Google Gapminds the Web
When Google acquired Gapminder, I expected they’d bring some face-meltingly awesome services out of it. Well, they did. A visualizations API, with all the google greatest hits (along with the now-expected user community and open source sharing of user-created visualization widgets).
I see this as a larger trend including online applications like sliderocket, that is moving us rapidly towards a data-centric world (a flattening of the data gathering, analysis and summary process).
