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Posts bookmarked on: LibraryStuff
19 June 2009
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20:25
A Literary Legend Fights for a Library
NYTimes.com - “[A]mong Mr. Bradbury’s passions, none burn quite as hot as his life-long passion for halls of books. His most famous novel, “Fahrenheit 451,” which concerns book burning, was written on a pay typewriter in the basement of the University of California, Los Angeles, library; his novel “Something Wicked This Way Comes” contains a [...]
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04 June 2009
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13:38
How Twitter Will Change the Way We Live
TIME - “The one thing you can say for certain about Twitter is that it makes a terrible first impression. You hear about this new service that lets you send 140-character updates to your “followers,” and you think, Why does the world need this, exactly? It's not as if we were all sitting around [...]
23 April 2009
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00:17
How to Manage Your Reputation Online
NYTimes.com - “On Tuesday, Google announced that it has started displaying Google profile results on name queries to help give users more control over their Google identity. As anyone who has been Googled knows, unflattering results of your name or company especially when listed in the first several pages–can run the gamut from embarrassing to [...]
22 April 2009
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11:38
Face recognition comes to Flickr
CNET - “Without any big fuss, a face-recognition feature has been added to Flickr. The new feature was launched recently by Swedish start-up Polar Rose. It lets users import all their photos from a Flickr account to an account on Polar Rose, where the images are then automatically assembled into groups dedicated to various [...]
13 April 2009
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00:25
IPod as guide to art exhibits
Washington Times - “Milwaukee Art Museum visitors can hear music from the 18th and 19th centuries along with information about American furniture from those centuries in the new iPod Touch tour.”
07 April 2009
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15:22
Analysis: Which URL Shortening Service Should You Use?
Search Engine Land - “URL shortening services are experiencing a renaissance in the age of Twitter. When every character counts, these services reduce long URLs to tiny forms. But which is the best to use, when so many are offered and new ones seem to appear each day? Below, issues to consider and a breakdown [...]
26 February 2009
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02:19
12 Burning Questions for Twitter Co-Founders
ABC News - “Nightline” correspondent John Donvan spoke with Twitter co-founders Biz Stone and Evan Williams, two of the masterminds behind the tweeting phenomenon. Below, find out how it all started and the surprises they experienced along the way. (This interview transcript has been edited slightly for clarity.)”
20 February 2009
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21:51
Google Books Downloader
Ghacks - “Google Books Search provides an interesting way to search for books and magazines that have been scanned by Google. The books and magazines can be viewed online but there is no way to make the contents available offline easily. It is possible to save the whole page to the local computer but that [...]
17 February 2009
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17:33
Yahoo offers iPhone like Web for masses
Reuters - "Yahoo announced a new mobile service on Tuesday that will deliver an iPhone-like experience for people who cannot or will not splash out for the iconic but pricey Apple device as times get hard. Yahoo Mobile will launch at the end of March in a form downloadable to any phone with a [...]
10 December 2008
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13:10
Don’t be 404, know the tech slang
BBC - “A study of new slang terms entering English finds that technology is driving and perpetuating them.”
23 November 2008
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23:04
HTTP errors
…a set on Flickr
06 November 2008
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13:45
Bringing Art to Google Maps
A few sites from Google Maps Mania, my favorite site on cool Google Map Apps.
31 October 2008
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02:49
Six Experimental Firefox Extensions We Love
Lifehacker - “We love Firefox for its extensibility, but sometimes we run into an extension or two that dons the “Experimental” label on the Firefox add-ons site.”