links for 2008-09-15

GroupLens is a research lab in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Minnesota. We conduct research in several areas

a browser that’s been doing all this stuff the others are starting to do a long time ago.

Great tool for converting a Wikipedia entry into a mind map that you can then export to Freemind. Useful for showing the uninitiated how mindmaps work, and how powerful they are. (thanks Roy of Topicscape for the link)

Your computer has been breached by malicious hackers: it’s completely loaded with malware and spyware. You’re about to get online, connect to a financial institution, and make some transactions. Is there anything, at this point, that can keep your identity off the black market? SiteTrust, a tool released today by Waltham, MA, data-security company Verdasys, aims to protect users from fraud, even when their computers have been compromised.