Briefs #1: Find Toxic Wastelands with Google, Microsoft, Others?; AOL/Sony Expands Co-Branded Vaio Portal; Yahoo’s New “Stars” Program; Chat with Gabe Rivera
+ Find toxic wastelands via Google Earth (via News.com)
Although Google is named in the headline, the story itself also mentions Microsoft (Virtual Earth). We would not be the least bit surprised to see that SkylineGlobe (another free, 3D digital globe, check out how you can embed live TV cameras) and NASA’s World Wind also make the data available.
+ Yahoo Answers New “Stars” Program (via Yahoo Answers Blog)
It sure would be exciting if the “virtual reference services” that libraries around the world make available got just a small portion of the attention that services like Yahoo Answers receives. What is virtual reference? Learn more here.
+ Mapshark: A Search Engine For Mashups (via Search Engine Land)
+ A Chat With the Founder of Techmeme and Memeorandum, Gabe Rivera (via Search Engine Land)
Btw, all of Rivera’s sites offer mobile versions:
++ Mini-Techmeme
++ Mini-memeorandum
++ Mini-WeSmirch
+ Google Librarian Central Blog Launches
+ AOL/Sony Expands Co-Branded Vaio Portal
Direct to portal: http://aol.com/sony.
+ The Columbia World of Quotations Now on Yahoo Education
Keyword search. Also browse by subject or author.