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Here’s a Roundup of Some New Stats: LinkedIn Assumes #2 Spot among U.S. Social Networking Sites (incl. Chart; via comScore) 73% of users access mobile social networks every day (ABI Research via Fierce Mobile Content) U.S. Mobile Map Audience Grows 39 Percent in Past Year as Fixed-Internet Map Audience Softens Slightly (via comScore) “Internet Users […]
News Roundup: Archives, Linked Data, Maps, Social Media, and More (11 items)
Archives and Special Collections, Data Files, Libraries, Maps, News, Roundup
|Archives “UK Government Web Archive receives billionth hit” A redesigned web archive is also now available. Linked Data “Significant Bibliographic Linked Data Release From The British Library” (via Talis Blog) “Linked Open British National Bibliography Preview” “Spoonfeeding Library Data to Search Engines” (via Go To Hellman) Maps Bing: “Updates to Our Road Map Style” (via Bing […]
Roundup: A Week's Worth of News About Google and Google+ (16 Items)
Maps, News, Patrons and Users, Reports, Resources, Roundup, Video Recordings
|Google makes a lot of news . Whatever they’re doing, plan to do, about to do, might do, people want them to do, etc. gets coverage. The last time we did a roundup several of you let us know that it was useful so we’re going to do it again. If fact, we will try […]
1. “Google+ email scam widening” (via The Telegraph) 2. “Google+ Invite Scams Appear on Facebook” (via PCMag.com) 3. “Facebook Unfriends Third-Party Friend Exporter” (via All Facebook) 4. “There Is No ‘Divorce’ In The Google Plus World” (via Forbes) Comparing the relationship options between Google+ and Facebook 5. “Will Facebook Hit Google With A Cease And […]
Google+ Solves the Social Privacy Problem by Making Friending Very Complicated (AllThingsD/WSJ) Not a review but a basic summary of the Google+ sharing/friending model. “Google’s Google+, Social Strategy Includes 100 Launches” (via PCMag) “Sex Problems at Google+” (via Forbes) The One Google Plus Feature Facebook Should Fear (via All Facebook) “Mark Zuckerberg Is On Google+ […]
Google I/O, a conference where many Google products and services have been introduced (Android, Google Wave, Google TV are three of them), begins today and we’re already hearing about some of the services that will be announced. So we thought it would it might be useful to compile a ist of some of the most […]
Here’s a Look at Several Stories Across the Library/Info World That We Think Will Be Of Interest To You: 1. Social: Twitter Changes Its Homepage To Own The Fact That It’s A Media Platform (via Business Insider) UPDATE: Twitter disables new version of website 2. Mobile: MoMA [Museum of Modern Art] Releases e-Book App for […]
In an Information Today NewsBreak, Hane takes a look at the HarperCollins/Library eBook story and provides a useful roundup with links to many useful documents. Btw, here are three collections of non-library/non-info industry press about what some refer to as #HCOD (HarperCollins/OverDrive) that we posted on INFOdocket. We have another collection of articles that we […]
1. “Finally, A Smart Alternative To Those Goofy Mobile Barcodes” (by Dan Frommer, Silicon Alley Insider) Nothing to install or scan just text a few numbers. The pros and cons of Zoove. ||| A Few Zoove Demos. 2. “Many teenagers are clueless about QR Codes. Can they ever really take off? (by Martin Bryant, The […]
1. EBSCO Discovery ServiceT Expands Collection of STM Content with IGI Global Agreement 2. ERIC Partnership Brings More Education Dissertation Records Into the ERIC Collection 3. ebrary Launches New Starter Packs of Essential E-books in 25 Subject Areas