Yahoo have launched their beta version of their new search engine, MySearch. A personalised search engine that recalls and categorises results.
Tools by Pat Ensor for academic library searching
Pat Ensor maintains and develops a list of search resources intended for the expert searcher. Her Tool Kit for the Expert Web Searcher, includes search tips and resources for Subject …
About Some-Rights and All-Rights reserved
There are some interesting companion articles by Amy Gahran and Travis Swicegood which explain the differences between Some rights reserved and All rights reserved.
Weblog use within education
Alan Kleymeyer has collected some useful and interesting links that promote the use of weblogs within education.
Dynamo Project from the Interact Lab at Sussex university
I had the opportunity to visit the Interact Lab, a research centre at the University of Sussex in the UK. The Interact Lab in the university, aims to develop innovative …
Four kinds of privacy
Christopher Allen has posted on his interpretation of the four types of privacy and trust. His blog post is quite interesting and separates the definitions into defensive privacy, human-rights privacy, …
Matt Biddulph’s paper Crawling the Semantic Web
A copy of the Matt Biddulph’s paper Crawling the Semantic Web discusses some concerns of the Semantic Way of searching information and ontologies.
Lessons from the Chinese translation of Free Culture
Blog on Blog comment on the unique differences and lessons learnt about the Chinese translation of Laurence Lessig’s Free Culture book. Some of those involved in the project from the …
The marketing value of social networks
Alexa comments on the marketing value of social networks and graphs its growth from January 2003 to September 2004. See also: Unlocking the elusive potential of social networks – McKinsey …
Trust and accuracy of collaborative software
Orante has commented on the credibility, trust and accuracy of Wikipedia and other collaborative editing software and websites such as wiki’s. Slash dot has also added to the discussion with …
Mark Lyon’s G-Mail applications
Mark Lyon has some useful tools that work with your Google G-Mail account including applications that let you connect to your account, upload emails and other tasks. BTW, thanks to …
Computer virus Rbot-GR uses webcams
A new computer virus called, Rbot-GR uses webcams to literally spy and snoop at victims. It appears to be capable of turning on webcams and sending images and video via …
Audio recordings of the Lessig book Free Culture
The Laurence Lessig new book Free Culture has now been translated into Audio Chapter recordings in various languages by individuals wishing to allow others access to it.
Comparing Google and Yahoo search results
I was reading Elegant Hack and I came across this interesting visualisation search engine which, compares the results of Google and Yahoo! Talking search engines, here is one I use …
Furl – an interesting bookmark manager
Earl Mardle has written a blog post to a really cool tool called, Furl, that helps organise manage and tidy up your bookmarks. Although currently in Beta there are some …