Pew Internet Reports
Posted in authors, Google, Microsoft Office, privacy, spam, Valve, and Wikipedia
This week’s 4cast: 1. Watch Your Back, Wikipedia As Wikipedia has become increasingly huge (see 4cast #72, item 4), it was inevitable that for-profit competitors…
Posted in Boxee, Cinematic Internet, Google, iPhones, Reference Extract, TouchGraph, Valve, and wireless
This week’s 4cast: 1. Good Guys, Bad Guys & Wi-Fi When the U.S. House of Representatives passed the SAFE Act last week, it sent a…
Posted in Myebook, NORWELD, Online Publishing, social network websites, spam, and Valve
This week’s 4cast: 1. Microsoft Surface Has Surfaced Microsoft recently unveiled the Surface computer – a flat tabletop touch screen that allows users to move…
Posted in Digg, digitization, DMCA, DRM, tagging, usage statistics, Valve, and Web 2.0
This week’s 4cast: 1. Oh Dewey, You Old Coot In his new book, Everything Is Miscellaneous, David Weinberger argues that the Internet and the onset…
Posted in backlinks, desktop applications, DRM, eBooks, Library 2.0, productivity, Security, Sitemap Generator, Songza, techies, Tweetmeme, Valve, Web 2.0, and Wikipedia
This week’s 4cast: 1. Frustration 2.0 Now that this year’s Computers In Libraries conference is over, some attendees may find that the exciting Library 2.0…
Posted in Boxee, Company Buzz, iPhones, LinkedIn, Pixlr, SEO, social network websites, TwitterThoughts, Valve, and WorldCat
This week’s 4cast: 1. WorldCat Local’s Out of the Bag OCLC has announced a new pilot service called WorldCat Local, which aims to integrate portions…
Posted in digital movie downloads, digitization, eBooks, Library vs. Internet, Netflix, RA, Second Life, tagging, Touchscreens, and Valve
This week’s 4cast: 1. Check the Tags According to a recent report by the Pew Internet & American Life Project, more and more Internet users…
Posted in AbeBooks, Award for Innovation, blogs, cellphones, Drupal, Facesaerch, Kindle, OPLIN, podcasting, Shelfari, Valve, W3C, and Web 2.0
This week’s 4cast: 1.OPLIN Award for Innovation: Castr (Westerville Public Library) Although podcasting and videocasting are becoming more popular, many libraries are still struggling to…
