Update for 02008 09 04: This story from Ars Technica describes how Google changed the licensing requirements retroactively for Google Chrome in response to criticisms that they could lead to potential abuse by the company. Here’s another story from Wired by tech writer Stephen Levy titled “Inside Chrome: The Secret Project to Crush IE and [...]
I wonder how many copyright violations we’ll see at this service, a social publishing site that’s in beta called Issuu. Here’s what it says at one spot on the Issuu site: Issuu is the place for online publications: Magazines, catalogs, documents, and stuff you’d normally find on print. It’s the place where YOU become the [...]
Mendeley Ltd., a company based in London, England, e-mailed bloggers and other media about its new in-beta service and desktop client software called Mendeley Research Networks. According to the About Us page, “… Mendeley will make your life easier. It’s a combination of desktop software and social network which helps you manage, share and discover [...]
Twitter envy? Twitter anxious? Twitter angry? Twitter passionate? Twitter excites a lot of emotion, especially among software application developers and Web service providers who have jumped on board the Twitter bandwagon. I thought I should do a roundup of these applications and services, starting with this interesting utility: Tweet Tweet for WordPress plugin “that will [...]
Another wondrous piece of technology that’s touted as the answer to the age-old question asked since the days of Sumerian clay-carving scribes: how to write more in less time. LiveSribe thinks it may have the answer in its latest offering, the “Pulse smartpen with built-in memory that digitally transcribes written words and at the same [...]
Came across this site, WebAppers, a blog format site of the “best” open source resources for Web developers.
Update for 02008 07 21: July 22, 02008 marks the official debut of version 1.0.x of the ICA-AtoM software at the International Council on Archives Congress in Kuala Lumpur, Malayasia. I’ve been spending an average of a couple of hours each day since late April 02008 helping test the software. I’m even more impressed than [...]
Curious about BiblioCommons now that you’ve read about in Library Journal and are as frustrated as I am about the 12-person company’s Web site that consists of a single page with three outdated testimonials? You can run through this Adobe Captivate tour of the Oakville Public Library’s beta test or you can dig right in [...]
UMapper calls itself “the first universal web-based map-layering engine” and it’s free for now. Here’s a feature set from its start page: • Create interactive flash maps • Display maps on your website or social network • Export data to Flash ActionScript 3.0 or KML • Explore and interact with our map community • Fulfill [...]
Stumbled across the new release of Mozilla Firefox, aka Firefox 3. Sad to see that the Firebug addon is not yet compatible. But I came across a different fascinating addon called Hyperword from a British company. This amazing addon lets you highlight a word or words on a Web page and then select from a [...]
From the announcement I received on 02008 06 20 about the first public release of the Lemon8-XML source code from the Public Knowledge Project (PKP): The Public Knowledge Project is very pleased to announce the public beta release of Lemon8-XML (http://pkp.sfu.ca/lemon8) available to download and install. Lemon8-XML is a web-based application designed to make it [...]
From the announcement on DIGLIB (02008 06 14): Adding value to data – Digital Repositories in the e-Science world Special Session at the 4th IEEE International Conference on e-Science (http://escience2008.iu.edu/) December 7-12, 2008, Indianapolis, USA An Initiative of DReSNet: Digital Repositories in e-Science Network (http://www.dresnet.net) There is a great, untapped potential for synergies between grid/e-science [...]
Thanks to Gerry McKiernan I learned about Elgg, “a robust open source social application engine.” A Version 1.0 of Elgg is supposed to be released in the summer 02008. Elgg Classic is the current version. The software is designed for those individuals and organizations who wish to host their own social software and retain control [...]
Update for 02008 04 27: I received my beta-invite acknowledgement by e-mail on April 23, 02008 and finally got around to registering and creating my first Twine on electronic records. Since there was already one called Digital Preservation, I was prevented from using those two words. Here’s a screenshot of my Electronic Records Twine. I [...]
The Web 2.0 Expo is “co-produced by TechWeb and O’Reilly Media, is a conference and tradeshow for the rapidly growing ranks of designers and developers, product managers, entrepreneurs, VCs, marketers, and business strategists who are embracing the opportunities created by Web 2.0 technologies.” The most recent Web 2.0 Expo was held in San Francisco, California, [...]
The Encyclopedia Britannica WebShare program is designed “for web publishers, including bloggers, webmasters, and anyone who writes for the Internet. You get complimentary access to the Encyclopaedia Britannica online and, if you like, an easy way to give your readers background of the topics you write about with links to complete Britannica articles.” Sign me [...]
According to the Google App Engine front page, this new tool “enables you to build web applications on the same scalable systems that power Google applications.” Zope developers will have a headstart because the programming language used by the Google App Engine is Python. We could be seeing some very interesting extensions to Plone. Right [...]
Update for 02008 03 30: Installed WordPress 2.5 which was released on March 29, 02008. Everything seems to be working fine. Original post from 02008 03 18: Installed and whipped through the overhauled administration interface to the upcoming WordPress 2.5 release. Quite the number of changes. Newer WordPress bloggers may find it less confusing than before, [...]
The Gibson Research Corporation has the Perfect Passwords generator that “generates a unique set of custom, high quality, cryptographic-strength password strings which are safe for you to use” by using “maximum entropy” (as random as you can get) to create a new password every time you visit the page.
I’m thinking of getting me a Gravatar (Globally Recognized Avatar) at Gravatar.com. Now, who should I be? Dougall Campbell of Geek Ramblings created a great and easy WordPress plugin called Easy Gravatars that will “display gravatars for the people who comment on your posts. You do not need to modify any of your template files — [...]
According to a March 6, 02008 Information Today Newsbreak piece by Erik Arnold published on, Last week, Google announced that it was launching Google Sites to supplement its growing Google Apps product suite (www.google.com/enterprise/apps). Google Sites (www.google.com/a/help/intl/en/users/sites.html) is the integration of JotSpot, a web-based wiki provider that Google purchased more than a year and a half [...]
From the About page of the UK Database of Archives of Non-Governmental Organisations (DANGO): DANGO, the Database of Archives of UK NGOs since 1945, is an online, free-to-access database, enabling researchers to identify NGOs that interest them, and then access both existing and new information about the content, location and accessibility of archival holdings relating [...]
The open source content management system Drupal, popular among the library community, is going commercial under a company called Acquia that was started by Dries Buytaert, founder of the Drupal project. Quoting the source of the story, “The new effort aims to bring a commercially supported version of Drupal to business users and could shake up the [...]
Original post for 02007 04 13: The Akisment plugin I use with WordPress for this blog informed me this evening it has trapped and zapped over 251,000 comment spam since I installed it. That’s a lot of wasted bandwidth. Update for 02007 06 19: “Akismet has caught 260,600 spam for you since you first installed [...]
Came across another document sharing service called Scribd. Based in California, the business was started in 2006 by Trip Adler, Jared Friedman, and Tikhon Bernstam. According to the FAQ: Scribd is a free, web-based, document sharing community and self-publishing platform that enables anyone to easily publish, distribute, share, and discover documents of all kinds. E-books, [...]
My Freebase article was published in the February 02008 issue of Searcher magazine. The article is not online, so I’m as eager as the rest of you to see it in print. It’s listed on the cover in the lower left as “The Freebase Experience.”
Keotag is a tag search engine, a tag generator and a social bookmarks link generator. The latter two are rather limited given that they only support a handful of social tagging and bookmarking sites. As a mouse hover over the site icons doesn’t always pop up a tool tip for each icon, it may help [...]
Here’s a description from the front page of American Social History Online, which is pretty darned impressive: Aquifer American Social History Online – Find and use 19th and 20th century primary resources from unique historical digital collections. search diverse digital content from 40 American Social History research collections find more than 230,000 digitized objects in [...]
Search Wikia is live. It’s the creation of Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales and a contributory/collaborative search engine that relies on the individual users for its growth. Here is what a search result page looks like. Click on the thumbnail to view a larger version of the image.
SlideShare is a Flickr- and YouTube like service for sharing your most excellent and dull presentations. The service is free and private sharing, also free, was introduced in November 02007.
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