November 9th was the 25th anniversary of the Berlin Wall coming down, and to commemorate the anniversary of this monumental event, we have created a beautiful interactive map story using our easy to use story telling tool Odyssey.js and CartoDB!

Mapping has always been a tool for studying environmental change and enabling protection on all levels. Here at CartoDB, we want to share our commitment to IUCN’s efforts to protecting and conserving our natural ecosystems across the world by bringing to the table powerful and easy to use mapping tools.

Say hello to our new Operations and Marketplace Director at the NYC office Vanessa Hamer!

Over recent years, mapping services have been busy counting and charging for map views. We believe that charging for map views is actually penalizing users for doing great things with their work. In order to change the trend, we are going to take a different tack, and promote the usage of maps, not discourage them. That is why we are no longer charging for map views. Yep, you read that right: free and unlimited map views for all CartoDB accounts. CartoDB exists so that you can make the most useful and inspiring visualizations on the web, so we figured it’s best that we stay out of your way.

CartoDB Madrid offices keep growing, and we’re happy to announce our newest team member, Juan Ignacio Sánchez (but please call him Nacho unless he’s done something wrong).

We are happy to announce that CartoDB has been awarded the European Union Europioneers 2014 High Growth Web Entrepreneur award. The award was announced today at the Web Summit in Dublin, one of the biggest web conferences in Europe. Runners up included some of the most exciting web companies in Europe today, such as Wunderlist, Klarna, Hailo and Transferwise among others.

Have you ever tried to develop an entire video game? Our buddy Jaime Chapinal has successfully done it, and we are happy to announce he will be part of the CartoDB crew :).

We are pretty happy to announce Nicklas Gummersson is joining CartoDB. He will be working on the frontend side of CartoDB, taking care of the CartoDB editor and improving the CartoDB.js public API.

Please give a hearty welcome to Santiago.

He’s the newest member to the CartoDB team. Coming from a background as diverse as his interests, he will be using his skills to make maps that peel away the layers of our complex world with the goal of thinking about space, realities, and the potential maps have for many different user groups. All of that is fitting because his title at CartoDB is Data Story Intern.

We live in exciting times when it comes to working with data and creating useful products for citizens and organizations. The open data trend keeps growing solidly: public administrations and organizations all over the world keep pushing the boundaries with really good opening projects. On the tools front, simpler and more powerful APIs and tools keep popping up, ensuring that increasingly more people capture and process huge quantities of data, analyze it, and have better communication.