The New York Times’ Open Blog announced this morning the addition of about 5,000 new subject headings to the Linked Open Data repository at http://data.nytimes.com/. I covered the initial release of 5,000 […]
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Serious Information Trapping on Twitter with RowFeeder
Do you need to do some serious information trapping on Twitter? Got some keywords you want to monitor and you don’t want to miss a thing? Check out this nifty application I […]
Doing Real Time Search? Watch Your Word Order
If you’ve been reading ResearchBuzz for a while, you probably know that the way you enter your search terms in Google makes a difference. If you enter words in one order, you […]
Search Engine for PowerPoint Presentations
Okay, this wins my award as “most specialized search engine” so far this year. SlideFinder, at http://www.slidefinder.net/, helps you find PowerPoint presentations on the Web. You can do a simple keyword search […]
Google Turns Google Docs Into a Storage Device
Google has announced that Google Docs is set to become more than just a place to make presentations, spreadsheets, and documents. Over the next few weeks Google will be rolling out the […]
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