http://www.techcrunch.com/2010/02/05/twitter-video/
As Sandofsky notes, "it isn't exactly scientific, but it still goes to show Twitter's explosive growth mirrored in engineering." More importantly, it looks awesome. You can see the shift in Twitter development from Jack Dorsey in the early days (2006) to Blaine Cook to Alex Payne to Twitter's now large team of developers. Each team member is represented in the video by their Twitter avatar.Twitter Code Swarm from Ben Sandofsky on Vimeo.
Visualizations are the theme of the day.
The question I have been asking myself a lot lately is how do they build these amazing data visualizations? I really want an easy way to build beautiful visualizations of data without the overhead of serious programming. I want one button data visualization. I know daytum is close, but I want something more powerful. Ideas?
Brad showed me a tool called Many Eyes from IBM that does some interesting user generated data visualizations ... some are really cool. Find it at http://manyeyes.alphaworks.ibm.com/manyeyes/