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OPLIN 4Cast #113: Knol, Blog ideas, Generosity in SL, WoW librarians
Posted in 4cast, and social network websites
Special note – The OPLIN 4Cast will be on vacation for the next two weeks. 1. Knol – A unit of knowledge, an authoritative article…
OPLIN 4Cast #104: MS Book Search, Broadband, 2.0, Land Lines
Posted in 4cast, AOL, cellphones, communication, GDrive, LinkedIn, Second Life, social network websites, TwitterThoughts, and Web 2.0
1. End of MS Book Search It’s all up to Google now…or is it? Why killing Live Book Search is good for the future of…
OPLIN 4Cast #102: Aggregation, Library of Congress Goes Tech, Online Searching, Blogging Help
Posted in 4cast, blogs, Cinematic Internet, Facebook, Google, Library of Congress, LinkedIn, social network websites, Web 2.0, web browsers, and Wikipedia
1. Are you aggregated? Several major companies have launched new data portability sites recently, all in the hopes that you will use them as your…
OPLIN 4Cast #101: Ban Second Life? Backscatter, Spam is 30, Xobni
Posted in 4cast, backscatter, social network websites, spam, techies, and wireless
1. Virtual worlds in the hot seat As reported in the 4Cast last week, there are 100+ youth-oriented virtual worlds in existence. With that kind…
4Cast#94: FriendFeed…Facebook…Internet Growth… Readers Advisory Online
Posted in 4cast, instant messaging, Playlist.io, screencasting, social network websites, and Xobni
1. From Friendfeed.com: FriendFeed enables you to keep up-to-date on the web pages, photos, videos and music that your friends and family are sharing. It…
4Cast #87: Library 2.0, LTR, Social Media, Gaming
Posted in 4cast, Add new tag, blogs, Facebook, Flickr, games, GIMP, HarperCollins, Library 2.0, library funding, Reference Extract, social network websites, and Web 2.0
This week’s 4cast: Co-Opting Library 2.0 Technology brings challenges, of course, but how much 2.0 does a library really need? Are important issues being ignored…
4Cast #86: Google Gen, LOC & Flickr, MySpace, Blogs
Posted in 4cast, blogs, Flickr, Google, Library 2.0, Library of Congress, LinkedIn, and social network websites
This week’s 4cast: Google Generation? I Guess Not…. A new study puts an end to the common assumption that the “Google Generation†(those brought up…
4Cast #85: Sharing Data, Banning Google, Wikia Search Review, Future of Libraries
Posted in 4cast, blogs, education, Facebook, GIMP, Google, Google News, Internet, Library 2.0, Library vs. Internet, LinkedIn, Lipsum, privacy, Reference Extract, social network websites, social search, software development, VirtualBox, and Wikipedia
 This week’s 4cast: Sharing Data: Google & Facebook Join DataPortability.org The mission of DataPortability is to allow personal data (the kind found on social networking…
4Cast #84: 2008, Wikia Search, Netscape, Teens
Posted in blogs, Cinematic Internet, Firefox, Google, GoogleVoice, social network websites, Tweetmeme, VirtualBox, Web 2.0, web browsers, and Wikipedia
This week’s 4cast: Library/Web 2.0/Tech Predictions for 2008 It’s officially 2008, and along with the New Year come predictions of the technologies (web, library, otherwise)…