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You can now upload your own data set and create data visualization with Many Eyes
The heart of Many Eyes is a collection of data visualizations.

On Many Eyes you can:

View and discuss visualizations
View and discuss data sets
Create visualizations from existing data sets
Rate data sets and visualizations
Upload your own data
Create and participate in […]

Acid2 is a test page published and promoted by the Web Standards Project to identify web page rendering flaws in web browsers and other applications that render HTML.
Acid2 tests aspects of HTML markup, CSS styling, PNG images, and data URIs. It should render correctly on any application that follows the World Wide Web Consortium and […]

Google is going to release a beta version of its own web browser, Chrome.
There is a comic book on it here.
From the Google website, it will be available for beta download starting 2 September 2008.

Prism (formerly, Webrunner) is a prototype application that lets users split web applications out of their browser and run them directly on their desktop.

Prism lets users add their favorite web apps to their desktop environment:

OpenDHT is a publicly accessible distributed hash table (DHT) service. In contrast to the usual DHT model, clients of OpenDHT do not need to run a DHT node in order to use the service. Instead, they can issue put and get operations to any DHT node, which processes the operations on their behalf. No credentials […]

PlanetLab is an open platform for developing, deploying and accessing planetary-scale services.
It is similar to Google App Engine but is more for academic research purposes.

Here are some open source grid computing software that are quite interesting.

GridGain is the open source grid computing software for Java. It is dual-licensed under LGPL and Apache 2.0 licenses and is built on open source software foundation
 

BOINC is a software platform for volunteer computing and desktop grid computing.  BOINC is designed to […]

Statistical analysis is always an interesting field. For those gamblers either they perform structural or non-structural analysis on their own or using software.
E.g., in a 6/49 lottery (the most common world wide) there are 13,983,816 possible combinations. If, say, every combination were to come out just once, in random order, in 14 million draws, then […]