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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 […]
Just In From Ann Arbor: ProQuest today announced that Kurt Sanford will join the Company as Chief Executive Officer and as a member of its Board of Directors on July 13, 2011. Mr. Sanford, a highly experienced information services executive, previously spent the past 14 years at LexisNexis, serving most recently as President, Global […]
From a RWJF News Release: The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation launched the nation’s most comprehensive online directory for patients to find reliable information on the quality of health care provided by physicians and hospitals in their communities. From Maine to California, medical patients can scroll over a U.S. map and find Web-based resources to help […]
eBook visionary and Project Gutenberg founder, Michael Hart, takes a look back in this PG News post. From 1971 to 1976 it was an uphill struggle for permission to put The U.S. Constitution online as an eBook because it was so much larger than all the previous eBooks, but it is still standing as one […]
Update: Well, 12 hours after Google told Search Engine Land that they’re exploring ways to bring realtime Google+ results to Google Realtime we also learn, this time from Danny Sullivan, that the reason the specialty search tools is gone comes from a contract between Twitter and Google expiring on July 1st. We’re also interested to […]
Government of Canada Core Subject Thesaurus in SKOS/RDF Format
Archives and Special Collections, Data Files, Libraries, News
|From LAC: Library and Archives Canada is pleased to announce a new downloadable version of the Government of Canada Core Subject Thesaurus in SKOS/RDF format. The Government of Canada Core Subject Thesaurus is a bilingual thesaurus consisting of terminology that represents all the fields covered in the information resources of the Government of Canada. Library […]
“Google+ Encounters Its First Spam” (via The Inquirer) See Also: You can take a look at what the invite looks like here. “Fox News Twitter Account Announces Barack Obama Dead After Hack” (via Sophos Naked Security)
From the National Security Archive at George Washington University: Forty-five years after President Johnson signed the U.S. Freedom of Information Act into law in 1966, federal agency backlogs of FOIA requests are growing, with the oldest requests at eight agencies dating back over a decade and the single oldest request now 20 years old, according […]
Gary*** has written a report about the end of Google’s Wonder Wheel for Search Engine Land. You can read the story here. *** In addition to serving as co-founder and co-editor of INFOdocket, Gary was recently named a contributing editor at Search Engine Land.
Microsoft Academic Search: A Major Update and Several New Features Now Available
Associations and Organizations, Journal Articles, News, Patrons and Users
|We will have more about this release when the holiday weekend is over but until then we wanted to let you know that the Microsoft Academic Search database has just undergone a major update that’s now live. As we said in in March and we will say again today, look out Google Scholar. It will […]