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“Key features of the turnkey intranet include easy setup (without coding or “wikifying” it), … workspace archiving,… and a dynamic interface that displays personalized data for each user”
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At a high-level, this approach involves users: 1. Selecting videos they find interesting as they surf around the web; 2. Categorizing these videos and adding additional meta-information about the videos; 3. Syndicating the videos they have selected to the
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“If Yahoo started pipelining social media content through Facebook, they could have a distribution channel on par with YouTube. So how did they miss out? I don’t know”
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“When you’re not forced to slow down, and carefully choose every word, then any word will do. And when you’re not being careful about the words you choose, you’re not forced to be careful about your thinking. Hence the very sloppy thinking that permeates
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“Net Generation learners are information seekers, comfortable using technology to seek out information, frequently multitasking and using multiple forms of media simultaneously”
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“But there is an irony to it, which is that users can only have one sidebar! So either a person will put an IM client in their sidebar, or a social network. A user certainly cannot have both, because that will turn their browser into a startup page.”
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What happened? The White House used the word “failure” on Bush’s page, which resulted in the page becoming relevant for the query again. If the White House was smart, they’d have realized it can never ever ever ever use the words “miserable” or “failure”
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I want some, too.
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“Zell was quoted as saying “If all the newspapers in America did not allow Google to steal their content for nothing, what would Google do, and how profitable would Google be?”" this line of thought is getting a little old. I bet Googlers are rolling ey
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top 4: ) North Carolina State University – Endeca Project; 2) University of Pennsylvania – PennTags; 3) MIT – DSpace; 4) University of Michigan – Digital Library Production Service (DLPS) (only one I had put was U Penn)
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“Their branding, distribution deals, relevancy, and market position have created the fundamental standard of relevancy that all other systems are compared against. It is hard to beat them on relevancy because they have more data than any other company in
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‘I repeated the question several times, in various ways, to ensure that Google was clear. And it was. If it found this data useful for something, it was going to use it however it wanted, for whatever it wanted.”
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“CrazyEgg only shows you a static snapshot of user clicks. Another startup, ClickTale, is kicking the game up a notch by recording movies of how users interact with a site” – interesting
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“I think wikis offer much more opportunities for medical education than blogs because by design they are open, multi-author communities.” links to some presentations, talks about AskDrWiki at length (and its recent spate of news coverage)
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about AskDrWiki–not *really* medical education in the didactic sense
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“Note that the survey results point to custom development as being a strong trend. However this appears to contradict the recent Forrester reports about Enterprise and web 2.0 which…concluded that CIOs [want] to purchase web 2.0 products “as a suite”
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“Yes, this is tagging—but tagging done by a computer, following some very sophisticated rules and using a controlled vocabulary rather than arbitrary, subjective terms”
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“wondering if there is a way for my library to use Twitter to bridge this gap to get them into my flow. David Lee King … wants to hook up Twitter to his catalog to send those hold and overdue notices”
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“As forms reproduce and mingle online, web2.0 may add enough randomness to generate creative expressions that we can’t currently guess at.”
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covers PennTags, LibraryThing, EdTags, etc as well as general intor by D. Weinberger
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“It will be intriguing to watch what Tribune does with its content, I hope they decide to capitalize on the ad revenues from it rather than the revenue generated from aggregator rights” in reference to Zell quote
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“Do we really need a class in this? Might be more effective to head on over to Classroom 2.0 and start your own program.” –lengthy commentary
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“Lessons learned: took many years to plan and to get the money. Also learned that a project is more than bricks and mortar.”
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“Although this doesn’t directly create a folksonomy, it creates a medium in which online resources can be shared that feels more social than, say, Del.icio.us’s “for:you” tag.”
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“Wikipedia may be an anonymously-created online encyclopedia vulnerable to criticism … but a not inconsiderable number of librarians are willing to take it seriously—and so are their constituents.”
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interesting way to catalog blog posts
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“That doesn’t make any of the words they used to get that far, incorrect. It just means that all valid paths to the ‘right’ information are valuable”
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“You could subscribe to anyone, without permission, and with no obligation on their part to subscribe to you. This creates imbalances, and makes Twitter like RSS”
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wow, that is a little scary.
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this is what happens when I mark all as read too fast. I miss stuff like this and find out about it only weeks later. Sigh.
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built on Scuttle–same as ScuttlEd? used to be named differently…
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It’s finally here! Months after first hearing about it, it is ready for release at CIL2007. Yay!
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