Links to some interesting story: A Data Deluge Swamps Science Historians, World of Seinfeld Infographic, Vue Visualization Software, Hosts Hit With $32 Million Infringement Verdict, and an excellent opinion piece from Eager Eyes about Shaking the Pretty Picture Stigma.
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Simple Complexity makes Smashing Magazine’s List of 25 Useful Data Visualization and Infographics Resources.
[via Mashables] We’ve made no attempt to hide our belief that Internet Explorer 6 must die. IE6 is an ancient browser that does not support many of the major innovations of the last 8 years. Yet it is still used by 15-25% of Internet users – and that fact alone is holding us back from a new area of web applications.
Read more on IE6 No More! Popular Web Companies Start Project to Kill IE6…
Government database and Web services developers are facing increasing pressure to find new and more effective ways to represent and present complex data patterns graphically.
Three HSBC units were fined a total of $5.2 million for losing customer information in the mail . . .
In conjunction with the IT Dashboard, which has received 20 million hits, there is now a blog.
Yahoo is enhancing its Web service API for querying and joining data across any Web source or service on the Web, with the addition of capabilities to write and modify data on Web services.
Thirty-one journalists working for The News of the World and The Sun allegedly acquired people’s personal information through deceit . . .
How a top payments processor responded to the largest-ever criminal pilfering of credit-card data, and what other companies can learn from it.
Social Security numbers, commonly used by criminals in identity theft, can be guessed using information found on Internet social networks.
