A full review will be coming soon on ResourceShelf.

What is it?

1) Available for IE only!

2)

The gClick™ button allows readers to dynamically extract real-time comprehensive intelligence — on companies, executives, and events — from any Web page with the click of button. Within seconds, you can go from scanning an article, anywhere on the web, to viewing in-depth information about the companies and executives referenced in the article.

3) gClick gathers real-time, contextual business intelligence from any story or HTML page by clicking on the button or using imbedded links.

More here. The technology comes from a company named Generate Inc. American City Business Journals became a “Strategic Investor” in Generate Inc. in 2005.

Here are two screen caps of gClick in action using a WSJ story. It works with all content, not only American City Biz Journals material.

1 (the story itself) ||| 2 (clicking on a company mentioned in the story)

Worth a look and more coming from RS in the future about gClick. It’s a free app, btw. We also hope a Firefox version is also in the works.

A common question sent to ResourceShelf, what tools or services can I use to send/share large files to others without having to use an FTP client?

Here are six of them. Most are free. Try them all and see which one(s) work best for you. Most should have you up and running in a matter of minutes.

1) Podmailing
Send unlimited sized files using p2p and the BitTorrent. Free.
Available for PC and Mac.

2) SendSpace
Send up to 300MB files, free.

3) senduit
100MB limit. URL times out after set amount of time. Free.

4) YouSendIt
Free trial.

5) SavethisFile
No limit, free and fee-based plans.

6) TransferBigFiles
Send up to 1GB.

Web News Wranglers
“Technology advances quickly, but information grows at an even faster clip. The torrents of blog posts and news feeds on today’s Internet hold way too much data to keep up with if you just browse the Web normally. Fortunately, help is here in the form of sites that filter the news for you with ever-increasing efficiency, and improved news readers that let you subscribe to news feeds and sort through them like e-mail.”
Source: PC World

14 Fantastic Freeware Finds

Get to your favorite folders in a snap. Stream TV stations from around the globe. Add new power to Internet Explorer. All this and more, and all of it for free.

Source: PC World

Here are a bunch more of new tools and service we recently learned about from KillerStartups.com. Perhaps one or more of them will be of interest to you and/or those you work with. We have more posted here.

+ Flickr2Iphone.com - Flickr Your iPhone

Flickr2iPhone lets you export your Flickr photos to your iPhone. The next time you want to share your latest adventures with your mum, dad, or airplane seatmate, simply break out your iPhone and share. The newly launched Flickr2iPhone site makes the process of exporting your Flickr photos to your iPhone quick and painless.

+ Ezubi.com - Listen to Media Files Anytime, Anywhere
Ezubi stands for “E Z ubiquity” and that’s just what the site does- it allows anytime, anywhere streaming access to all your music, video, and photo files. Users upload their media files to Ezubi’s servers and are able to log on with a password and play or view the files anywhere on earth- a café in Istanbul, from a mobile phone in Buenos Aires, or from any other internet-enabled device.

Tooble.tv - YouTube for Your iPod

Tooble lets you browse and search for YouTube videos to download to your iPod, iPhone, or even your Apple TV, of you’ve got one. Tooble automatically converts the video to MP4 format and sends it to your iTunes for your viewing pleasure. Tooble also works as a standalone YouTube browser so you can view videos on you Mac at any time. It’s 100% free, contains no ads and malware. A Windows version is in the works too.

IE still top dog over Firefox in corporate browser kennel
From the article:

With a new CEO on board and a major update of its Firefox Web browser expected this year, Mozilla Corp. hopes to reinvigorate its campaign to pull users away from Microsoft Corp.’s still-dominant Internet Explorer software.

But Mountain View, Calif.-based Mozilla continues to expend little energy on wooing IT managers to formally adopt Firefox for deployment within their organizations, according to analysts and users of the open-source browser.

In the past, Firefox faced two main obstacles that limited its adoption by corporate users: its immaturity, and its incompatibility with corporate Web applications and intranets that relied on Microsoft technologies such as ActiveX.

Now nearly three-and-a-half years old and nearing the release of Version 3, Firefox no longer can be accused of being callow. And while many IE-only apps remain, plenty of others have been overhauled to support Firefox as well, according to Rafael Ebron, general manager of Browser Garage LLC, a Web consulting firm in Mountain View.

Source: Computerworld

Webcast: Video Intro and Interview to the New MS Experimental Search Front-End, Tafti

Catherine Heller sat down with Marc Mercuri, Architect on the platform incubation team, to discuss one of Marc’s recent incubation projects, Tafiti, and how it evolved into a Windows Live Quick Application.

Tafiti

is an experimental search front-end from Microsoft that uses Silverlight and Live Search to provide a rich Web experience and specialization of search.

Windows Live Quick Applications are customizable out-of-the box solutions for specific Web scenarios. Each Quick App is built on Windows Live services and is offered as a source code download. The Tafiti Quick App illustrates search visualization.

At around 00:26:44, Marc announces a contest! Do you have an interesting specialized search experience in mind? Something you might build by repurposing the Tafiti Quick App source code? Marc is going to give away limited edition Tafiti t-shirts to the top-5 coolest submissions . So send your submission to tafiti@microsoft.com before February 15th, 2008 to be considered!

Source: MS Research

and another OCLC acquisition…

From the announcement:

EZproxy, the leading software solution for serving library patrons remotely, has been acquired by OCLC from Useful Utilities of Peoria, Arizona. Useful Utilities founder Chris Zagar will join OCLC as a full-time consultant. Mr. Zagar will help ensure a smooth transition of EZproxy operations to OCLC…and assist OCLC in developing state-of-the-art authentication services for the cooperative.

Mr. Zagar, a librarian at the Maricopa Community Colleges in Arizona, developed EZproxy to provide libraries a better solution for authenticating remote user access to licensed databases. EZproxy software allows libraries to manage access and authentication configurations through a proxy server so that library users do not have to make any configuration changes to their personal Web browsers.

Additionally, OCLC is planning to connect local instances of EZproxy to WorldCat.org, creating new value for licensees and their users. By surfacing EZproxy in WorldCat.org, end users outside of the library will have better access to library collections and services through WorldCat.

Read the Complete News Release

See Also: The Unofficial EZproxy Self-Support Wiki

Web Tool of the Day: Mint Email: Create Temporary Email Addresses
Quickly and easily create temporary email addresses that last for a certain amount of time. From 4 hours to 3 months. It’s a free service. From the site:

Do you need a temporary email address longer than four hours? If so, then you can create a mintemail.com email address for a certain duration. Whenever an email is sent to this new address, it will be instantly forwarded to your real email address. As a result, your real email address will always remain hidden.

Source; Mint Email

See Also: Coming Back Online Soon: numbr (Temporary, throw away, telephone numbers)

Other Tools that Might Be of interest (via KillerStartups.com)
+ Chat for Facebook, ChatIM
+ Swamii.com - The Search That Never Ends
+ ReadBurner.com - Tracking Google Reader Memes
+ Alatest.com - Product Tests And Reviews

A little bit of history.

If you’ve been using the WWW since the early days it’s likely you’ll never forget the first time you saw Netscape. It was a wow. We will also never forget that in those early days when you asked what search engine someone searched they would often respond NETSCAPE! Of course, some 17 years later that still happens from time to time.

Now, word from AOL 1 ||| 2, the current owner of Netscape, that they will no longer be supporting the browser.

As the great baseball player Satchell Paige once said, “Don’t look back. Something might be gaining on you.” Well, in this case, most knew it was MSFT. Still, it’s a lesson in not taking any hour of business for granted.

At one point, Netscape controlled 80%, that’s right, 80% of the browser marketplace. Today, while Firefox has a devoted following (and for good reason in our view) most of that marketshare is controlled by Microsoft. So, score another for Gates and crew. Of course, there are close ties between Netscape and Mozilla/Firefox.

This News.com post from October, 1994 has a useful chronology of Netscape’s history beginning with Marc Andreessen 1993 announcement of the development of Mosaic, a graphical web browser. Other browsers also exisited at this time like Cello and SlipKnot. Of course, Netscape is the one that took off.

So goes another web tool. From one day at the top of the heap to 17 years later, no more. Time sure flies and even those of us who follow the web and search closely can easily forget.

Perhaps another question for AOL? What will become of the now spam-filled DMOZ or Open Directory.

Other Key Dates
—————
Mid-1994
Jim Clark and Marc Andreessen found Mosaic Communications (later Netscape) and October 1994
First public beta of the Netscape Browser is released

August 1995
Netscape goes public at $28 a share. It closes at $58.25.

August 1995
Microsoft releases Internet Explorer 1.0.

Early Netscape Annual Report
53 pages.

January 1998
Netscape creates Mozilla.org and says a new browser will be free and open source. First Mozilla post.

November 1998
America Online buys Netscape for $4.2 billion.
See Also.

Much more on this timeline from News.com.

Source: News.com

+ Become a Mozilla ‘Weaver’ (News.com)
A basic set of web-based services and more from Mozilla Labs.
Direct to Weave ||| Direct to Mozilla Labs

+ Call for Demos: The 9th International Conference on Mobile Data Management (MDM 2008)

+ Call for Papers: Efficiency Issues in Information Retrieval

Top Hits of 2007 on Office Online

Here they are - the stars you created in 2007 - our most popular, most downloaded and highest rated templates, training, columns and more. See what customers like you rated highly this year.

Covers templates, help-how-to articles, downloads, clip art/media, popular columns, demos, training courses.

Source: Microsoft

IRS Withholding Calculator

The purpose of this application is to help employees to ensure that they do not have too much or too little income tax withheld from their pay. It is not a replacement for Form W-4, but most people will find it more accurate and easier to use than the worksheets that accompany Form W-4. You may use the results of this program to help you complete a new Form W-4, which you will submit to your employer.
…
Who Can Benefit From This Application?

* Employees who would like to change their withholding to reduce their tax refund or their balance due;
* Employees whose situations are only approximated by the worksheets on the paper W-4 (e.g., anyone with concurrent jobs, or couples in which both are employed; those entitled to file as Head of Household; and those with several children eligible for the Child Tax Credit);
* Employees with non-wage income in excess of their adjustments and deductions, who would prefer to have tax on that income withheld from their paychecks rather than make periodic separate payments through the estimated tax procedures.

Source: Internal Revenue Service

First, if you’ve never used Loki from Skyhook Wireless, you should check it out. It uses wi-fi signals to find your location. For the most part, it’s always amazingly accurate. Often within a few feet. Loki is currently available for Windows, Mac, and now Windows wireless devices. We hope Palm devices are coming soon.

Second, from this point use you can use it to find local places using various databases (for example, Google Maps, Yahoo Maps, and AskCity) and many other local info databases including:
+ Fandango
+ GasBuddy
+ Zillow
+ Amtrak
+ Zipcar
and MANY others.

Ideal for both when you’re at home and on the road.

NOW, the news is that a closed beta (register here for a login) is online. Register here for a login. Learn MUCH MORE HERE about My.Loki.

What is it? Facebook or RSS junkies, you’ll love this, share your location with your friends. Loki’s slogan, “Consider “Where are you?” a thing of the past.”

From the Loki blog:

MyLoki automates location sharing and lets you choose how and where your location is displayed. Every time you’re in a new place, you’ll check into MyLoki, simply by opening your browser or manually entering your location. The MyLoki Facebook application will post all of your locations to your Mini Feed, showing your Facebook network where you are. Updates to your location will be displayed on the MyLoki RSS feed on your profile page and can also be integrated into applications like Google MyMaps or anything that supports GeoRSS. We’ve also hooked MyLoki up with badges, so that you can post a map or icon of your location to your blog, website, or email signature.

The blog post goes on to make very clear that the MyLoki user is in total control of who sees what.

The beta version of the Loki Toolbar with MyLoki functionality is currently only available for Firefox on Windows XP. We will be rolling out support for all other platforms shortly.

As soon as we get an invite, we will update this post.

See Also: Skyhook wants you to know (via All Points Blog)

New Web Service: Anywhere.FM
Another service (free) to:
1) Upload your MP3 files (only) and stream them to any computer. The company says more formats will be coming soon.
2) Discover new music using a social network service.
3) Learn more via this Facebook group.
4) Learn more from the FAQ.

See Also: Orb
See Also: Winamp Remote
Stream your audio and video to other computers and mobile devices.