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From Wired, The Book Stops Here – “Jimmy Wales wanted to build a free encyclopedia on the Internet. So he raised an army of amateurs and created the self-organizing, self-repairing, hyperaddictive library of the future called Wikipedia.”
From the WSJ’s Free Features, Blogs Keep Internet Customers Coming Back: Small Firms Find Tool Useful for Recognition, Connecting With Buyers. Note, I learned from this article that there are blogging coaches. Related reference: White Paper (5 pages, PDF), Using content to create connections among people – Keeping the sales force up to date. [WebProNews]
From Jakob Nielsen, this summary on his choices for the Ten Best Intranets of 2005 (6 from the US, and one from each of the following countries: Spain, UK, The Netherlands, and Sweden). The winners used a range of platforms, interfaces (including wikis), applications and software. It would appear the message is that customized features …
How Google will scan the world, 1 book at a time.
Ensuring your intranet is a success, Powerpoint presentation by James Robertson, Step Two Designs (Furl – The Darlene Fichter Archive)
Always Fresh: Fast Content For Library Web Site with Really Simple Syndication (RSS) [Slides PDF], by Darlene Fichter: “Keeping a library web site up to date with fresh content is a challenge for any webmaster. Learn how to publish, merge and format RSS feeds into instant web content. Discover how libraries have made specialized pages …
Almost a decade ago, PointCast was a cutting edge “push technology” that streamed updated, cutomized news feeds to your desktop. I sure liked it, although it routinely crashed my PC. Fast forward, and here is new twist on the application, from Yahoo. “The My Yahoo! Ticker (Beta) makes it easy to track your favorite information, …
This article from the New York Times discusses pioneering work by Prof. R. Manmatha and colleagues to develop a digital application to read and search collections of archival, handwritten manuscripts. This software will be of tremendous value to researchers and scholars around the world.
First article in a four part series on effectively navigating the shifting paradigms associated with the development and maintenance of a successful corporate intranet.
“Goebel Group, Inc. a leading integrator of search technology products and services…released the first comprehensive matrix detailing and comparing the status of technologies and other features of the industry’s current and future Desktop Search applications… The matrix includes versions and searchable document types of the industries leading Desktop Search Applications…” (including AOL, Autonomy, Ask Jeeves, …
The Science Advisory Board is now hosting five unique blogs authored by its members. Science, Politics and Ethics , “Debate current events and controversial issues in science and medicine” Science: Uncovering and Discovering, “Explore the creative and technical sides of science” In Translation: Molecular Approaches to Cancer, “Discuss insights into one of sciences greatest challenges” …
Net Snippets is offering a free version of their “post-search” tool that facilitates the organization, annotation, and sharing of online research results, executed on free or fee-based sites and services. See this review for more background. From the press release: “…the new Free Edition provides web surfers with a simple and effective way to save …
