NYT ProPublica Wants Newspapers to Steal Its Stories ProPublica is an independent, non-profit newsroom with headquarters in Manhattan. ProPublica's newsroom employs 32 journalists and receives financing from the Sandler Foundation and other contributions. The organization's mission is to continue the tradition of investigative journalism at a time where a lot of newspaper organizations have had to… Frederic Lardinois View comments
Trends Minority Report Interfaces: Coming to a Screen Near You Dale Herigstad, Chief Creative Officer at design firm Schematic, spoke today at the XML Auckland conference. Herigstad worked with Steven Spielberg on the conceptual design for the film Minority Report, including designing the hologram screens on which Tom Cruise used his hands to navigate. The subject of Herigstad's presentation today was new… Richard MacManus View comments
International IBM Taps Vietnam for VC/Startup Partnerships Today, IBM will announce its plans to target Vietnam as a key market for new investments and partnerships with venture capital firms and affiliated startups in Southeast Asia. The hardware/software giant will open a new facility in Vietnam and will start joint research and curriculum programs with local universities. Specific areas of interest for… Jolie O'Dell View comments
Search Keeping an Eye on Collecta: Real-Time Search Engine to Launch Soon Collecta has recently come to our attention as a player in the real-time search arena. The site isn't currently available for users to run searches of their own; however, hot-topic samples (searches for "Obama" and "swine flu") are being displayed on one-off pages. On the sample pages, the engine collects tweets, Flickr photos, blog posts, and… Social Jolie O'Dell View comments
Product Reviews VocabGrabber Takes Any Text, Gives Language Learners Visual Aid We like tools that are fascinating to use and make users look smarter than their peers. Visualization apps and sites rank pretty high on the fascination-o-meter, and they're also great for those of us who learn best by seeing and doing, rather than simply reading text. The folks at Thinkmap (the makers of Visual Thesaurus) have just launched a… Jolie O'Dell View comments