My weekend blog post routine includes posting links to a handful of tools or great content I ran across during the week.

I don’t go into depth about the finds, but encourage you check them out if they sound interesting. The photo in the post is a favorite for the week from Flickr.

Image credit: dblackadder

Good stuff I found this week:

Google Public Data Explorer – The Google Public Data Explorer makes large datasets easy to explore, visualize and communicate. This one came from Ben at WBPSystems who claims that he finds this tool very helpful for making business decisions and researching new markets.

SinglePlatform – very cool looking new service that helps local businesses promote their content and publishers use local content to help their SEO efforts. I push all my local clients to get in the local content biz and this tool may be a great play for that.

7 Tools For Managing Your Facebook Fans – Nice roundup from AllFacebook of some tools that will allow you to get more from Facebook, including a couple that make it easier for you to provide customer service directly from Facebook.