In 2024 I found following nice little projects putting information on a globe.
The People Map (USA)
A People Map of the US, where city names are replaced by their most Wikipedia’ed resident: people born in, lived in, or connected to a place.
Notable People Map (Whole World)
Notable people using data from Morgane Laouenan et al., the map is showing birthplaces of the most „notable people“ around the world. Data has been processed to show only one person for each unique geographic location with the highest notability rank.
Why do I blog this? I always like innovative forms of visualization which ar enot that easy to realize. Putting stuff on a globe is still not that easy for normal people. So I applaud the possibility to have this stuff beeing thrown on a nice little globe. I also like e.g. miniture earth a lot.
Why do I blog this? Ich hab diese Versprechen irgendwo gesehen und dachte mir ich bringe sie in eine für mich visuell ansprechende Form. Daher hab ich ein Bild mit einem schönen Farbgradienten gesucht und einen Font den ich lange nicht mehr benutzt habe.
Perplexity.ai is the first of its kind LLM-powered answer engine that has established itself as the most accurate and useful research assistant for conversations and questions that require answers to be backed by facts and references.
You should all try perplexity.ai
It looks like this:
Maybe watch how they built it:
In this presentation, Aravind Srinivas, the founder and CEO, will go through the engineering challenges involved in getting there within the time and resource constraints and the opportunities that lie ahead in rethinking the most important software category of asking questions about anything and everything.
The german meta searchengine metaGER is also struggling to keep up with the innovationspeed in search engine-land. Here is a podcast depicting the current state.
The SUMA-EV taking care of metaGER is a non-profit organization based in Hannover, Germany that advocates for free access to digital knowledge and operates the MetaGer search engine. Here are some key points about SUMA-EV:
Mission and Goals
SUMA-EV aims to ensure that digital knowledge remains freely accessible without control by governments or corporations [1][2]. Their core beliefs include:
Protecting privacy and opposing user profiling
Promoting transparency and open-source software
Maintaining diversity in the search engine market to prevent monopolies
History and Organization
Founded on July 5, 2004 in Hannover[2]
Originally named „Gemeinnütziger Verein zur Förderung der Suchmaschinen-Technologie und des freien Wissenszugangs, SuMa-eV“
Renamed to „SUMA-EV – Verein für freien Wissenszugang“ in 2009
Current executive board members include Dominik Hebeler, Phil Höfer, Carsten Riel, and Manuela Branz[2][4]
Key Activities
Operates the MetaGer search engine in cooperation with Leibniz University Hannover[3][4]
Organizes annual conferences on search technology and internet-related social issues[2]
Offers Linux migration consulting services
Provides stipends to students working on search technology research[2]
Funding
SUMA-EV is funded through:
Membership fees
Donations
Affiliate shopping programs
Advertising links[2]
The organization continues to operate on a volunteer basis and welcomes donations, new members, and token purchases to support its mission of providing free access to digital knowledge[5].