Archive for the ‘Web 2.0’ Category
Posted by Nicole on June 3rd, 2008 under Online Collaboration, Online Tools & Tips
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Adobe now has an online office suite. This from DownloadSquad:
Adobe has built a suite of online office applications to compliment Buzzword, the company’s online word processor. We’ve covered Buzzword in the past. It’s pretty, fast, and not really all that much more useful than similar products from Google or Zoho. Here’s a rundown of [...]
Posted by Nicole on June 3rd, 2008 under Open Source, Web 2.0
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Today I watched another talk that touched on some of the issues I mentioned after watching Clay Shirky’s video. In Yochai Benkler talk entitled Open-source economics, he talks about how people who are passionate about topics and technologies are using the web to change the way we look at economics.
Once example [...]
Posted by Nicole on June 2nd, 2008 under Link Sharing
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Google Earth API - Google CodeThe Google Earth Plug-in and its JavaScript API let you embed Google Earth, a true 3D digital globe, into your web pages.
Reuters SpotlightProvides a non-commercial community platform to allow users to innovate and develop their ideas by harnessing the content Reuters publishes, which includes news, video, pictures and multimedia articles.
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Posted by Nicole on June 1st, 2008 under Web 2.0
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I’m bit late to the game, but check out this video of Clay Shirky at the San Francisco Web 2.0 Expo.
My favorite part is when Clay is talking about his experience with the TV producer. She asks him, “Where do people find the time?” when he tells her about people editing the entry for [...]
Posted by Nicole on June 1st, 2008 under Careers, Social Networking
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Keeping my LinkedIn Profile up to date is very important to me. This is why it’s so annoying that I can’t seem to search for groups on LinkedIn that I belong to - what is taking them so long?? Today I found a Google Custom Search that lets you search LinkedIn Groups!
There are [...]
Posted by Nicole on June 1st, 2008 under Link Sharing
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Alice.orgAn educational software that teaches students computer programming in a 3D environment.
ElisaElisa is an open source cross-platform Media Center connecting the internet to your all-in-one media player.
British Library Direct - search and order journal articles onlineSearch across 20,000 journals for free from this site and order full text quickly and easily using your credit card
FeedHub
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Posted by Nicole on May 31st, 2008 under About Me, Web 2.0
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This is pretty neat:
Get your own at retagger.
Posted by Nicole on May 31st, 2008 under Link Sharing
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The Case for Open Source Software in the Library MarketSolutions based on freely distributed software will give libraries another choice for obtaining the support services that best meet the needs of their users.
Portaneo solutionsPosh is a open source personalizable portal (Netvibes, iGoogle, …) developed with PHP/MySQL/Ajax.
Portaneo SolutionsPortaneo enables all employees to fully customise their information/intelligence [...]
Posted by Nicole on May 30th, 2008 under Link Sharing
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LalaFind music and listen. Buy web songs for a dime.
fbCal.com - Facebook Calendar GeneratorWith fbCal, you get two calendar subscriptions! That way it’ll be easy for you to remember your Facebook friends’ birthdays and all events that you’ve been invited to or RSVPed for!
RoundPicOnline tool for making anti-aliased rounded corners (very Web 2.0!) for avatars [...]
Posted by Nicole on May 29th, 2008 under Link Sharing
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Shibboleth®The Shibboleth System is a standards based, open source software package for web single sign-on across or within organizational boundaries. It allows sites to make informed authorization decisions for individual access of protected online resources in a p
Web 2.0?s Top 1,000 List - Everything 2.0 | Technology Watch
GrazrGather Feeds, Create Streams, Publish Widgets
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Posted by Nicole on May 28th, 2008 under Link Sharing
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Watch Live Online TV Channels - Free internet TelevisionTvChannelsFree.com - The largest resource available on the Web for viewing Free Internet Television. Live streaming TV, recorded news, broadband internet TV stations, and video from all over the world.
PagloThe Search Engine for IT
NameChangerNameChanger is designed for the sole purpose of renaming a list of files.
Bean: An [...]
Posted by Nicole on May 26th, 2008 under Link Sharing
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35 (Really) Incredible Free Icon Sets | Graphics | Smashing Magazine
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Posted by Nicole on May 25th, 2008 under Link Sharing
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OpenOffice.org repository for Extensions
Sun Wiki PublisherThe Sun Wiki Publisher enables you to create Wiki articles on MediaWiki servers without having to know the syntax of the MediaWiki markup language. Publish your new and existing documents transparently with the Writer to a wiki page.
A.nnotate.com Online document review, PDF indexing - share online Word comments, annotations, sticky [...]
Posted by Nicole on May 24th, 2008 under Link Sharing
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TimesMachine - New York TimesTimesMachine can take you back to any issue from Volume 1, Number 1 of The New-York Daily Times, on September 18, 1851, through The New York Times of December 30, 1922.
Wakerupper.com - Free Wake-up Calls and Telephone RemindersWakerupper is the web’s easiest telephone reminder tool. Schedule reminder calls on the web. [...]
Posted by Nicole on May 23rd, 2008 under Photo Sharing
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No one is going to get me to stop using Flickr - in fact moving off of Flickr would probably be nearly impossible for me with over 5,500 photos in my account. That said, you may be interested in this comparison from DownloadSquad of several photo sharing sites.
You may also be interested to know that [...]
Posted by Nicole on May 23rd, 2008 under Online Tools & Tips, Web 2.0
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Back in February I bookmarked Google Sites, but didn’t write about it because it was only available via Google Apps (which I get to use at work). Today I read that Google Sites is now available to all!
A few months ago, Google launched Google Sites, a hosted wiki product built on JotSpot technology. But [...]
Posted by Nicole on May 23rd, 2008 under Link Sharing
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HounderHounder is a simple and complete search system. Out of the box, Hounder crawls the web targeting only those documents of interest, and presents them through a simple search web page.
Course FeedStudents go to class to both socialize and learn. CourseFeed combines actual learning content from leading learning management systems with the leading social network [...]
Posted by Nicole on May 22nd, 2008 under Link Sharing
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Legal Technology - Free Tools to Encrypt Your Sensitive Data
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Posted by Nicole on May 19th, 2008 under RSS/RSS Aggregators
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Why are my folders all wonky?
Is anyone else seeing this on Bloglines Beta?
[update] Looks better now - must have been a glitch [/update]
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Posted by Nicole on May 19th, 2008 under Link Sharing
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PositLog - Redrawing the WebPositLog is an excellent open source platform for building custom-made Websites. It provides you with the capability to write text, draw pictures, and paste photos and any HTML code anywhere on draggable and zoomable web pages.
The Open Software Wiki - SWiKSWiK is a community driven resource for people who use open [...]
Posted by Nicole on May 18th, 2008 under Learning, Social Networking
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This doesn’t make me like Blackboard anymore, but it’s worth mentioning that you can now access Blackboard via Facebook with a new app.
Let’s face it. You would live on Facebook if you could. Imagine a world where you could manage your entire life from Facebook – it’s not that far off! Right now, though, one [...]
Posted by Nicole on May 18th, 2008 under Link Sharing
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School of EverythingEveryone has something to learn, everyone has something to teach.
Google Doctype - Google CodeGoogle Doctype is an open encyclopedia and reference library. Written by web developers, for web developers. It includes articles on web security, JavaScript DOM manipulation, CSS tips and tricks, and more.
YouFig - Custom Collaboration CommunitiesCreate your own secure collaboration communities [...]
Posted by Nicole on May 16th, 2008 under Link Sharing
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SocialVibe - Get Sponsored!As a brand to your social network and earn points when people see your sponsorship.
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Posted by Nicole on May 14th, 2008 under Link Sharing
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TuneUp - Your Music Collection’s New Best FriendTuneUp works seamlessly with iTunes to automatically clean your incorrectly labeled music.
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Posted by Nicole on May 13th, 2008 under Link Sharing
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Powerset - Search WikipediaInstead of putting the onus on you to choose the best keyword, just-launched semantic search engine Powerset can find the answers you seek on the Wikipedia using natural language.
ListaculouListaculous is a free, tabbed to-do list manager.
CILIP Communities
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