0604, 2008
Category Archives: web 2.0+
1401, 2008
Code4Lib
Code4Lib has a new journal:http://journal.code4lib.org/ Also, the conference is coming up in February. It sounds very interesting, but I’m out of travel money. ;-(
1101, 2008
Library/Web 2.0 Workshops (Feebased; online)
Feebased; taught through SolinetXtreme Web Searching (Live Online)2/12-2/13/2008, 10:00 am – 12:00 pmRegistration and Pricing Information:http://www.solinet.net/workshops/ws_details.cfm?doc_id=4058&WKSHPID=26XWSLOBecoming a Library Advocate (Live Online) – NEW!2/12/2008, 10:00 am – 12:00 pmRegistration and Pricing Information:http://www.solinet.net/workshops/ws_details.cfm?mode=preview&doc_id=4799&WKSHPID=26BALOE-Resource Wrangling: An Introduction to ERMS (Live Online)2/12/2008, 2:00 pm – 4:00 pmRegistration and Pricing Information:http://www.solinet.net/workshops/ws_details.cfm?mode=preview&doc_id=4595&WKSHPID=26ERMLOBasic MARC Tagging for Serials (Live Online)2/12-2/13/2008, 2:00 pm – 4:00 pmRegistration and Pricing Information:http://www.solinet.net/workshops/ws_details.cfm?mode=preview&doc_id=3937&WKSHPID=05BMTSLOInstant
0601, 2008
free web 2.0 webinar
…and another free webinar.If interested, my list of web2.0 presentations are here. ——–In the recent OCLC Report, “Sharing Privacy and Trust in Our Networked World”, one of the comments in the conclusion is “Many U.S. library directors are simply not engaged in the socialization of the web….less than a quarter…” * Some may have dabbled or made sincere efforts into
0501, 2008
Free webinars – virtual worlds & libraries
Just passing along….—————- Greetings! These free, open-to-everyone online events in January on the general topic of virtual worlds and libraries were recently added to the OPAL calendar (http://www.opal-online.org/progschrono.htm). Feel free to share this information with others who may be interested. If you want the full OPAL experience, and if you are running a version of Microsoft Windows, you need to
1612, 2007
Google takes on about.com? wikipedia?
Earlier this week, we started inviting a selected group of people to try a new, free tool that we are calling “knol”, which stands for a unit of knowledge. Our goal is to encourage people who know a particular subject to write an authoritative article about it. from Google Blog, athttp://googleblog.blogspot.com/2007/12/encouraging-people-to-contribute.html more athttp://blogoscoped.com/archive/2007-12-14-n19.html Sounds interesting. I’ve contributed sporatically to wikipedia,
0511, 2007
google vs. yahoo (interesting little visual)
Sometimes I find the most interesting things on the internet… A cliché true, but I found this little google vs. yahoo comparison today. I’ve no idea of its accuracy (but I would think it probably is), but a very neat little tool to compare results ranking for a particular term in yahoo vs. google.
2910, 2007
All Web 2.0 presentations online
Finally, some progress on collecting up my various presentations and some writings on Web 2.0 stuff: http://www.robinfay.net/web2.0/
2310, 2007
will portals win the social networking war?
Finally, some real contendors in aggregating social networking — a centralized spot to collect all of YOUR web 2.0 stuff! Isn’t it funny how there is all of this “stuff” and then the next step is to organize it and streamline it (sounds like cataloging, no)? Create the content and then organize it! 😉 Pageflakes has a lot of functionality
0610, 2007
Speed up your website!
For those of you who create websites, here is an interesting article about speeding up websites (and a free little tool, too!): ySlow a firebug/firefox plug-in: http://developer.yahoo.com/yslow/Most of the rules revolve around making sure the browser doesn’t haveto work too hard to load and display your Web pages, particularly bymaking maximum use of the browser cache. That’s where your browserstores