The OCLC has a new Twitter search that queries WorldCat. You use the hashtag #Ask4Stuff. Twitter has settled with the FTC after an investigation. Happy birthday, Google Fusion Tables, happy birthday to […]
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Flickr Bows a New Photo Page
Flickr has debuted a new photo page which is currently in rollout, but if you have a Flickr account, you can login and opt in to the new view right now. So […]
Morning Buzz — June 24, 2010
From the Chronicle of Higher Education: The Center for Social Media has released a new guide to using copyrighted works (under the aegis of Fair Use. Yale has gotten an NEH grant […]
Yahoo Announces PlaceFinder
So nice to get some good news out of Yahoo for once. The continued disintegration of its directory is making me mighty depressed. Anyway, Yahoo announced yesterday the public release of Yahoo! […]
Wikipedia Trying a Different Editing Approach
If you don’t use Wikipedia much, you might think that it’s kept “open” all the time, and that any page may be edited at any time by any person. That’s not correct. […]
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