With Musipedia you can use this applet to translate the whistle into Pasons Code and search the database for matching tunes.
Parsons Code is a neat way of encoding melodies:
Each pair of consecutive notes is coded as “U” (”up”) if the second note is higher than the first note, “R” (”repeat”) if the pitches are equal, […]
Google has released a Google Maps API.
Google has officially launched the Google Earth beta. I’ve been playing with it for a little while and it’s an extremely cool application. 3D terrain, on-map roads, restaurants and hotels. It’s like Google Maps on steroids. Best of all, there’s a free version that basically does everything a normal user would […]
gCensus is a new Google Maps derivative by the author of DRM Blog that displays Census data from 2000. from BB
There’s also a slashdot discussion on Google’s 3D maps.
From Eric Hellman of Openly:
I think that libraries should consider returning to their historic roots that have nothing to do with “search”.Forget search- a billion dollars says that Google and Amazon will do search way better than any real library on the planet, and libraries can now leverage these searching capabilities in very real ways.
What […]
Jakob Nielsen writes:
Summary:
Users now have precise expectations for the behavior of search. Designs that invoke this mental model but work differently are confusing.
Search is such a prominent part of the Web user experience that users have developed a firm mental model for how it’s supposed to […]
On Web4Lib list yesterday Bernie Sloan posted a March Library Journal article by WebFeat president Todd Miller on why libraries should be simple like Google. Tom Miller is eloquently saying what many other have also said: the library web tools aren’t working. Users don’t like them and don’t want to use them. […]
New Scientist reports that Google has filed for patents related to adding authority as a factor in Google News rankings.
In the latest Cites & Insights, Joy Weese Moll put together a nice overview of a presentation on Google’s library-related endeavors given at the ACRL conference.
Battelle on Google Keyhole Integration Update
Memorymaps
myGmaps enables you to create, save and host custom data files and display them with Google Maps.
Google Maps Hacking and Bookmarklets
Google Maps Standalone Mode
housingmaps.com powered by craigslist and google maps
Steven Cohen posts critically about authors tagging their own work.
I’ve noticed that quite a few bloggers have been tagging their own blog posts on del.icio.us. My belly barometer goes off when I see this. It just doesn’t seem right to me. I find it counter-intuitive to the collective knowledge base. It also seems a bit […]
Google has introduced a new Q&A service that puts facts related to searches in OneBox instertions. In an example noted in the Macworld article, a search for Portugal population returns the answer mined from the CIA’s World Factbook. More details on the service and how it fits into the world of search can […]
And it works just like the rest of the service. Zooming in, it appears to be 1m resolution and I see a couple dots that look like people. While this ability has been there with other services, integration with Maps makes it very pleasant to use. They’ve also incorporated world-wide imagery, but […]
The run-down by Om Malik
Danny Sullivan of Search Engine Watch has a blog post taking a critical look at tagging and the history of web metadata attempts. He notes that metadata has largely been useless and overly complicated for use in the overall web and argues that tagging has the same problems, one major problem being the lack […]
Excerpt:
Three months after undertaking an ambitious project to digitize thousands of books, Harvard University Library (HUL) and the Google Print project are facing scrutiny from publishing organizations, who claim the project may infringe copyright law.
Read on @ the Havard Crimson Online
The Findory neighborhood for Bibliotheke shows all of the related blogs on Findory and represents their relative ‘connectedness’ through size and shading.
Findory itself is pretty cool. As you read articles or blog posts it changes the ranking of other articles, thus personalizing the interface by giving you stories according to your past reading.
Google is now strongly backing developers and open source with Google Code. Nice to see that the code is also hosted on SourceForge. There’s also an Updates from code.google.com blog over at blogger.
What it does:
removes ads on most Google pages
fixes fonts on most Google pages
Google web search:
adds links to other search sites (”Try your search on…”)
in news results, adds links to other news sites
in movie results, adds links to other movie sites
in weather results, adds links to other weather sites
in product results, adds links to other product […]
Catalogablog notes that the Open WorldCat deep linking tutorial has been updated. By setting your library up in the system, users will be able to see your holdings when a Yahoo! or Google search matches something in the WorldCat database. See the OCLC Open WorldCat page for more info.