Hugh MacLeod has a post that keeps on giving on gapingvoid about social media, search, connecting to people, and recommendations. I really like the post a lot. That becomes more evident to me as I continue to think about it and a number of ways I could talk about it in this space. I already […]
I know a lot of you really like the resources Mary Ellen Bates’ shares. Here are some links from her SLA Annual Conference presentation about searching Web 2.0 stuff, which she calls the new Web. (Yay! I don’t like the term Web 2.0, as you may know.)
Wikis:
WikiIndex.org
the links at the bottom of Wikipedia articles–selected […]
Single female librarians: sit down. Hero of librarians everywhere Gary Price married his partner Lisa Cohen. Congratulations, Mazel Tov, and may you have all the best things married couples should have. Many wonderful years together~
(Oh, the things you can find on search engine weblogs these days!)
On the ResourceShelf, I noticed this bit about Yahoo! shutting down Yahoo! Photos and encouraging its users to move to flickr.
I saw a really cool Ask commercial tonight. It featured a man searching for cars who was explaining how Ask is smart enough to link concepts together. Pretty cool.
“Ask.com is pimped out search engine,” he says after explaining how it links pimped out and tight cars together.
Speaking of Ask, our hero, Gary Price, is touring. […]
Ok, so, usually I pretty much ignore recommendation engines because they’re often so far off for my tastes, they’re just pathetic noise. When I logged on to Amazon to update my Wish List (you know, my fourth (count them … fourth) blogiversary is next week …) I was stunned to see Jump, Little Children’s CD […]
I might not have been able to tell you much about Google Book Search last week, but Garrett pointed me to a New Yorker article about the effort to build a database of books.
In his weekly newsletter, Garrett points out this OEDb article listing 25 search engines specializing in Web 2.0. Nifty!
Tuesday’s Boston Globe is reporting that the Google Desktop was opened to cross-site scripting attacks, allowing an attacker to place malicious code on a Google Desktop user’s computer. The attack would have gone undetected by firewalls or antivirus software according to the article. A Google spokesman said the program gets automatically updated so users don’t […]
The Impact of Technology on Job Search and Google Book Search Technology
presented by Jeff Moore and Jon Orwant
Tuesday, February 20, 2007
6- 8 PM
Location: 35-225
Jeff is giving an overview of how people find jobs these days. He recruits for Google and admits to using some of the social networking sites to local potential job candidates.
If a […]