We like data at CF Labs – indeed we’d be nothing without lots of lovely data to build our apps around. So it’s logical that we’re committed to opening up and sharing data that we feel is in the public interest but is withheld unnecessarily or unfairly – think raw, infinitely useful data idling on [...]
Just a quick heads up. Later today, the Product Recalls site will move to its own dedicated domain, recalledproducts.org.
If you are a registered user, you don’t need to do anything at your end, but email alerts and RSS feeds will reflect the name change. The old domain should redirect all requests automatically.
Big thanks to everyone who took the time to submit their ideas to this site. We spent time last week going through all the the ideas and singled several out for development. The selection criteria was pretty simple, taking account of factors such as:
Is the idea within our consumer remit?
Does the idea offer real value [...]
Unfortunately, we’ve been forced to delay the launch of our first site due to last-minute issues regarding the re-use of the data set we were hoping to use. Not to be deterred, and as we are in the business of opening up data sets, we’re currently investigating solutions to this problem and hope to launch [...]
It’s been a busy April for CF Labs. Our first month proper (i.e. with a full-strength team) has been all about getting our working environment set up, meeting people to get the message out and ideas in, and also embarking on our first development project. For this we’re producing a relatively straightforward proof-of-concept website which [...]