Briefs: Head of Yahoo’s Technology Group and Chief Technology Officer Leaving Company; Google Gears and Zoho Plugin
+ Yahoo’s Head of Technology Group and Chief Technology Officer To Leave Company
Farzad Nazem joined Yahoo in 1996. His resignation becomes effective on June 8th.
See Also: Separation Agreement
+ For Developers: Google Offers Code to Develop Offline Apps, “Google Gears” (via News.com)
See also: More from Barry Schwartz at Search Engine Land.
See Also: One Of Our Favorite Suites of Online Tools (they’ve got a lot), is ZohoZoho Office Plugin allows users the opportunity to edit text documents and spreadsheets both online and offline. Most Zoho products are available at no charge. In other words, excellent free resources.
+ Mahalo Launches With Human-Crafted Search Results (via Search Engine Land)
Of course, from a non-commercial side of things, info pros have been building excellent directories for many years that focus on quality over quantity. This work is not only important but also useful. Here are just a few of many examples:
Danny:
Just like to point out as I have in the past several excellent “non-commercial” directories coming from academia and the library world. Most offer a “collection” policy (what they will and will not add), excellent organization, and focuses on quality of the underlying resource vs. total size.
Examples (general) include:
+ Librarians’ Internet Index
http://www.lii.org
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+ Intute (from the UK)
http://www.intute.ac.uk
Note: Intute even offers complete web research tutorials for many disciplines.
http://vts.
+ IPL
http://www.ipl.org
+ Infomine
http://infomine.ucr.edu
Of course, directories that focus on specific topics exist.
Here are four examples. Not only directories of key resources but also home to many other useful tools.
++ International Business
++ Resources for Educators
Like LII, powered with tech from Siderean.
++ ELDIS
“Development Gateway”
++ TechExtra
TechXtra is a free service which can help you find articles, books, the best websites, the latest industry news, job announcements, technical reports, technical data, full text eprints, the latest research, thesis & dissertations, teaching and learning resources and more, in engineering, mathematics and computing.