Topix was extremely small-location focused when small-location focus wasn’t cool, and it paid off — Topix, with its news that’s browsable by zip code, is great when you’re trying to do geographic […]
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News and resources covering social media, search engines, databases, archives, and other such online information collections. Since 1998.
Fun With Google Trends
I’ve occasionally used the trending tool from IceRocket, but hadn’t until lately noticed that Google itself has a very useful trending tool. Have you tried it? It’s at http://www.google.com/trends . The trends […]
ResearchBuzz Roundup 100707
WiFi detecting t-shirt. WANT. Google Labs are getting empty! the Reader has graduated too. The State Department has a posse^H^H^H^H^H blog: Dipnote. Hey! Zoho has a database. A blog for librarians interested […]
Information Trapping for Tags: Thagoo
If you’re looking for more tag sites to do information trapping, check out Thagoo. It’s a tag meta-search site that offers RSS feeds for search results. The site’s at http://thagoo.com/ . Search […]
Play a Game, Teach The Computer About Music
I love learning about these sites that create games that allow humans to teach computers. Last year I covered Google’s game that allows players to tag images from Google. Recently I learned […]