External Tools

Scraping

• dapper.com (demo) - Point and click interface for scraping websites. The web just got a lot easier to mash! There is an SDK which will remain free for educational and non-commercial use.
• five ways to mix, rip, and mash your data - discusses dapper, openkapow, pipes, teclo, and proto

Visualization

• UnfluenceMapping political contribution networks
• many eyes - tabular data into tagclouds, clustermaps, bar- and piegraphs, maps, bubble charts, scatter plots, and more
• swivel - online tagclouds, bar- and piegraphs and more
• NetVis Module - Dynamic Visualization of Social Networks
• SIMILE | welkin - a graph based rdf visualizer
• vizster - terrific cluster map visualization of facebook
• Mood Views is a collection of tools for tracking the stream of mood-annotated text made available by LiveJournal.
• Cuttlefish is a configurable visualization tool. Driven by the parameters and data in its configuration file, Cuttlefish displays geographical map(s), color coded data drawn to specific lat/lon locations, etc.
• More CAIDA visualization tools

Analysis

• UCINET - social network analysis
• reseau-lu - Relational, time dependent and textual data analysis.
• toko-sigmund - Text analysis, ontology building, and browsing a corpus of documents
• lixlpixel online website content and keyword analyzer tool
• lixlpixel server response headers

Various

• flickr bits - flickr tools
• iSpecies - a species search engine
• wikipedia animate This Greasemonkey script allows you to view a series of modifications to a Wikipedia article as a video-like sequence.
• DNS Stuff Tools
• seo tools
• xinu

Data Sources

• nation master - a massive central data source and a handy way to graphically compare nations. NationMaster is a vast compilation of data from such sources as the CIA World Factbook, UN, and OECD.
• clickz.com trends and stats - statistics on internet and computer usage

Tag Clouds

• tocloud.com - texts, websites, tagged sites to a variety of tag clouds
• http://www.artviper.net/texttagcloud/ [Art Viper Text Tagcloud Generator]] - Paste text and it counts words and creates a textcloud. Output: HTML file
• many eyes - tabular data into tagclouds, clustermaps, bar- and piegraphs, maps, bubble charts, scatter plots, and more
• swivel - online tagclouds, bar- and piegraphs and more

Search devices

• spock