Not to turn this blog into a Google love-fest, but their latest acquisition is pretty darn cool. Over the weekend, an annoucement showed up on the Google homepage that they’ve acquired Keyhole, a “3D digital earth pioneer.”
From Keyhole’s Web site:
Keyhole’s groundbreaking EarthStream™ technology combines advanced 3D graphics and network streaming innovations to produce a high [...]
Archive for November, 2004
Just read an article at The New York Times about a new Google search:
http://scholar.google.com/
From the Times article:
Google Scholar, which was scheduled to go online Wednesday evening at scholar.google.com, is a result of the company’s collaboration with a number of scientific and academic publishers and is intended as a first stop for researchers looking [...]
Check out blogdigger. This service allows you to aggregate several RSS/Atom feeds into a single Web page from which you can then generate a new, compiled RSS feed (to be consumed anyway you choose).
I found this service while working on our DTLT community Web site where I had been consuming a feed for each of [...]
One thing that I really wanted to experience before leaving Missoula was the Northern Lights. For two summers, I hoped that I would catch a glimpse of this amazing phenomenon. I know that it is possible to see them as far south as Virginia, but the occurences are rare and not nearly as [...]
For those of you who have never heard of him, Eric Meyer is a css god. And the latest css “breakthrough” I’ve discovered over on his site is A Simple Standards-Based Slide Show.
Basically, the “tool” provided is a slideshow template that you can use to create an XHTML file that (using css and javascript) [...]
Check out this article by Charlie Lowe, a writing professor at Florida State University. Looks like he’s been using PostNuke as an alternative to Blackboard for one of his writing classes. He does some interesting, practical analysis of PostNuke vs. Blackboard. I’ll be interested in further purusing his blog for other entries on [...]
Following a conversation that I virtually participated in at this year’s Educause, I am getting interested in the topic of bots. Rather than recap that conversation here, I’ll point you to other places where it has already been discussed and summarized:
Gardner’s blog about the NLII VCOP session
and the wiki Vicki Suter set up to [...]
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