A new experimental website, dubbed “Many Eyes,” lets users upload data they want to visualize, and try sophisticated tools to generate interactive displays.  As people share videos and photos with sites like YouTube and Flikr, 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.

On the brink of yet another hurricane threatening to make landfall on the Gulf Coast, residents are taking steps to better prepare themselves.  A new website has recently launched as a new resource to help people organize important information, digitize documents, and a variety of other helpful services to aid in getting one’s life back together if such an event were to happen again.

MySpace stalker Tom Anderson, the man who added two and half million of us as friends without asking, seems to have a more interesting past than I’d have given him credit for. In fact, Anderson is a man with a history.

Wind power technology is changing as much as solar technology.  Generating power from the wind no longer has to look like a sea of disembodied airplane propellers hanging from tall poles.  Now wind power comes in different and oft times bizarre looks.

Hackers at the recent DEFCON conference demonstrated Internet flaws even more shocking than the recent DNS vulnerability. A design error that’s been known, has been exploited and probably has been used by government security agencies like the NSA.

A group advocating open source has sued the Quebec government for procuring Microsoft software without open tender. It claims the government has gone against its own stipulated procedures for buying software.

YouTube video makers now have the ability to add closed captioning to their videos. The new option can make it easier for viewers to understand foreign videos as well as people who have trouble hearing.

News of two Wall Street suits being fired for blogging makes me think something is wrong. And that something is no one heeding Dooce-ster Heather Armstrong’s words on blogging about your work: Be ye not so stupid.

There’s no doubting the fact that the Internet has had a big impact on the music industry - it’s just how much of an impact, and whether it’s a good or bad thing that’s argued. But is it the case that the Internet is responsible for the death of the album?

If you own and maintain your own blog or website, there’s no getting around learning CSS. Nothing quite beats a good reference book on the subject so here’s 5 top picks.

GeoEye will be launching a new satellite in the next few days to provide detailed imagery, of which Google will be the exclusive owner of.  Google signed a deal to provide enhanced imagery for its Maps and Earth applications via the GeoEye’s highest ground resolution color imagery available in the commercial marketplace.

With a content-rich internet these days, many people often forget that there are powerful software solutions available to aid in the creation and publishing of web-based content- that are free of charge and relatively easy to configure and maintain.  One of my favorites, would have to be Drupal- it provides a powerful core that can handle even the largest community and content-based sites while being easily extendable to produce a website that can do just about anything.

As more companies establish bandwidth limits on their broadband Internet offerings like Comcast just did with its 250GB cap beginning October 1st, it’s becoming even more clear that there isn’t enough competition in the industry. Competition would encourage innovation to provide for customer demand for additional bandwidth, rather than forcibly cutting them off.

How bad is it to stream music online before it has been released? If it’s material from the new Guns N’ Roses album, Chinese Democracy, then it’s bad enough to get you arrested by the FBI and face three years in prison.

Nokia quietly launched its fully integrated Ovi services site, combining its filesharing, photo, music and gaming services. A new service in Ovi Sync was also unveiled.

Yahoo has decided to shutter its Mash social networking service in another botched attempt at competing with Myspace and Facebook. Mash will go offline on September 29, less than a year after it launched and months after Yahoo stock dropped in the wake of the botched Microsoft deal.

Barack Obama has made great strides in utilising technology and social media to his advantage. But it seems that in at least one field of Web advertising, John McCain is beating him.