Last Friday, in a progress report on “Product Focus,” Yahoo included three sentences announcing that “our business has evolved and at the end of 2014…
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OPLIN 4cast #404: Better pictures
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Chances are, your website has a lot of eye-catching images. In fact, if your site is typical of most websites, images probably account for about…
OPLIN 4cast #403: Tor privacy
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Over the weekend, Boing Boing published a piece about libraries in Massachusetts that are using the Tor browser on their public PCs to protect patron…
It’s not everyday you look at the news and see that a group of the largest universities and Internet companies have decided it’s time to…
The New Media Consortium recently released the NMC Horizon Report: 2014 Library Edition [pdf], produced in collaboration with the University of Applied Sciences in Chur,…
OPLIN 4cast #400: E-government in Ohio
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Anybody who works near the public computers in a library knows that e-government – the government doing its business with the people online rather than…
OPLIN 4cast #399: Chatting gets serious
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Instant messaging is not new. Neither is the online chat room. The CompuServe “CB Simulator” in 1980 was probably the first Internet application that we…
OPLIN 4cast #398: Google and HTTPS
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Google made an interesting announcement last week. Because they want to promote the use of secure, encoded HTTPS for website connections, they are going to…
OPLIN 4cast #397: BadUSB
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As if you needed something else to worry about, there seems to be a strong possibility that USB devices can be used in new and…
OPLIN 4cast #396: Global communication
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You have to give Google credit for thinking big. Some recent developments seem to indicate that they believe it’s time for Google Translate, which has…