A visualisation and exploration platform for all kinds of networks and graphs: make pretty pictures from your node/edge databases.

Javascript library for charting with effects and interactivity

OK Cupid’s analysis of their membership base with lovely visualisations and intelligent interpretations

Sucks out data about you from Google’s Social Graph API, microformats and RSS feeds

Paul Mison’s thoughts on aggregating your distributed content, like Tom Insam, Jeremy Keith, Phil Gyford and others. Dual purpose: for your personal website and also backup in case things all go Magnolia.

AS library for data visualisation in Flash

Intermediate between publishers and subscribers. Claims to support HTTP callbacks to remove need for polling. Supports multiple formats/protocols: XMPP, REST, etc.

Resizable/sortable grid component for jQuery

Facebook’s two data centres: for each update they include instruction in MySQL replication log to expire the object in memcache. Whenever user updates their data a cookie is set and for next 20s the LB uses Level 7 to send them to the master data centre so the slave has time to catch up and expire the cache.

Everybody loves Sparklines

iCals for BBC programmes

Visualise a JSON structure in nested HTML

Get user’s Gmail contacts without requiring username/password

Including how to make your backup Mac bootable. A complete swappable hard disc

Backup strategies and options for Macs

This seems like a lot of faffing to my relational brain, but handy to know how to achieve it

Bringing together lots of fun stuff in one place