links for 2011-04-06

Using Media Street’s Online Marketing Pack, local business owners can run campaigns aimed to reach a wider audience and drive sales. Through the app, Media Street is able to track the success of each campaign.

European public bodies produce thousands upon thousands of datasets every year – about everything from how our tax money is spent to the quality of the air we breathe.

We are challenging designers, developers, journalists, researchers and others to people to come up with something useful, valuable or interesting for European citizens, built using open data.

journalists should refrain from debating issues within the Star’s online comments forum to avoid any suggestion that they may be biased in their reporting

Their metrics of success may not be typical. Instead of having the biggest community, they might want the most active members, or the most response per item. Regardless of what it is, they will want to steer the community into the spotlight as a leader.

As more hyperlocal data shoots out the fire hoses of companies such as SimpleGeo, Foursquare and Hyperpublic, more applications will be built. And because of the sheer amount of potential data that will shortly be available, possibilities are vast, particularly when it comes to things like augmented reality.