“Online mapping is evolving into a historic nexus of disparate technologies and communities that is changing the fundamental use of the Internet, as well as redefining the concept of maps in our culture.”

create, share, and tag your own Google Map w/o resorting to the Google Maps API.

A large set of geographical maps conveying & visualising different unusual data sources, such as suicide rates, counties, area codes, animal densities, time zones, railroads, map projections & so on.

It’s Urchin, purchased, rebranded, and integrated with AdWords. Also: it costs nothing but your Google cookie (w/ a 5MB pageview cap for non-AdWords subscribers).

‘Provides a web services API for computers to integrate “artificial, artificial intelligence” directly into their processing by making requests of humans.’

Microsoft is entering the world of—wait for it—Web Services (e.g. Web2.0) in a big way. “Firefox support”, whatever that is, supposedly coming soon.

rough-around-the-edges Google Maps/Weather mashup