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is a platform that lets people upload live streaming data from devices such as Arduino + sensors.
data such as power consumption, movement and practically anything else you could think of. the data can be set to private but pachube encourage to share data and set it to a public stream for others to "subscribe" to and create graphs or anything else they wish to use the data for.

most recently the pachube service was used to help show the areas in Japan that where most affected by the nuclear disaster with gieger counter equiped sensors. the data was mashed up with google maps and google eart. many mobile apps where made for locals and tourists to warn them of any radiation they could encouter.
Open Data
raw data thats put on the web open for anyone to use in there projects such as infographics, maps, and such. here is a talk from ted.com from tim berners lee showing various examples from this movement.


Life in a day is a collabrative film made entirely from youtube users videos that where filmed in just one day. the director Kevin Macdonald edited down 4500 hours of footage into a 90 minute film.

The film was the creation of a partnership among YouTube, Ridley Scott Associates and LG electronics, announced on July 6, 2010. Users sent in videos supposed to be recorded on July 24, 2010, and then Ridley Scott produced the film and edited the videos into a film with director Kevin Macdonald and film editor Joe Walker, consisting of footage from some of the contributors. All chosen footage authors are credited as co-directors.

youtube have released the feature documentary on there website fre of charge and can be viewed above also. i believe it wasnt the first of its kind but certainly has had the most backing behind it by any major personality.
Arduino is a programmable board that connects to analog and digital devices such as lights, motors etc and sensors like geiger counters, heat detectors and anything else you could think of. it uses its own programing language thats a modified version of "wiring" wich in itself is much like C or javascript. wich is a bonus when i have worked in processing last year in workshops and a project...


Arduino is an open-source electronics prototyping platform based on flexible, easy-to-use hardware and software. It's intended for artists, designers, hobbyists, and anyone interested in creating interactive objects or environments.
Open Street Map
is an open sourced collabrativly built online map software making it a real alternative to google maps and bing maps purely through the local knowledge that the users can help build on top of the existing maps. this can help bike trials and other foot paths not on public maps.

OpenStreetMap is open data, licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 licence (CC-BY-SA).
You are free to copy, distribute, transmit and adapt our maps and data, as long as you credit OpenStreetMap and its contributors. If you alter or build upon our maps or data, you may distribute the result only under the same licence. The full legal code explains your rights and responsibilities.
Ooops by Chris Beckman Somewhere between a home-video mixtape and a virtual travelogue, "oops" a ten-minute experimental video composed entirely of appropriated YouTube videos, seamlessly stitched together via a motif of camera accidents serves both as transportative adventure and metaphorical elucidation of YouTube itself (i.e. endless related videos), exemplifying the Internet's infinite repository of "throwaway" social documentation. From suburbia to subterranea, the radically shuffling environs induce a vertiginous yet aesthetically contextual thread a transcendent, reincarnating POV; our omnipresent Camera by which, the nature of the ultra-verité videos, eschewing any filmic grounding, plunges the viewer into a relationship of fleeting immediacy w/ its many videographers: a self-portrait at arms length, the digital blur of an obscuring thumb, a disembodied narrating voice. This abstractly voyeuristic portrayal of an ever-filming generation (who won't let the transcendence of being in A Moment inhibit their document-everything impulse) presages a future where every instant of our existence, from the mundane to the sublime, is preserved and catalogued for all to see.