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Press release, Wikimedia Foundation Announces Corporate Support of Wikipedia from Yahoo! Search: “…Yahoo! Search will dedicate hardware and resources to support Wikipedia, a community based encyclopedia written and edited by people from around the world…In addition, Wikipedia content will become available to hundreds of millions of users worldwide through Yahoo! Search via shortcuts that are …
From the WSJ’s Free Features today, New Web-Watching Tools Pique Interest of Investors. See PubSub, Feedster and Bloglines
RSS: Moving Into the Mainstream, by Randy Reichardt, Cameron Science and Technology Library, University of Alberta.
WSJ Free Feature Today: From Wikipedia’s Creator, A New Site for Anyone, Anything. See Wikicities.com and the free encyclopedia, Wikipedia, which the WSJ article reports had more than 5 million visitors in February 2005.
As a follow-up to my recent posting about Dennis Hamilton’s new article, Internal Blogs: So, Are They Different From External Blogs?, I suggested the monikers enterpriselogs, enterlogs, or even enterpriseblogs to describe blogs behind the corporate firewall. MrDave’s Blog! has a related posting I recommend, IntraBlog – the next wave?. Other suggestions welcome! [thanks Claudia]
OCLC Research Publications: “This repository contains metadata for works by and about OCLC Research and, whenever possible, links to full text. The repository is under construction; it contains current publications back to 1997, all “born digital” publications, and at least 75% of OCLC Research’s corpus of work. A complete bibliography is available at http://www.oclc.org/research/publications/2000-2009.htm. In …
Internal Blogs: So, Are They Different From External Blogs? by Dennis Hamilton Notes from the Technology Trenches: Advisen: A Unique Approach to Business Background Information, by Cindy Carlson The Government Domain: GovTrack.us: Under Development, by Peggy Garvin Software Rundown: Adobe Acrobat 7.0; ZoneAlarm Security Suite 5.5; Diskeeper 9 and Norton SystemWorks 2005, by Brett Burney …
Following up on my post from January, Will New York Times on Web Remain Free?, more machinations on the topic of anticipated fees for online access to the Times and other papers: Can Papers End the Free Ride Online?
From the founder and CEO of Technorati’s posting today: “Technorati is now tracking over 7.8 million weblogs, and 937 million links. That’s just about double the number of weblogs tracked in October 2004. In fact, the blogosphere is doubling in size about once every 5 months. It has already done so at this pace four …
As a followup to Andy Haven’s article, The Role of Peer to Peer File Sharing in Law Firm Marketing, see this March 13 Washington Post, BitTorrent May Prove Too Good to Quash. The Official BitTorrent Home Page
What is customized news?: “We’ve made a number of improvements to Google News that allow you to customize your News front page by creating sections that focus on topics you care about…You can also design your custom front page by mixing and matching existing standard sections from the 22 regional editions of Google News from …
PC Magazine compares, contrasts and rates the 12 top contenders in the emerging desktop search arena. Consideration is given to range of features and applications indexed, ease of use, security and privacy issues, reliability and future product availability. And the winner is….the free Yahoo! Desktop Search.
