The PC video game Spore has a huge database of player created content and social activity publicly available via a web API.
Check it out:
http://www.sporeapi.com
They have libraries available in many languages:
http://www.spore.com/comm/developer/processing
http://www.spore.com/comm/developer/mathematica
http://www.spore.com/comm/developer/flash
among others! Looking forward to what new ways the visualization community has for looking at all of this data!
I made two apps in Processing using the Spore API:
The first one looks at asset uploads in the last minute:
http://www.thevioletpiece.com/spore/processing/pollinator/index.html
using the API method:
http://www.spore.com/rest/assets/search/NEWEST/0/50
The second one is a clock / asset counter:
http://www.thevioletpiece.com/spore/processing/pollinator/index.html
using the API method:
http://www.spore.com/rest/stats
Enjoy!
Oops, I meant:
http://www.thevioletpiece.com/spore/processing/contentcount/index.html
Here's a screen shot:
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