Google, Twitter, New Jersey, NYPL, MORE: Morning Buzz, April 8, 2012
Wired takes a look at Project Glass from Google. Am I the only one on Earth who doesn’t want these things anywhere near my eyes? I only have two and I don’t want to mess them up.
Wow, these are some crazy Amazon S3 stats. “By the end of the first quarter of 2012, there were 905 billion objects stored, and the service routinely handles 650,000 requests per second for those objects, with peaks that go even higher. To put that in perspective, that’s up from 262 billion objects stored just two years ago and up from 762 billion by Q4 2011.”
Twitter points you to some ways to make the baseball season better via Twitter.
I love to read about digital archives to help preserve dying languages. In this case it’s Arapesh.
WordPress 3.4 — now in beta!
Now available: a database of New Jersey attorneys (over 80,000 of ‘em!) “The database includes the date of admission to the bar, the attorney’s status to practice law in New Jersey, and the county and municipality of the business office of practicing attorneys.”
Hmm… Resultly sounds like fun. “At its core, the stealth social search and notifications service is like ‘Google Alerts for the entire Internet’, he adds, noting that that’s the closest he and his international team come to describing Resultly in a nutshell.” (I thought Google Alerts was Google Alerts for the entire Internet.)
Nice! Open Font Library has a new version.
So excited to read about the massive digitization project at the New York Public Library. “The project, which began in January and will continue through 2014, will digitize documents from the Thomas Addis Emmet Collection, located within the Manuscripts and Archives Division, and almost all the papers of several major American authors in the Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature at The New York Public Library.”
Wow: Google Searches Follow Economics. “Web searches by users in countries with higher per capita gross domestic products are more likely to be about the future than the past, a British study found.” Gonna dig into this one a little bit further. (More details in this story.) Good morning, Internet…
Amazon, Baseball, Putting This Up So I can Catch Up: Evening Buzz, April 7, 2012
Look at you, Amazon, with your cloud full of genomes! “Amazon Web Services LLC (AWS), an Amazon.com company (NASDAQ:AMZN) and the United States National Institutes of Health (NIH) today announced at the White House Big Data Summit that the complete 1000 Genomes Project is now available on AWS as a publicly available data set….The project has grown to 200 terabytes of genomic data including DNA sequenced from more than 1,700 individuals that researchers can now access on AWS for use in disease research. “
Baseball fans are finally going to get Negro League Statistics. The bad news this is six years after the project was “finished” (data is still being gathered.) The stats are great. The delay is awful!
Thailand — now on Google Maps Street View.
Facebook Photos! Now higher resolution and full screen (nice!)
One of the problems with doing ResearchBuzz is that I find out about Marcel Breuer via the Marcel Breuer digital archive blog post, I look him up on Wikipedia, and down the rabbit hole I go… good evening, Internet…
Portland, Card Catalogs, Google, Great Irish Famine, More: Morning Buzz, March 24, 2012
40 years of Portland, Oregon’s Annexation history, now online: “Records for each annexed area have been scanned and saved as digital files. These files are integrated with a geographic information system map layer of the region to create a searchable database that eases access to decades of public records.”
This sounds tasty: a new Issac Newton archive. “Israel’s national library has just digitised its archive of Newton’s handwritten religious writings and placed it online: it amounts to some 7,500 pages. “
There’s a new version of TweetDeck.
Stephen Abram has a great list of infographics resources over on his blog. Thanks Stephen!
Google has a patent for serving mobile ads based on background noises. “The patent also describes using ‘temperature, humidity, light and air composition’ to produced targeted adverts.”
Humboldt County digital archive on the way: “The approximately 700 images taken by various Humboldt County photographers … will be available through the HSU Library’s website in August.”
A new online archive of stories from the Great Irish Famine… translated from French! “…the archive translates historic annals from the French language and pays tribute to the French-Canadian Sisters of Charity, or Grey Nuns, who cared for Famine emigrants in Montreal in 1847.”
Hmm… virtual copyright card catalog? “The long term plan is to capture index terms from the card images using OCR and keyboarding and to build indexes for online searching….As an interim step, the Copyright Office is considering making the images of the cards in the catalog available online through a hierarchical structure that would mimic the way a researcher would approach and use the physical card catalog. We’re calling this a virtual card catalog.” Dear LOC: OH YES I THINK SO. Good morning, Internet…
YouTube, Wolfram|Alpha, Facebook, PostPost: Afternoon Buzz, March 22, 2012
Ooo! You go Pro Publica! “If TV Stations Won’t Post Their Data on Political Ads, We Will.”
YouTube is now offering one-click video editing.
That search engine just gets more fun every day. Wolfram|Alpha now has plant data.
A new source for live expert help: LiveNinja. (Currently in private beta.)
Ancestry.com has released a ton of Massachusetts-related records. “The Massachusetts, Town Vital Collections contains over 8.2 million records covering over 360 years.”
Amit Agarwal crunches some numbers and posits the total number of Google+ users at ….195 million, which feels too high. But so does 95 million. On the other hand, Google is now larger than the entire US newspaper industry.
Ooo nice. Search Facebook without logging in. (Thanks Meryl!)
Some thoughts on PostPost’s Timeline: like it a lot so far though I have about 100 suggestions to make it even better. It’s going to make it much, much easier for me to use Twitter. Now how about one for Facebook? :->
Google, Maps, Fashion, More: Morning Buzz, March 22, 2012
Google has powered up its Docs spellchecker. “…To prove it, today we’re launching an update to spell checking in documents and presentations that grows and adapts with the web, instead of relying on a fixed dictionary.” This makes me want to start putting a bunch of weird words in my blog posts. Dictionary bombing?
Google, now with a “street view” of the Amazon rainforest.
Not everything’s on Google Maps, however. From Mashable here’s a list of ten things you’re not allowed to see on Google Maps.
Firefox is going to start using Google’s Secure Search by default.
Happy Sixth Birthday Twitter. “Twitter now has 140 million active users is seeing 340 million Tweets a day (more than double what it was last March).” Yow.
The state of Utah has a new database of child care providers.
Stanford has just gotten a huge collection of 13,000 road maps. Julie Sweetkind-Singer gets my vote for quote of the week (best use of the phrase “Sea Monster” division): “They’re still too new for people to think of them as old maps. There’s a much larger market for maps that are 200 years old that have sea monsters in them.”
Now available: a new archive of fashion drawings and sketches. “Made up over 5,000 original drawings, the collection [is] titled André Studios 1930-1941: Fashion Drawings & Sketches in the Collections of the Fashion Institute of Technology and the New York Public Library…”
Okay, the Dennis the Menace dental play kit made me fall out. Temple University has put all 4000 of the artifacts from its Temple Dental Museum into an online database. “Featuring Tommy, Dennis’ patient and friend.” Not for long! Good morning, Internet…
BBC, Wolfram|Alpha, Powdery Mildews, More: Morning Buzz, March 19, 2012
Did you see the Firefox logo for St. Patrick’s Day?
The BBC is set to monetize its back catalog with an online archive.
Interesting: using a wiki to develop individual action plans for asthma.
Wolfram|Alpha now has public and private school data. (30,000 private schools!) Ooh, and I missed the announcement at cat breeds too.
Jailbraking of new electronic devices is getting faster and faster. There’s a Moore’s Law in there somewhere.
More Wisconsin news: U of Wisconsin-Milwaukee has put its art collection online. “The collection, with works by Pablo Picasso, Marc Chagall, Georgia O’Keeffe, William Hogarth, Alexander Calder and many others, includes prints, drawings, paintings, sculptures and decorative art objects.”
Extremely specific database of the day: powdery mildew fungi. “So right now the database includes 693 species – that is all of them in the world. We have tools for identifying the powdery mildews based on host plant, on the structures produced by the powdery mildews and the DNA sequences.”
The University of Vermont has digitized its yearbooks. They are now available from 1886-1997 (the yearbook ceased in 1997.)
Because I don’t have enough to worry about: malware that goes straight to RAM. Good morning, Internet…
