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Google eBookstore is Live (in the U.S.)

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Pardon the analogy, but I think my wife might actually have an intellect-gasm when she finds out (and once it’s available in Canada). :p

Today is the first page in a new chapter of our mission to improve access to the cultural and educational treasures we know as books. Google eBooks will be available in the U.S. from a new Google eBookstore. You can browse and search through the largest ebooks collection in the world with more than three million titles including hundreds of thousands for sale.

Source: Discover more than 3 million Google eBooks from your choice of booksellers and devices

Tom Steinberg on Open Data

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We live in quite extraordinary times. We live at a moment where many of the most important politicians in our country and in some others overseas are actually eager to stand up and say that open data is an important priority for them, and for their nations. Just pause and think about it for a second: politicians! Talking about data! At all!

via Premise: Open Data: How Not To Cock It Up.

See DataSF for a great example of open data provided by a (municipal) government and some of the projects citizens have been rolling out with the said data.