Encyclopedia of Life

Encyclopedia of Life

"Ultimately, the Encyclopedia will serve as an online reference source and database for every one of the 1.8 million species that are named and known on this planet, as well as all those later discovered and described. Encyclopedia of Life will be used as both a teaching and a learning tool, helping scientists, educators, students, and the community at large gain a better understanding of this planet and all who inhabit it."

wow....

>yoName - About Us - Search for anyone accross social network sites

>yoName - About Us - Search for anyone accross social network sites: "yoName turns your computer into a private detective. Look for anyone you want. You can even look them up by a username or an email address! If they're on any of the big-time networks like MySpace or Facebook, yoName will find them. Look up friends, family, ex-es. Look up yourself and see if someone's impersonating you. Or just have fun and look up celebrities, even if the first five entries for Paris Hilton are all 'male, 39, single, in Madison, Wisconsin'."

Wanna Be presidents | Free Government Information (FGI)

Wanna Be presidents | Free Government Information (FGI): "There's a new site of interest to any political junky. It's called Wanna be presidents. WBP is a dynamic blogroll of all of the blogs of the 2008 presidential hopefuls -- or at least those that are officially running. Read the latest from all the candidates in one place. "

scribd - share docs online at Infodoodads

scribd - share docs online at Infodoodads: "While sharing your newest safety policy update on scribd may not be as exciting as the newest embarass-your-friend video on YouTube, it is still a valuable service and emerging social network. "

If Someone Wanted To Publish My Blog Entries For Money, I Wouldn't Say No | The Onion - America's Finest News Source

If Someone Wanted To Publish My Blog Entries For Money, I Wouldn't Say No | The Onion - America's Finest News Source:

hahaha!

Interview Series on Metadata - Wired Blogs

Epicenter - Wired Blogs: "In this series, which is cosponsored by Wired News and the Harvard Berkman Center for the Internet and Society, David talks with some of the leading businesspeople, scientists, and thinkers who are coming up with innovative new ways of putting ideas, information and knowledge together. Now that the digital age has blown apart traditional ways of organizing information, what's next? Suddenly, everything is miscellaneous.

David kicks off the series by interviewing novelist, BoingBoing co-editor, digital rights activist and entrepreneur Cory Doctorow. For Cory, piling up information without strict organizational rules can be workable provided that we have sufficiently reliable metadata. The problem is that people don't all use metadata the same way or use tags consistently, and that can be a real obstacle to making coherent sense of piles of information."

http://blog.wired.com/business/2007/05/metacrap_and_fl.html
http://www.well.com/~doctorow/metacrap.htm
http://www.amazon.com/Everything-Miscellaneous-Power-Digital-Disorder/dp/0805080430\

Map My Name Project

MAP MY NAME
A university student project to identify all the users in the interwebs and determine how many people are online in the world, and where. (I think?)

I will not even pretend to understand how this is intended to work, but I'm going to do it, because hey, it's interesting!

FUN! Jamglue - Remixing for the Masses

Jamglue - Remixing for the Masses:
1. Upload or Record your own Tracks
2. Create an original Mix or personalize someone else's in our simple online Mixer
3. Show off your music: email it, embed it, or just sit back and let the Jamglue community discover your talent!"

Better Gmail - bundled extensions from LifeHacker

Paul Kedrosky: Tech Tip: Better Gmail is Gmail 2.0
"Gina at Lifehacker has created the #1 most important tool any Gmail user needs. It's an add-in, called Better Gmail, combining all the major Greasemonkey hacks for Firefox-based Gmail users, and it turns Gmail from indispensable into ... really indispensable."
Lifehacker download and article

Cool Hunting: SimulSays

Cool Hunting: SimulSays: "SimulScribe, the brilliant and simple voicemail service that transcribes your messages into an email (20 November 2006) has just launched a new application that beats Apple to visual voicemail. SimulSays, released today, is a downloadable application for your BlackBerry Pearl or 8800 that shows your transcribed messages and lets you play them back without having to dial in"