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Notes on the Code4Lib Virtual Lightning Talks

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Last week I emcee’d the second Code4Lib Virtual Lightning talk session and I wanted to record some notes and pointers here in case me (or anyone else) wants ...

EBSCOhost Connection Records Found In-The-Wild

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EBSCOhost Connect was announced in the spring of 2006 as near as I can recall. (I can't find the press release about it on the EBSCO website. As close as I ...

Administrative Note – Feeds Moved on FeedBurner

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DLTJ uses the FeedBurner service to enhance its syndication feeds and gather statistics on readers. Several years ago, Google acquired FeedBurner and recent...

What Makes Google Tick? A Pointer to an Analysis

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Why does Google do what it does? A report by the faberNovel management consulting firm describes Google's "key success factors" and how it goes about achiev...

Vint Cerf on the Origins of 32-bit IP Addressing

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Via a weekly wrap-up post by Dion Almaer on the Google Code Blog comes mention of a Google Tech Talk video from their IPv6 Conference 2008. It is a panel d...

Google Sets Its Sights On Hosting Knowledge

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Google is typically known for its advertising, search engine, and news aggregation services. From Geoffrey Bilder on crosstech comes word of a new Google ef...

Analysis of Google Scholar and Google Books

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Two papers were published recently exploring the quality of Google Scholar and Google Books. Google Scholar Philipp Mayr and Anne-Kathrin Walter, both of GE...

JPEG2000 Activity in the Google Summer of Code

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OhioLINK is not participating in the Google Summer of Code this year (too many other things going on for our staff to be effective mentors), which is why it ...

What a NASA/Google Mashup Might Mean for Libraries

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Ron Murray (no relation) from the Library of Congress sent me this announcement about a joint NASA/Google partnership, which starts: NASA Ames Research Cente...

Google Custom Search for Planet Code4Lib

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I wanted to mess around with Google's new Custom Search Engine feature and in casting about for a list of URLs to feed it I thought I'd try the list of blogs...

Can Google be Out-Googled?

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I have been heard to remark to other librarians on occasion a comment along the lines of "Don't fear Google; Don't Chase Google; Let's Out-Google Google!" ...

Automated Faceted Analysis In Google?

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Has anyone else started seeing what looks to be faceted topical headings at the top of Google searches? This past weekend I was the groomsman at my brother'...