http://blog.infochimps.org Organizing huge information resources Sun, 14 Mar 2010 18:04:37 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Here are notes from Infochimps on interesting talks at SxSW! 2009-03-14 11:00 Why You Aren't Done Yet - David  Heinemeier Hansson 2009-03-14 9:30 Scaling Beyond LAMP -- Twitter, Imgur, Facebook, Reddit See also: Sarah Davies' notes on Scaling Beyond LAMP William Hertling's notes on Scaling Beyond LAMP 2009-03-14 11:00 Why You Aren't Done Yet - David ... http://blog.infochimps.org/2010/03/14/sxsw-2010-lecture-notes/ Today, we’re excited to announce the availability of MySpace data for bulk download on Infochimps. We started speaking with MySpace in December and these datasets are the results of an agreement with them to redistribute their data, with revenue share, on Infochimps. This is a major step forward ... http://blog.infochimps.org/2010/03/12/announcing-bulk-redistribution-of-myspace-data/ Austin, TX may be the live music capital of the world, but next weekend Rackspace, together with Infochimps, WolframAlpha, Factual, and knowmore, are putting together an event that will prove it’s not just about the music. Data geeks from all over the nation will come together to discuss the latest developments ... http://blog.infochimps.org/2010/03/09/data-cluster-meetup/ We recently created a dataset for the web site that is a map between IP addresses to zip codes and census demographic information. The work that was involved in this is representative of the type of community we want to have involved with Infochimps in the future. The ... http://blog.infochimps.org/2010/03/04/how-to-create-datasets-that-the-rest-of-the-world-needs/ 2009 was a great year for us.  We made lots of progress on the website (with a long way to go), but we were especially excited for all the great contacts we made with other developers and companies interested in data.  We strongly encourage all of our followers (you!) to ... http://blog.infochimps.org/2010/01/26/partner-with-us/ Infochimps is pleased to announce a recent import of all of the data from Data.gov!  Data.gov was one of the more exciting things to happen last year for the world community and it has had a big impact in the US and internationally by setting precedent for government data sharing. ... http://blog.infochimps.org/2010/01/13/data-gov-import/ For data geeks interested in the developing world, few places are more compelling to gather numbers about than China. This owes much to its legendary economic growth, the staggering size of its population and global footprint, and hybrid political system. But there is another, often overlooked characteristic of the country ... http://blog.infochimps.org/2009/12/29/visualizing-chinese-media/ With President Obama's Open Government Directive and news about Data.gov's overhaul, more and more people have been talking about the benefits of open data. Yes, this includes greater transparency and a more accountable government, but it also gives birth to useful apps that use these newly available datasets. A lot ... http://blog.infochimps.org/2009/12/10/open-data-applications/ We are excited to announce the re-release of the Twitter datasets, and a discount to the Twitter API Map dataset.  Again, the datasets are: Twitter API Map discounted to $100 for this weekend only and Conversation Metrics, with Token Count of: Smiley's for free Hashtags, URL's, and Smiley's by month for $1,000 Hashtags, URL's, and Smiley's ... http://blog.infochimps.org/2009/11/20/twitter-data-open-questions-to-developers-academics-and-data-geeks/ The data platform industry has a new entrant this week!  Yesterday Microsoft announced a data store of their own at their developer conference.  Called Dallas, their offering is another example of a data marketplace.  The market for selling data online in an open way is still young (how many platforms besides ... http://blog.infochimps.org/2009/11/19/the-data-landscape-part-2-and-microsoft/