Novelties - Lines and Bubbles and Bars, Oh My! New Ways to Sift Data - NYTimes.com

Novelties - Lines and Bubbles and Bars, Oh My! New Ways to Sift Data - NYTimes.com: "PEOPLE share their videos on YouTube and their photos at Flickr. Now they can share more technical types of displays: graphs, charts and other visuals they create to help them analyze data buried in spreadsheets, tables or text."

Amazon Acquires Shelfari: Moves To Corner Book-Centric Social Networks

Amazon Acquires Shelfari: Moves To Corner Book-Centric Social Networks: "Shelfari, a social network for bibliophiles, has been acquired by Amazon for an undisclosed amount. Amazon has been a longtime supporter of the Seattle based startup, having invested $1 million in the site in February 2007.

The move comes less than a month after Amazon’s acquisition of AbeBooks, a vendor of rare and used books from independent publishers. As part of that acquisition Amazon also got a stake in Shelfari’s competitor LibraryThing, which AbeBooks had previously purchased a 40% stake in."

Wordle - Beautiful Word Clouds

Wordle - Beautiful Word Clouds: "Wordle is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes. The images you create with Wordle are yours to use however you like. You can print them out, or save them to the Wordle gallery to share with your friends."