We recently coveredMeMap, an iPhone app that adds a visual layer to Facebook Places by placing your friends on a map.Placebookis site that takes a different approach by presenting broader information about your friends as a set of gorgeous graphs. The site was created by map has been created by two students at a university in the Czech Republic for a Web mapping competition. Logged out, the site displays information about the Facebook population as a whole broken down by country....

If you’ve been designing websites for any length of time, you know how annoying it can be to collect a set of images and crop them all down to specific sizes just so you can have a diverse set of placeholder images as you put together the site. Placekittenis the answer to your problems! The site serves up images of the required size based on the URL, so once you memorize the simple pattern you can code your placeholder images into your designs without leaving the text editor....

The success of any project requires planning, organization and an efficient way to manage both the people in your team and tasks that need to be accomplished. Sounds easy enough right? It is, if you’ve got the right tools. If you’ve ever tried to launch a new product, app or site for example, you already know that tracking the team and collecting the status of each task while juggling paperwork is a time-consuming and sometimes frustrating battle....

Planely, the service designed to help you find out who else is on the same flight as you (thus maximising the chance to meet and network with new people) has just become more useful with the integration of LinkedIn. With Planely, you enter your journey details and it lets you know which other users will be on the same flight. Now, if your new matches have connected their Planely and LinkedIn accounts, a LinkedIn icon appears next to their name....

Always wanted to be an astronomer but wound up as an accountant instead? Scientists at Yale University have launchedPlanet Hunters, an online experiment that taps into the power of human pattern recognition. You become a partner with their science team helping them to analyze massive sets of data by studying different families of light curves, identifying oddities, and verifying transit signals. Planet Hunters was launched after the huge success ofGalaxy Zoo, the first citizen scientist project surrounding data taken from over a million galaxies by a robotic telescope....