My colleagues from the Guardian's new Social Enterprise Network kept up with all the debate in this live blog, while this lively Twitterstream collates the day's events.
Sales for the weekend were running 12% above last year, according to ShopperTrak RCT, a firm that collates data from thousands of shops.Festive logistics partly explains this spending fervour.
A British website called http://iraqbodycount.com, which opposed the war and collates official data, reckons that at least 8,229 Iraqi civilians have been killed since the Americans invaded on March 21st.
MINTS collates information about traffic growth from a range of sources, such as company statements, log files from websites and traffic reports from internet exchanges where traffic is passed from one network to another.
In the course of 2006, during the height of the violence, 27,652 civilians died, according to the Iraq Body Count, a group that collates a tally of fatalities from media reports.
The app is attempting to take market share from competitors that aggregate personalised news for users, such as Flipboard, which presents aggregated news stories in a digital magazine format, but doesn't crunch them down to size, and Pulse, which simply collates articles.Summly stems from Mr D'Aloisio's frustrated attempts to read long news articles on a small smartphone screen.
That, at least, is the early experience of an initiative to teach philanthropy to young teenagers.Two years ago the Big Give, an organisation which collates information about 6,000 charities worldwide in an attempt to foster philanthropy, asked the fee-paying Dragon School in Oxford to run a pilot programme.
It collates information on the loans being offered in forms that big institutions can use to invest on a suitable scale.
It also collates data from clinics, to alert health authorities to outbreaks that have actually occurred.
The National Fraud Investigation Bureau collates those reports and disseminates them to individual forces to investigate.Alan Woodward, a computer scientist at the University of Surrey and an adviser to Europol, the European Union's law enforcement agency, says that Britain stacks up well in tackling online crime compared to other EU countries.
It collates surveys from national census bureaus around the world, but cannot insist that they all pose the same questions.Better figures would be useful, says Susan Teltscher of the ITU.
