2005 May

NASA Star Gazers - NASA created this educational website to “inspire and motivate students to pursue careers in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics.” Students of all ages can learn about competitions, research opportunities and internships. The website presents pictorial explanations of the Sun’s structure, solar winds, electromagnetism, electromagnetic spectrum, and other phenomena related to the [...]

The Tigris.org mission is to promote open source software engineering. That means hosting projects to develop open source software engineering tools. It also means providing professional and methodological information. Their goal is to help open source developers do better by using traditional software engineering tools and methods, while at the same time highlighting the best [...]

GovernmentSecurity.org - Network Security Resources - A comprehensive listing of network resources in the following categories: 1) Network Security Jobs, 2) Consultants Directory, 3) E-Mail Security, 4) Encryption Information, 5) General Security, 6) Internet Anonymity, 7) Exploit Articles, 8) HTTP Protocol Security, 9) Linux Security, 10) MS IIS Information, 11) Downloads, 12) Exploit Archive, and [...]

South African Journal of Economics - Since its beginnings in 1925, the South African Journal of Economics has established a reputation as one of the leading international regional journals, publishing economics research affecting African countries for a worldwide audience. The journal publishes papers from internationally recognised authors on a wide range of subjects and accepts [...]

A Growing Dictionary of Old and New Words From the Fringes of English - Double-Tongued Word Wrester records undocumented or under-documented words from the fringes of English. It focuses upon slang, jargon, and other niche categories which include new, foreign, hybrid, archaic, obsolete, and rare words. Special attention is paid to the lending and borrowing [...]

Velocity for Life Sciences (VLS) - Vivisimo, the creator of innovative clustering software for better search and discovery, introduced the Velocity for Life Sciences (VLS) search and discovery platform that includes meta-alerts, collaboration, document delivery and advanced reporting capabilities for improved knowledge sharing among functional groups across an enterprise. Velocity for Life Sciences 4.2 is [...]

Today, access to films, videos and movies is generally restricted to those few thousand commercial titles that can be fit in the limited physical shelf space of a Blockbuster shop and which, due to their popularity justify the cost of such effort.
But things are starting to change.
Online clearinghouses, powerful new search tools, affinity and [...]

Information360 - As you work at your computer (PC or Mac), in any program, the Toolbar sits unobtrusively at the top of your screen. You may be working in word, building a presentation in Powerpoint or simply reading an imported document, whatever program you are working in, the software is continually searching for contextually related [...]

Google Special Features - In addition to providing easy access to more than 8 billion web pages, Google has many special features to help you to find exactly what you’re looking for. Click the title of a specific feature to learn more about it. Special features include: 1) Book Search, 2) Cached Links, 3) Calculator, [...]

Outfoxed is the implementation side of Stan James’s master thesis at the University of Osnabrück, Germany. The thesis title is Trusted Metadata Distribution Using Social Networks. In a nutshell, he is exploring ways for you to use your network of trusted friends to determine what’s good, bad, and dangerous on the internet. Outfoxed does this [...]

Dojo is an Open Source effort by an invited set of contributors to create a UI toolkit that allows a larger number of web application authors to easily use the rich capabilities of modern browsers. Contributors to Dojo have been the authors of such antecedent projects as nWidgets, Burst, and f(m). This has been added [...]

The Journal of Computer Security presents research and development results of lasting significance in the theory, design, implementation, analysis, and application of secure computer systems. It also provides a forum for ideas about the meaning and implications of security and privacy, particularly those with important consequences for the technical community. The journal provides an opportunity [...]

Investopedia is your complete, unbiased, and easy-to-understand educational guide to investing and personal finance. The site has the biggest financial dictionary on the web, hundreds of articles and tutorials, and an investing simulator where where you can practice managing a portfolio without putting your money at risk. This has been added to Financial Sources Subject [...]

Journal of International Entrepreneurship - Competition in international markets was traditionally the realm of large companies, with smaller firms tending to remain local or regional. Internationalisation was an expansion option of interest to some enterprises, but seldom was it a competitive necessity. Many opted to avoid the uncertainties of competing in foreign markets, and simply [...]

MATRIX: The Center for Humane, Arts, Letters and Social Sciences Online at Michigan State University seeks to advance critical understanding and promote access to knowledge through world-class research in humanities technology. Humanities technology brings together the humanist’s quest for deeper understanding of human nature, thought, expression, and behavior with the tools, methods and applications of [...]

National Geographic Sustainable Destinations Resource Center - The travel and tourism business is now perhaps the largest industry on Earth. While tourism can build understanding, tourism managed poorly can ruin a place. Yet if handled well, tourism provides an incentive to preserve the best things a destination has to offer: wildlife habitats, historic districts, great [...]

WISE: Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer - This University of California-Berkeley website discusses the goal of the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) to “map the sky in infrared light, searching for the nearest and coolest stars, the origins of stellar and planetary systems, and the most luminous galaxies in the Universe.” After reading an overview of [...]

H-Net is an international interdisciplinary organization of scholars and teachers dedicated to developing the enormous educational potential of the Internet and the World Wide Web. Their edited lists and web sites publish peer reviewed essays, multimedia materials, and discussion for colleagues and the interested public. The computing heart of H-Net resides at MATRIX: The Center [...]

The Wall Street Journal Briefing - Vital Intelligence on China - Providing you with a single, consolidated source of essential China news, insights and intelligence, The Wall Street Journal’s authoritative new China Business and China Manufacturing Briefings arm you with the information you need to do business in China. Their experienced and objective China Reporting [...]

Information Search Strategies on the Internet: A Critical Component of New Literacies by Laurie A. Henry - Abstract:The ability to effectively search and locate information on the Internet is an important skill for education and essential for success in the 21st century. The results from a single search task can produce an overwhelming amount of [...]