I’m reading The SONG OF THE DODO: ISLAND BIOGEOGRAPHY IN AN AGE OF EXTINCTIONS. Great stuff, talks about the insights that islands have brought to our understanding of evolution and extinction.

Philbo’s PhotoCopier is a open source Photo import wizard for windows that offers these features:

My wife, Manjari Wijenaike, is an anthropologist. Finding scholarly citations has been a challenge for her. Google has a new “scholary search” service focusing on academic search.

It will be interesting to see how well this works– seems like over time it could change the way research is performed and published.

MSNBC article

Link to the service

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Someone somewhere is going to form a successful business solving the mobile email search problem. Products like Lookout and Google Desktop Search have whetted user’s appetite for the ability to instantly search their entire inbox, but the search capabilities of mobile devices lag far behind (for example, the email search in Blackberry is slow and unsophisticated.) In many ways, mobile search is even more important than desktop search due to the small screens and limited sorting and filtering capabilities of mobile devices. The right way to solve the problem is using a solution in which the actual indexing and search occurs on the server or the desktop, requiring minimal work on the device.

John Vey has an interesting analysis and external API for GMail. In the analysis, he describes how Gmail loads a clientside Javascript UI engine and then sends updates as snippets of Javascript which are evaluated on the client to update the state of the engine.

He also has an external API for writing client side apps that take advantage of GMail.