Google Fusion Tables: Data Management in the Cloud - information aesthetics

Google Labs recently announced the launch of Google Fusion Tables [googlelabs.com], an experimental system for fusing data management and collaboration: merging multiple data sources, discussion of the data, querying, visualization, and Web publishing. Users can upload, share and sync datasets, fillter and aggregate the data, and then visualize it on Google Maps or with other visualizations from the Google Visualization API. Fusion Tables also enables the discussion of data at different granularity levels, for instance to discuss individual rows or columns or even individual cells between different collaborators.