Robin emailed me about Swivel. It's brilliant; 'YouTube for data'. You can upload and share whatever data you've got and you can compare your data with everything else they've got. And the system will even look for correlations in the background and point out things you might have missed. This is going to be fantastic.
And it reminded me of a conversation we were having the other day. What happens when things like Yankelovich reports start turning up on BitTorrent? They already get passed around informally by email (you know, between friends) but that has some sort of socially imposed limit. You know where it came from. But P2P makes it anonymous and one person can share with many, with no-one knowing anyone else. Makes you wonder, are owners of huge amounts of proprietary research the next record companies?
Up until now i have been using www.nationmaster.com.....:)
Posted by: Richard | December 06, 2006 at 03:22 PM
Completely unrelated to this post, so sorry, actually it is, in so much as it's another new site, although its still in beta, this looks promising.
http://search.live.com/results.aspx?q=&scope=books
Posted by: here be simon | December 07, 2006 at 07:57 AM