The newly-launched Neighboroo.com brings together the great taste of Google Maps with the rich texture of census and other data to provide a variety of insights into neighborhoods around America.
Neighboroo may be the most useful mashup one can find on the Internet. There have been plenty of good mashups created by a myriad number of developers, but Neighboroo really taps into data that virtually anyone should find useful.
If I were toiling through Social Studies as a student today, I would find the site very useful. The default view upon hitting the Neighboroo home page shows the "red state/blue state" political look of the United States.
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The days of the talented waiting to be discovered by large companies with the means to distribute, exploit, and pay them a fraction of what the company is making are over. That process is soon to get an express lane. Exploitation 2.0 hasn't often compensated the users that generate content, but that is changing.
Imagine that one popular four-minute video that cost you nearly nothing to make earns equivalent to the per-capita income of Louisiana. For a MetaCafe.com user, a video of an acrobatic martial artist attracted over 4.6 million users and put nearly $24,000 in his bank account.
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Google and Microsoft have crossed swords yet again, this time over Vista. Amidst antitrust murmurings, a Google executive urged the Redmond-based company to allow users a choice in Internet search engine. Microsoft responded in an agreeable, if vague, manner.
David C. Drummond, Google's senior vice president of corporate development, initiated the exchange. "It's been our view that any new version of Microsoft products that include search, that that be done in a way that preserves user choice for search and other applications," he said, as reported by the Associated Press.
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