"The promise of the open web looks increasingly uncertain...But all the things that matter will be controlled and owned by a very small number of Big Web companies. Your identity will be your accounts at Facebook, Google and Twitter, not the domain name you own."

"The Connected States of America illustrates the emerging communities based on the social interactions through the use of anonymized mobile phone data."

"Every action, every event, every person, everything emits a certain amount of carbon. This interactive visualization examines some of those scenarios." from GE Data Visualization.

from Information Is Beautiful.

"At the Olympics, the blink of an eye can be all that separates the gold medalist from the 10th-place finisher. In some events, this is obvious. But in others, with athletes racing one by one, the closeness of the race is harder to perceive. Listen to the differences below." from NYT.

Get a spatial overview of a community's ability to access healthy food and its success in doing so. from USDA Economic Research Service.

There are plenty of JavaScript libraries out there for rendering your otherwise plain and boring numerical data into beautiful, interactive, and informative visualizations.

The increasing deployment of sensors and hand-held electronics in recent years is allowing a new approach to the study of the built environment. The way we describe and understand cities is being radically transformed - alongside the tools we use to design them and impact on their physical structure. Studying these changes from a critical point of view and anticipating them is the goal of the SENSEable City Laboratory, a new research initiative at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

a set of 28 tools for creating graphs, Gantt charts, diagrammers, calendars/schedulers, gauges, mapping, pivot tables, OLAP cubes, and sparklines, in Flash, Flex, Ajax or Silverlight

A report published Wednesday by the University of California, San Diego, calculates that American households collectively consumed 3.6 zettabytes of information in 2008. The paper — entitled “How Much Information?” — explores all forms of American communication and consumption and hopes to create a census of the information we consume. from nyt.

data storage and offline applications. from 24 ways.

"Right now, there's way too much stuff and far too little information about that stuff. Sounds like an opportunity."

The PCI Security Standards Council is an open global forum for the ongoing development, enhancement, storage, dissemination and implementation of security standards for account data protection.

On the weekend of December 12-13th, we're holding an open, distributed, nationwide hackathon to develop open source applications to open government. from Sunlight Labs.

Summary of data stored with this account.

A persistent key-value database with built-in net interface written in ANSI-C for Posix systems

a wide variety of digital, mobile and participatory media projects are allowing groups of engaged users to grapple with important issues.

Billions spent on this. Billions spent on that. from Information is Beautiful.

EveryBlock is a new way to keep track of what’s happening on your block, in your neighborhood and all over your city.

from Six Revisions.

We make tiny choices every day. Those choices become habits, and those habits develop into behaviors. your.flowingdata helps you record these choices.

MFA Design | Media Arts UCLA

one of the core skills for a new generation of web workers will be data analysis.

Complex visualizations evolve with usage, cultural standards and the data being processed. We have to be willing to admit the failures of some types of graphs and use new formats which are more apt for the medium.

a creative collective specializing in map, icon, and information design.

Bigtable is a distributed storage system for managing structured data that is designed to scale to a very large size: petabytes of data across thousands of commodity servers. a Google Research Publication.

The Times has great data on the words that send readers in search of a dictionary.

the free wiki world map.

track and share your sleep.

high value, machine readable datasets generated by the Executive Branch of the Federal Government.

a home for collecting and communicating your daily data.

a self-contained boot disk that securely wipes the hard disks of most computers.

by douglas bowman at stopdesign.

from FactoryCity.

from flowing data.

over 10 billion pieces of reusable information can already be found across 100 million web pages which embed rdf and microformats.

the proper destruction of data on hard drives. from readwriteweb.

from lifehacker.

horizontal bar, timeline, sparklines. from a list apart.

open source web analytics.

combining strong visual appeal with effective presentation of information.

take your friends (and data) with you.

where we're one step closer to the semantic web.