Check out this amazing global animation of updates made to the OpenStreetMap project, something I was unaware of until I saw this years winners of the Best Data Visualisations awards on FlowingData.com and I urge you to check out the rest of them. http://flowingdata.com/2009/01/08/animated-map-shows-one-year-of-edits-to-openstreetmap/ OSM 2008: A Year of Edits from ItoWorld on Vimeo.

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This is a bit of a melon twister! Google’s own great blog has an article on it that (the equally great) ReadWriteWeb blog has picked up, about the lastest use of anonymised GPS data. Google’s amazing ability to crunch vast quantities of data is proving more useful than even the ‘real time web’. In this [...]

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Vendor Relationship Management is hard to get your head round. It’s openness and data sharing taken to the extreme. It’s the fulfilment of user control. It’s what is left when the social revolution is won. To aid digestion I’m quoting here in full a text from Adriana Lukas, that she delivered back in June at [...]

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Simply unbelievable that a big brand like Tesco should decide to go and do something as far out as this! I mean can anyone quite envisage what the outcome of letting the world’s developers manipulate your inventory database from what is effectively a glorified grocery store! Amazing. Interestingly a few months ago now, one of [...]

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There’s a fantastic post by over on the URBEINGRECORDED blog by Chris Arkenberg. Lots of amazing future gazing ideas, and stimulating all sorts of thoughts for technology and innovation. Within 10-15 years mobile devices will constantly interact with the world around us, analyzing objects, faces, signage, locations, and anything else their sensors can engage. Camera [...]

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