Art, maps,imagery and graphs add context and a visual component to numbers, locations, and information. With as much influx of data we contend with on a daily basis, visualization tools allows our brains to take a rest while perceiving content in a different light. In essence, visualization allows us to stop and smell the pixels, in spite of the fact we might learn a few things along the way.

The Whuffie Bank is a nonprofit organization dedicated to building a new currency based on reputation that could be redeemed for real and virtual products and services. The higher your reputation, the wealthier you are.

Heres a perfect way to engage your community by providing them with local breaking news resources using Twitter and Twitter Lists. And it only takes ONE HOUR to build&

The talk is in three parts, with each part focusing on a specific problem in software. Each problem is a major hurdle in what I call the usage lifecycle, or the stages people go through as they use and adopt software over time. These three hurdles come directly out of the work I do with clients&Ive been focusing almost exclusively on these specific problems&I hope the slides help you focus on them as well.

The explosion of innovation unleashed by the Internet has been driven by an ecosystem of people who work in an open network defined by open standards. That openness has brought us technological marvels like Google, Amazon, and Wikipedia. Now, however, this era of innovation is bumping up against a new barrier. T

Americans are increasingly using the Internet to participate directly in democracy. And over the next 20 years, our governance will include forms of direct democracy that have never before been possible

Knowledge workers fuel innovation and growth, yet the nature of knowledge work remains poorly understoodas do the ways to improve its effectiveness. The heart of what knowledge workers do on the job is collaborate, which in the broadest terms means they interact to solve problems, serve customers, engage with partners, and nurture new ideas.

Heres a list of some of the current and pending Google Wave Apps they can be added just by adding the email address to your links. They have some neat stuff.