Microsoft Underwater Datacenter?

The Art of Data?

Underground Bunker for DataCenter?

Store your life, forever?

Got too much Data? Now anyone can store their movies, music, photos, and important digital document with the Swiss DNA Bank for a small fee. They claim your Data will be store in Swiss nuclear-proof shelters! Learn more Swiss DNA Bank

Who will own the largest DataCenters in the world?

APPLE!
Where will it be? North Carolina.
How big will it be? 500,000 square feet.
How much will it cost? Estimate 1 Billion Dollars!

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How do you spend your paycheck?

Not everyone will have the same percentage but most people get hit by 5 major expenditures:

1. Housing +- 34.1%
2. Transportation +- 17.6%
3. Food +- 12.4%
4. Insurance +- 10.8%
5. Healthcare +- 5.7%

It's freighten to see that there is not much left for saving. Is this THE AMERICAN DREAM?

Why Microsoft want your Hohm?

Microsoft just launch Hohm beta for people to track, plan, save, and share their energy consumption. Google was first to launch such similar services called Google's PowerMeter.
Below are two links for anyone dying to find out how energy efficient is your home?



Learn More : Microsoft Hohm
Learn More : Google PowerMeter

How to track USAspending?

Finally thanks to The Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act of 2006 (Transparency Act) requires a single searchable website, accessible by the public for free that includes for each Federal award: such as...

Federal Spending FY 2009 YTD

	Contracts	$221,177,641,981
	Grants	$237,027,203,718
	Loans	$63,771,782
	Insurance	$2,062,647,048
	Direct Payments	$41,687,210,164
	Other Assistance	$37,345,915,842

TOP 5 Assistance Recipients FY 2009 YTD

1	DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH CARE SERVICES	$18,908,037,649
2	NEW YORK STATE DEPT OF HEALTH	$18,335,672,042
3	TEXAS HEALTH & HUMAN SERVICES COMMISSION	$13,514,862,175
4	PENNSYLVANIA DEPT OF PUBLIC WELFARE	$11,168,181,944
5	LOUISIANA DEPT OF HEALTH & HOSPITALS	$5,031,984,907

Top 5 Contractors FY 2009 YTD

1	LOCKHEED MARTIN CORPORATION	$20,362,164,557
2	THE BOEING COMPANY	$14,730,265,990
3	NORTHROP GRUMMAN CORPORATION	$8,672,131,373
4	GENERAL DYNAMICS CORPORATION	$7,794,041,496
5	RAYTHEON COMPANY	$5,951,997,077

Learn more. USAspending.gov

What's the health of the nation's electrical systems?

NPR.org put together five interesting way to visualize and interact with the health of the US electrical systems.  Such as: 

1. The Grid
   
2. Sources of Power: Coal, Nuclear, Gas, Hydro, Oil
   
3. Power Plants
   
4. Solar Power
   
5. Wind Power
   

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How Patents + Income + Population Shape America?

The Atlantic put together an intersting interactive map of patents, income, and population from 1975-2002. Here you can see how your city stack up against other cities.
Then you can read "How the Crash Will Reshape America".

Who's the Top Social Media, Facebook, MySpace, or Blogger?

BLOGGER is #1 according to data from com score for November 2008!

Top Social Media Sites

1. Blogger (222 million) (up 44 percent from November, 2007)
2. Facebook (200 million) (up 116 percent)
3. MySpace (126 million)
4. Wordpress (114 million)(up 68 percent)
5. Windows Live Spaces (87 million) (down 22 percent)
6. Yahoo Geocities (69 million)
7. Flickr (64 million)
8. hi5 (58 million)
9. Orkut (46 million)
10. Six Apart (46 million)
11. Baidu Space (40 million)
12. Friendster (31 million)
13. 56.com (29 million)
14. Webs.com (24 million)
15. Bebo (24 million)
16. Scribd (23 million)
17. Lycos Tripod (23 million)
18. Tagged (22 million)
19. imeem (22 million)
20. Netlog (21 million)

(ranked by unique worldwide visitors November, 2008; comScore)

What is DataPortability?

Data Portability is the option to use your personal data between trusted applications and vendors.




connect. control. share. remix

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How do you visualize data?

What do Ajax, Adaptive Path, and Jesse James Garrett all have in common?

AURORA!!!future web browsing experiences

Who won what, when, and where in the Olympic 1896-2004?

visualize it here.

How do you see data?

How much is your gas?

compare here...