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"Today, we are launching the world’s first social network for data visualization"

Doesn't IBM's Many Eyes deserve that title?

(http://www-958.ibm.com/software/data/cognos/manyeyes/)

I think you might give the title to Swivel, which beat Many Eyes by a couple months. [http://eagereyes.org/criticism/swivel-vs-many-eyes] I'm not sure which one of them lasted longer. [http://eagereyes.org/criticism/the-rise-and-fall-of-swivel] In contrast, Tableau Public headed in the opposite direction from both of those, striving not to be a social network but instead focus on being embedded elsewhere.

I think the number of true viz geeks in the world is dwarfed by the number of people who are interested in particular data. But I'm not even sure that Visual.ly is trying to be anything more than a niche network here.

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