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Via LLRX.com – SharePoint, Training Not Required: Lorette Weldon’s research has identified that librarians are using SharePoint in the corporate, government, and non-profit sectors. She expertly identifies and illustrates how to leverage the power of this application through an understanding of the site templates that Microsoft bundles in SharePoint “out-of-the-box”. These templates are based on …
[The following post is from Friedrich Lindenberg, who is a developer at the Open Knowledge Foundation working on CKAN, PublicData.eu and Open Spending.] “Recently, there has hardly been a week in which there hasnt been an announcement of a new local, regional or national open data initiative including ever more extensive catalogues of data …
News release: “In testimony before the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation, the Federal Trade Commission discussed its efforts to protect consumer privacy through enforcement actions, consumer education, and policy initiatives like the FTC staffs recent preliminary privacy report. The report proposes a framework to balance consumer privacy with industry innovation by: 1) building …
Via LLRX.com, Knowledge Discovery Resources 2011 – An Internet MiniGuide Annotated Link Compilation: This new guide by Marcus P. Zillman focuses on the most current and reliable resources for knowledge discovery available on the Internet. With the constant addition of new and pertinent information to the web, it is very easy to experience information overload. …
Official Google Blog: “Amidst a series of aftershocks rocking our office, a small group of us in Tokyo and several other Google offices started gathering information about the earthquake to create the Crisis Response information page. As someone who experienced the Kobe earthquake 16 years ago when I was at university, I cannot forget the …
Person Finder: 2011 Japan Earthquake – What is your situation? [Currently tracking about 70400 records…] I’m looking for someone I have information about someone
Official Google Blog: “Now theres yet another way to find more of what you want on Google by blocking the sites you dont want to see. Youve probably had the experience where youve clicked a result and it wasnt quite what you were looking for. Many times youll head right back to Google. Perhaps the …
Google Recipe Search: “After searcing for a recipe or ingredient on Google, select Recipes in the left-hand panel on the search results page. You can filter your results by ingredients, cook time, or calories.”
Official Google Blog: “Our goal is simple: to give people the most relevant answers to their queries as quickly as possible. This requires constant tuning of our algorithms, as new contentboth good and badcomes online all the time. Many of the changes we make are so subtle that very few people notice them. But in …
Measuring Bias in “Organic” Web Search, Benjamin Edelman and Benjamin Lockwood, January 19, 2011 “By comparing results between leading search engines, we identify patterns in their algorithmic search listings. We find that each search engine favors its own services in that each search engine links to its own services more often than other search engines …
“What is the Art Project? – A unique collaboration with some of the worlds most acclaimed art museums to enable people to discover and view more than a thousand artworks online in extraordinary detail. Explore museums with Street View technology: virtually move around the museums galleries, selecting works of art that interest you, navigate though …
News release: “Experian® Hitwise®, a part of Experian Marketing Services, announced today that Google accounted for 67.95 percent of all U.S. searches conducted in the four weeks ending Jan. 29, 2011. Bing-powered search comprised 27.44 percent of searches for the month, with Yahoo! Search and Bing receiving 14.62 percent and 12.81 percent, respectively. The remaining …
