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Topix.net has announced that they have added new Canadian content; a dedicated channel for Canada and local news for over 4,200 Canadian cities and towns. You can check out the Canadian news page at http://topix.net/ca . You can also search...
Del.Icio.Us Details With Yahoo Images
And in the "Resource name I'll never be able to pronounce" category, the winner is extisp.icio.us, a site that provides visual information about deli.icio.us usernames and mixes their tags with Yahoo Image results. It's available at http://kevan.org/extispicious. There are actually...
Google Announces Video Viewer
A couple months ago I mentioned Google's video upload program. This week Google announced a new Google Video viewer, so you can actually see the video that's been updated. Details at http://video.google.com. The viewer can run with either Firefox or...
Google Releases API for Google Maps
In a move that should increase late night Web resource mashups and caffeine consumption on a grand scale, Google has announced an API for its Google Maps service. Information is available at http://www.google.com/apis/maps/ . Note that there are restrictions on...
Answers.com Introduces Citation Tool
Answers.com, a search engine for answers, is now offering a citation creation tool along with their answers. You can check it out at http://www.answers.com . I ran a search for "James Dean", mostly because I can't get the Eagles song...
BuddyBuzz for Reading on Your Phone
This is a little off-topic, but if you do a lot of reading on your phone like I do, and are looking for a solution to help you read a little faster, you might enjoy BuddyBuzz. BuddyBuzz is an experiment...
New on LLRX -- June 2005
There's plenty of new stuff at LLRX.com, including Review of Annotated Refugee Convention: Fifty Years of North American Jurisprudence ( http://www.llrx.com/features/refugeeconvention.htm ), Garbage In, Garbage Out: Working Around Document Profiling to Improve Work Product Retrieval Efforts ( http://www.llrx.com/features/garbageinout.htm ), The...
Congressional Research Service Reports on New Site
There's a new site devoted to making Congressional Research Service reports more accessible. It's called Open CRS Network and it's available at http://www.opencrs.com/ . The reports are keyword-searchable, while the front page also lists recently-added reports and featured reports. (If...
Continue reading "Congressional Research Service Reports on New Site" » Google Launches Personalized Search in Beta
Google's launched a new personalized search service that adjusts your search results depending on what you've searched for before. Of course as a new Google product it's in beta; you can try it at https://www.google.com/psearch/login?prev=/psearch . You'll need a Google...
Continue reading "Google Launches Personalized Search in Beta" » New Version of iTunes Available
Apple has released a new version of iTunes. This new version, 4.9, includes support for podcasting. Whoopee! You can download the new version at http://www.apple.com/itunes/download/ . In the meantime, Dave Taylor's got a brief tutorial for using this new podcast-listening...
MSN Search Adds Special Syntax
Whee! I love special syntax. MSN has added several to their Web search. You can get a full explanation at http://blogs.msdn.com/msnsearch/archive/2005/06/24/432439.aspx, but in the meantime here's a rundown: Filetype: Searches for documents of a particular filetype. At the moment it...
New DMOZ Blogs in Different Languages
There are new DMOZ blogs available in French, German, and Czech. Get all the skinny at the English-language DMOZ blog: http://dmoz.theblob.org/dmoz/journal.cgi/1119955645.html....
Social Bookmarking for PDF Documents
Ten thousand thanks to LibraryPlanet for a pointer to Yummy, a PDF directory that runs on tags and is hooked into a print-on-demand service. PDF files tend to be more information-based, and to a certain extent more academic. This is...
June 22, 2005Technorati Gets a New Look
It was in beta for a little while, but it looks as if Technorati's new look has gone live at http://www.technorati.com . Aside from the page redesign, there's also most popular searches on the front page, as well as a...
Were Your Ancestors at the Battle of Trafalgar?
The National Archives in the UK have launched a new database for people to see if their ancestors were at the Battle of Trafalgar. It's called, strangely enough, Trafalgar Ancestors and it's available at http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/trafalgarancestors . (Only those who served...
Continue reading "Were Your Ancestors at the Battle of Trafalgar?" » Business Information in Wiki Format
Now this is interesting, though there isn't a whole lot here yet. Yellowikis, at http://www.yellowikis.org/ , aims to provide information on individual businesses in a Wiki format. It launched in January, but there isn't a lot here yet. I can...
June 13, 2005Another Tagged Online Bookmarks Manager
Hat tip to Library Stuff for the pointer to http://www.netvouz.com/ , which is another social bookmarks manager with super tagging action. From the front page you can get a list of the newest bookmarks (complete with RSS feeds) but you...
Continue reading "Another Tagged Online Bookmarks Manager" » New Mexico News Plus
After I posted the story about Kentucky, I was sent a pointer to New Mexico News Plus, which is updated with pointers to government documents in response to stories in local media. So if there's a story in a local...
DoubleTrust Offers Yahoo / Google Result Mashup
More searching and mashup goodness! Whoopee! This time it's a project from the Computer Science department at Northwestern University. It's called DoubleTrust and it's at http://www.doubletrust.net . What DoubleTrust does is combine the results of Google and Yahoo into one...
Continue reading "DoubleTrust Offers Yahoo / Google Result Mashup" » June 11, 2005Bloglines Hits 500 Million Article Mark
Bloglines ( http://www.bloglines.com ) has announced that their index now contains 500 million blog and news feed articles. That's interesting, but what really blows my mind is that they doubled their index size between January and June of 2005. Also...
Continue reading "Bloglines Hits 500 Million Article Mark" » Gallup Organization Launches RSS Feeds
The Gallup people dropped me a note to let me know that the Gallup Organization has launched eight RSS feeds, which are available at http://www.gallup.com/poll/rss . The feeds are Government and Politics; Business and Economy; Health and Healthcare; Religion and...
Kentucky.gov Gets a Site Redesign and New Services
Kentucky.gov ( http://www.kentucky.gov ) has relaunched their Web site with a new look and added new services as well. The new site now has a service that allows visitors to sign up for e-mail alerts. To take advantage you'll have...
Continue reading "Kentucky.gov Gets a Site Redesign and New Services" » June 10, 2005NetMechanic Upgrades to Version 3.0
NetMechanic, which I feel like I've been using for about fifty years, recently announced an update to version 3.0, which now incorporates Firefox. NetMechanic, if you're not familiar with it, allows Webmasters and designers to check Web sites for a...
Become.com Launches Their Own Suggestion Service
Become.com, last mentioned here in April, now has dynamic suggestions as part of their search. As you might remember, dynamic suggestions are suggestions that change in "real type" as you're typing in your search. Instead of a page refresh, the...
Continue reading "Become.com Launches Their Own Suggestion Service" » World Database of Bird Species
BirdLife International has a database of birds with over 250,000 records. It's available at http://www.birdlife.org/datazone/index.html ; use the nav on the left to search. The database seems to be more about providing the endangered status of species and less on...
June 09, 2005More Search Result Comparison Goodness
People seem to like those sites where you can compare the results from two different search engines, so here's another one that you can use to compare results from Yahoo News and Google News. It's at http://www.newsiness.com/googleyahoonews/ . The site...
Visual Comparison of Google, Yahoo Results
I find visual comparisons annoying. I'm a text-crawler. But this one I find less annoying than most. While this site is one that uses Flash to show search results, it's not done in a way that makes me want to...
Continue reading "Visual Comparison of Google, Yahoo Results" » Minnesota Historical Society Updates
The Minnesota Historical Society recently updated its birth certificate index; it now includes 1900-1910. That's in addition to a death certificate index on the site which indexes death cards from 1905 to 1907 the death certificates from 1908 to 1996....
Welcome EVERYBODY
Welcome readers of CNN, the AP, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, etc etc etc. Thanks for visiting. Unfortunately it rained and poured; I have a ton of updates to post on the site, all of which should be here by tomorrow morning. So...
June 08, 2005Generate Google Sitemaps Automatically
If you're into the idea of Google Sitemaps but you're not into rolling your own SiteMap, check out SiteMapsPal at http://www.sitemapspal.com/, which has a handy online form for generating SiteMaps for you. I tried it and it worked okay once...
Version 58 of Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography Available
Version 58 of the Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography has hit the scene. This new version contains over 2,400 articles, books, and other resources related to scholarly electronic publishing on the Internet. The HTML version's at http://info.lib.uh.edu/sepb/sepb.html, while the PDF version's...
Continue reading "Version 58 of Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography Available" » Google Making 3-D Map of San Francisco?
Man, if it were anywhere near April 1st I would be seriously wondering about this story. BetaNews is reporting on a story at SiliconValleyWatcher that Google is attempting to map San Francisco with trucks and lasers. From the SiliconValleyWatcher article:...
Continue reading "Google Making 3-D Map of San Francisco?" » June 07, 2005Online Dictionary with Entries in Limerick
This makes me far happier than it probably should. The OEDILF, or "Omnificent English Dictionary In Limerick Form", is currently working on entries aa- through ba-. Its a dictionary where the definitions are given in the form of limericks. You...
Continue reading "Online Dictionary with Entries in Limerick" » ODP Adds Google
The Open Directory Project has a new "Recreations" subdirectory for Google at http://dmoz.org/Computers/Internet/Searching/Search_Engines/Google/Recreations/ . This section contains a bunch of offbeat, interesting-but-not-necessarily-useful Google-related pointers....
Google Announces Google Sitemaps
Google has announced Google Sitemaps, which is a free online service for Webmasters. The idea it that the better information Google has about a site the better and more completely they'll be able to index it. You can sign up...
A Search Engine for Acronyms
Esus has announced the release of Acronyma, a search engine with an index of over 450,000 acronyms and abbreviations. It's available at http://www.acronyma.com/ . You may search in several different languages, and you may search by word or by acronym....
June 03, 2005PubSub Unleashes a Bunch of Government-Related RSS Feeds
PubSub has started a section of their site that provides RSS feeds on what's being said about US government official. You can get started at http://www.pubsub.com/features/government/ . The subscriptions are divided into several sections. Obviously you can get feeds for...
Continue reading "PubSub Unleashes a Bunch of Government-Related RSS Feeds" » Open Source Search Clustering Project
I've been writing a lot about various clustering projects, so the folks at Carrot Search thought they better hip me to what they're doing. They're an open source clustering project that's been around for a while. It's at http://sourceforge.net/projects/carrot2/ ....
British Library Launches British Library Direct
The British Library has announced British Library Direct, which is a pay-as-you-go service that offers nine million articles from 20,000 international research journals. These articles go back five years, and about 150,000 new entries are added a month. You can...
Continue reading "British Library Launches British Library Direct" » June 01, 2005Henk van Ess Drops Google Bomb
Henk van Ess and I have corresponded occasionally; he's a sharp guy who keeps a close eye on Google. It looks like he's found something in the Googleplex that's going to generate a lot of interest. The first post of...
Yow! TN Offers RSS Feeds and Podcasts!
Wow! The governor of TN has both a podcast and a blog with an RSS feed! How hip! Check 'em out at http://www.tennesseeanytime.org/rss/index.html. I had a little dream that his latest blog entry might be something like, "Man, those Tennessee...
Tucows Offers Some Updates
Software download site Tucows ( http://www.tucows.com ) which I've been using for approximately one million years, has added a couple of new features to its site. First are some new categories of software. There's a new category for iPod software...
It's Google's Summer of Code
Put on your tie-dyed pocket protectors and your granny glasses, baby, because it's Google's summer of code. Or something. Don't try to write clever lead-ins this late at night. Here's the skinny: Google is hoping to team up students and...
Hub of British Podcasts
If you're into UK stuff, check out this new service that's listing UK podcasts. It officially launched today (though there's content back to last November), so it's only got 35 podcasts (at this writing.) It's called BritCaster at http://britcaster.com/ ....
List of Googlers' Papers at Google Labs
No, it's not some cool feature that allows you to get all your search results upside-down and shaped like pineapples. Instead it's a pointer to a collection of papers done by the Googlers! It's off Google Labs at http://labs.google.com/papers.html ....
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