Google Google.org Gets More Business-Like Three years ago Google launched Google.org, an attempt to "use the power of information and technology to address the global challenges of our age." And they've been very successful in that regard, providing more than $100 million in grants, creating tools like Google Flu Trends, and leveraging technology like the recently launched Google… Rick Turoczy View comments
Product Reviews Online Research: Zotero Moves Into the Cloud Zotero, the popular open-source research and bibliography tool, just announced the latest version of its Firefox plugin (1.5b1), which now allows users to synchronize their databases between different machines, as well as a number of smaller updates that will make it even easier to create and curate bibliographies with Zotero. Zotero also announced… Frederic Lardinois View comments
Analysis Could Wikipedia's Future Be as a Development Platform? Content creation at Wikipedia is slowing down. The already small number of active regular editors is on the decline and Jimmy Wales has called for live edits to be held for approval on many pages, a step sure to slow contributions even further. The tapering of fresh content doesn't have to mean Wikipedia's death, though. The site contains a… Marshall Kirkpatrick View comments
Product Reviews MicroPlaza: A Personalized Twitter Memetracker MicroPlaza provides you with a personalized memetracker based on the links that your friends share on Twitter. While we have seen a fair number of Twitter memetrackers, none of them feature the degree of personalization that MicroPlaza offers. If you follow a very diverse set of people on Twitter, you can also track micro-communities thanks to… Social Frederic Lardinois View comments
NYT Bebo Now Emphasizes Lifestreaming - Updates Profile Pages Bebo, AOL's social network, added a lifestreaming feature today that allows users to pull in updates from Twitter, Flickr, and Delicious, as well as from Facebook and Myspace. Bebo also introduced another new feature called 'Lifestory,' which displays your updates in a scrollable and zoomable timeline that is somewhat reminiscent of ThisMoment… Social Frederic Lardinois View comments