Synecdoche’s a term from literature, best explained as “the part representing a whole“. So: for me, Tower Bridge is synecdoche, for the Thames, for London, for the city, for home. Low Flying Rocks is synecdoche not only for the scale of the universe, all the activity in the solar system, the earth’s place in that – but also for NASA, for science, for discovery.

Synecdoche allows you to make big, terrifying data, human-scale.

. We source our maps from OpenStreetMap, the community mapping project which is making a free map of the world. Our aim is to continue the democratization of geo data and to expand access to open geo data through a range of simple yet powerful tools and APIs.

On Monday, Facebook employee Haiping Zhao quietly published a Data Store API on the Facebook developer wiki.

From navigating the Web in entirely new ways to seeing where in the world twitters are coming from, data visualization tools are changing the way we view content. We found the following 16 apps both visually stunning and delightfully useful.

After Google's acquisition of a five percent stake in AOL last week, both companies decided that it would be advantageous to implement complete interoperability between Google Talk and AIM.

So, here are just a few of the possible scenarios that we hope will be enabled as a result of the release of Libjingle. I'm sure the developer community will come up with other innovations that we have not even considered.

Libjingle is a set of components provided by Google to interoperate with Google Talk's peer-to-peer and voice calling capabilities.

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A wrapper around GMapsEZ that will take a XML file and output a map thats easy to embed as well, using this you can create maps with loads of points by just editing the XML

This article shows you how to embed a customized Google Map into your website or blog.

Interesting Google API programs

Now it's easy to put a Google map on any web page, without writing a single line of JavaScript

So you want to make a mashup but aren't entirely sure where to begin? This page can help you get there.