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November 30, 2004What's New At LLRX?A slight update over at LLRX. You've got your corporate blogging Powerpoint presentation, at http://www.llrx.com/features/corporateblogging.ppt . You've got your Competitive Intelligence Powerpoint presentation, at http://www.llrx.com/features/gotci.ppt . And you've got your...Civil War Soldiers and Sailors SystemHoly cow. How did I miss THIS? How-da-heck-did-I-miss-this? "This" is the Civil War Soldiers and Sailors System, at http://www.itd.nps.gov/cwss/ . It contains information on information on over six million soldiers...Read the rest of entry "Civil War Soldiers and Sailors System" here. Bloglines Goes InternationalRSS reader Bloglines ( http://www.bloglines.com ) announced on December 1 that they have started an internationalized Web site that allows people who speak Chinese, French, German, Japanese, Portugese and Spanish...Read the rest of entry "Bloglines Goes International " here. November 29, 2004CiteULike Tracks Favorite CitationsSo many lovely Web sites, so little time. So many intriguing research papers, so little time. You may be familiar with sites like furl.net, which help you track interesting Web...Read the rest of entry "CiteULike Tracks Favorite Citations " here. Weblogs By Law Professors For Law ProfessorsWell, this is nifty. Law Professor Blogs http://www.lawprofessorblogs.com/ is a network of blogs by law professors. Current blogs include white collar crime, health law, and sentencing law. Others are scheduled...Read the rest of entry "Weblogs By Law Professors For Law Professors" here. New Mailing List for Those Managing Historical PhotographsThere's a new mailing list available to serve as a discussion group for folks interested in issues relating to managing collections of historical photographs. Join by sending the words SUBSCRIBE...Read the rest of entry "New Mailing List for Those Managing Historical Photographs" here. Mamma Buys CopernicMamma.com's announced their intention to buy desktop search company Copernic. The announcement's at http://www.mammamediasolutions.com/corporate/pr/2004/11-25-04.html. Interesting....Another Password GeneratorA reader e-mailed me to let me know about a Winguides password generator at http://www.winguides.com/security/password.php. This version is also free to use. It allows you to generate up to 50...November 26, 2004Getcher Random Password GeneratorSince you read ResearchBuzz and are one of the greatest readers on the planet, I know that you practice good password hygiene. I know you always use a random collection...Read the rest of entry "Getcher Random Password Generator " here. Presentations from Webmaster World Available from YahooYahoo's put up a couple of pix and the presentations from WebmasterWorld. The presentations are in Powerpoint. Topics include Search Friendly Design, PFI Topics and Issues, and Weblogs, Community, and...Read the rest of entry "Presentations from Webmaster World Available from Yahoo" here. Patents, RSS Feeds, Keyword Searches, Oddball CertificatesIt's thanks to good ol' Murphy's law, I think. Now that I'm deeply distracted by Real Life (tm), nifty sites and applications are crawling out of the woodwork. Now if...Read the rest of entry "Patents, RSS Feeds, Keyword Searches, Oddball Certificates" here. Law.com Launches Blog NetworkLast week Law.com launched a blog network, providing pointers to a number of Weblogs on legal topics. Topics covered include constitutional law, law technology, and litigation. You can get a...Read the rest of entry "Law.com Launches Blog Network " here. Feedster Offering Calendar ViewThanks to J's Scratchpad for the pointer to Feedster's formatting of blog posts into a calendar -- see his/her (I don't know if they're a Mr. J or a Ms....Read the rest of entry "Feedster Offering Calendar View" here. November 24, 2004Business Wire FINALLY Offers RSS FeedsI follow PRNewswire and BusinessWire fairly religiously. I like PRNewswire a little bit better (it's easier to read) and I was very happy when PRNewswire started offering RSS feeds. And...Read the rest of entry "Business Wire FINALLY Offers RSS Feeds " here. Yahoo's New Front Page and ShortcutsI know this kinda stuff has to happen, but it makes me very sad. Yahoo has a new front page. Go look at it. It's at http://www.yahoo.com. See anything odd...Read the rest of entry "Yahoo's New Front Page and Shortcuts" here. November 22, 2004EINfinder Searches Database of About 5 Million Federal Employer Identification NumbersYou'll need to register and you supposedly only get three free searches but EINfinder searches a database of almost 5 million EINs (that's Employer Identification Numbers.) It's available at http://www.einfinder.com...NEH Announces Mass Newspaper Digitzation ProjectThe National Endowment for the Humanities has announced a massive project with the Library of Congress -- the National Digital Newspaper Program . This program will digitize tens of millions...Read the rest of entry "NEH Announces Mass Newspaper Digitzation Project" here. Weblog Devoted to Google ScholarIt hadda happen. An entire Weblog devoted to Google Scholar....Read the rest of entry "Weblog Devoted to Google Scholar" here. Pluck Adds Product Monitoring to eBay and AmazonOh Pluck ( http://www.pluck.com ), why aren't you Firefox compatible? That way I could actually test instead of just announce the Pluck Perch feature that was announced last week....Read the rest of entry "Pluck Adds Product Monitoring to eBay and Amazon" here. gdSuite -- An Extension to Google DesktopAir Bear Software has come up with an extension to the Google Desktop gdSuite. As it's described on the site, "gdSuite uses Google Desktop to find items. Then, gdSuite filters...Read the rest of entry "gdSuite -- An Extension to Google Desktop" here. Google Scholar BookmarkletPaul Pival has come up with a few Google Scholar bookmarklets. Go Paul!...November 21, 2004The Google Deskbar APIGoogle's Deskbar ( http://deskbar.google.com/ ) now has an API ( http://deskbar.google.com/help/api/index.html ) which uses the .NET Framework. From Google's page: "The Google Deskbar plug-in is a simple extension mechanism for...MSN Search Engine Does AlgebraHat tip to Jeremy who turned me on to the fact that MSN's new search engine ( http://beta.search.msn.com/ ) will do algebra. Try 2x+3=14 And see what the top of...Read the rest of entry "MSN Search Engine Does Algebra" here. Gmail Generation Mailing ListPropburgers to Aimless Words for the pointer to Gmail Generation, a list to discuss all things related to Gmail. Membership is closed and by application....Read the rest of entry "Gmail Generation Mailing List" here. November 19, 2004xmlhub Makes Tool for Generating RSS Feeds of MSN Search ResultsThey don't let any grass grow under THEIR feet. Xmlhub has a tool for making RSS feeds out of MSN search engine query results at http://www.xmlhub.com/rssmsn.php/. They warn that it...Read the rest of entry "xmlhub Makes Tool for Generating RSS Feeds of MSN Search Results " here. MSN Blog: Why Didn't MSN Crawl My Site?MSN's blog is openly answering some questions about crawling, etc. The post at http://blogs.msdn.com/msnsearch/archive/2004/11/18/266087.aspx gets into why a page would or would not have been crawled by MSN's search spider:...Read the rest of entry "MSN Blog: Why Didn't MSN Crawl My Site?" here. PubSub Is Now Tracking 6.5 million BlogsCongrats to PubSub ( http://www.pubsub.com ). They're now tracking 6.5 million blogs. Eeek. See their announcement at http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/041118/nyth043_1.html ....Read the rest of entry "PubSub Is Now Tracking 6.5 million Blogs" here. November 18, 2004Another Travel Search Engine -- MobissimoThe travel search engines just don't stop. A new one is Mobissimo, a travel meta-search source that searches over 80 search sources for airfare, hotel, and car rental information. The...Read the rest of entry "Another Travel Search Engine -- Mobissimo " here. Google Offers Google ScholarGoogle has released a new search tool for academic content called Google Scholar. It's in beta, it's got its own syntax, and it is available at http://scholar.google.com/ . You may...Read the rest of entry "Google Offers Google Scholar " here. November 17, 2004RocketNews Adds Personalization FeaturesNews search engine RocketNews ( http://www.rocketnews.com ) has added some personalization features to their search. It doesn't appear that these require registration to work; it appears everything is cookiefied. The...Read the rest of entry "RocketNews Adds Personalization Features " here. Gallery of Victorian Prisoners OnlineThe National Archives of the UK is now offering an exhibit of photographs and case details of prisoners in Wandsworth Prison during the Victorian era. The photographs date from 1872...Read the rest of entry "Gallery of Victorian Prisoners Online" here. November 16, 2004Database of Missouri Soldiers EnhancedThe state of Missouri has updated their database of state soldiers to include soldiers from the War of 1812 through World War I, which means that the new database includes...Read the rest of entry "Database of Missouri Soldiers Enhanced" here. This week in ResearchBuzz ExtraEvery week in ResearchBuzz Extra you'll find news and resources that you won't get in the regular ResearchBuzz. And you'll get an article! This week's article: fabulous Firefox extensions. Get...Read the rest of entry "This week in ResearchBuzz Extra " here. Cartoons of Welsh Cartoonist Illingworth Are Online In New SiteA collection of over 4,500 cartoons by the Welsh cartoonist Leslie Illingworth (1902-1979) are now available in a new Web site from the National Library of Wales. The English version...Read the rest of entry "Cartoons of Welsh Cartoonist Illingworth Are Online In New Site" here. November 15, 2004Feedster Offers a Way to Search Just WeblogsFeedster now has an interface at http://blogs.feedster.com/ that restricts your search to just Weblogs. Otherwise it's just the same. So that's: blogs.feedster.com -- Weblogs politics.feedster.com -- Politics (though the entries...Read the rest of entry "Feedster Offers a Way to Search Just Weblogs" here. Developer Contests A Go-GoBoth Feedster ( http://www.feedster.com ) and Technorati ( http://www.technorati.com ) have developer contests going. Oh, if I weren't such a neophyte perl programmer... Information on Feedster's is at http://feedster.blogs.com/corporate/2004/11/feedster_is_giv.html (entries...Some Bookmarklets for the New MSN ServiceI'm a bookmarklet wonk, so you know I had to wrangle up some bookmarklets for the new MSN search service. Here they are: Check MSN backlinks for the current URL...Read the rest of entry "Some Bookmarklets for the New MSN Service " here. MSN Has Its Own Blog, Official Search Engine Blogs AboundAnd did I mention that MSN now has its own blog for holding forth about search? For those of you playing along at home, the official search engine blogs go...Read the rest of entry "MSN Has Its Own Blog, Official Search Engine Blogs Abound" here. November 14, 2004New Roundup of Connecticut HistoryNew offerings from the state of Connecticut: * A bibliography of books on Connecticut history * Connecticut historical museum links * Connecticut historical societies...Read the rest of entry "New Roundup of Connecticut History" here. November 11, 2004MSN Launches a Beta Version of the New MSN SearchYesterday Google about doubled its index to eight billion pages. And I figured it was for competitive purposes but didn't really know why. When MSN announced a new search enigne,...Read the rest of entry "MSN Launches a Beta Version of the New MSN Search " here. November 10, 2004Google Hits an Eight-Billion Page IndexThere have been rumors swirling around for the past week or so about the Googlebot going mad and indexing tons and tons of Web sites. There was a lot of...Read the rest of entry "Google Hits an Eight-Billion Page Index" here. Comparison Shopping Service Offers RSS FeedsDulance is offering a comparison shopping service with RSS feeds. It's free. You can check it out at http://www.dulance.com . You know the drill. Go to the site, it's a...Read the rest of entry "Comparison Shopping Service Offers RSS Feeds" here. Firefox 1.0 ReleasedI was going to announce this yesterday, but the site wouldn't respond. Firefox 1.0 has been released. You can download your copy from http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/ . See the release note list...November 09, 2004A Search Engine for CodeAn article at Newsforge pointed me to Koders ( http://www.koders.com ) a search engine for finding programming code. Nifty. The front page allows you to specify keywords, sixteen languages (from...This Week in ResearchBuzz ExtraEvery week in ResearchBuzz Extra you'll find news and resources that you won't find in the regular ResearchBuzz. You'll also find an article. This week's article: Groovy Firefox I. Get...Read the rest of entry "This Week in ResearchBuzz Extra" here. World War I Records for British Soldiers w/ Service Medals Now AvailableThe National Archives of the United Kingdom has released a new Web site that contains information on over five million men and women of the British Army and Royal Flying...A9 Toolbar for FirefoxLast week Amazon announced that the toolbar for their A9 Web/Amazon search tool is now available for Firefox. You can download it at http://toolbar.a9.com/....List of Shopping BotsMarcus Zillman has a new list of shopping 'bots at http://www.shoppingbots.info/. Just a listing, not much annotation here. MAR-cus!...November 08, 2004Southern Nevada and Las Vegas: History in MapsThe UNLV Libraries have announced "Southern Nevada and Las Vegas: History in Maps" which is a digital project featuring over 80 historical maps. It's available at http://www.library.unlv.edu/maps/index.html . You can...Read the rest of entry "Southern Nevada and Las Vegas: History in Maps " here. Electronic Journals With RSS FeedsThe University of Saskatchewan Library has a directory of ejournals at http://library.usask.ca/ejournals/ , and has added a cool new way to view them -- journals with RSS feeds. Use the...Read the rest of entry "Electronic Journals With RSS Feeds" here. Getty Images Adds Six Editorial Image CollectionsStock photo site Getty Images has announced the addition of six editorial image collections to its site at http://www.gettyimages.com . The new editorial image collections include Aurora, the CBS Photo...Read the rest of entry "Getty Images Adds Six Editorial Image Collections" here. Portable FirefoxAn extremely clever human has come up with a version of Firefox called Portable Firefox. This version you can install on one of those keychain USB drives (aka nerdsticks) and...November 07, 2004Oregon Soldiers in World War IThe state of Oregon has a new exhibit about the experiences of Oregonian soldiers in WWI. As it's described, the site is "an exhibit and learning resource exploring the experiences...Read the rest of entry "Oregon Soldiers in World War I" here. Syndic8 Offering Better Feed SearchRSS information site Syndic8 is now providing better RSS feed search results by listing feeds in order of relevance. One more place to find RSS feeds.....Read the rest of entry "Syndic8 Offering Better Feed Search" here. Everbody Talk About Pop MusicTechnorati is now offering a list of the most popular MP3s of the last 48 hours. Not very populated yet. Kewl! I don't recognize anybody on the list except Frank...Read the rest of entry "Everbody Talk About Pop Music " here. November 05, 2004Onfolio Offering a New BetaInternet information organizing software Onfolio has announced that it's got a new beta coming up. This new version offers Firefox support (woot!) and an RSS reader; enter your e-mail address...Extend Google DesktopGDSPlus is an extension for Google Desktop which will allow it to index more kinds of content, including .rtf, .xml, .bat, and .vb. I think it's free....Speegle Search Engine Talks to YouYou know, of all the search engine innovations I dream of at night having search results read back to me in a Scots accent was right up there. Okay, no...Read the rest of entry "Speegle Search Engine Talks to You " here. HomeTownLocator Community ProfilesA while ago I covered the HomeTown Gazetteer ( http://www.researchbuzz.org/archives/001287.shtml ). That site allowed you to get location information based on place search or zip code search. Now the same...Read the rest of entry "HomeTownLocator Community Profiles " here. November 04, 2004Ellis Island Site RelaunchesThe Ellis Island records site at http://www.ellisisland.org , which contains 25 million ship passenger records covering 1892-1924, has relaunched with some new features. New features include an enhanced range of...Read the rest of entry "Ellis Island Site Relaunches " here. Search Engine for Executive ProfilesLet me get this out of my system first: move Ziggs move Ziggs, you know what you doing take off every Ziggs. Okay. Ziggs is a search engine allowing you...Read the rest of entry "Search Engine for Executive Profiles" here. Guess What Blog Search Engine Does?You got it in one; Blog Search Engine searches blogs. Not only that it searches moblogs -- pictures from blogs. You can search it at http://www.blogsearchengine.com/ . (Note this site...Read the rest of entry "Guess What Blog Search Engine Does? " here. November 03, 2004Welcome Search Engine Watch Readers!Welcome Search Engine Watch readers!...Read the rest of entry "Welcome Search Engine Watch Readers!" here. Minnesota Birth Certificate IndexThe Minnesota Historical Society has started up a sweet little birth certificate index, with certificates being available from 1900 to 1907. More will be added over time. It's at http://people.mnhs.org/bci/...Read the rest of entry "Minnesota Birth Certificate Index " here. Metasearch for Trademark RegistrationsMarkenbusiness is offering a free meta-search of trademark databases all over the world. While it is free it provides only a limited amount of information; otherwise you're gonna have to...Read the rest of entry "Metasearch for Trademark Registrations " here. November 02, 2004The Chip History CenterIf you've been reading ResearchBuzz for any length of time you probably plumped to the fact that I'm a nerd. What did it? Was it the references to Monty Python?...Find Out College Graduation RatesI've seen plenty of places which offer lists of colleges and tuitions, but not places which offer the actual collge graduation rates and tuitions. GraduationWatch.org ( http://www.graduationwatch.org ) offers an...Read the rest of entry "Find Out College Graduation Rates" here. November 01, 2004Voting and Returns Information by StateFollowing is a list of 50 states and DC with pointers to election and voting information for each state. In many cases there is also a link to where election...Read the rest of entry "Voting and Returns Information by State" here. Google Image Search FormatWas I over at the pasta buffet when Google added PNG, BMP, and TIF support to their image search?...Political Audio InformationAudible has announced http://www.listenbeforeyouvote.com, a collection of free political audio. Information here includes debates, conventions, and a variety of speeches.... |
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