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Monthly Archives: April 2006

Mobile Browsing and Text Messaging on the Rise

Thursday, April 27, 2006

An April 19th article in Information Week discusses the rise in the use of mobile phones to access the web. The trend is stronger in Japan than either the United States or Canada (no surprise there); nevertheless, over one quarter of mobile users have used their phones to access the internet, according to the [...]

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Just in Time for Easter, It’s a Very Big Bunny

Friday, April 14, 2006

National Geographic has the story about a real-life Wallace and Gromit were-rabbit situation.
This seemed like a good inaugural use of the “diversions” category, which I promise to use very sparingly.

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Windows Live Academic Launched

Friday, April 14, 2006

Microsoft has launched Windows Live Academic. According to the site it “currently indexes content related to computer science, physics, electrical engineering, and related subject areas.”
The results interface has some interesting features, including a split panel that shows results on the left and an abstract or more info about one citation on the [...]

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Cool Tools Update at CIL

Tuesday, April 11, 2006

One of the best presentations I attended at Computers in Libraries was the Cool Tools update presented by Frank Cervone from Northwestern University and Darlene Fichter from University of Saskatchewan. The complete title was “Cool Tools for Webmasters,” but many of the tools they discussed were more general than the title implies.
They [...]

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What Can You Do with a Wiki?

Tuesday, April 11, 2006

You may be familiar with Wikipedia, but you might not know about many other wikis. Are wikis just for geeks, or are they being used by the wider web world?
The Eastwikkers blog is highlighting 33 wikis in 33 days, showcasing all sorts of wikis: Flu Wiki, This Might Be a Wiki (They [...]

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Hello World!

Tuesday, April 11, 2006

Welcome to Ab’s blog, a place for me to share information about technology and libraries with BU library staff. My goal is to provide links, information, and some analysis about library tech stuff. In the past I have occasionally done this via e-mail, but a blog seems like a less intrusive and more [...]

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