Wow! Yahoo announced yesterday its new Yahoo! Updates Firehose service in initial release. This thing sounds massive: “Yahoo! Updates aggregates social updates from Yahoo! and across the Web: It includes a real-time […]
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Wolfram|Alpha Releases Educators’ Version
Wow, I’m talking about Wolfram|Alpha a lot lately, aren’t I? Sorry, I gots a bit more to say. The site announced last week that there’s a new site developed for educators. The […]
Early Oregonians, Archived
The Oregon State Archives has a new database devoted to people who lived in Oregon prior to its statehood — the Early Oregonians Database, available at http://arcweb.sos.state.or.us/news/eo/eo (that’s actually a gateway URL, […]
Twitter Dips Its Toe in the Ad Water
Twitter announced this morning the launch of “Promoted Tweets” because it’s nice for a company to make revenue. Promoted Tweets are described in the blog post like this: “You will start to […]
Morning Buzz — April 13, 2010
Check this out: a search engine for cycling tours. Which is great, except now I have that Monty Python routine running through my head. “I’m on a cycling tour of North Cornwall…” […]
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