Google Living Stories Project in google labs

News, made for the Web.

The Living Stories project is an experiment in presenting news, one designed specifically for the online environment. The project was developed by Google in collaboration with two of the country's leading newspapers, The New York Times and The Washington Post.

All in one place
Complete coverage of an on-going story is gathered together and prioritized on one URL. You can now quickly navigate between news articles, opinion pieces and features without long waits for pages to load.

Easy to explore
Each story has an evolving summary of current developments as a well as an interactive timeline of critical events. Stories can be explored by themes, significant participants or multimedia.

Smarter reading
Updates to the story are highlighted each time you come back, and older news is summarized.

Google Goggles!

This looks like it'll be a nice way to search, especially if you're not the best at keyboarding on a phone! Can't wait to try it on my Droid phone. Currently only available with the android operating systems.

Top 100 Tools for Learning 2009

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Top 100 Tools for Learning 2009

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Mention Map - Twitter Tool

Quickly find relevant people to follow! Use Mentionmap to see Twitter conversations as a network and click any user to explore.

Network Literacy

The key question for Rheingold is whether we have central or de-centralized control over networks. Watch and learn how design decisions have big implications. Here is Part I: about 12 minutes. If you're really interested, then watch Part II.

While I know how useful the web is in promoting democracy, I had not previously thought about how network architecture relates to freedom.

Google Now Personalizes Everyone’s Search Results

Dec 4, 2009 Danny Sullivan, Editor-In-Chief of the Search Engine Land website, is widely considered a leading "search engine guru".

Sullivan reports, "Beginning today, Google will now personalize the search results of anyone who uses its search engine, regardless of whether they’ve opted-in to a previously existing personalization feature."

Danny Sullivan explains how search personalization works, discusses privacy issues, and the differences between "Signed-Out Web History and Signed-In Web History".

If this freaks you out, keep in mind:
# All the major search engines have long recorded what you search on. Google’s simply using it to refine your results, in addition to what the others do, show ads
# Your browser itself records what you search on — and often, people fail to clear their browser histories.

Sullivan shows you exactly how to opt out, which I did! You have to sign in to your Google account to opt out of this "service". I prefer to refine my own searching.

The Future of Magazines shared by Mashable

View the Sports Illustrated Tablet demo! It's quite impressive on the Apple Tablet. Has features of the iphone or my new Droid. Actually, it's more like John King's magic wall on CNN.

Digital publishing gone wild. Gotta love it.