Social datasets

Here’s a social site where you post, plot, swap, mashup, and discuss datasets.  Only in CSV format…no FITS data yet.

Swivel - Draw Conclusions from Data

Swivel is a place where you can upload data, create nice graphs and try to draw wise conclusions from it. “Swivel’s mission is to liberate the world’s data and make it useful so new insights can be discovered and shared.” I happen to know a company with a similar mission (Google’s mission is to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful).

Fake Steve Sez: Red Hat will be next.

Fake Steve chimes in on why he thinks Red Hat will be next
in this post at the Secret Diary.

Don’t be afraid, I just want to interoperate

So Microsoft just slowly coils itself around Red Hat (by making deals with everyone else in its space) and gently begins to squeeze. Ubuntu, the other holdout, is probably less worrisome because they’re not really gaining much traction yet and Microsoft feels pretty sure on the desktop. (How else to explain the fact they’re charging four hundred friggin bucks for the top version of Vista? Jesus.)