There’s lots of places (Google, Wikipedia, ...) you can go to find out something about everything, but until now there’s been no good place where you can find out everything about something.
infochimps.org is a community to assemble and interconnect a giant free almanac, with tables on everything you can put in a table—things like a century of hourly weather, every major league baseball game, decades of stock prices, or every US patent filing.
See, exploring rich data is fun—but inding it, formatting it, tagging it with metadata is drudge work barely fit for a trained chimp. And if you want to share a large raw dataset online, you face two troubling prospects: a) that no one will find it, or b) that everyone will find it.
Infochimps.org is built by data nerds and used by data nerds to house the information you need to power the projects the world needs.