Cohenville » web http://www.cohenville.com/blog It's interesting to me Wed, 14 Sep 2011 19:41:29 +0000 en hourly 1 Cool tool for history buffs http://www.cohenville.com/blog/2011/07/15/cool-tool-for-history-buffs/ http://www.cohenville.com/blog/2011/07/15/cool-tool-for-history-buffs/#comments Sat, 16 Jul 2011 01:54:53 +0000 brad http://www.cohenville.com/blog/?p=259 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.

]]> http://www.cohenville.com/blog/2011/07/15/cool-tool-for-history-buffs/feed/ 0 Google releases data visualization challenge http://www.cohenville.com/blog/2011/03/07/google-releases-data-visualization-challenge/ http://www.cohenville.com/blog/2011/03/07/google-releases-data-visualization-challenge/#comments Mon, 07 Mar 2011 18:17:51 +0000 brad http://www.cohenville.com/blog/2011/03/07/google-releases-data-visualization-challenge/ 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

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Good visualizations to see different options

[Added] They also now have a nice way to search for hotels too. Pretty slick.

]]> http://www.cohenville.com/blog/2011/02/18/pretty-cool-flight-search-site/feed/ 0 Can you find what you are looking for? http://www.cohenville.com/blog/2011/02/14/can-you-find-what-you-are-looking-for/ http://www.cohenville.com/blog/2011/02/14/can-you-find-what-you-are-looking-for/#comments Mon, 14 Feb 2011 20:48:56 +0000 brad http://www.cohenville.com/blog/?p=218 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/

]]> http://www.cohenville.com/blog/2011/02/14/can-you-find-what-you-are-looking-for/feed/ 0 Great website / tool for finding domain names http://www.cohenville.com/blog/2011/01/26/great-website-tool-for-finding-domain-names/ http://www.cohenville.com/blog/2011/01/26/great-website-tool-for-finding-domain-names/#comments Wed, 26 Jan 2011 20:30:57 +0000 brad http://www.cohenville.com/blog/2011/01/26/great-website-tool-for-finding-domain-names/ http://domai.nr

Find anything!

]]> http://www.cohenville.com/blog/2011/01/26/great-website-tool-for-finding-domain-names/feed/ 0 Travel websites http://www.cohenville.com/blog/2011/01/25/travel-websites-2/ http://www.cohenville.com/blog/2011/01/25/travel-websites-2/#comments Tue, 25 Jan 2011 22:12:26 +0000 brad http://www.cohenville.com/blog/2011/01/25/travel-websites-2/ Momondo.com – airline fares
Dohop.com – airline fares

Hotelscombined.com

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

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Good post at ReadWriteWeb about OpenCongress and the new OpenGoverment.org

]]> http://www.cohenville.com/blog/2011/01/24/open-government-data/feed/ 0 The twelve days of data visualization http://www.cohenville.com/blog/2010/12/30/the-twelve-days-of-data-visualization/ http://www.cohenville.com/blog/2010/12/30/the-twelve-days-of-data-visualization/#comments Thu, 30 Dec 2010 19:05:34 +0000 brad http://www.cohenville.com/blog/?p=184 Good blog post from juice analytics: http://www.juiceanalytics.com/writing/12-days-data-visualization/

]]> http://www.cohenville.com/blog/2010/12/30/the-twelve-days-of-data-visualization/feed/ 0 Bring me back to NES http://www.cohenville.com/blog/2010/12/18/bring-me-back-to-nes/ http://www.cohenville.com/blog/2010/12/18/bring-me-back-to-nes/#comments Sun, 19 Dec 2010 03:42:05 +0000 brad http://www.cohenville.com/blog/?p=180 Enjoy some old school gaming on the Nintendo emulator. NESBOX.com has all of your old favorites.

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