To coincide with the announcement that Google will team up with NASA to aid the space programme, I can exclusively reveal a few other ideas Google are toying with:
Now this is quite lovely I must say. NewsMap, developed by Marcos Weskamp, is a bright and breezy Flash news displayer, which aggregates news from Google News sources. Here’s the official blurb:
Newsmap is an application that visually reflects the constantly changing landscape of the Google News news aggregator. A treemap visualization algorithm helps display the enormous amount of information gathered by the aggregator. Treemaps are traditionally space-constrained visualizations of information. Newsmap’s objective takes that goal a step further and provides a tool to divide information into quickly recognizable bands which, when presented together, reveal underlying patterns in news reporting across cultures and within news segments in constant change around the globe.
The concept is admirable, and very interesting, and even if you just want to see some news presented in a different way, it’s a good visit.
I’m sure you’ve visited this site before, but if you haven’t, then that’s the exact reason I’m posting this. Because you should do.
The Internet Archive is building a digital library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form. Like a paper library, we provide free access to researchers, historians, scholars, and the general public.
20,000 live music recordings, 40 billion web pages (look, it’s the BBC site in ‘97), almost 20,000 movies of one sort or another, and over 20,000 audio recordings.
Plus it’s had a nice little redesign by the looks of it.
