Tools Talking Points Memo Open Sources Data Journalism Tool Silver is a database cacher, indexer and searcher backed by the NoSQL database Redis and released by the tech team behind the political blog Talking Points Memo. It's open source and was created in Ruby. "Silver is designed to be a simple, lightweight wrapper for all your calls to a database that you want to cache or index with Redis," writes… Hack Klint Finley View comments
Facebook Facebook Comments Have Been Around for a Year and Haven't Taken Over Yet Earlier today, everyone was talking about Facebook and how it is "planning to launch a third-party commenting system in a matter of weeks." The only problem, of course, is that Facebook Comments already exists as a plug-in for third-party sites. Facebook confirmed that it is "testing an updated plugin" on both its Facebook Blog and Developer… Social Mike Melanson View comments
APIs API of the Week: Data Source Handbook This week, instead of a single API we're spotlighting ReadWriteWeb contributor Pete Warden's new e-book Data Source Handbook, which was just released today. Pete covers a slew of data sources including, of course, many APIs. "These are hand-picked services that I've actually spent time using during my own work," Pete writes. "And I chose them… Hack Klint Finley View comments
Digital Lifestyle Report: Social Entertainment Making Us Passive A new report from GlobalWebIndex has some thought-provoking data about "social entertainment," a term for when entertainment is augmented by social media technologies. For example, the real-time discussion happening around TV shows on Twitter. In the GlobalWebindex report, entitled GlobalWebIndex Wave 1-3 2010, author Tom Smith notes… Richard MacManus View comments
International YouTube Steps Up to Shine Light on Egypt Video sharing website YouTube has been highlighting video from the protests in Egypt for days, but tonight the official YouTube blog put up a post describing a number of steps it's taking to make sure the world knows what's going on in Cairo, Alexandria, Suez and elsewhere around that country. The Egyptian government is trying hard to… Marshall Kirkpatrick View comments