Product Reviews Earthmine: Building a 3D Datamine of the Urban Environment Earthmine, the Best Technology Innovation/Achievement category winner at tonight's Crunchies, is a company that might seem uninteresting at first glance. When I first saw earthmine I assumed that it was just a Google Maps Streetview knock-off. I was wrong. This startup is doing something far more interesting than that. While Google Maps and… Marshall Kirkpatrick View comments
Product Reviews Toonlet: DIY Cartoon Strips Made Social Toonlet is a new site where you can create your own cartoon strips with customized characters and leave cartoons as comments in response to other peoples' strips. It's fun, fast and easy. Kids will like it and I do too. There's lots of sites on the web where you can create your own comic strips but few of them let you build your own characters… Marshall Kirkpatrick View comments
Amazon Amazon Looks to Crowd to Find Next Bestseller Amazon is entering the second leg of their Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award, and they're calling on Amazon customers to help them decide which unpublished author scores the grand prize that includes a Penguin Publishing book deal and $25,000 advance. Starting with a pool of nearly 5,000 entries, Amazon this week announced their pool of semifinalist… Josh Catone View comments
Product Reviews Keep Your Resolutions with Wellsphere Wellsphere is a perfect website for those of us who have trouble keeping our New Year's Resolutions. At Wellsphere, the goal is to build online communities where people encourage each other to "get active, eat better, and unwind." As we all know, that's easier said than done. The way Wellsphere works is that it connects members with local health… Sarah Perez View comments
Trends What Does the English Language Look Like? Have you ever wondered what the English language looks? Yeah, neither have I. But a group of researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and New York University did, and tapping into the billions of images freely available on the Internet, they came up with a visual map of the English language using nearly 80 million of those images… Josh Catone View comments