Google is cancelling their Google Research Datasets aka Palimpsests program. Its aim was to provide large data sets for others to use. Wired in January this year wrote that Palimpsests' storage "will be free to scientists and access to the data will be free for all." ...
Back when the GBS project first started, I raised alarms about the growing dependence on Google -- an unsustainable model, given the financial pressures Google would be under in a global economy.
Well, turns out I was on to something. As with Palimpsests, Google is ceasing to support a series of experiments, including the much-heralded Dodgeball.
In this case, however, scientists who hoped to depend on Google for infrastructure support are really out of luck.
Oh, and another of Chris Anderson's bold predictions has been shaken.
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