"the most comprehensive scientific research tool on the web. With over 370 million scientific items indexed at last count, it allows researchers to search for not only journal content but also scientists' homepages, courseware, pre-print server material, patents and institutional repository and website information. "

HyperCities is a collaborative research and educational platform for traveling back in time to explore historical layers of city spaces in an interactive, hypermedia environment

Media Cloud: see the flow of media - builds an archive of news/blogs, applies language processing, and give you ways to analyze and visualize the data.

Flashbake has a lot of potential for education and research

flickr2SL is the first (and only) flickr photo browser for Second Life. You can search and view public pictures of individual flickr users and also flickr groups inside SL. It offers single picture browsing as well as thumbnail overview. flickr2SL is available in SL at St Diabloux (17, 55, 501) (slurl ).

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