Briefly Noted for January 13, 2008
New Stella Artois website uses brewer's long history, period costumes to sell beer. See especially "L'Origine."
Science Fiction Timeline of Inventions. Learn when the taser, credit cards
Timelines
Xtimeline
Xtimeline is a new addition to the growing field of personal timeline builders. Simile Timeline, MIT's open source offering is still the best of the bunch, but Xtimeline definitely wins in
Google Timelines
On Monday Dave Lester pointed to the release of Google's new timeline view of search results. Found History has often commented on the importance of timelines in public understanding of history
Tags Over Time
There's a new trend in online amateur history that digital history scholars would do well to notice. A few months ago I pointed to Yahoo's Taglines, a Flash visualization
Watchismo
Watchismo is a collector and online dealer of vintage watches, especially digital watches, from the mid-20th century. He describes himself as "devoted to the highly unusual, obscurely rare and advanced modern designs