VNU Partners with NewsGator

Right move for VNU! VNU's coverage in information technology will be available through NewsGator. Via Shore

NetGen & Library Services

Must read article for information providers and libraries serving net geneation.

Google's growing pains

Very interesting article on Google, its founders and their realtionship with their CEO Eric Schmidt and VCs, Bill Campbell's (Intuit) coaching to Google's trio.

Seizing on a different analogy, he [Eric Schmidt] adds, “We developed the equivalent of what’s known in basketball as a run-and-shoot offense: Larry and Sergey’s only goal is to run to the other end of the court as fast as possible, so they’re always ahead of everyone else, strategically, technologically, culturally. I’m the not-running-ahead person. I stay back and get the rebounds.”

This reminds me the rabbit and turtle analogy that I have with my colleagues.

Nation's First Bachelor's in Nanosystems Engineering

Louisiana Tech becomes the first institution to offer nanosystems engineering degree

How BBC is using Blogging

An interview with Euan Semple from BBC DigiLab, via broadbandlog.net

Speculations on Google Calendar

A lot of rumor on Google Calendar, via Jeremy.

I think this is a natural move for Google, integrate Gmail with Gcalendar.

Science with Milk & Honey

Israel ranked 21st among the 145 top performing countries by in-cites ,

Randy's Valid Question

Randy's posting is about Taylor & Francis' new alerting service. He also asks this valid question

"What is taking publishers so long to offer RSS feeds for tables-of-contents, publisher news and press releases, etc.?"

I know some publishers like Elsevier Ei, IEEE, Nature, Knovel which have implemented RSS feeds but in general as STM publishers we have a long way to go.......

Marketers and Publishers with no RSS don't pass by Robert Scobble

I 100% agree with Dave and Rob's points that RSS is critical for any business (including database producers and scientific publishers) and marketer to convey their message and establish a relationship with their users.

Argument against Google Autolink

Dave's article points why Google Autoulink modifies the content

"Any news organization or academic journal that publishes on the Web now has a
serious integrity issue because of the existence of the Google toolbar with the
AutoLink feature. All documents will have to contain a disclaimer that links
contained within the page may not have been placed there by the author or
organization whose copyright notice is on the page. Same is true for legal
documents, end-user license agreements, rental agreements, etc. And if links are
changeable, is text subject to change as well? Might Google correct our
spelling? Or might they correct our thinking? Where is the line?"

Roy Tennant On Google Print

Many unanswered questions i.e how Google is going to execute the digitization in Roy's article

Vimeo

We will be hearing a lot on folksonomies. Via SearchViews a new service for videos a la Flickr: Vimeo.

Would not be great to post ASEE, SLA or any technical conference videos on line? How about video-proceeding?

Liberte, Egalite, Fraternite but no to Google Book project

"France's national library has raised a "warcry" over plans by Google to put books from some of the world's great libraries on the Internet and wants to ensure the project does not lead a domination of American ideas"


Instead of complaining may be they should partner with Google too.

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Crispin Davis Article on Library Fundiing in UK

It will be interesting to see the reaction to this article from the library market.

The latest on Crossref and Google Scholar

From CrossRef (found via NHS eLibraries)

"On January 27th, representatives from the CrossRef board and staff - Tony Durniak (IEEE), Gordon Tibbitts (Blackwell), Craig Van Dyck (Wiley), Ed Pentz and Chuck Koscher (CrossRef) - had a very productive meeting at Google regarding Google Scholar, CrossRef Search and establishing a more formal business relationship between CrossRef and Google. Google agreed with the principle that if there are multiple versions of an article shown in the Google Scholar search results, the first link will be to the publisher's authoritative copy. Google would like to use the DOI as the primary means to link to an article so CrossRef and Google will be working on this as well as a template for common terms and conditions for use of publishers full text content.

The CrossRef Search Committee feels that CrossRef Search still provides a valuable service as a search focused on authoritative, peer-reviewed literature from a known set of sources. Google Scholar is a very broad search of all the web and includes any material that "looks scholarly" and the material comes from an unknown set of sources. Therefore, the schedule is for results from CrossRef Search to be delivered from Google Scholar starting in April (the results now come from the regular Google index)."

Connecting with Customers through RSS

Robert Scobble is right, if you are trying to market your product and are not providing any tool (RSS feeds etc) to interact and connect with customers you are doomed!

Hottest Journals of the last 6 years in 11 Fields

Science takes the lead over Nature 6 to 5. From sciencewatch.com

Fac.eti.ous is Taking Faceted Searching to a new level

David post this new fac.eti.ous implementaion of faceted navigation using delicious RSS feeds. Another nice implementation from Siderean .

IBM 2004 Global Innovation Outlook Findings

Three main societal themes:

healthcare

government and its citizens

the business of work and life

Full report

rapidfeeds does the job

Their platform allows you turn your content into RSS in 3 easy steps. Here is what they did with Ei Update.

Just click and paste it in your reader

Thanks Malik, and good luck with the launch

Creating RSS feeds using Rapidfeeds

Engineering Village 2 is serious about this new world.

Interesting advise from Robert Scobble in his post for companies which were at Demo. Engineering Village 2 was not there but yes we are serious about this new world! Today we introduced RSS service in EV2

Demo@15

Some interesting companies on social networking and blogging services at Demo@15

View more at bloggingdemo

Michael Gorman's view on bloggers

I agree with his McGoogle point but I think, the president-elect of ALA missed some of the great blogs when he did his research.

Given the quality of the writing in the blogs I have seen, I doubt that many of the Blog People are in the habit of sustained reading of complex texts. It is entirely possible that their intellectual needs are met by an accumulation of random facts and paragraphs. In that case, their rejection of my view is quite understandable.

Here is the full article

A new Blogging Service: Bubbler

Posted by Scobleizer

DOE Joins CrossRef

From D-Lib's February 2005 issue.

Introducing RSS feeds in Engineering Village 2

URL: Transendoscopic laser ablation of upper respiratory cysts in twelve horses 1993 - 2003

Social Network Visualization

Great implemantation of flickrs APIs was posted at mrbrown