On Monday last week, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) held a hearing in Washington on cross-device tracking. Simply put, cross-device tracking is a relatively new…
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When we think about Artificial Intelligence (AI), many of us probably picture a robot that thinks and acts like a human. Some of us picture…
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At last Thursday’s OLC/OPLIN RightClick 2015 ice breaker, the casual conversations around the room lead to the sharing of some interesting information, and it seems…
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News UK, which publishes The Sun, the UK’s biggest-selling tabloid, decided at the end of last week to get rid of the paywall on their…
At the Code/Mobile conference this month, Amit Singhal, Google’s search chief, announced that for the first time more Google searches were done this summer on…
Users of libraries in Ohio have free access to Ancestry Library Edition, “powered by Ancestry.com” and paid for in part by OPLIN, so some recent…
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If your library uses any Software as a Service (SaaS), which is increasingly common for Integrated Library Systems (ILS) and subscriptions management, then it’s quite…
We interrupt our regularly scheduled blog for a special announcement. We’re at the Ohio Library Council (OLC) Convention & Expo in Cincinnati today, and in…
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Passwords, passwords, when are we ever going to quit talking about passwords? Perhaps sooner than you might think. The huge hack of the Ashley Madison…