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Googolopoly

Submitted by John Jones on Thu, 2008-04-17 14:56. | |

If you teach rhetoric and technology, you might be interested in “Googolopoly,” a version of the classic Parker Bros. game that charts the search giant’s quest for web-wide domination.

FYI: Rich Uncle Pennybags’ pitchfork is a clue that the creators are ambivalent about Google’s quest to “organize” your data and “make it universally accessible and useful.”

Googolopoly board

Those of you who have time to kill in during these last few weeks of class can download the entire game here.

via TechCrunch

Wikipediavision: Visualizing anonymous edits to Wikipedia

Submitted by John Jones on Tue, 2007-10-30 09:31. | | |

screen grab of Wikipedia vision

László Kozma, a grad-student at the Helsinki University of Technology, has created Wikipediavision a mashup of Wikipedia edits and Google maps reminiscent of Twittervision and Flickrvision.

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