Are you a small business person or Internet wannabe searcher? Here\’s a daily update to maintain your current awareness in information retrieval, information extraction, bots, knowledge discovery and harvesting, data and Web mining, artificial intelligence, and general research and search sources on the Internet.
Finding Images Online: Directory of Web Image Sites - This site was found on the Metro Desk Blog and titled Finding Images Online: Directory of Web Image Sites is a list, organized alphabetically by subject, of Web sources of pictures. The list does not indicate the criteria for inclusion, nor does it in any way […]
Social Bookmarking Tools (I) - A General Review by Tony Hammond, Timo Hannay, Ben Lund, and Joanna Scott - Because, to paraphrase a pop music lyric from a certain rock and roll band of yesterday, “the Web is old, the Web is new, the Web is all, the Web is you”, it seems like we […]
Meetro is the new online meeting place that lets you find friends and new people, events, restaurants and all sorts of other stuff – based on wherever you are when you’re using Meetro. At the coffeeshop, the airport lounge, your best friend’s couch… Meetro goes where you go, hooking you up with whoever and whatever’s […]
Genographic Project - The National Geographic Society, IBM, geneticist Spencer Wells, and the Waitt Family Foundation have launched the Genographic Project, a five-year effort to understand the human journey—where we came from and how we got to where we live today. This unprecedented effort will map humanity’s genetic journey through the ages. The fossil record […]
CodeZoo exists to help you find high-quality, freely available, reusable components, getting you past the repetitive parts of coding, and onto the rest and the best of your projects. It’s a fast-forward button for your compiler. This has been added to Script Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog.
Duel of the Winds - When winds collide: A Wolf-Rayet star (WR) and its giant companion (O) do battle. Like two ancient storm gods using nature’s weaponry to wage war, this pair of ultra-massive stars has sent their fierce stellar winds smashing together across a region the size of our solar system. Now, astronomers have […]
The Freesound Project aims to create a huge collaborative database of audio snippets, samples, recordings, bleeps, … released under the Creative Commons Sampling Plus License. The Freesound Project provides new and interesting ways of accessing these samples, allowing users to: a) browse the sounds in new ways using keywords, a “sounds-like” type of browsing and […]
Information Technology and Management - By definition, information technology is very wide. There are a number of journals that address different technologies such as databases, knowledge bases, multimedia, group-ware, telecommunications, etc. This current trend is understandable because these technologies are indeed complex and often have a multitude of technical issues requiring in-depth study. On the […]
Podscope® - The First Engine to Search Within a Podcastl - TVEyes, the real-time broadcast search provider, today announced Podscope®, the first engine to search within a Podcast. TVEyes’ Podscope, which makes every word searchable within a podcast, enables the audio indexing of podcast content, which is equally applicable to video blogs and personal videos. […]
Buzztracker is software that visualizes frequencies and relationships between locations in the Google world news directory. Buzztracker tries to show you how interconnected the world is: big events in one area ripple to other areas across the globe. Connections between cities thousands of miles apart become apparent at a glance. Buzztracker only tracks English-language news […]
Health Economics, Policy and Law - International trends highlight the confluence of economics, politics and legal considerations in the health policy process. Health Economics, Policy and Law (HEPL) will serve as a forum for scholarship on health policy issues from these perspectives, and will be of use to academics, policy makers and health care managers […]
Upcoming.org is a social event calendar, completely driven by people like you. Manage your events, share events with friends and family, and syndicate your calendar to your own site. As Upcoming.org learns more about the events you enjoy, it will suggest new events you never would have heard about. This has been added to […]
Deep Web Research - I have completely updated and validated all the links for my Subject Tracer™ Information Blog: Deep Web Research. As always the bots will continue to update and if anyone knows of additional competent resources please email me so that I may include them.
RSS Digest: Show and syndicate RSS and news feed on your Web page with no programming. Place items and headlines from any RSS or Atom enabled site (such as del.icio.us or Flickr) onto your site, no programming required. It can use JavaScript, PHP, or an IFRAME as the inclusion method, so anyone can use it. […]
Canadian Association of Research Libraries - Open Archives Metadata Harvester - Canadian Association of Research Libraries / Association des bibliothèques de recherche Open Archives Metadata Harvester. The Canadian Association of Research Libraries (CARL) Institutional Repositories Pilot Project Harvester. This Harvester is the search service for the CARL Institutional Repositories Pilot Project and aggregates material from […]
Aggregation Is the New Scale - Scale doesn’t scale anymore. The old days of big players in the economy collecting consumers, audience, distribution, manufacturing efficiency, buying power, or capital in the grip of centralized control are waning. That used to be the way to find efficiency and size. That used to be the way to […]
Spam and Phishing: Public Policy Report - Spam and Phishing: Email users get more spam, but the harmful impact of unsolicited messages is diminishing for them. More than a third of email users have gotten phishing solicitations. More than a year after the CAN-SPAM Act became law, email users say they are receiving slightly more […]
Computers in Libraries 2005: Presentation Links - This page features links to World Wide Web sites, PowerPoint slideshows, and other electronic resources used in support of presentations at Computers in Libraries 2005. Links are provided at the discretion of presenters. Additional links will be provided as they become available. This has been added to Reference […]
PhDweblogs.net is a non-profit initiative to bring together PhD students’ weblogs from all around the world. If you are preparing a PhD, and have a blog about your research interests, you can register it here. We also accept other research-related weblogs, even if they are not directly connected to a PhD. This has been added […]
Linus Pauling Research Notebooks - As with many scientists, Linus Pauling utilized bound notebooks to keep track of the details of his research as it unfolded. A testament to the remarkable length and diversity of Dr. Pauling’s career, the Pauling Papers holdings include forty-six research notebooks spanning the years of 1922 to 1994 and covering […]