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Courted, used and discarded in less than a year. That’... Transport for London’s attitude towards independent ap... the Barclays Cycle Hire scheme.

Twitter tells software developers not to try to mimic fu... 'timeline' apps - but missteps by official apps suggest ... alternatives still needed

The Code-Point Open dataset is advertised with the bold ... “Code-Point Open locates every postcode unit in the UK... precision”. Unfortunately this is simply untrue, and a... me to point this out, they’ve fallen at the first hurd... Northern Ir

Want to find the latitude/longitude of any UK postcode? ... Wales, and Northern Ireland? Read these first:
The problem with code point open from ordnance survey
Code point open northern ireland addendum
Then follow these instructions:

The most important issue that came to light was that dat... readily available in on-line API formats and are current... masses of spreadsheets that need to be downloaded and ho... worked into a usable and highly available format. If thi... process is

CRAWDAD is the Community Resource for Archiving Wireless... a wireless network data resource for the research commun... has the capacity to store wireless trace data from many ... locations, and staff to develop better tools for collect... and analyzi

The First Case in History
The first historic mention of Copyright, which set the u ...
Columcille had taken to visiting monasteries, borrowing ...

Launched in May 2010, DataMarket.com is a data portal th... to statistics and structured data from various public an... organizations.
This enables users to find, compare, visualize and downl ...
Access to public sector and other open and free data is

A smart city is an open city. It runs on data, so public... demonstrate a presumption of openness, making data freel... in an accessible format. Data connectivity needs to be s... a privilege and as ubiquitous as water from the tap.

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A recent post by GigaOm’s Imran Ali on the field of Da...
Following through on that thought, I decided to try to c ...
Here’s what I came up with:
* Data Markets: Services that make it easy to find d ...
... or Data” might in fact describe thes

Content API
Select and collect content from the Guardian for reuse. ...

The World Bank Open Data
The Data Catalog provides download access to over 2,000 ...

The approach that should be taken to releasing data shou...
The approach that should be taken to releasing data shou ...
* * - publish the available data on the Web in whate ...
* ** - make it available as structured data, for exa ...
... stage

Underneath the surface of the BBC World Cup web site the... going on in the technology and workflow being used to ma... our content. To some extent we have been doing this in s... figure out a lot of challenges, but as we approach the W... we'd like t

Dan McQuillan:
“Open data doesn’t empower communities. I’m not sa ...

Tax Facts provides tax information for citizens, policy ... legislators, and the press. Data are compiled from a var... including the Urban Institute, Brookings Institution, In... Service, the Joint Committee on Taxation, the Congressio... the Departm

Open Images is an open media platform that offers online... audiovisual archive material to stimulate creative reuse... audiovisual collections can be downloaded and remixed in... Users of Open Images also have the opportunity to add th...
Access to t

The YQL execute section actually dispatches the request ... return data.
var results = y.query("select * from csv where url=@url ...
This runs another YQL select statement when the table ge ...

The annual datasets are free to download and cover eight... period of five years. Each dataset is available for the ... just for applicants from each of the four UK countries. ... supplied in Excel version 5 spreadsheet format and can b... PivotTables

Apache Shindig, a word meaning party, was originally sta... 2007 as a reference container for hosting OpenSocial com... any website. Originally a port of Google's iGoogle gadge... Brian McCallister's PHP code, Apache Shindig through off... and showed

MaPit is our database and web service that maps postcode... current or past administrative area information and poly... United Kingdom. It has been rewritten from the ground up... PostGIS, providing us with a large array of improvements... a lovely ad

Poyozo gives you your own data back by downloading the i... currently giving to the web on to your own computer. You... importing your data from Facebook, Twitter, Foursquare, ... Calendar, any email service, any RSS feed, Flickr, Wesab... Skydeck, Do

When the coalition announced that councils would have to... spending over £500 by January next year, there’s been... excitement in the open data and transparency community a...
Secretary of State for Communities & Local Government Er ...
Now, howeve

The Public Sector Transparency Board, which was establis... Minister, met yesterday for the first time.
The Board will drive forward the Government’s transpar ...

Knowee is a web address book that lets you integrate dis... graph fragments.
Subscribe to profiles, feeds, or other structured data a ...
Knowee concept Knowee is based on open standards and sem ...

The OS OpenSpace API is free to access and lets develope... web applications and online projects with Ordnance Surve...
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While many people can write functional code (pretty, ugl... wasteful), very few can write quality prose – prose th... understood the same way by different people, while at th... possess the typical properties desired in prose (eleganc... cultural se