FlowingData explores how designers, statisticians, and computer scientists are using data to understand ourselves better – mainly through data visualization. Money spent, reps at the gym, time you waste, and personal information you enter online are all forms of data. How can we understand these data flows? Data visualization lets non-experts make sense of it all.

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This project is an attempt to gather data from various free and open aerial imagery datasources around the world, and use them to create a single, coherent open world view.

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For a long time, that’s been a tough question to answer. In dense, bustling cities like Chicago, New York and San Francisco, the number of daily media reports, government proceedings and local Internet conversations is staggering. Every day, a wealth of local information is created — officials inspect restaurants, journalists cover fires and Web users post photographs — but who has time to sort through all of that?

Our mission at EveryBlock is to solve that problem. We aim to collect all of the news and civic goings-on that have happened recently in your city, and make it simple for you to keep track of news in particular areas. We’re a geographic filter — a “news feed” for your neighborhood, or, yes, even your block.

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a.k.a “The Unconference for the Uncomputer” is an unconference-style event that’s dedicated to bringing together the Internet software mashup community for a face-to-face collaborative meet-up where new relationships are formed, old relationships are nurtured, ideas are shared, multiple balls are moved forward, and innovation happens in real-time. See below for Frequently Asked Questions about mashups and Mashup Camp.

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The Atlas of Cyberspace illustrates graphically, the shapes, structures and complex forms of the Internet, the World-Wide Web and other virtual media. Drawing on five years worth of research, and divided into four key sections – infrastructure and traffic, information navigation, community and communication, artistic visions – the best and most interesting maps of cyberspace have been compiled into this unique atlas for the Internet age.

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I am geography lecturer at the University of Manchester. This blog is a place to post details on research activities and various interests.

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DIYcity was created in October 2008 by John Geraci. The site explores the idea that open, participatory web technologies, applied to city living patterns, infrastructure and services, can radically transform cities as we know them, making them more efficient, more livable and more sustainable.

People all over the world are invited to exchange ideas on how they can reinvent their local areas, offering examples of applications, open source code, and anything else that will help develop a collective approach to building these new DIY cities.

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MIXTT is a fresh look at how we can use the Internet to go out and meet new people. Instead of creating a profile and connecting with people you already quasi know (as on other social networks), you and your friends create a group profile and make plans to meet up with other groups of friends. It’s the way you probably meet new people in real life, now made easier with MIXTT. Want to find a group of guys to play basketball with this weekend? Or sync up with that cute group of girls going to the same concert as you on Friday? You can make it happen easily with MIXTT.

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magewiki makes it easy to create hyperlinks to anything in the world! Take a picture of anything and add comments, rants & raves. We do image recognition to connect you with other users who saw the same image. Hide notes in real-world objects or tell people about how good that album is, or where that band on the poster is playing or anything you can imagine!

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