Social Web Taxonomy

Hi class,

Check out --
http://blog.jackvinson.com/archives/2007/11/15/various_social_networking_and_communications_technologies.html

and

http://stephenslighthouse.sirsidynix.com/archives/2007/11/social_web_taxo.html

on social web applications.

Rong

Merriam-Webster Visual Dictionary Online

http://visual.merriam-webster.com/

Amazon's Kindle

For $399, from next week, you can have the new AmazonKindle book reader, ready to get some [up to 200] of the available 88,000 titles wirelessly downloaded ready for holiday season reading - turn off the wireless and the batteries will last a week.

NYPL Digital Gallery

http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/index.cfm

University of Huddersfield Library OPAC Keyword Cloud

http://library.hud.ac.uk/perl/keywords/cloud.pl

yakpac

http://yakpac.liblime.com/

Open Source Federated Search Tool: dbwiz

http://dbwiz.lib.sfu.ca/cgi-bin/dbwiz/dbwiz2.pl

All the best,
Rong

Kerpoof

Hi class,

You will definitely have fun with this:
http://www.kerpoof.com/

Rong

Visual Medical Dictionary

Hi class,

Curehunter has a nice visual medical dictionary that displays medical terms in a network similar to Google's touchgraph:

http://www.curehunter.com/public/dictionary.do

Rong

Social Network Sites

Hi class,

We all familiar with the following two social network sites:

• Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/
• MySpace: http://www.myspace.com/
  

But do you know about other popular social network sites:

• Orkut: http://www.orkut.com

• Bebo: http://www.bebo.com

• Xanga: http://www.xanga.com/

• Hi5: http://www.hi5.com/

• Friendster: http://www.friendster.com/

• Saga Zone (for senior people): http://www2.saga.co.uk/sagazone/

Enjoy!

Rong

Microsoft Live Search with "more" options

Microsoft Adds New Tab on Live Search Home Page

New on the MS Live search home page is a new tab marked, “More.” Click it and you’ll find a drop down to various betas including:
+ Academic Search
+ Book Search
+ Classifieds
+ Feeds
+ Local
+ Health
+ QnA
+ Edit Macros
+ Find Macros

Rong

fuzzzy.com

Very interesting bookmark/tags search tool:

http://www.fuzzzy.com/


Rong

Clusty clouds

A neat tool:

http://cloud.clusty.com/

Rong

Mark Twain Project Online

http://www.marktwainproject.org/

This One Next

Enter a book, CD or DVD that you enjoyed and the site will analyse our databaseof real users' preferences to suggest other books, CDs or DVDs that you might like.

http://www.thisonenext.com/search


Rong

17 Specialty Search Engines Every Web Developer Should Bookmark

http://www.virtualhosting.com/blog/2007/17-specialty-search-engines-every-web-developer-should-bookmark/

More examples of library2.0 services

Here are some of the examples mentioned by Casey and Savastinuk in their book on Library 2.0:

1. Ann Arbor Districk Library
http://www.aadl.org/

Pay special attention to their card catalog feature that allows user to add their own marginalia

2. Gwinnett Count Public Library

http://www.gwinnettpl.org/


3. Tacoma Public Library

http://www.tacomapubliclibrary.org/

4. Darien Library

http://www.darienlibrary.org/


Thanks,

Rong

Visualization tools

From Glasgow Colleges blog, three interesting visualization tools

Newsmap is a high definition interface which represents the ever changing infoscape of Google News. Think of the Million Dollar Web Page..only with content. weblink: Newsmap


Many Eyes, an IBM run portal, could quite easily be described as 'Mash Up In A Box'; utilising the concepts of social tagging and data analysis. weblink: Many Eyes

Gapminder is a non-profit venture for development and provision of free software that visualise human development. weblink: Gapminder

Enjoy!

Rong

Examples of library2.0 site

Two library websites are frequently viewed as representatives of library2.0 model:


Indianapolis-Marion County public library

http://www.imcpl.org/


The Queens Borough Public Library

http://www.queenslibrary.org/

Rong

Anthony Crafton's New Yorker Article

Hi class,

Thanks to Carolynn Archer who sent me this link of this New Yorker's article:


http://www.newyorker.com/online/2007/11/05/071105on_onlineonly_grafton


All the best,
Rong

NameVoyager: Visualizing baby names

This seems a fun visualization tool:


http://www.babynamewizard.com/namevoyager/


Best,
Rong

Minuteman network new OPAC

Hi class,

Karen Vogts told me about the new interface of minlib:


http://library.minlib.net/search/


All the best,
Rong