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[2b2k][eim] Needlebase going? Nooo! We need le base!

Google has announced that it is retiring Needlebase, a service it acquired with its ITA purchase. That’s too bad! Needlebase is a very cool tool. (It’s staying up until June 1 so you can download any work you’ve done there.)

Needlebase is a browser-based tool that creates a merged, cleaned, de-duped database from databases. Then you can create a variety of user-happy outputs. There are some examples here.

Google says it’s evaluating whether Needlebase can be threaded into its other offerings.

My Top Ten Top Ten Top Ten list

Here’s my top ten list of top ten lists of top ten lists:

  1. The Top Ten Top Ten Lists of All Time

  2. TopTenz Miscellaneous

  3. MetaCritic music lists

  4. Smosh’s Top Ten Top Ten Lists of 2011

  5. Top Ten 2011 Top Ten Lists about CleanTech

  6. Top Ten of top ten horror movie lists

  7. NYT Top Ten Top Ten Lists for 2011

  8. Top Ten Top Ten Lists about Agile Management

  9. Top Ten Top Ten Video Lists of 2011

  10. Brand Media Strategies Top Ten Top Ten Lists

Come on, people! If just nine more of you compile top ten top ten top tens we can take it up a level!


Bonus: The media can’t get enough of top ten lists. When they run out, they write about why they write about top ten lists:

  1. The New Yorker

  2. Forbes

  3. NPR

  4. NY Times

  5. Discover

  6. CBS

  7. Poynter

 


[Later that day:] I’ve removed one from the list so that there are actually ten, not eleven. Oops. (And again, later, because I am a @#$%ing moron.)