Category: Social Networks
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Social Bookmarking in Plain English
The latest tutorial from Common Craft is out – Social Bookmarking in Plain English. I learned that I no longer have to remember where the dots go in del.icio.us, I can just type delicious.com: Technorati Tags: Delicious, Common_Craft
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Taking a cue from Brian
One of the nice things about Google taking over the Newsgroup and archives several years ago is that I can subscribe to them with an RSS feed and consume them along with the rest of my daily updates. One of the ones I subscribe to is the local forsale newsgroup, and this AM I noticed…
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Greg Schwartz is doing something new…
You remember Greg Schwartz, one of the original, if not the first, Library-world podcasters? He’s been pretty quiet lately, taking a break for family and life in general, but he’s just popped back up to announce a new venture – Uncontrolled Vocabulary. UV is a live web-based talk show. Greg explains it all here, including…
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WorldCat Lists – where are the RSS feeds?
WorldCat now allows you to create lists – favorite, new, children’s – these are some of the "book" lists that have already been created. You can search on pretty much any word to see what lists contain that word (or is it only lists that have that word in the title or description?- not much…
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David Lee King crosses over to the Mainstream
Well ok, probably not mainstream, but a different niche area; Tim O’Relly at O’Reilly Radar has just discovered David’s “Are you Blogging This” video from last August. As a result, or coincidentally, David’s website is down as of this posting. It is a cute video… Technorati Tags: Web_2.0, YouTube, David_Lee_King
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Lazy Web Request – Inserting Hyperlinks in Thunderbird with a right click?
I’ve searched and I can’t find, can someone out there help? I hate having to highlight and then move to the composition menu bar to insert a hyperlink within Thunderbird (v2). I think there should be an option to highlight the text and then just use the right-click menu pop-up on my mouse. Clarification: Technorati…
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Promoting digital collections in YouTube, Flickr, etc.
A couple of followups to my post on putting content where your users are; Jenny Levine points to this YouTube video promoting the digital collections at the University of North Texas, and a colleague alerted me to this Flickr set promoting the NCSU Libraries Special Collections Research Center. We’ve got some great digital collections here…
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Putting content where your users are
Two related posts from different universes: Lorcan Dempsy reporting on a D-Lib article in which the University of Washington is inserting links in Wikipedia to content they’ve digitized – “If Wikipedia is where many folks end up when they are looking for things, then it makes sense to have links there.” And a post from…
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Viddler – video hosting and quite a bit more…
I’m increasingly frustrated by the crappy compression YouTube uses – that’s what makes everything so fuzzy when you upload something. Since YouTube is so popular it seems unlikely to be unseated as The Place To Stick Your Videos any time soon, but it’s neat to see who’s out there trying to innovate. Today I found…
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Shared Browsing in Meebo
Sarah at LibrarianInBlack points out that the new chat rooms launched by Meebo this week can in fact be used as a rudimentary shared browsing tool. I tried it and she’s right – it’s better than nothing. What is nice is that it’ll work when you’re on Meebo and your patron’s on a native client…