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Zotero 1.0 Public Beta Launch - "On October 5, 2006, the public beta of Zotero 1.0 went live, along with our new site to help foster the Zotero community. Please have a look around, especially at the documentation. And of course, feel free to download Zotero and try it out!" Slideshare - "A neat way to share and discover slideshows. Upload your slides, share with a link, embed in a blog, discover interesting slideshows, tag, comment, and have fun" (via) New(ish) Librar* Blog - Alaska Bush Library Service Google to Subpoena Yahoo, Microsoft on Book Scanning - (Bloomberg - 10/05/2006) - "Google Inc. will subpoena information from Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp. and Amazon.com Inc. to help fight copyright lawsuits over its book-scanning project." (via) Some youth rethink online communications (AP - 10/06/2006) - "For some, it would be unthinkable -- certain social suicide. But Gabe Henderson is finding freedom in a recent decision: He canceled his MySpace account." Book Sales Get a Lift from Google Scan Plan - (Reuters - 10/06/2006) - "Publishers are starting to report an uptick in sales from Google Inc.'s online program that lets readers peek inside books, two years after the launch of its controversial plan to digitally scan everything in print." Going To The Boneyard - (John Blyberg - 10/062006) - "Libraries are neophyte marketers in a world where perception and opinion trumps logic and truth. So we can circle the wagons and remind ourselves how important we are, or we can be pragmatic and do something about this." Riding the Waves of "Web 2.0" - (Pew Internet and American Life Project - 10/05/2006) - "Web 2.0” has become a catch-all buzzword that people use to describe a wide range of online activities and applications, some of which the Pew Internet & American Life Project has been tracking for years. As researchers, we instinctively reach for our spreadsheets to see if there is evidence to inform the hype about any online trend. This article provides a short history of the phrase, along with new traffic data from Hitwise to help frame the discussion." Internet Address Book - "Create your personal Internet Address Book in which to keep all your Internet addresses and those of your friends." (via) GoodSearch - "GoodSearch is an Internet search engine with a simple concept and unique social mission. GoodSearch enables you to help fund any of hundreds of thousands of charities or schools through the simple act of searching the Internet." (via) Google Blog Search Pinging Service - "The Google Blog Search Pinging Service is a way to inform Google Blog Search of weblog updates. These updates are then published and shared with other search engines to allow them to discover the changes to your weblogs. In addition, Google Blog Search will add submitted weblogs to the list of blogs it needs to crawl and index." |
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