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April 30, 2004Google Finally Pops Out an IPOAfter breathless anticipation by -- let's face it -- pretty much everybody on the Internet, Google has finally announced its IPO. For fun here are some resources with which you...Read the rest of entry "Google Finally Pops Out an IPO " here. April 29, 2004Google and Yahoo Upgrade Image SearchesBoth Google and Yahoo have announced that they've added news images to their image search. At Google Images ( http://images.google.com ) you'll see news images in gray at the top...Read the rest of entry "Google and Yahoo Upgrade Image Searches " here. Database of Open Source Clip Art Launched(Hat tip to GE for this pointer.) I'm not sure if this site has been official released yet; there's a limited amount of content with plenty of requests for more....Read the rest of entry "Database of Open Source Clip Art Launched " here. April 28, 2004Weblog for Gmail TipsA new Weblog for learning more about how to best use Gmail is available at http://gmailgems.blogspot.com/. Hat tip to SC. This entry will not appear in the newsletter....About.com Relaunches Its SiteAbout.com has announced the relaunch of their site, which is still at http://www.about.com . If you're not familiar with About.com, it's like this: About.com is divided into several sections (...Read the rest of entry "About.com Relaunches Its Site " here. Lycos Getting Shopped Around -- News & SpeculationDo you remember when Lycos was All That? When they were doing tons upon tons of acquisitions, gathering up Wired and Hotbot and Angelfire, etc. Lycos was one of the...Read the rest of entry "Lycos Getting Shopped Around -- News & Speculation" here. April 27, 2004Hey! Huah! Book Recommendations! Good Gnod, Ya'll!If you've run out of books to read and are down to deciding between an old JC Penny's catalog and a copy of LANDO SACKETT that you've read eighty billion...Read the rest of entry "Hey! Huah! Book Recommendations! Good Gnod, Ya'll!" here. This Week in ResearchBuzz ExtraEvery week in ResearchBuzz Extra you'll get news and resources that you won't find in the regular ResearchBuzz. You'll also get an article. This week's article: I Hate Bookmarks, Part...Read the rest of entry "This Week in ResearchBuzz Extra" here. Australian Journals, We Love You, Amen!The National Library of Australia offers Australian Journals OnLine, a database of over 2,000 magazines, journals, etc. with primarily Australian content. You can access it at http://www.nla.gov.au/ajol/ . The database...Read the rest of entry "Australian Journals, We Love You, Amen!" here. Admin: Today's ResearchBuzzToday's ResearchBuzz may be late or nonexistent. Thanks for your patience....April 26, 2004Electronics Recycling Programs Around the CountryI'm late for Earth Day; sorry about that. However the issue of how to recycle electronics is a year-round concern, so I'm pointing you at the Electronic Industries Alliance Consumer...Read the rest of entry "Electronics Recycling Programs Around the Country" here. Library of Congress Updates Prints and Photographs Online CatalogApparently it's LOC day here at ResearchBuzz. Who knew? Anyway, the LOC has announced that their Prints and Photographs Online Catalog, at http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/catalog.html , now has almost 1 million images....Read the rest of entry "Library of Congress Updates Prints and Photographs Online Catalog" here. Library of Congress Releases Base Ball GuidesThe Library of Congress, apparently feeling the baseball groove as we go through April, has announced the release of "Spalding Base Ball Guides 1889-1939." It's available at http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/spaldinghtml/ . This...Read the rest of entry "Library of Congress Releases Base Ball Guides " here. April 24, 2004They Won't Leave Your Head Evah -- Happy Songs FridayIn my 6+ years doing ResearchBuzz I've never had to have a surgical procedure as a direct result of reviewing a Web site. But that may change. After reviewing http://www.wohmart.com/tec/...Read the rest of entry "They Won't Leave Your Head Evah -- Happy Songs Friday " here. Database of Phishing Scams AvailablePhishing scams are when you get e-mails from alleged legitimate institutions (banks, eBay, whatever) saying that your account has been compromised or you've been charged a zillion dollars or whatever....Read the rest of entry "Database of Phishing Scams Available" here. April 22, 2004Legacy Offers Collection of Obituary SitesGenealogy buffs, sharpen your pencils. Legacy.com both hosts obituary sites for newspapers and offers of a free lookup of the last 30 days' of obituaries. What's available varies a lot...Read the rest of entry "Legacy Offers Collection of Obituary Sites " here. Gleason Sackmann Updates Schools ListGleason Sackmann, whom you may remember from his Net-Happenings mailing list, has updated his schools on the Internet list. The list has been available for years and at the moment...Read the rest of entry "Gleason Sackmann Updates Schools List" here. April 21, 2004Google to Set Up R&D Center in JapanFrom the Asia Times: http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Japan/FD22Dh03.html: "Google Inc, the US provider of the world's leading Internet search engine service, plans to set up a research and development (R&D) center in Japan...Read the rest of entry "Google to Set Up R&D Center in Japan" here. Dates, On-This-Dates, and All Kindsa StuffYou know that little Ziggyesque statement about there being three kinds of people: those who make it happen, those who watch things happen, and those who wonder what happened. Though...Read the rest of entry "Dates, On-This-Dates, and All Kindsa Stuff" here. The RSS RoundupIt's time for another episode of the RSS roundup. Yee-haw! Let's start out with those institutions of higher learning. UCBerkeley has announced RSS feeds; get more details at http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2004/04/06_rss.shtml ....Baseball LinksI admit it; I'm a Cubbies fan. I like the commentators, I like the stadium, and I can watch the games on WGN. I'm not really big on baseball in...April 20, 2004The Nature of Meaning in the Age of GoogleInteresting paper, available at http://informationr.net/ir/9-3/paper180.html. Here's the abstract: "The culture of lay indexing has been created by the aggregation strategy employed by Web search engines such as Google. Meaning is...Read the rest of entry "The Nature of Meaning in the Age of Google" here. Ideas for an Open Search Engine IndexIf you're interested in the idea of a community-built search engine, you may want to wander over and investigate the offerings at Open Index ( http://www.openindex.org/ ). This site is...Read the rest of entry "Ideas for an Open Search Engine Index" here. This Week in ResearchBuzz ExtraEvery week in ResearchBuzz Extra you'll get news and resources that you won't get in the regular ResearchBuzz. You'll also get an article. This week's article: I Hate Bookmarks, Part...Read the rest of entry "This Week in ResearchBuzz Extra " here. A New Source for Finding Forums OnlineOnline communities are still going strong. Though there's not too much there in a moment, Forum Zilla hopes to be a substantial online forum directory. Forum Zilla ( http://www.forumzilla.com/ )is...Read the rest of entry "A New Source for Finding Forums Online" here. April 19, 2004Xrefer Offers Free Xreferplus Access During National Library Weekxrefer has announced that they're offering free access tot heir xreferplus ready reference service during National Library Week (April 18-24.) This is access for libraries only; you can get more...Read the rest of entry "Xrefer Offers Free Xreferplus Access During National Library Week " here. A Database of Open Source VulnerabilitiesOSVDB stands for Open Source Vulnerability Database, and that's exactly what it is. You can find it at http://www.osvdb.org . The front page has the ten most recent stable entries...Read the rest of entry "A Database of Open Source Vulnerabilities " here. Microsoft Opens Up Its Own Sandbox of Search TechnologyAll of a sudden there are all kinds of fun search experiments out there. Microsoft is opening its own with the MSN Sandbox, available at http://sandbox.msn.com . What's here varies...Read the rest of entry "Microsoft Opens Up Its Own Sandbox of Search Technology " here. April 16, 2004Idaho Lands And Buildings for SaleThe state of Idaho has launched a Web site showing available commercial, industrial, and retail lands and buildings for sale in Idaho. Its use is free and it's available at...Read the rest of entry "Idaho Lands And Buildings for Sale" here. This Week in PR BopDid you wear your jammies to work today? Check out the Jerry Springer NASCAR? Wish a happy 50th anniversary to mechanized production Peeps? it just gets weirder and weirder at...MSN's Newsbot Gets Some New FeaturesMSN's Newsbot, which is in Beta in the UK, has some new features. You can check out the news search at http://uk.newsbot.msn.com/ . First thing you'll notice is that the...Read the rest of entry "MSN's Newsbot Gets Some New Features" here. April 15, 2004RocketNews Relaunched Their News Search EngineWhat is it with news search engines? Do they go in cycles? Early in the Internet we had some lovely news search engines, then a lot of them died off,...Read the rest of entry "RocketNews Relaunched Their News Search Engine" here. Amazon's Search PortalYeah, you read that right. Amazon's got a search portal (well, they've got a wholly-owned subsidiary that's a search portal.) Pardon me whilst I go get an aspirin. They're not...April 14, 2004Death Index Listings Around the Country(Apparently it's Grim Genealogy Day here at ResearchBuzz. Sorry about that.) If you're doing genealogy research here in the US you'll appreciate Joe Beine's Death Indexes at http://www.deathindexes.com/ . The...Read the rest of entry "Death Index Listings Around the Country " here. Thomson Gale Offers Two Dozen Reference Databases for Free Next WeekNext week is National Library Week and Thomson Gale is ready to GET DOWN AND PARTY! Well, they're ready to get down and offer access to over two dozen reference...Read the rest of entry "Thomson Gale Offers Two Dozen Reference Databases for Free Next Week" here. New at LLRXLLRX.com has added a couple new articles for early April. There's Legal Protection of Cultural Property: A Selective Resource Guide ( http://www.llrx.com/features/culturalproperty.htm ) and International Trade in Agricultural Products: A...Veterans Affairs Puts Over Three Million Cemetery Records OnlineThe Department of Veterans Affairs announced yesterday that they've put a database of over three million veterans' cemetery records online. The records cover veterans and dependents buried in VA cemeteries...Read the rest of entry "Veterans Affairs Puts Over Three Million Cemetery Records Online" here. April 13, 2004SurfWax Has a News Search TooAfter all this talking about news search, the folks at SurfWax dropped me a note to let me know that they have a news search too. Theirs includes an interesting...Read the rest of entry "SurfWax Has a News Search Too" here. This Week in ResearchBuzz ExtraEvery week in ResearchBuzz Extra you'll get news and resources that you won't get in the regular ResearchBuzz. You'll also get an article. This week, another look at natural language...Read the rest of entry "This Week in ResearchBuzz Extra" here. Visualize Hoovers Data With AnacubisAnacubis.com, an information visualization company, has opened up a new demo which includes visualization of data provided by business site Hoovers. So fire up IE (this site won't work in...Read the rest of entry "Visualize Hoovers Data With Anacubis" here. April 12, 2004Sue LeBeau's Site Offers Educational InformationIf you're looking for educational sites, especially K-12 sites, you'll enjoy Sue LeBeau's site at http://www.suelebeau.com . There aren't any annotations, unfortunately, and the search form has its own page,...Read the rest of entry "Sue LeBeau's Site Offers Educational Information " here. Google Teaming Up With Universities for Scholarly Papers SearchAn article in the Chronicle of Higher Education notes that Google is teaming up with MIT and over a dozen other institutions to create a searchable archive of scholarly papers....Read the rest of entry "Google Teaming Up With Universities for Scholarly Papers Search " here. MozDex Open Search Engine In BetaLast week was the beta launch of mozDex, described as "an Open search system built on open source technologies." The engine uses the Nutch open source search engine, and is...Read the rest of entry "MozDex Open Search Engine In Beta" here. April 09, 2004A Collection of Google LogosIf you're all about the Google Logos, you'll love logoogle.com which has a collection of official and unofficial Google Logos. (There is a suggestive, though very blurred, logo on the...This Week in PR BopThis week in PR Bop we got mobby, we looked at the new MacArthur action figure, got depressed about preschoolers and antidepressants, and wondered about the Pizza Hut essay contest....April 08, 2004Ask Jeeves Searchin' For Famous PeopleAsk Jeeves is now offering Famous People Search, which includes some results for famous people with a photograph, brief biography, and pointers to more information. Strangely enough PG Wodehouse does...Read the rest of entry "Ask Jeeves Searchin' For Famous People " here. New York Death Index Available, 1898-1911The good folks at the Italian Genealogical Group have a searchable index to deaths in New York available at http://www.italiangen.org/NYCDeath.stm . There are three groups of data here; 1891 to...Read the rest of entry "New York Death Index Available, 1898-1911" here. April 07, 2004RealPlayer 10 ReleasedRealNetworks announced today the launch of RealPlayer 10, which they say will play content in RealAudio, RealVideo, AAC, Windows Media, QuickTime MPEG-4 and MP3. This version is available for North...Google FAQSome extremely enterprising individuals have created a FAQ based on questions that frequently appear in the google.public.support.general newsgroup. It's available at http://www.geocities.com/googlepubsupgenfaq/ . Information is divided into several categories, including...April 06, 2004New Civil War Collection from Library of CongressThe Library of Congress has announced A Civil War Soldier in the Wild Cat Regiment: Selections from the Tilton C. Reynolds Papers. It's available at http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/tcrhtml/ . Tilton C. Reynolds...Read the rest of entry "New Civil War Collection from Library of Congress" here. This Week in ResearchBuzz ExtraEvery week in ResearchBuzz Extra you'll get news and resources that you don't get in the regular ResearchBuzz. You'll also get an article. This week's article: how I went to...Read the rest of entry "This Week in ResearchBuzz Extra" here. New York Times offers Hirschfeld CollectionYeah yeah, I know it's all about relaunching the theater section and there are archived reviews and news and all that but what I REALLY want you to know is...Read the rest of entry "New York Times offers Hirschfeld Collection" here. April 05, 2004USA Today Has Database of BestsellersNow you don't have to wonder anymore exactly how much Harry Potter has dominated the best-seller charts. Now you can find out at USA Today's bestsellers database, available at http://asp.usatoday.com/life/books/booksdatabase/default.aspx...Read the rest of entry "USA Today Has Database of Bestsellers" here. The RSS RoundupYee-haw, it's the RSS roundup. First up, Rolling Stone. Didja know they had RSS feeds? I didn't. Get 'em at http://www.rollingstone.com/ (look for the orange button.) Also, the Open Directory...Google Print Now Indexing Magazine Articles?Kudos to Greg Notess, who pointed out that Google Print, that beta endeavor that's focused on indexing book content, is now indexing magazine articles. You can read his article at...Read the rest of entry "Google Print Now Indexing Magazine Articles? " here. April 04, 2004GMail ScreenshotsIn case you were wondering what it looks like, Fury.com has a couple GMail screenshots.. And what's up with Happy Birthday April?...April 02, 2004This Week in PR BopThere's a lot going on in PR Bop this week as we finally got into a boppin' groove. First, you'll have to hurry up if you want to wake up...Hidden Landmarks, Weird Places in MeatspaceYou know what meatspace is, right? It's where humans live. Hampton has launched a directory of the weird part of meatspace at the Hidden Landmarks Web site, http://www.hamptonlandmarks.com . Here...Read the rest of entry "Hidden Landmarks, Weird Places in Meatspace " here. April 01, 2004Gmail -- Amazing New Google Offering?ResearchBuzz has the best readers in the world. Part of having the best readers in the world is that when a big announcement comes out, I hear about it immediately...Read the rest of entry "Gmail -- Amazing New Google Offering? " here. Good Morning April Fool's DayAh, it reminds me of the bubble, when a PR person will send me an excited message letting me know that the Jeeves character at AskJeeves.com will be spending April...Read the rest of entry "Good Morning April Fool's Day " here. A Few More Notes On Google's Numrange: SyntaxA very smart reader notes that Google's numrange: syntax works well for zip codes too: fashion numrange:90210-90300 . (This is the number range I mentioned earlier this week, only I'm...Read the rest of entry "A Few More Notes On Google's Numrange: Syntax" here. |
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