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Thriv’Ability: Dead Sea Scrolls Online
Contributed by Rick DeVan on October 1, 2011 at 3:21 pm ET
Resource: The Digital Dead Sea Scrolls at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem.
Resource: From the desert to the web: bringing the Dead Sea Scrolls online.
You gotta be impressed.
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Thriv’Ability: Books Ngram Viewer
Contributed by Rick DeVan on September 23, 2011 at 8:00 pm ET
Resource: Books Ngram Viewer at Google Labs and soon to be at Google Books.
When you enter phrases into the Google Books Ngram Viewer, it displays a graph showing how those phrases have occurred in a corpus of books (e.g., “British English”, “English Fiction”, “French”) over the selected years.
An interesting tool for academic research into word usage over time.
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Media: Catching Killers Before They Act
Contributed by Rick DeVan on August 1, 2011 at 7:02 am ET
Resource: Could Google have caught the Norway killer? via The Sydney Morning Herald.
With all the data Google collects about us and our search histories, could the company use its technical prowess to help catch terrorists and mass murderers before they commit crimes?
Lots of room for debate and lots of room for knee-jerk reactions on this one, but this is a question we need to ask.
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Media: Google Search By Image
Contributed by Rick DeVan on July 25, 2011 at 7:01 am ET
Search by image with Google.
And… to placate the inner geek in you, here is how it works.
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Thriv’Ability: Live Traffic Info (Europe)
Contributed by Rick DeVan on at 7:00 am ET
Resource: Live traffic information for 13 European countries via Google Mobile Blog.
Live traffic coverage for 13 European countries: Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, Germany, Ireland, Israel, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Poland, Slovakia, Spain and Switzerland.
Yeah, Israel is not in Europe, so you gotta wonder about the accuracy. It is a start, though.
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