Someplace for me to put my thoughts on libraries, librarians, library 2.0 and books
From the monthly archives:
Christopher Reeve has died at home in the States today (Singapore time) from heart failure. He was 52. He played the Superman comic character 4 times in 1978, 1980, 1983 and 1987. He has definitely left an impression on my with his protrayal of Superman. He will a very tough act to follow by whoever […]
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Google is now available on SMS. The only catch is that you must be in the States to be able to assess the public beta of Google SMS. You don’t even have to be tied down to a computer to be able to a search. All you need is your mobile phone. But the service […]
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Seems like this is a good season to launch new search engines. Here’s another new search engine Snap. It was launched at the Web 2.0 conference by Bill Gross, the boss of idealab and the brains behind Overture. Overture was sold to Yahoo! in 2003. Snap allows users to slice and dice their own search […]
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Whoa!! There has been a recent deluge of new search engines coming online these couple of weeks. Just found 2 more new search engines: Clush (another meta and cluster search engine) and FindArticles (a publication and article finder under LookSmart). As librarians, we would need to constantly keep abreast of the new search engines and […]
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