Ubuntu One online storage and sync
by Regis & 1 other(s)personal storage on the cloud.You can use it to back up, store, sync and share your data with other Ubuntu One users. Ubuntu One gives all features 2 GB for free 50 GB for $120 per year
personal storage on the cloud.You can use it to back up, store, sync and share your data with other Ubuntu One users. Ubuntu One gives all features 2 GB for free 50 GB for $120 per year
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A Flash-based interactive map that uses data from Gracenote's Media Database to show the latest album and artist lookups in states, regions, countries, and continents around the world.
Breaking news: It seems that Google has started to extract and display price details from e-commerce sites if they are expressed using the GoodRelations vocabulary for rich-meta data in RDFa.
If you want to use that for your Web site, see the step-by-step instructions or pick a proper recipe for a particular industry from the GoodRelations cookbook.
Amazon CloudFront is a web service for content delivery. It integrates with other Amazon Web Services to give developers and businesses an easy way to distribute content to end users with low latency, high data transfer speeds, and no commitments.
a tiny map of the worldThis is an enormous amount of geographic data. To put it in perspective, last week's planet was bzip2 compressed at 7.4GB, unzipping to 116GB, and occupying 113GB in a PostGIS database. The process of importing the data is very serious: even with a large Amazon instance which lets me allocate five gigabytes of RAM for the importer, the initial load takes over 29 hours.
the SpatiaLite extension enables SQLite to support spatial data too [aka GEOMETRY], in a way conformant to OpenGis specifications
A VoIP provider VoX Communications Corp has annnounced the VoX Mobile, offering unlimited data and voice service on the HTC Touch Pro2 mobile phone.
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With more and more raw data available we get a better access to the world knowledges. This access is useless without great visualizations.
The United Kingdom's Met Office recently released temperature data for about 1700 weather stations across the globe from 1701 to 2009.
Ideas, issues, knowledge, data – visualized!
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VertexDB is a high performance graph database server that supports automatic garbage collection. It uses the HTTP protocol for requests and JSON for it's response data format and the API is inspired by the FUSE filesystem API plus a few extra methods for queries and queues. It's implementation is currently built on top of TokyoCabinet and libevent.
Elevation is a free, open source route visualizer that renders personal GPS data in 3D space, built in Processing by Dave Shea.
This series of abstract data visualisation represents the source code structure and work progress of a software collection. The intention was to represent the sheer volume of work put into open source software development and usually by a smal number of people.
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The following maps represent the first stage of a project I am embarking on to map out some of the spatial contours of Wikipedia. Data were obtained from the August 2009 Wikipedia geodata dump organised by user Kolossos. The information was then ported over to a GIS. There are almost half a million geotagged Wikipedia articles (i.e. Wikipedia articles about a place or an event that occurred in a distinct place), so the preparation time alone for the files needed to create these maps was almost a week.
Natural Earth is a public domain map dataset available at 1:10m, 1:50m, and 1:110m scales. Featuring tightly integrated vector and raster data, with Natural Earth you can make a variety of visually pleasing, well-crafted maps with cartography or GIS software.
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Their separate privacy policy for the Google Public DNS strikes me as utterly reasonable, particularly given its very rapid (24-48 hours) deletion of what I would consider to be the key privacy-sensitive data.