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>30 days ago by wagner, 2 Users, more info saveHistory, Digitized (and Abridged)
"Material that is not digitized risks being neglected as it would not have been in the past, virtually lost to the great majority of potential users." Interesting and important article from
>30 days ago by PaulRaven, 1 User, more info saveOff the shelf
"Google has a plan to put books online - and an unlikely ally in the Bodleian Library." The snowball is gathering pace, my friends.
>30 days ago by PaulRaven, 1 User, more info savePrinceton library joins Google Books project
"Google's controversial endeavor to digitize the world's books and put them online continued to grow with the addition of Princeton University's centuries-old library." Rolling, rolling, rol
>30 days ago by PaulRaven, 1 User, more info saveIf Google Gives In On Library Scanning -- Will It Hurt ...
"...if they do a deal, they can rest on their laurels, knowing that the competition will be limited. That may make life easier for Google, but it means the product won't be as good."
>30 days ago by PaulRaven, 1 User, more info saveGoogle plots e-books coup
"The internet search giant is working on a system that would allow readers to download entire books to their computers in a format that they could read on screen or on mobile devices..." Han
>30 days ago by PaulRaven, 1 User, more info saveGoogle Book-Scanning Efforts Spark Debate
"Already facing a legal challenge for alleged copyright infringement, Google Inc.'s crusade to build a digital library has triggered a philosophical debate with an alternative project promising b
>30 days ago by PaulRaven, 1 User, more info saveHunters and collectors
"A vast coalition backed by Yahoo and Microsoft is working to outpace internet juggernaut Google and be the first organisation to digitise the world's books." The sleeping giants awaken.
>30 days ago by PaulRaven, 1 User, more info saveIt's the next best thing to a Babel fish
"Imagine mouthing a phrase in English, only for the words to come out in Spanish. That is the promise of a device that will make anyone appear bilingual, by translating unvoiced words into synthe
>30 days ago by PaulRaven, 1 User, more info saveUniversal's Long Tail music experiment
"Earlier this week Universal Music released some initial results from its experiment in tapping its deep archives to measure Long Tail demand for older music (European music, in this case)."
>30 days ago by PaulRaven, 1 User, more info saveGoogle Books Library grows despite controversy
"The library books at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the Wisconsin Historical Society will be digitized and added to the virtual shelves of the Google Books Library Project..." Firs
>30 days ago by PaulRaven, 1 User, more info saveUH-18SPW Hoverwing
"Powered by a 4-cylinder automotive engine, the UH-18SP is everything you'd ever want in a hovercraft. It was designed for people who love to play...the only ground-effect hovercraft to be releas
>30 days ago by PaulRaven, 1 User, more info saveUC Joins Google Library Project
University of California opens up its academic libraries to be scanned, and lawsuits be damned.
>30 days ago by PaulRaven, 1 User, more info saveAtiz BookDrive DIY
Library taking up too much space? Can't read your paper books on your PDA? Scan those b*ggers! Your own home-book-scanning solution, a mere $3,499 USD!
>30 days ago by PaulRaven, 1 User, more info saveProgrammer speeds search for gravitational waves
SETI@home? Soooo last year; help search for the universal theory instead
>30 days ago by PaulRaven, 1 User, more info saveBook Scanning Brings Attention To Commercially Neglecte ...
Techdirt talks about the 'long tail' of books in defence of bookscanning
>30 days ago by PaulRaven, 1 User, more info saveDream of Computation
This universe is the one which is the opposite of a world in which computation is not possible. A universe in which all that exists is perfect robust computation.
>30 days ago by qubit, 1 User, more info saveRisk Is for Losers
Google is taking no chances with Universal Search.
>30 days ago by qubit, 1 User, more info saveWolfram 2,3 Turing Machine Research Prize
The machine has 2 states and 3 colors, and is 596440 in Wolfram's numbering scheme. If it is universal, then it represents the smallest possible universal Turing machine.
>30 days ago by qubit, 1 User, more info saveNetvibe's Universal Widget Api Documentation
This is the definitive place to get aquainted with the Universal Widget API (UWA) from Netvibes, and start building widgets.
>30 days ago by qubit, 1 User, more info savenetvibes UWA
UWA is the new Netvibes API. Through it, your Netvibes widgets will be available on every widget platforms or blog systems: Netvibes of course, but also Google IG, Apple Dashboard and many more
>30 days ago by qubit, 2 Users, more info saveNetvibes introduces Universal Widget API
“build your module once, deploy everywhere”
>30 days ago by qubit, 1 User, more info saveThe Universal Software Radio Peripheral
The Universal Software Radio Peripheral, or USRP, is device which allows you to create a software radio using any computer with a USB 2 port. The entire design of the USRP is open source.
>30 days ago by qubit, 1 User, more info saveSeth Lloyd | Programming the Universe
To elucidate his theory, Lloyd examines the history of the cosmos, posing questions that in other hands might seem unfathomably complex: How much information is there in the universe? What information
>30 days ago by qubit, 1 User, more info save