Coders are the new rockstars – Data

Data (Any further recommendations please send my way as this list is no means definitive)

Guardian – Open Platform – The entire guardian newspaper (and many years of archive material) all available to use via an API.

Guardian – Data Store – An incredible resource of data – Everything from ‘Champagne imports’ to ‘Swine Flu cases’. All available as Excel Spreadsheets.

New York Times – I believe they were the first newspaper to open their content via an API.

Wattson – If you’ve ever wanted to know how much electricity you consume then the Wattson is for you – You clip it to your electricity supply and it collates all the usage info. You can then interface with the API to start to play with the data.

Pachube – Taking the Wattson to a much higher level – Pachube is a dataset collated from buildings – Lots of environmental data to play with – building temperatues, humidity, lights. Building 2.0 here we come.

Last.FM – The API has exposed a mass of user data regarding music usage.

Flickr - Photographs on tap with a very comprehensive API. Very well documented.

Programmable Web – A great resource of APIs and datasets.

Trynt – Lots of APIs to use including an IMDB API.

Open Government Data – An initiative led by Microsoft publishing data from governments.

Timetric.com – Lots of data with an API.

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