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  • Post-holiday link dump

    Some miscellaneous links you may find of interest: Co-Browsing Tools: Guide To The Best Online Services Five Best Video-Sharing Sites Newswire Opinion: Libraries Clash with Harvard Business Publishing on Deep-Linking The undiscussed danger to libraries in the Google Books Settlement: A warning from library law expert Peter Hirtle Sony to link Readers with libraries, allow…

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  • News about Screencasting and Screen Capture on the Mac

    Seems to be a pretty newsy day!  Techsmith has released Camtasia:mac (screencasting) AND announced that they’re developing a version of Snagit for the Mac (screen capture).  Not to be left out, Telestream has announced (but not yet released) version 2 of their excellent screencasting program, Screenflow. screencasting, osx

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  • Comparing Online Screen Recorders

    Another week, another online screen recording program; this time it's Screenr.  Amit at Digital Inspiration has a post comparing this newcomer to Screen Toaster, Screen Jelly and Screencast-o-matic.  While he uses a narrative style, I'd prefer a chart, so I put one together: Tool Duration Dimensions Webcam/Mic Video Format Quality YouTube HD Mobile? Screenr 5…

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  • Use embedr for video/screencast playlists

    A couple of months ago my colleague Carmen pointed me to Embedr, “a free service that lets anyone create a custom playlist of videos from the top video sites on the web.”  Finally had a chance to take a look at it and quite like it.  Basically you can feed it the URLs of videos…

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  • Webinar: Defining Web-Scale Discovery: The Promise of a Unified Search Index for Libraries

    Received the following email: Date: August 18, 2009 • Time: 9:00-10:00 AM PDT (12:00 – 1:00 PM EDT) Please Join Us for Part 3 of Library Journal’s “Returning the Researcher to the Library” Webcast Series “Why can’t I search the library the way Google searches the Web?” Librarians have been fielding that question for more…

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