Gary’s got the presentation posted at: digbig.com/4gtwj. Rita’s will be posted to the Information Today site sometime soon.Overall, the session was interesting and not padded with a lot of filler. They’re both entertaining speakers - candid about their views, and able to skillfully cut to the chase, which is refreshing and a much needed attribute […]

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Via Google Blog, an announcement today of a new pilot project between Google and the National Archives to digitize archived video content and make it freely available to the world. The blog announcement contains a link to the following webpage showing examples of digitization candidates - http://video.google.com/nara.html
[tags]Google[/tags]

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NCSU has teamed with Endeca to create what will most certainly be a new benchmark for library catalogues (thanks for the news update, Kenton). It is obviously a bit early to jump to any large conclusions and to make any prophecies–a lot of people will likely be spending some of their time in the next […]

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News of the first new Google offerings for ‘06 - Google Pack (Firefox, Norton, Acrobat and Real Player) and a new video and software download service. According to Macworld and the Wall Street Journal, the big news announcement comes out tomorrow.
Google, Firefox
Update: And so it appears = Google Pack Beta

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For the stat hungry comes Google Analytics — now available (after buying Urchin in March, this makes much more sense). A brief registration process and a few clicks to copy a few lines of javascript, and you’ll be on your way to letting Google track your traffic for you. The analytics service ties in […]

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Interesting. I assumed Google kept all their services in an eternal state of beta. No so, however. Google Desktop is out and apparently with a few new features as well. See posting on lifehacker.

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A bright shiny dollar to the first vendor or library that can make their catalogue or federated search spit out ajaxian magic like this…

[Inquisitor Instant Search Beta]

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Lots of blog chatter today about Google Talk — yet another jump forward for the little search engine that could. The next phase of what can now only be referred to as Googlenet (rats, already coined).
Really, is there any Internet trend or technology that Google isn’t working towards becoming involved with or at the […]

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Continuing along the folksonomy thoughtstream, news today of Freetagging — “Freetag is an easy tagging and folksonomy-enabled plugin for use with MySQL-PHP applications. It allows you to create tags on existing database schemas, and access and manage your tags through a robust API.”
Oooooh cool! How great would it be to be able to implement something […]

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Library clips may not have hit my radar until this morning, but it quickly went into my Bloglines list. Today’s posting on social bookmarking and folksonomies offers a fairly extensive round-up of the subject, with particular attention to how libraries and the OPAC may come into play. The posting is packed with links […]

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