This week’s 4cast: 1. The Open Library Opens The Internet Archive has unveiled Open Library, their attempt to create a free, online catalog of every…
OPLIN 4cast #63
Posted in GIMP, Library 2.0, Panda Cloud Antivirus, and Wolfram Alpha
Category: Library 2.0
Library 2.0
OPLIN 4cast #61
Posted in ALA, games, GIMP, Internet, Library 2.0, Library vs. Internet, OPAC, Screen Readers, social network websites, URL shorteners, Web 2.0, and World Digital Library
This week’s 4cast: 1. The Digital Natives Are Restless At the ALA Annual Conference (wrapping up this week in Washington D.C.), librarians were given some…
OPLIN 4cast #57
Posted in Boxee, Diigo, Facebook, GIMP, iPhones, Library 2.0, library school, LibraryThing, LinkedIn, OPAC, and SEO
This week’s 4cast: 1. Facebook Opens Up, Makes MySpace Look Bad Facebook, the social networking website originally aimed at college students (but now open to…
OPLIN 4cast #56
Posted in copyright, digitization, DMCA, downloads, Google, Library 2.0, Second Life, Study, TipJar, and web TV
This week’s 4cast: 1. Don’t Even Think About Making a Copy Attorney General Alberto Gonzales is pressing Congress to pass stricter copyright laws that would…
OPLIN 4cast #53
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…
OPLIN 4cast #49
Posted in ASCII, GIMP, Google News Archive Search, Library 2.0, Library vs. Internet, Lipsum, Netflix, Screen Readers, Web 2.0, and Xoopit
This week’s 4cast: 1. Gettin’ Famous… The red-hot Learning 2.0 program at the Public Library of Charlotte & Mecklenburg County recently received some national attention…
OPLIN 4cast #46
Posted in Amazon, Cinematic Internet, DMCA, DRM, Embedding, Gmail, Google Guide, Google Latitude, HarperCollins, Library 2.0, screencasting, Second Life, social network websites, Songza, and Video books
This week’s 4cast: 1. Search Inside a Book (Once You’ve Figured Out Who Published It) In an effort to defend their turf from the likes…
OPLIN 4cast #45
Posted in about:books, Apple, DRM, Library 2.0, mashups, and social network websites
This week’s 4cast: 1. Get On Out There & Socialize Five Weeks to a Social Library describes itself as “the first free, grassroots, completely online…
OPLIN 4cast #43
Posted in Congress, Evergreen, Federal Register, GIMP, Library 2.0, Obama, Web 2.0, and YouTube
This week’s 4cast: 1. Sheriff Roy Puts ILS Vendors on Notice Roy Tennant recently wrote an open letter to all ILS vendors, basically alerting them…
OPLIN 4cast #30
Posted in ASCII, Google Apps, Google News Archive Search, Library 2.0, Mozilla, TraceMonkey, and Ubiquity
This week’s 4cast: 1. Head in the Tag Clouds A tag cloud is a visual way of identifying popular content on any given website through…