Yesterday software engineer Matthew Gray from Inside Google Book Search posted a mashup/geo-visualization demonstrating how place name frequency changed over the course of 19th century publishing history. Gray's four maps—
The tech blogs are buzzing about Geni, a new genealogy application launched by former Paypal executive David Sacks (see Valleywag and TechCrunch for example). Billing itself as "a unique approach to solving
This is huge, or potentially so. Yahoo! has launched what they are calling an "electronic anthropology project"—a digital time capsule of images, stories, video, audio, and artwork, all submitted by
If you ever have eight or ten hours to kill, check out CoverPop.com, a new mashup site and a goldmine of found history. According to the site's operators,
Each coverpop
If you haven't done so already, visit Yahoo's TagLines now. A rolling timeline of the eight most popular Flickr tags for each day since 2004, TagLines is the most
