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Under the auspices of the Smithsonian, the Institute for the Preservation of Medical Traditions has been digitizing and "databasing" the contents of ancient medical treatises for decades. Having done so,

The guys at About.me say they considered a number of different URLs for their company. That they chose the name About.me seemed to pay off today when it was announced

AOL-owned MapQuest has undergone a number of changes over the last year, including a major overhaul. Today, it has launched a new initiative that may help endear the once top

YouTube is in talks to acquire the sprawling web video production group Next New Networks, according to reporting this morning from tech reporter Claire Cain Miller and media reporter Brian

During his keynote interview TechCrunch's editor Michael Arrington at LeWeb10 in Paris this morning, Facebook's director for the company's developer network Ethan Beard noted that "no other company in the

Winamp has announced new versions of its desktop and Android apps today, bringing Android users another way to manage their music collections and stream content to their devices. According to

Random Hacks of Kindness, a weekend-long hackathon to create disaster risk- and response-related software solutions, will be held at locations around the world Dec. 4-5. Volunteers will get the

OpenStreetMap is a global map edited by volunteers, like the Wikipedia of the mapping world. Founded in 2004, the project is a fascinating collection of local knowledge and is

The Web has always rewarded quantity more than quality, but over 2010 this truism became even more pronounced with the growth of Content Farms. These are companies which create thousands

MapQuest, owned by AOL, has taken backseat to newer mapping services like Google Maps and Bing Maps of late. But the venerable driving directions site added some exciting new