Category: Web/Tech
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IL2006 Lightning Talk
No, there are no lightning talks at Internet Librarian, but during my presentation with Meredith yesterday I thought I’d do something fun since I wasn’t going to be using my laptop. I turned it around to face the audience and used the built-in iSight along with Gawker to record a time-lapse movie of the "crowd"…
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More Screen Capture Software
Following up on Wednesday’s post mentioning SnagIt as my screen capture software of choice, I thought I’d also point to Amit’s recent post on free screen capture products for the Windows platform. I haven’t used any of these…
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Camtasia Studio 4 now shipping
As previewed a couple of weeks ago, Camtasia Studio 4 is now shipping. Amit at Digital Inspiration has posted what he feels are some of the significant improvements to the product, including mention of their new screencast-hosting service, Screencast.com. Both Studio 4 and Screencast.com offer 30-day free trial periods. Incidentally, I’ve never played with it,…
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Have our toes just been stepped upon? Google Scholar within BlackBoard
Dean Giustini at the UBC Academic Search – Google Scholar Blog brings us news that Google and Blackboard are going to team up, with Google Scholar somehow being integrated within the Blackboard CMS. From the Washington Business Journal story, "As part of the partnership, Blackboard’s learning system will be integrated with Google Scholar, providing quick…
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This American Life – back and legit
Nope, I’m not moving back to the States 😉 You may recall that back in June Jon Udell (and some others) had figured out how to build an RSS feed to receive episodes of This American Life that were already available for free on the web, but only in a streaming, listen while connected, format. …
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Book sales get a lift from Google scan plan
Hmm, looks like I was right (me and every other sane person); publishers are starting to admit that the books that are available through Google Book Search and Amazon’s Search Inside program are <gasp!> actually selling more copies! Some quotes from the Reuters piece: ""Google Book Search has helped us turn searchers into consumers," said…
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Huge list of screen sharing tools
I’ve mentioned sceen sharing / co-browsing tools like Jybe and Unyte before, but holy cow, take a look at the list compiled at Kolabora.com! That is all. Technorati Tags: Screen_sharing, co-browsing
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Just what am I looking at?
I have been increasingly interested in how flat the world of research literature seems to appear to the average undergraduate student. I say "seems to appear" because I haven’t actually talked to any students about this, so it’s really just a wild theory. Here goes. I think students who have only researched through their computer…
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Zotero launches
Well, Zotero has launched, and I’m all bummed to learn that it requires Firefox 2.0, which is a release candidate (beta) build, which means many of the extensions I rely upon are not likely to work, which means I’m not installing it yet, which means I can’t install Zotero yet. Lemmie know how you like…