Here are five new web-based tools and apps we discovered using KillerStartUps.com. Perhaps one or more will be of interest to you or those you work with.
+ Picollator.com – An Image Based Search Engine
+ LinkGap.com – Shortens Those Long URLs
+ TubeSpy – Spy On Other YouTube Viewers
Northern Light Readies New Free Business Search Engine
From Paula Hane’s in-depth article:
…in December 2007, it [Northern Light] started redirecting traffic to a new, free, beta business search engine at www.nlsearch.com, which is due to launch in April. In addition to searching the best of the web’s business news sources and blogs, the new Northern Light Search now provides text analytics and “meaning extraction” capabilities from Northern Light’s MI Analyst application, formerly only available to the company’s enterprise clients. It also offers some collaborative social computing features, such as Market Intelligence Wikis.
Source: Information Today NewsBreaks
In an emerging effort called UNIWIKI, UNICEF is now using technologies ranging from open source software to SMS text messaging for helping young people from throughout the world to communicate via international social networking sites.
Source: Beta News
A online news search pioneer releases some new technology. We’re going to give it a whirl.
From the announcement:
Rocketnews.com goes further, working with news seekers to bring them what they are looking for by creating easy to configure, user-defined feeds from a database of over 60,000 sources, and growing…Rocketnews.com introduces the Topic Discovery Engine, which expands a contextual search to include blog posts, photos, video clips and research data, besides an abundance of updated and historical news. The Topic Discovery Engine examines all 60,000 news sources; it collects, analyzes and categorizes news stories; and then updates category pages, topic pages and related RSS feeds. Topic pages, a new feature at Rocketnews.com, highlight popular news topics by displaying related news stories, blog posts, photos and noteworthy quotes.
Source: News Release
Plenty of free content including:
+ Scores
+ News (also available in Spanish)
+ Standings
+ Photos
+ Rosters
+ Player Stats
+ More
Access the content by going to http://wap.mlb.com
in other mobile news…
+++ Britannica Reference Work Available for iPhone
Scientists know more today than ever before about the microbes that inhabit our mouths. They know so much, in fact, that gathering all of the relevant bits of information in one place when designing experiments can be a job in itself. Now, grantees of the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research (NIDCR), part of the National Institutes of Health, and their international colleagues intend to solve this problem with the launch of the first comprehensive database of the oral microbiome, or the approximately 600 distinct microorganisms currently known to live in the mouth.
Source: EurekaAlert
StemCellPatents.com Launches Free Stem Cell Patent Database
The website, www.stemcellpatents.com, provides comprehensive summaries and analysis of over 1200 patents hand-picked by experts in the field to be of relevance to stem cell commercialization and development.
Source: wallstreet:online
Libraries to create Shakespeare web resource
The Bodleian Library in Oxford and the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington DC are to put all 75 editions of William Shakespeare’s plays from before 1641 online… The project is intended to give the public greater acccess to the plays and downloading of the quartos will begin next month…Online users will be able to compare and study the texts, which are the earliest sources for the 37 plays Shakespeare is known to have written.
Source: RTE.ie
Library more relevant than ever
A Michigan library director shares her views in a local newspaper.
From the article:
“Especially with the economic times we’ve had in the community … the resources the library offers are just that more valuable to the members of the community who may be having the toughest time,†said Mimi Herrington, Bad Axe District Library executive director.
Source: Huron Daily Tribune
+ Digital Bookmobile to Launch National Tour at Public Libraries (via OverDrive)
OverDrive, Inc. has unveiled drawings and details of a traveling community outreach exhibit entitled the Digital Bookmobile (www.digitalbookmobile.com). Starting in August 2008, the Digital Bookmobile will host hands-on, interactive training events at public libraries in cities around the United States, including Boston, Cleveland, New York City, Phoenix, Seattle, and Washington, DC. Libraries will be encouraged to make the Digital Bookmobile a part of multi-day community events, book fairs, and other reading initiatives.
+ Library system benefits from Gates grant (via Business First)
The Buffalo & Erie County Public Library has received word of a $140,400 grant awarded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
+ India: ‘Need to network State university libraries’ (The Hindu)
A few weeks ago we posted that Sheryl Sandberg, now the former Vice President of Global Online Sales and Operations at Google, was leaving the company to become the Chief Operating Officer at Facebook.
Now, the Wall St. Journal reports that Ethan Beard, the former Director of Social Media at Google, has joined the Facebook team as director of business development.
From the article:
Other prominent ex-Googler’s now on Facebook’s payroll include Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg, Chief Financial Officer Gideon Yu and Benjamin Ling, a top engineer once regarded as one of Google’s “golden boys.”
The momentum started to shift toward Facebook last year when former Googler Justin Rosenstein wrote a public email declaring that the social network was “the Google of yesterday, the Microsoft of long ago. That company where large numbers of stunningly brilliant people congregate and feed off each other’s genius.”
Source: WSJ
+ Royal Society of Chemistry to archive journals with Portico
+ Greater Access to the NTIS Collection Now Available
Web site index now goes back to 1964
Congrats to the Become.com team!
From the Become.com blog:
This investment gives us the necessary resources to strengthen our core technology and the ability to explore new ideas within our site. We’d love to hear back from our shoppers/readers/visitors on how we can improve our site. We are always eager to find new ideas and improvements, so leave us a comment!
Source: Pocket Change
In the 1939 movie “The Wizard of Oz,” the wizard stumbles trying to pronounce “philanthropist.” These good deed doers from India to Japan certainly don’t stumble when it comes to philanthropy. Most made their fortunes starting businesses. Others inherited their wealth. Many have foundations. All open their checkbooks wide for dozens of causes. The usual needs get their share of the funds: education, health care, aid for the rural poor. But as you’ll see in the list below, many donors have found unusual and sometimes quirky vehicles for their charity.
Source: Forbes Asia
This is a collection on the recent protests in Tibet.
Remember, unlike the Wayback Machine archive, this subject archive can be keyword searched.
Source: Archive-It
+ HighWire Press launches its new ePublishing platform, H2O
2 pages; PDF.
Web 2.0 For Dummies
4 pages.
Now in its third century of publishing, John Wiley and Sons is finding new ways to connect its customers with its content.
Source: Book Business Magazine
World Book Mobile offers dozens of topic-specific general reference datasets, providing mobile application developers and distributors licensing access to a wealth of content for children and adults; Mobifusion among first to leverage in the children’s content area.
Note: This article is a “glorified PR piece” from MSR so beware. Nevertheless, it might be of interest since it provides an overview of Microsoft’s machine translation tools and research.
From the article:
Windows Live Translator, a free translation portal and a Web service that powers many other translation scenarios, is the result of more than eight years of diligent machine-translation effort within Microsoft Research. With it, Microsoft Research offers a simple, intuitive translation service—while making ongoing improvements to translation quality. In addition to the portal, its Bilingual Viewer features a unique, side-by-side Web-page viewer that translates entire Web pages with blinding speed between 25 sets of language pairs.
Source: Microsoft
A new compilation from Stephen Downes. Very nice work and glad to see that Zoho, a Resourceshelf favorite is mentioned.
Source: elearn Magazine
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