It’s been a busy, hectic and very fun last 5 days here at Socrata worldwide headquarters. We’ve become Socrata the company Making Data Social and we’ve launched Socrata.com, the Social Data Network for people who love data.

Read the press release announcing the change when you have time.

Socrata has its DNA in the old blist application. In addition to focusing much more on the social side of discovering and analyzing data, the technology stack behind the site is new, which means the site is much faster and more robust and scalable. There are many new features too. I’ll elaborate on many of the features in detail in future posts, but in the interim be sure to try some of the following enhancements on Socrata.com:

• Much improved searching for public datasets
• A vibrant community section
• Comment, rate and discuss public datasets
• Create and save a public filtered view against any public dataset
• Post a link to a dataset on Facebook, Twitter, Digg or Delicious
• Create a Socrata user profile page and link it to your profile on Facebook, Linked in, Twitter or GovLoop

Visit Socrata.com to explore these and many other new features. As data lovers ourselves, we’re really enjoying the new site and hope you do as well.