The social relevance of search results took on new importance today as Google announced a fresg revamp of its social search features. To quote the company’s Project Management Director Mike Cassidy on Google’s blog, “[R]elevance isn’t just about pages—it’s also about relationships.” Google is leveraging those relationships by bringing an even greater social emphasis
Open for Business! Google’s New eBookstore Delights & Disappoints
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Google today opened the latest chapter in the great story on the battle of the eBook stores. Established eBook retailers like Amazon and Barnes & Noble are taking note, as Google’s salvo is no small warning shot. With a massive library, multi-device support, and a series of interesting partnerships, the search giant has launched a…
A Grain of Salt & A Teaspoon of Sugar: Reading Patrick Lamb’s Thoughts on Law Librarians.
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A bit of a brouhaha was created today when The ABA Journal released its most recent installment of its The New Normal series. In it, Valorem Law Group’s Patrick Lamb asks and sort of answers a stark question – Does it pay to hire a law librarian? His response and rationale are provocative. Reaction to…
Free Digital Media with Your Latte? Starbucks Digital Network debuts!
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Just when it seems like the trend is for coffee shops to be cutting back on free Wi-Fi access, Starbucks delivers a double-shot to the competition. Just months after announcing that it was making WiFi available for free to all customers, the coffee giant is serving up something innovative. Guaranteed to tempt your taste for…
With Pubit!, Barnes & Noble makes ePublishing a breeze and gives you a share of the profit$!
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Hitting it big in the world of publishing has never been an easy nut to crack. Authors not only need write great works to publish, but also navigate the hops and hills of the industry. The advent of ePublishing has changed the game to a large degree. Thanks to the eReader revolution, getting your works…
Google’s new URL shortener not short on features!
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As if there were not already enough choices for shortening those long URLs, another one has launched. And if it was not for the company launching it, we would probably not be paying it much attention. But this is no run-of-the-mail-under-the-radar kind of unveiling. This is Google’s new URL shortener, Goo.gl and it is not…
Take a swing. This Pinyadda is FULL of Goodies!
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Do you love reading the news online but are sick of the crazy and often irrelevant commentary that so often follows it today? Anyone who is wondering what is wrong with the world today just has to look at the lack of civility when it comes to how people comment on news sites. There is…
Facebook, Placebook! Social networking giant enters location wars.
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In a much anticipated announcement yesterday, social networking powerhouse Facebook fired another shot hear around the world. Make that the online world of “checking in”. With the unveiling of Facebook Places, the company enters the hot and volatile war for geo-location supremecy.
Facebook Places is designed to let users include their location in their…
Looking for a killer RSS app? Try FeedKiller!
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RSS and news aggregators are a dime a dozen these days. From sites that bring all your feeds to one place to RSS readers that you can install on your smartphone. There is a veritable cornucopia of apps from which to choose. Some are complex to set up and many require some sort of membership. …
Google Wave-ing Good-Bye?
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Can it be that one of the most hyped new tools of the year has already met an early and untimely demise? According to Google’s blog, the company has decided to end support for the much-anticipated and, apparently, hardly used Google Wave. What can we say besides, “Google Wave, we hardly knew ye!”
It…