Europeana (which I mentioned in February), a portal for European cultural heritage, was opened yesterday. The service proved immensely popular from the start – 10 million visitors per hour – which crashed their servers. I will go and have a look later, though. It seems well worth the wait.
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Europeana is up!
Posted in Digital, Library 2.0, Links, Solutions, Tech on Friday, November 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Resources on searching
Posted in Links, Searching, Tech on Wednesday, October 1, 2008 | 1 Comment »
99 Resources to Research & Mine the Invisible Web from collegedegree.com. Includes guides (at the very end) on how to search the invisible web, if you yearn for even more. Via Stephen’s Lighthouse.
25 Awesome Beta Research Tools from Libraries Around the World from collegedegree.com. Lists new tools from the Library of Congress, UVA, MIT, and [...]
Surfing Shakespeare’s London
Posted in Learning, Solutions, Tech, tagged maps on Monday, September 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The Map of Early Modern London tracks
“…the streets, sites, and significant boundaries of late sixteenth-century and early seventeenth-century London. You will see many of the theatres and landmarks of Shakespeare’s time, and learn about the history and culture of the city in which he lived and worked.”
The site is administered and maintained by Dr. Janelle [...]
Free reference database access for 60 days
Posted in Links, Reference, Searching, Tech on Saturday, August 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
ALA’s first online version of the Guide to Reference has a free two-month trial subscription. According to the main page, it’s searchable, browsable, and internally and externally linked.
Private surfing
Posted in Service, Solutions, Tech on Monday, June 23, 2008 | 1 Comment »
9 Firefox extensions to protect your privacy by Mike Gunderloy describes a few extensions designed to help protect your privacy when surfing online. Mostly they deal with controlling your cookies and masking your own IP address with proxy surfing:
“In light of the continuing brouhaha over online privacy … it’s worth asking the simple question: what can [...]
Sci-fi phone and the future of libraries
Posted in Future, Library 2.0, Service, Tech on Sunday, April 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
This is a few months old now, but exciting nevertheless: the cell phone company Nokia along with the University of Cambridge (UK) have come up with a pliable cell phone. The Nokia Morph nanotechnology model is still in the concept stage, and, according to the LetsGoDigital article, it shows that nanotechnology might be able to [...]
Mind-controlling digital objects
Posted in Eh?, Future, Solutions, Tech on Monday, March 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Emotiv has created a prototype of a headset that enables limited mind-control over digital objects. According to CNET News, they promise headsets on the market for Christmas. Clearly this technology is still in its baby shoes. Still, it’s intriguing. Who knows, maybe it will take off. After all, only two years ago I would’ve laughed [...]
Neighborhood news mashup
Posted in Links, Solutions, Tech on Tuesday, March 4, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
EveryBlock is now available for New York, Chicago, and San Francisco. In Stephen Francoeur’s words, the site “allows you to search for neighborhood news and data in New York, Chicago, or San Francisco. You can search by address, ZIP code, or neighborhood name. The site pulls together information from a number of sources in a [...]
Working on the web
Posted in Solutions, Tech, Web 2.0 on Sunday, February 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Forget PowerPoint: 13 Online Presentation Apps from Mashable. Via Stephen’s Lighthouse.
Forget Excel: 14 Online Spreadsheet Applications and 13 Tools for Tracking Discussion in the Blogosphere from Mashable. Via lo-fi librarian.
The Top 50 Proprietary Programs that Drive You Crazy — and Their Open Source Alternatives. Mostly conventional programs, but includes a few web applictions. Via What [...]
If you’re curious about the semantic web…
Posted in Tech, Web 2.0 on Sunday, February 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The article 11 Things to Know About the Sematic Web from ReadWriteWeb will not tell you everything you need to know. It will, however, give you some basics.
Via Stephen’s Lighthouse.
