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Feedmailer - "Feed Mailer was created to keep you updated via e-mail! You select feeds that interest you then sit back and we will do the rest!" (via) Squirl - "Squirl is a new way to catalog, organize and share your books, records, movies, comic books, stamps, coins, or practically anything else, and meet other collectors who are as passionate as you." (via) White House Feeds and Podcasts - "The White House RSS feed for President George W. Bush delivers headlines and links to White House news releases on www.whitehouse.gov/news, including events, speeches, statements, and press briefings from administration officials. In addition to the RSS feed, audio files of the President's Weekly Radio Address and selected remarks are available via Podcast." (via) From the ALA Press Release: "A national report released today reveals that 99 percent of all U.S. public libraries provide free public access to computers wired to the Internet, compared to 25 percent 10 years ago. Librarians overwhelmingly (71 percent) report that the most important impact of this service is providing Internet access to those who otherwise would not have it. This is the first time that impact has been quantified on a national scale." Web 2.0 Toolbar - "Save time and keep up on the latest Web 2.0 news right from one browser toolbar. The Free Web 2.0 Toolbar aggregates the best of Social Search, Social Bookmarking, Social Pics, Social Video and Social News websites." (via) Happy Birthday MOMB!! Right Wing Monitor - "Right Web Monitor is an ultimate web monitoring solution able to detect changes in all kinds of internet resources. The program can monitor any web pages (static and dynamical), text and binary files which can be accessed through the HTTP, HTTPS and FTP protocols. The program is able to monitor incoming mail in POP3 mailboxes either. Right Web Monitor constantly polls the specified internet resources and notifies you by adjustable alert methods when any changes occur. Among these there are such methods as showing notification dialog, playing sound, sending notification letter or SMS message, starting a certain application. The program can even download a modified file onto your hard drive." Cinnamon: A New Netvibes, A Better Netvibes - (via) From The Boston Globe - "While riding the T is a solitary pursuit in many ways -- avoid eye contact, don't chat with your seatmate, keep out of your neighbor's space -- for some reason it generates intense online communities, in which riders gather to vent. Several local websites and blogs focus on the state of T civility." TaxAlmanac - "The free online tax research resource and community." (via) From WSJ - "People are struggling under an unparalleled glut of information and media, says John Warner, editor of the forthcoming book "Mountain Man Dance Moves: The McSweeney's Book of Lists..Choice is paralyzing," he says." (via) From AP: Thai crown princess launches royal blog - "The 51-year-old princess launched on Saturday the country's first royal blog, which she says is aimed at persuading her fellow citizens to embrace English." - No RSS, Need lto login to read most of the content. From the Daily Press: "It used to be that you could release a poll with an embargo and the only thing you had to worry about was The Associated Press," Coker said. "And because newspapers are members of The Associated Press, they could control it. "But now nobody controls the blogs." The Culture of Trust: One Year in the Life of Library 2.0 From AP - "More than 100 million Americans, or three out of every five Internet users, viewed video online in July, a new study finds." Wallop - "Wallop, a company spun out of Microsoft and backed by veteran venture capital firms, today at DEMOfall launched its beta product, a breakthrough innovation in the social networking space with a unique business model. Wallop, an invitation-only network, for the first time combines a social computing site with a marketplace, enabling an entirely new way to self-express and enhance a person’s increasingly important online image." MySpaceForParents.com - "This site is for parents who refuse to “look the other way” or bury their heads in the sand in the hopes that their teenager will make it through this phase unscathed and all will be fine. If you are like me and want to know who your child’s friends are...where they are spending their free time...and just what they are up to when they are at the infamous sleepovers , then this is the website for you." The Mobile Life Youth Report 2006 - In this report we look at the impact of the mobile phone on three major areas of the lives of young people – daily life, family & relationships and school. Vehicle Navigation Service with Net Access, Nissan - "The new internet service allows subscribers to retreive information from a limited number of Internet sites, including Yahoo! Japan, Sony’s So-net lifestyle blog and Nissan Drive Navi, a Nissan travel guide blog. The service automatically transforms information from the Internet (RSS format) into a user-friendly format that can be viewed on a vehicle navigation monitor." New Media Tools Of The Week: Sharewood Picnic 72 Singapore Libraries Bulletin Blog : Library Association of Singapore "Welcome to the first weblog issue for the Singapore Libraries Bulletin published by the Library Association of Singapore (LAS)! Starting with this September 2006 issue, we are going totally virtual without printing hard copies to distribute to LAS members. We are making use of the weblog platform with the aim of being more interactive, as members can add their comments to the articles posted as soon as they read it. We hope LAS members will enjoy the Bulletin in this form. We invite your comments and your feedback!" (via) FanPop: Fanpop is a network of "social portals" called spots that are created for fans by fans. Share your favorite links and meet fellow fanatics. Find out what other fans are surfing on the web with "social browsing". We think that it should be easier to get to stuff you care about. Because the web should revolve around you. Go pop in and out of a few spots!" (via) Bill Thompson on BBC: "by compromising so completely with the content cartel YouTube is passing up a chance to shape the common understanding of copyright in the digital age, and that's a shame." Lyrics Plugin :"Lyrics Plugin is a piece of software tailored for music fans. To put it simply - it is an add-on to view lyrics in WinAmp or Windows Media Player. No more searching for lyrics. Just start listening to your favourite songs and lyrics will be displayed automatically. Oh, and if lyrics is not found, you can add it yourself :)" (via) The Top Ten Ways Businesses, Associations and Organizations Can Use Social Networking - "Here are the top ten (and two bonus) ways that businesses, associations and organizations can use social networking in the professional sphere. Some of these are ways to use social networking to connect with customers and members, some focus on internal organizational communication, some focus on the network as the way to find knowledge within the organization. Enjoy!" (via) From EWeek - "Officials of the world's largest Internet media company said on Friday it planned to give away the underlying code to Yahoo Mail, one of the crown jewels of its business, in a bid to encourage software developers to build new applications based on e-mail." |
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