Tuesday, May 31, 2005

Wikis & WordCat

Excellent initiative by WordCat by offering a tool to capture user input for biblio records via Lorcan Dempsey

Sunday, May 29, 2005

links (beta)

links is a group linklog and a beta project of the Yale Center for Medical Informatics and the Yale University Library.

Saturday, May 28, 2005

Google Factory Tour

No mention of Scholar Google in the presentation

Friday, May 27, 2005

Yahoo Mindset Beta

Interesting twist for Yahoo search results from Mindset. More info on their faq. One end of filtering is "Researching". Any plans for Yahoo Research like Google Scholar?

Thursday, May 19, 2005

Excellent Initiative at Drexel: RSS Club

Via Jay and Andy' blog

Let's see how many more RSS Club we will see in 2005. It would be great if we can bring some success case studies for these clubs to ASEE 2006!

Tuesday, May 17, 2005

Vivisimo's Life Science Product

Raul Valdez and Co moving into subscription business their new offering Nice implemetation.

Saturday, May 14, 2005

IBM gets in blogosphere bigtime

Steve Rubel posts on IBM big move to blogging. IBM's goal is "to help improve IBM's competitive position in key IT markets by having more of its tech gurus participating in online communities and discussions."

RSS: Coming Soon to PubMed

Here is the announcement on the NLM Technical Bulletin

Blogs on the go

Listen to your favorite blogs using talkr

Friday, May 13, 2005

New Patent Source with plenty of RSS :PatentMojo

a new paid service PatentMojo by StikiGroup, LLC. (which there is not too much information on)

Thursday, May 12, 2005

RBI goes RSS to distribute content

Great news coming from another part of my company. Reed Business Information partnered with NewsTex. Here is more on this partnership

Wednesday, May 11, 2005

Yahoo News Tagged

A very nice implementation of using open source, web service and tagging. The creativity is coming from John Herren at Ionzoft

It would be very cool to see similar implementation on STM content.

Tuesday, May 10, 2005

Google Scholar is open to any Library

We were expecting this coming.

Gary Price's write up on this

Monday, May 02, 2005

e-blogmerce: e-commerce through Blogging

Here is few basic tools to create an e-blogmerce