1. Walking directions are now available on Google maps.
- Google Maps Adds Walking Directions (Life Hacker)
- Google Maps Gets More Pedestrian (Web Monkey)
- Google Maps Walking Directions Now Live (Search Engine Land)
- Google Maps Launches Walking Directions (Technorati)
2. Welcome to the Wikis
If you Google the word “wiki”, you will get approximately 361,000,000 hits. So obviously, you need to have one, too. Or you at least need to be able to search existing ones effectively and find the perfect ones for your patrons to use.
- How to start a Wiki (wikiHow)
- Top 10 ways to search Wikipedia (Read Write Web)
- Welcome to LyricWiki.org
- Welcome to WikiREADia
3. Only 15 days to go
The 2008 Summer Olympics will push not only athletes, but technology as well. (China is really playing catch-up. For example, just this week they opened their first Mac store.)
“The most notable [technological advancement] is Silverlight technology – Microsoft’s cross-browser, cross-platform plug-in for delivering online video. The site will be on MSN; and it’s being touted as ‘the official U.S. online home of the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing.’ Users will be able to get custom feeds of just the events they’re interested in.” (ReadWriteWeb)
In addition to the official site, just imagine how many of your users will be heading to YouTube to get the highlights.
- The Ticket That Knows Who You Are (NYT)
- Infoplease Summer Olympics Resources
- NBC to use Olympics as research lab for new media viewership (Ars Technica)
- Silverlight (Microsoft)
4. Despite the fact that spammers and hackers are getting more diligent, users are still lax in their PC maintenance and updates.
- Malware Spammers Get Sense of Humor (Wired)
- 40% of surfers don’t bother with browser security updates (Ars Technica)
- Please Update Your Browser (O’Reilly)
- PCs targeted by hackers every 39 seconds (iTnews)
