My shared links for March 30th through April 3rd: Magic Maps: Now You See It. – Very cool app for working with maps and time series data How Not To Sort By Average Rating – Shows the best way to sort by positive/negative rankings that is robust to small sample sizes terrorism hardly existential threat. [...]

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I ran across this video in my bookmarks – this looks like the result of Yahoo acquiring Xoopit. It looks like they’ve got a platform for building “applications” that users can add into their webmail client. (Here’s the developer info ) It’s a little like Facebook’s games and other apps, and I’d be surprised if [...]

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I’d like to see a community-run version of the Apple Design Awards. Anyone could nominate an app, and the developer community would vote on who wins, in just a few categories. I’m thinking the categories could be a little more user-centric than Apple’s. For instance, I don’t really care about best adoption of OS X [...]

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