Posts Tagged ‘Jonathan Rosenberg’

Google announced that it teamed up with Jerusalem-based Holocaust-remembrance center Yad Vashem to make its collection of documents and photographs available online.

More than 130,000 images are available in full resolution via a custom search engine, and the text on many of the images has been transcribed using experimental optical-character-recognition technology

Software engineer Eyal Fink and Yossi Matias, head of Google’s Israel research-and-development center, posted on the Google Blog:

On a trip to Jerusalem three years ago, (Google senior vice president of product management) Jonathan Rosenberg visited Yad Vashem. Struck by the museum’s vast historical record housed within the physical building, he hoped Google could do something powerful to showcase this information. Inspired by the challenge, a few of us, in our “20 percent time,” started working with Yad Vashem and eventually grew our effort into a full project, introducing a YouTube channel in 2008 and now this collections site.

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> ProPublica, the independent, non-profit investigative newsroom, has launched a new tool on their Website which enables users to monitor changes made to government Websites. ChangeTracker lets users see exactly what was removed, edited or updated by showing side-by-side comparisons of sites before and after changes made to them.

> AllThingsD’s Peter Kafka writes about some advice Google is giving to newspapers: overhaul your Websites. “Present to me a front page rich with interesting content selected by smart editors, customized based on my reading habits (tracked with my permission),” writes Google exec Jonathan Rosenberg “Browsing a newspaper is rewarding and serendipitous, and doing it online should be even better.”

> Forbes.com has launched “Breakthroughs” a new section exploring emerging ideas in the fields of science and technology. The site will feature articles from Forbes’ “Digital Tools” columnist Lee Gomes; Jonathan Fahey, who continues his “Out of the Labs” column and Matt Herper and Robert Langreth, who cover biotech. The site is sponsored by Pitney Bowes.