Crowdsourcing Buried in Snowmageddon 2010 Without a Shovel? Crowdsourced Sites Lend a Hand Has "snowmageddon" 2010 got you down? Did that snowplow make a wall of snow, ice and grime as tall as your SUV and you don't have a shovel? Or are you just sick of sitting around the house? Ushahidi, the crowdmapping tool originally developed to track elections in Kenya, has created two websites for both New York City and Boston to help with the… Mike Melanson View comments
Government Search & Display Over 10 Million Historical Government Records, Thanks to the National Archives The National Archives and Records Administration launches an Online Public Access prototype today, making available to the public millions of digitized government records. The effort is part of the National Archives' plan to provide better online services and better access to historical government documents. The Online Public Access prototype… Audrey Watters View comments
2010 in Review Top Trends of 2010: Internet TV Looking back on the year in Web technology, we can see that several product categories have evolved significantly over 2010. We've already written about App Stores and eReaders. Another market that progressed in 2010 was Internet TV. Among the developments: Apple announced a major overhaul of Apple TV, Google launched its Android-powered Google TV… Richard MacManus View comments
2010 in Review Top 10 Startups of 2010 2010 was a good year for Web startups. Deal flow, particularly at early stages, was active, and even though valuations were high, investor dollars were seemingly at the ready. Of the companies that made headlines and that led some of the major tech trends of the year, many were startups: Zynga (social gaming), Groupon (group buying), Foursquare… Audrey Watters View comments
NYT Data Hacker Pageranks Members of the US Congress What's the fastest way to evaluate the true behavior of a Senator or Representative in Congress? How about through a ready-made mathematical model and some charts? That's what Josh Tauberer has created as the latest project at congress-tracking site GovTrack.us. (Numerical methods for determining leadership and ideology in Congress) "Bulk… Marshall Kirkpatrick View comments