The Washington Post had an article in “The Buzz” on a neat new site that shows/annotates pictures at different locations at different points in time. It’s called HistoryPin, and it’s a collaboration between Google and a UK based website. Check it out.
From Infosthetics:
The latest contestant in this search for the best visualization
designer (or should I say, the next employee?) is Google, who,
together with Eyebeam, just announced their profound interest in both
federal tax numbers as well as interactive bubble graphs
http://infosthetics.com/archives/2011/02/google_releases_data_viz_challenge.html
Good visualizations to see different options
[Added] They also now have a nice way to search for hotels too. Pretty slick.
TechCrunch had a good article about search – Search Still Sucks – so the name speaks for itself. It’s an interesting piece, but I also found some good sites that I didn’t know about before.
Travel Advice – http://www.gogobot.com/ (looks better than tripadvisor but may not have reached the user breaking point)
Gadget Reviews – http://gdgt.com/
General Search – http://blekko.com/
Find anything!
Momondo.com – airline fares
Dohop.com – airline fares
Homeaway.com – home rentals
Vrbo.com
Secondporch.com
Vacationstogo.com – cruises
Cruisesonly.com
Zicasso.com – speciality travel companies for people who don’t want to
plan every aspect
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/opengovernment_government_data_with_a_social_media.php
Good post at ReadWriteWeb about OpenCongress and the new OpenGoverment.org
Good blog post from juice analytics: http://www.juiceanalytics.com/writing/12-days-data-visualization/
Enjoy some old school gaming on the Nintendo emulator. NESBOX.com has all of your old favorites.