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Opening Words and Sites

• 2009 Keywords: Mobile, Social, "Mobile Social", and eBooks (Yes, I Agree with Mary)

• Some Good News: Searching Can be Good For the Brain

• Readability (Easy on the Eyes)

• Mobile is All The Rage, Look What's Coming! Date Check

The Big Guys

• We Have to Mention These: Google Voice and Google Wave

• Bing: Has Its Own Index, Air Fare Prediction, Page Preview,
  Maps and Aerial Imagery
  
  

Social/People Search

• Facebook Now With Over 300 Million Users Worldwide

• 65 Million Active Mobile Facebook Users

• LinkedIn: 50 Million Users
  

• Twitter: 18 Million Users in 2009, 26 Million in 2010

• Many Interfaces to Search Twitter, Here are a Few:

• Collecta (Search a Number of Social Sites Including Twitter)

• Twitter's Own Advanced Search Interface

• Just a Few Day's Old: Bing Twitter Search, Facebook Search Coming Soon
• Google Social Search Also Due Soon

• Archiving Tweets: Twapper Keeper and an Excellent Article With More Options
• Twapper Keeper for #IL2009,  http://bit.ly/il2009

• It's Worth it to Also Monitor, Search LinkedIn (Note Advanced Interface)

• Better Searching with Facebook (Search "All" Facebook)

• Why are Certain Topics "Trending" on Twitter

• Spokeo, Social Web and WWW Content ($)
• Aggregate from Large Number of Social Sites and Services

• WhitePages.com
  Note the Addtional Info it Provides Beyond A Phone Number, Neighbors and More

Wireless Access to Information (Mobile)

• A Compilation of Library Mobile Catalogs and Websites

• Giving More Mobile Demos? This Tool Can Help (Free)

• Create a Simple Mobile Web Site for Free, All You Need is an RSS Feed

• The Phone Becomes the "One" Tool. Just Scan or Point and Get the Job Done
• Example 1 ||| Example 2 ||| (What's a QR Code)
  

News

• SkyGrid (Business and Finance News), Register for Account

Business Research

• Salary Info from Those Who Work at Company, GlassDoor.com

• Trulia (Real Estate) ||| CA Real Estate Guide

• Zillow (Real Estate) ||| Mortgage Rates ||| New Local Info Compilation

• Business: Housefront (Home Prices, Mobile Version)

• Business: Tracker.com

Info Visualization

• Muckety (Finding Relationships Between People and Companies

• NNDB Example 1 ||| Example (Map)
  
  

e-Books

• New Additions via Online Books Page (All Free Titles)
  
  
• ebrary Discover (Free Access to over 20,000 New/Recent Books)

• International Digital Children's Library ||| Cool Search Interface

Government and Legal

• Justia, Track Federal Court Dockets (RSS) and
  Sometimes Get Filings for Free, Search by Party Name

• New and Easy to Use Database: Trademarkia

• Apps for America Mashup Winners and Nominees (Some Great Stuff Here)
• Apps 2 Winners
• Apps 2 Nominees
• Apps 1 Winners

• Historic Aerial Imagery
• See Selected Areas Over a Certain Period of Time
• New: Google is Adding Parcel Data (No Info, Just Outlines) to Maps. Is the Underlying Data Coming? Stay Tuned! Here's an Example for Santa Barbara, CA

Public Domain Images and Film
Be Careful! Read All the Rules to Make Sure It's Truly Public Domain Content

• This Article Lists Several Sources (via CNET)

• Others Not Listed Come from the U.S. Government
• FedFlix (Digitizing Government Film and Video)
  
• NASA Images
• USA.gov Directory of Agency Image Collections
  
  

More Online Video

• Clicker.com,
  
• A "TV Guide" For High Quality Web Video (Private Beta, Happy to Get You an Invite)
  
  
• WatchKnow
• More than 10K Education Videos and Slides
• Teachers and Librarians Involved in the Project

Archiving the Ephemeral Web

• More than The Wayback Machine

• California Digital Library Archiving Web Archving Service

• Harvard Web Archive Collection Service (WAX)

• Archive-IT

Personal Archiving

• Evernote (Includes OCR Search)

• Zotero (Nearly Automatic With Many Databases)

Keeping Current with New Resources

• ResourceShelf.com (-: and/or the ResourceShelf Twitter Feed

• Go2Web20.net (Web 2.0 Apps and Tools)

• Googland
• Google is Always Doing Something, This One Blog Aggregates Content from all Google Blogs

• YouNoodle
• A Social Network for New Companies, a Directory Lists them All