This week’s 4cast: 1. “Microsoft + Yahoo = ?” Microsoft’s bold and unsolicited $44.6B bid for Yahoo shocked many and even appalled a few bloggers. …
Category: Google
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)…
4cast #83: Knol, Spam, Identity, Jargon
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…
4cast #82: SAFE Act, Broadband, Search Trends, Beyond Google
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…
4cast #81: Spectrum Auction, Kindle, Reading, Gaming
Posted in eBooks, games, Google, iPhones, Playlist.io, Social Networks, and wireless
This week’s 4cast: 1. Sold! To the Giant Corporation with Deep Pockets, in the Back. In January, the FCC will auction off the 700-MHz broadcast…
4cast #78: Digitization, OpenSocial, ILS, Websites
Posted in Add new tag, Apple, digitization, Diigo, Evergreen, Federal Register, Google, Obama, social network websites, Videosurf, and web design
This week’s 4cast: 1. Don’t Digitize That Obituary Just Yet Anthony Grafton writes in The New Yorker that massive digitization projects (such as Google Book…
4cast #75: Plugins, Copyright, Taxes, Biblioblogs
Posted in BlindSearch, blogs, copyright, Firefox, Google, URL shorteners, and YouTube
This week’s 4cast: 1. Plug Your Catalog into Firefox A plugin is a small computer program that adds a specific, sometimes rather nifty, function to…
OPLIN 4cast #72
Posted in ALA, Amazon, eBooks, Google, Google Wave, Hunch, newspapers, and Wikipedia
This week’s 4cast: 1. Supply, Demand & Reality A new ALA report titled “Libraries Connect Communities: Public Library Funding & Technology Access Study” finds that…