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Exciting news about the unveiling of a new search engine, Cuil ("cool") developed by former Google employee Anna Patterson that promises to yield more relevant results than Google.  That would be nice!

Google Book Search now indicates what books are still under copyright and what ones are not.  As Cameron Parkins says on the Creative Commons website, we can now "use free information to free information."

This is a reblog from Chris Kelty's posting on Savage Minds on Wikipedia's recent announcement of its own version of Wikipedia.

knolcats: i’m in ur pedia, innovatin ur ass

Don't see yourself in this list? That could be a problem.

Living in Spatial Reality
The GIS and mapping panel provided a small overview of spatial technologies. The panelists hoped for a visually-defined landscape of the web, something that we’ve been mostly living without until recently, attempting to adapt our minds to the concept of virtual spaces and containers where our “stuff” (and some ways the world as a whole) is: friends, files, photos, and more. This angle of investigation is similar to work revolving around interface.