Numbers, facts and figures are there and everywhere on the interweb. But where are they when you need them? Most of the so- called digital culture and knowledge is hidden in large documents, beautiful PDF reports and flabergasting Excel files that some of us miracullously find and hopfully read before letting them fall back down in the flow of bits of the matrix. What a shame. What a pity.
We designed a place where anybody could store and show the meaningful numbers he/she/it found while surfing (or reading, or hearing... you name it, you multimedia people). This place looks very similar to those so-called "web 2.0" information ranking sites that we all enjoy reading (diggers welcome!!!) but it will focus exclusively on figures, dimensions, prices, percentages and others pieces of concentrated numeric information. Our place is designed to become an index for a lot of inofrmation sources. It is also designed to be cool and entertaining so all our readers can find a way to participate in the process.
The collaborative number collection process that you will soon experiment has no true limitations yet. We are determined to keep it as open as possible. Does a value have value by itself? It is all upon you and the quality you put in the very straightforward process of publishing a number on our site. In essence, quality is a balanced mix between minimum information and maximum sense.
Frederic AUTECHAUD (Fred A), 39, french, is a journalist and communication designer. He played so much with data that I got the idea for this place. Frederic BRUNEL (Fred B), 33, french is software architect with a penchant for challenging timelines and everything running rugged protocols.
The bignumbr joint-venture started in march 2006 and is still fuelled by some fish and chips (friday fish).
The icon set "Silk" is courtesy of Mark James. Go visit his website famfamfam.com.