Swivel Is Now Live

Michael Arrington

J. Michael Arrington (born March 13, 1970 in Huntington Beach, California) is a serial entrepreneur and the founder of TechCrunch, a blog covering startups and technology news. Arrington attended Claremont McKenna College (BA Economics, 1992) and Stanford Law School (JD, 1995) and practiced as a corporate and securities lawyer at two law firms: O’Melveny & Myers and Wilson Sonsini Goodrich... → Learn More

Wednesday, December 6th, 2006

Swivel, the new Minor Ventures startup that we wrote about yesterday, is now live. Go compare the increase in U.S. wine consumption to the the drop in crime, or see how extreme temperature fluctuations (in Fresno) equal big profits for electricity utilities.

I already see a lot of fairly useless data included on the site, which makes the good stuff harder to find. As the active community grows the better data will hopefully rise to the top via the rating and feedback system. This is one of the freshest ideas we’ve seen in months – we’ll be tracking them closely.

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