript  jquery  user  data  ratings  howto 
february 2010 by adriancooke
PCI stresses small business and web hosting companies [philosecurity]
Sherri Davidoff interviews the owner of a small mid-west web hosting company on PCI/DSS compliance and the future of web hosting and credit cards.
hosting  credit  cards  business  ecommerce  infosec  data  security  customer 
february 2010 by adriancooke
Time lapse map of US unemployment rates
Time lapse map of US unemployment by county, February, 2007–September, 2009
map  usa  unemployment  data  rates  time  lapse 
november 2009 by adriancooke
Open source image archiving: Exif, IPTC, XMP and all that [SitePoint]
Harry Fuecks, back in 2006, discusses Windows-based tools for archiving images and working with the three main metadata formats.
digital  image  metadata  open  source  data  preservation 
october 2009 by adriancooke
WordPress and Exif, IPTC and XMP Metadata in images [OM4]
Glenn Nicholas on how WordPress treats EXIF, IPTC and XMP metadata when handling images. Interestingly, it seems to be the same way that Flickr does: preserved in the original, stripped from the various thumbnails.
images  metadata  wordpress  data  preservation 
october 2009 by adriancooke
Flickr strips copyright metadata [James Duncan Davidson]
Duncan Davidson outlines his position on the importance of IPTC and Exif metadata in digital images.
authors  copyright  digital  images  metadata  data  preservation 
october 2009 by adriancooke
Downturn Weighs on Poor [Wall Street Journal]
Connor Dougherty on rising poverty across the U.S. Looks at Census Bureau data.
journalism  headlines  poverty  census  data  america 
october 2009 by adriancooke
Importing a WordPress XML file into your custom CMS [Paste Interactive]
Brian from Paste talks about using the WordPress XML data format to transfer web content between JumpChart and a custom CMS.
cms  jumpchart  wordpress  xml  custom  webapps  data  transfer 
september 2009 by adriancooke
Overlapr, Twitter User Comparisons
Clever comparison tool by Dan Benjamin that visualises the shared followers and friends of two Twitter users.
comparison  charts  data  tools  twitter  venn  visualisation 
july 2009 by adriancooke
Where is everyone? [Baekdal]
Baekdal has some interesting data visualisations about mass media and attention over time.
attention  data  design  graphics  information  media  visualisation 
july 2009 by adriancooke
Data.gov
U.S. government data in a variety of formats.
data  information  open  reference  government  statistics  usa 
june 2009 by adriancooke
TOSBack, a Terms-Of-Service tracker
An EFF project tracking web site user policies (currently 44 of them).
law  privacy  user  data  apple  facebook  google  wordpress  reference 
june 2009 by adriancooke
Google Wave: a developer’s eye view [The Register]
Ted Dziuba explains Google Wave and is generally upbeat about it.
collaboration  communication  data  editing  google  tools  wave  xmpp 
june 2009 by adriancooke
Live, on Drupal [Bb RealTech]
Shelley Powers on switching from WordPress to Drupal.
cms  data  development  drupal  tutorial  weblog  wordpress 
may 2009 by adriancooke
New today: more accurate mapping [The EveryBlock Blog]
Some changes to how EveryBlock handles and represents geographic information as well as a quick overview of geocoding.
geocoding  location  data  maps  journalism 
april 2009 by adriancooke
Google launching its own navy? [The Register]
Cade Metz on a floating data centre patent by Google. It’s all very Snow Crash.
mobile  data  centre  server  google 
april 2009 by adriancooke
ChartBeat rocks the analytics boat with realtime stats [Webmonkey]
Scott Loganbill on a new analytics service from Betaworks that provides real-time site activity data along with the usual stuff. Costs US$15 a month.
analytics  data  hosted  service  user  interaction  javascript 
april 2009 by adriancooke
EveryBlock testifies for open records ordinance [The EveryBlock Blog]
EveryBlock advocates for the use of open data standards by governments.
open  data  standards  government 
march 2009 by adriancooke
Facebook ads to target you by location and language [ReadWriteWeb]
Facebook gets in on the demographic and behavioural ad targeting action. What are you doing right now? The advertisers are listening…
advertising  facebook  user  data  privacy  information  security 
march 2009 by adriancooke
Google introduces ‘interest-based’ advertising [ReadWriteWeb]
Frederic Lardinois is feeling “slightly queasy” about Google's user data (behaviour) based advertising technology.
google  user  data  privacy  advertising  regulation  behaviour 
march 2009 by adriancooke
What if Google announced: “Google is Big Brother”? [SitePoint]
Phil Butler on Google's recent talk about some of its plans for their user data stockpile which involves data mining to increase the precision of ad targeting. He mentions an opt-out option as well as a tool for users to refine the targeting process by turning off some kinds of advertising that is being described by the company as a pro-consumer feature.
google  user  data  privacy  advertising  regulation 
march 2009 by adriancooke
jQuery sparklines
jQuery plugin that can be used to generate a decent range of sparkline graphs for small-scale data visualisation.
data  visualisation  sparklines  graphs  jquery  plugin 
march 2009 by adriancooke
Privacy in Google Latitude [Schneier on Security]
Bruce Schneier on Loopt's and Google's approach to privacy regarding some location-based web services.
google  location  service  privacy  user  data 
march 2009 by adriancooke
Privacy in the Age of Persistence [Schneier on Security]
Bruce Schneier on data as risk, and the pollution of the Information Age. He talks about the need for discussion, planning and policy to deal with the impact of data persistence on privacy as a significant moment of societal change.
information  security  data  privacy  technology  persistence  societas 
february 2009 by adriancooke
RSS Hits the Big Time [Aaron Swartz's Raw Thought]
Aaron Swartz on the remarkable fact that the "initial implementing guidance for the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (2009)" requires agencies to provide their reporting information in the form of XML feeds, specifically "preferred: Atom 1.0, acceptable: RSS."
economics  government  open  data  atom  rss 
february 2009 by adriancooke
Know Your Audience [Lookery]
User data aggregation web service that sounds somewhat ominous. From the site: "Lookery pools anonymous, empirical user data from a network of data contributors—no panels, no algorithms—but actual self-reported user registration data."
user  data  aggregation  webapps  marketing  advertising  privacy 
february 2009 by adriancooke
Ask MAMA what the web is made of [iheni]
Henny Swan asks for ideas from the web community on data Opera's MAMA (Metadata Analysis and Mining Application) can look for in it's next sweep of the web.
accessibility  analytics  browsers  data  metadata  research 
february 2009 by adriancooke
New software would play any videogame ever created [New Scientist]
EU funded project to develop a universal emulator called KEEP (Keeping Emulation Environments Portable). I'm looking forward to playing Kung Fu Master and F-14 Tomcat on the Atari 2600 again, not to mention the Bard's Tale trilogy and the original Wing Commander.
emulation  software  data  preservation  games 
february 2009 by adriancooke
What really happened at Ma.gnolia and lessons learned [FactoryCity]
Chris Messina and Larry Halff do a podcast on what happened to Ma.gnolia, and what will become of the service.
data  database  server  management  backup  webapps 
february 2009 by adriancooke
USACM Poilcy Recommendations on Open Government [Freedom to Tinker]
David Robinson on why government should expose published data in accessible, machine readable form, using open standards.
open  data  government  accessibility  standards 
february 2009 by adriancooke
Announcing the Article Search API [New York Times]
Indexes 2.8 million articles since 1981, and articles contain around 35 searchable fields.
open  data  search  api  json  media 
february 2009 by adriancooke

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