Google has added public alerts to search and Google Maps. “Public Alerts … aims to show ‘relevant weather, public safety and earthquake alerts’ from the U.S. National Weather Service and the U.S. […]

Back to our regular programming today, though I am leaving the Sandy resource site up at http://researchbuzz.me/sandynyc/. Hope everybody is doing well. Google has added power outage information to its Sandy crisis […]

The Washington Post offers 7 apps to get you through Hurricane Sandy. Larry Ferlazzo has started a Hurricane Sandy resource list. Here’s another one from Laughing Squid. Speaking of Sandy, Google has […]

Virginia Tech (I think it’s Virginia Tech) have started an Archive-It collection for Hurricane Sandy. You can visit this form and submit an URL you would like archived. Good luck to everybody […]

It’s all about mobile: Yahoo has acquired Stamped. Cheers to Phil Bradley for the tip on Easybrake, a one-click video format converter. Free, but alas, Windows only. Did you know Wolfram|Alpha has […]