Around two weeks ago, nulab Inc. announced the launch of Cacoo, a new service for making wireframes, sitemaps, and other diagrammish things. It's available at http://cacoo.com/. It's in beta and is currently free, though a premium plan is expected in

Wow! Multiple Bing posts in a week. But there's plenty to talk about. The latest is that Bing is now offering videos. The new Bing Video is available at http://www.bing.com/videos/browse. Here you'll find videos from Microsoft properties, but also from

Google, continuing its wonderful obsession with maps, has a site where you can find venues offering either seasonal flu shots or H1N1 shots. (Or in some cases both. You can find it at http://www.google.com/flushot. If you've ever used a Google

I'm too late for Veteran's Day; can I get away with saying I'm really, really early for next year? The University of North Carolina has announced that it has put up about 2000 World War I postcards in honor of

Foodie consumer? Food provider? If you're in Alaska, California, Idaho, Montana, Oregon, or Washington, and you've got $100, you might want to check out Food Hub, which is a business to business network designed to connect regional food growers with

The University of North Texas has posted more than 400 photos of the John F. Kennedy assassination investigation online to an archive at The idea is not so much to get crowd help in the investigation, but just to make

This week Google announced some new features for its Google Translate offering that makes it more immediate and even more useful. Google Translate is available at http://translate.google.com/. The site now translates as you type; set translations from English to Spanish

And in our can't-imagine-even-needing-this-five-years-ago department, we have Clicker.com, available at http://www.clicker.com/. This site describes itself as the "first complete programming guide to Internet television," and contains information on over 400,000 episodes over 1200 sources in over 1200 categories. (And that

Treasure Island and a lot more! A new site dedicated to Robert Louis Stevenson has been launched at http://www.robert-louis-stevenson.org/. The site was put together by a variety of people and institutions, including Edinburgh Napier University, Professor Richard Dury, the City

The University of Miami's Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science has launched DAMSL, the Digital Atlas of Marine Species and Locations. Located at http://www.damsl.org, DAMSL currently contains about 1,000 images from photographer Myron Wang's collection. (Myron Wang and his

Smart move. Microsoft's search engine, Bing, has announced its teaming up with fact/calculation/whatever engine Wolfram|Alpha, available at http://www.wolframalpha.com/. Wolfram|Alpha launched earlier this year to a large and ridiculous speculation that it was a "Google killer". Wolfram|Alpha is not a Google

The Cultural Landscape Foundation has launched a database of "Cultural Landscapes" and it's called What's Out There. Currently there are over 380 notations in the database with more to be added over time. It's available at http://www.tclf.org/landscapes. Which is all

Three cheers to ProgrammableWeb.com for pointing me toward Special Gourmets at http://www.specialgourmets.com/. This site lets you map hotels, restaurants and other destinations that accomodate several different diets: gluten-free, dairy-free, nut/peanut-free, shellfish-free, egg-free, and soy-free. Just use the checkboxes to indicate

The Wikimedia foundation, those folks behind Wikipedia, announced last week the Bookself Project, which is designed to encourage people to contribute to Wikipedia. As you might expect, it's spawned its own wikispace at http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Bookshelf_Project.The project is in its pilot phase

Hot diggity biscuit! A software engineer at Google noticed there was a Facebook group called "Get Google Magazine Search to provide a list of indexed titles" (I wish I had known about that one, I would have joined!) and took

Hitachi America has announced that its similar image search engine, GazoPa, is now available for open beta testing at http://www.gazopa.com. Similar image search engines, as you may know, allow you to upload or otherwise specify an image whereby the engine

When I first read Google's announcement that it was going to make it easier for users to find musical results, I must admit I ranted a bit. I can't stand that everyone and their little cat Francis is offering music/video

I love the RSS feed for New York Times Open. The blog doesn't update very often but whenever it does I know I'm going to have something good to read. At the end of October the blog announced the release

Colonial Williamsburg has an online museum! If you live in the southeast US you probably know about Colonial Williamsburg, if only as a family destination and historical reconstruction. I was shocked to find out that Colonial Williamsburg has tens of

Ever wonder what the odds are that a person in Tennesee works in the food industry? How about the odds for graduating high school, or having an industrial accident at work, or being overweight? Earlier this month Kurani launched The