The St Louis Federal Reserve "FRED" maintains a rich data set of economic data and indicators that could benefit from API wrapper

http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/

Given a lat/long, I want to know what the most interesting venue nearby is.

So, instead of saying that you're near 1000 W 6th, it says you're near "Rounders" or "Infochimps HQ" -- sorted by some score that takes into a tasteful combination of interesting and proximity.

Suggestion from Twitter (@brianthecoder)

So..

For http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=37.776111,-122.412896&spn=0.009769,0.016801&z=16

We'd return: "South of Market" or "SOMA"

http://www.iso-ne.com/markets/hst_rpts/hstRpts.do?category=Hourly

http://www.nyiso.com/public/markets_operations/market_data/pricing_data/index.jsp

Across different countries

Nationwide movie times! Make it hap'n cap'n!

For example: taxicab gps traces with surrounding traffic flow overlayed; mobile user location traces with current activity or network usage; etc.

So, for a given keyword input.. like "democrats" or "republicans" please tell me all of the associated n-grams, with frequency, in the tweets that contain those terms.

So that requests don't return "empty" quotes, give me a call so I can see what the first and last quote dates are

i would like to collect the shipping data for my final year project research. Can some one help me out of this?

Do it!

Given two Twitter users, return a list of Twitter accounts that we both follow.

a cross-linked lsit of first names and their variants e.g. john <--> jon, kieron <--> kieran etc. to enable me to standardise lists like this: http://www.statistics.gov.uk/statbase/Product.asp?vlnk=15282 where each variant is listed with a distinct count.

See http://twitter.com/#!/igrigorik/status/59675331866537984

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