1. Upcoming: E20SUMMIT next week 53 minutes ago   permalink

Martin Koser / Frogpond

This coming week it’s showtime finally. It’s the week of E20SUMMIT, ie. a week packed with discussions, information and “peer talk” on Enterprise 2.0. I know that some of my readers will be there, but I don’t think I can manage to have a beer with each of you, sorry about that, but I want to remember [...]

2. Services made flesh: 10 weird – and not so weird – “avatar” gadgets 1 hour ago   permalink

Www.crunchgear.com

The dawn of the 21st century brought us a problem: we had lots of data, but no real way to bring that data into the real world. We could feasibly lug laptops and phones around, but did they ever do exactly what we needed them to do? Don’t answer that.

3. The October, 2009 Issue of the IFLA Journal is Now Available 4 hours ago   permalink

Resourceshelf / ResourceShelf

Access the Complete Issue (35.3) (PDF) This Issue (full text online, free) includes: + Editorial: Reading, Information Literacy and Professional Development +Reading Sources and Reading Spaces in Honduras + Information Literacy and Scholarly Investigation: a British perspective + Our Space: professional development for new graduates and ...

4. Dealing With a Spouse’s Layoff 4 hours ago   permalink

Meryl Evans / WebWorkerDaily

This week, my husband was laid off for the second time in five years. This one hurts more than the first. At that time, I held a corporate job, so our health insurance and other benefits remained intact. But I became a full-time freelancer after he found a stable job with benefits. Now that’s all [...]

5. New iPhone App: NASA Images 10 hours ago   permalink

Resourceshelf / ResourceShelf

On October 23rd we posted about a new iPhone/iTouch app from NASA. All sorts of info dynamically updated info. It’s a free app. Today, something new. Now, it’s time for the NASA Images app with content coming from the nasaimages which is an effort to bring all NASA imagery and video together in a single [...]

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Adam Ostrow / Mashable! IPhone Coming to Verizon in 2010   —  Many signs point to the Apple and AT&T agreement that makes the latter the exclusive carrier of the iPhone within the US coming to an end within the next year. For starters, non-exclusivity has been profitable for Apple in other parts of the world. Moreover, even AT&T’s CEO acknowledges the deal won’t last forever. And while ...

Jasmine Antonick / Under the Radar Pizza Hut iPhone App Generates a Million in Dough   —  From Russell Buckley over at MediaWeek: “If you’re one of those marketers who think this iPhone Apps trend is all very well, but in your heart of hearts a little well…. overhyped, you’re not going to like this story very much as you’re going to have to rethink your world view. Because Pizza Hut’s recent iPhone [.

Brian Magierski / Brian Magierski Will Android blow iPhone OS away?   —  Here is an interesting post from Chris Dannen on FastCompany.com on Android vs. iPhone OS. While he misses the entire point on the 100k+ apps in the iPhone apps store, he does make a compelling point about the future of productivity with mobile + cloud computing going forward. However, the apps store can be overblown to a [...]

6. Wikimedia Foundation Launches The Bookshelf Project 7 hours ago   permalink

Resourceshelf / ResourceShelf

From the Wikimedia Blog Post: Maybe you’ve been editing Wikipedia for years. Or maybe you made your first edit a few days ago. Whatever your experience, you likely know at least one central fact about editing – that it can be difficult for newcomers to master the skills necessary for contributing to Wikipedia. We want to change [...]

7. Too tired to tweet 8 hours ago   permalink

Www.abc.net.au

I'm a geek and I'm proud to say so. Not a putting together my own PC, using Linux and coding my own programs sort of geek, but a technology-loving and appreciating sort of geek.

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Stephen Collins / Acidlabs :   It’s not extra time, it’s a shift in time

8. JISC competition finds stars in library user data 9 hours ago   permalink

Www.jisc.ac.uk

Figures showing everyday use of a university library are the unlikely stars of a JISC-funded competition showcasing innovative approaches to presenting library data.

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Resourceshelf / ResourceShelf :   UK: Results of a Contest to Create Innovative Applications Using Library Data

9. YouTube Is Falling Apart Again 13 hours ago   permalink

Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch

The ads are destroying YouTube. At least this one is. It is a video ad for sustainable energy company from Spain called Acciona . Yeah, I had never heard of them either. The video starts with this Euro-dude in a suit starting to blow up and crack apart like he's made from plaster. Halfway through, the actual video player crack in half, and all ...

10. POLL: TweetDeck Trounces Seesmic Desktop in Reader Vote 14 hours ago   permalink

Barb Dybwad / Mashable!

We’ve had a number of close calls here during our Web Faceoff series, but this wasn’t one of them. This week we pitted TweetDeck and Seesmic Desktop against each other in a bar room brawl for favorite Twitter client. Now, the results are in. Whereas last week’s Windows 7 versus OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard battle was a close one , ...

11. DocVerse Puts Google Docs-Like Collaboration Inside Microsoft Office 17 hours ago   permalink

Ben Parr / Mashable!

This post is part of Mashable’s Spark of Genius series, which highlights a unique feature of startups. If you would like to have your startup considered for inclusion, please see the details here . The series is made possible by Microsoft BizSpark. Name: DocVerse Quick Pitch: DocVerse brings the collaboration functionality of products like ...

12. November Tech Podcast Round Table Announcement! 18 hours ago   permalink

Techpodcasts / Tech Podcast Network

Don’t forget to join us Saturday November 7th at 1:00PM Pacific – 4:00PM Eastern for the Tech Podcast Roundtable. This month’s featured guest will be from Connectify this is a demo you will not want to miss Todd Cochrane will be demonstrating the new features in PowerPress Podcasting Plugin Jeffrey Powers of Geekazine will be doing a demo [..

13. 5 Most Popular Posts on WebWorkerDaily This Week 19 hours ago   permalink

Simon Mackie / WebWorkerDaily

Just in case you missed any of them, here are the five most popular posts on WebWorkerDaily this week: Does Multitasking Make You More Productive? It’s easy to think that just because you’re a demon multitasker, you’re automatically productive. But is that really the case? Karen investigates. Google Dashboard: Find Out What ...

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14. WWD Screencast: Firefox 3.6 Tab Previews 19 hours ago   permalink

Simon Mackie / WebWorkerDaily

With the new beta of Firefox 3.6, new tab previewing functionality has been made available in Firefox — you can preview tabs using the “List all tabs” button, and you can see a preview when using Ctrl-Tab to switch between tabs. These two new features are not enabled by default, so you’ll need to go to [...]

15. Exclusive video of the Litl Webbook 21 hours ago   permalink

Www.crunchgear.com

When news of the Litl Webbook broke out on Wednesday, I was pleased to learn that the company is located here in Boston, since there aren’t nearly as many people in this area making actual hardware devices, as opposed to software and web companies.

16. Bookless Libraries? 1 day ago   permalink

Www.insidehighered.com

What started as a debate over whether brick-and-mortar libraries would survive much further into the 21st century turned into an existential discussion on the definition of libraries, as a gathering of technologists here at the 2009 Educause Conference pondered the evolution of one of higher education’s oldest institutions.

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Resourceshelf / ResourceShelf :   On the Definition of the 21st Century Academic Library

Steven / Library Stuff :   Bookless Libraries?

17. DeepDyve and PLoS – Q & A 22 hours ago   permalink

Steven / Library Stuff

From PLOS

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Www.plos.org Responding to community feedback - DeepDyve and PLoS - Q & A   —  Over the past few days, a company called DeepDyve, who run a search engine that we use on the PLoS.org website, announced a rental service for research articles. DeepDyve offers two types of content on its site - restricted-access content (from traditional publishers such as OUP, Wiley-Blackwell, Sage and others) which can be "rented" ... Steven / Library Stuff :    DeepDyve and PLoS – Q & A

18. Public Library of Charlotte & Mecklenburg County – Digital Bookmobile 22 hours ago   permalink

Steven / Library Stuff

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19. Android Developer Challenge 2 Finalists Posted, Final Judging Begins 23 hours ago   permalink

Www.mobilecrunch.com

Early this morning, 200 Android developers woke up to one hell of an e-mail: they’d made it into the final round of the second Android Developer Challenge, and were thus one giant step closer to as much as $250,000.

20. TechCrunch Europe ChristmasCrunch – A Realtime Holiday 1 day ago   permalink

TechCrunch Europe / TechCrunch

It is time for the second annual TechCrunch Europe ChristmasCrunch ! Yes folks it's our annual TechCrunch Europe meetup and Festive Holiday party, in one handy package. This year we're taking a different tack - basing it around one of the the hottest themes right now, namely the rise of realtime streams. We've seen the emergence of Twitter, ...