Probably won’t have time to make any original posts here today, but should point readers two items I wrote today at Social Software.
Gizmo goes local in Europe
Cooliris delivers clickless preview of Google search results
Thought those in particular would be of interest to readers here.
I posted an interview with the community manager of OpenOffice.org, Louis Suarez-Potts, last night at Net Squared. OpenOffice is an interesting project that provides office suite (word processor, spread sheet, etc.) programs to the word in open source and an open format in 60+ languages around the world. Louis writes an epic poem in response to each of my email interview questions – it’s really informative and inspiring.
It’s been busy times over at Social Software, too – so don’t hesitate to check it out over there.
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I just made a long guest post over at a neat company blog called The Big Act, by a web-app company called SproutIt. Their favorite topic is Management by Feed. You know how much I love RSS, so I was more than happy to make a guest post on the topic. I focused on two obstacles I see: management of feeds themselves and diverse skill sets on the part of end users. Check it out if you’d like: Two Obstacles to Management by Feeds
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It’s true, Scuttle.org is an open source social bookmarking platform. A variety of different social bookmarking services seem to use it, but none I had ever heard of before looking. http://sourceforge.net/projects/scuttle/ is where you can download the code. Is there an implementation out there where you could, say, both search in and by found in both Scuttle and Del.icio.us at the same time? Wouldn’t that be nice.
Gary Price points to a nice search engine for citations in the Information Science field: CiteSeer. See, for example, this search for my most recent interviewee at Net Squared, Stuart Weibel. Scroll all the way to the bottom of the page to see all the features included. Nice.
I got to meet Stuart in Seattle after I made a blog post saying I’d be there last week. Thanks for making the connection Stuart!
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Well, an information scientist is more like it. I just posted an interview with OCLC Research Scientist Stuart Weibel over at NetSquared – titled Metadata for the Emerging Future. I used another Grazr box at the end, too. I love that!
Check it out, was just reading an article that humorously referred to God.org so I thought I’d look it up. Then I looked up God.com. Both religious looking enough. Check out God.us though – the U.S. registered URL. It redirects you to Free-Samples.com – where you’ll find lots of coupons and cheap stuff to buy. Does that make sense or what? The internet is so funny.