EVDB launches

A new neat product. One of the interesting features is the ICAL (green button)

More on Long Tail

From Change This

New Beta from Yahoo

Creative Commons search from Yahoo

A new niche search engine from Australia

Factbites still in beta but it has a very clean interface and beats google in terms of providing value to the result set by category refinement.....

Social Media: is this the next buble or not

Deal article says it's not

Long Tail Phenomena

Chris Anderon's article on Long Tail. The question and challenge for me is how to do this in secondary and primary publishing.

Persuadio

Announcement of a new company that will tackle relationship mapping between people and information via ratcliffblog

Good move by Thomas Nelson Publisher

They put their corporate blogging guidelines online to get feedback.

Text Mining Summit

June 7-8 in Boston, main players will be presenters

P2P Scientific Digital Library

Biblioteca d'Alessandria

State of Blogosphere

Part 2 and Part 3 from David Sifry

Additional Patent Sources

Some of the sources listed here provide downloading of multiple patents in pdf.. Via The Invent Blog

Personalized Google Search

From Google lab personalized search
Personalized search results are available for the only the first page of results.

Podshow.com

Adam Curry launches podshow.com. I can't wait seeing scientific publishers getting into this channel and reaching out to many users.

Podshow.com

Adam Curry launches podshow.com. I can't wait seeing scientific publishers getting into this channel and reaching out to many users.

Del.icio.us and semantic web

John Udells' screencast on the power of using del.icio.us

State of Blogosphere

David Sifry's post

Microsoft's RSS Aggregator

Their prototype at start is a good indication that the fun has just started.

New Blog on Google Scholar

TJ Sonderman a Research and Instruction Librarian started a blog about Google Scholar

Shore Communications Covers EV2 RSS feeds

John Blossom picked up EV2's RSS feeds in his post today.

He states that:

Elsevier claims that EV2 is "the first subscription based engineering A&I platform [that] provides RSS feeds." I'll take that last part with a grain of salt, but this is clearly a good example of how publishers are using RSS to publish database update streams to their clients in an easily repackaged form.

If anyone knows any other subscription based A&I platform offering RSS feeds please let me know.

Yahoo! Directory RSS feeds

Yahoo starts offering RSS feeds for its directory.

Laszlo launches email client with Earthlink

Laszlo Systems which has other great applications especially for ecommerce launched their e-mail clinet.

New Contender for online video publishing

Brightcove is a new company in this market.

Radio Podcasting

Podcasting changes radio broadcasting too via Haaretz