This site appears to be focused on the design aspects of visualizations, which is a shame. While I agree that design is an important consideration in info visualization, it's clearly less important than accurately representing the underlying data. I've seen far too many "infographics" which either misrepresented or presented false interpretations of data.
One of the things that bothers me about Visual.ly is its casual conflation of "data visualizations" and "infographics". The two aren't the same thing, yet there's really not a clear distinction in how Visual.ly talks about them.<p>e.g. <a href="http://blog.visual.ly/12-infographics-about-running-to-motivate-you-out-the-door/" rel="nofollow">http://blog.visual.ly/12-infographics-about-running-to-motiv...</a><p>* edit:
I just signed up and tried to create a data visualization. But it looks like the only thing you can create is to signup through Facebook and then modify an existing infographic template.
"Today, we are launching the world’s first social network for data visualization"<p>Doesn't IBM's Many Eyes deserve that title?<p>(<a href="http://www-958.ibm.com/software/data/cognos/manyeyes/" rel="nofollow">http://www-958.ibm.com/software/data/cognos/manyeyes/</a>)
Do you guys think the future of social networking will be niche social networks like this, instead of facebook? I've been getting more and more annoyed with facebook lately, it's becoming more like Myspace every day. As the masses use it, I find it to become more useless.<p>Other than following my family and very close friends, it's annoying. I'd rather be part of a social network that I'm passionate about.
Also they got some interesting advisors[1], including Alexis Ohanian (Reddit founder) and Hiten Shah (from Kissmetrics).<p>[1] <a href="http://visual.ly/about/investors" rel="nofollow">http://visual.ly/about/investors</a>