As I have written before, Australia is a global hub for crowdsourcing platforms , with the likes of Freelancer.com , 99designs , DesignCrowd , Kaggle , Ideas While You Sleep and many more resident here. While the company didn’t need money, it started to see the potential of investing in growth. Llewellyn says. Absolutely. MORE >>

Once upon a time there were department stores that sold everything. They hardly exist anymore. because we get a better deal from specialty stores. Once upon a time there were record albums where many songs were in one package. We don’t buy albums anymore. If we buy any music we buy songs. We used to rely on advertising. But not in health care. MORE >>

My company has been using Google Apps for a few years now; it provides a simple way to collaborate on documents and spreadsheets, and it’s easy to share documents with clients. Google has now released a Google Docs app for Android to complement the web app. The app installs quickly, and it’s reasonably sized at around 2.5 phones. MORE >>

There was a session on TeachMeet: Librarians learning from each other given by Niamh Tumelty and Katie Birkwood at the LILAC (Information Literacy) conference held in London last week (here you see the array of fine china at the British Library). so are collecting advice. first. lilac11 librarians Pedagogy lilac2011 Information Literacy MORE >>

Thursday’s Yahoo Mail blackout was the source of a lot of headaches, with some 1.2 million users said to be affected. As of press time, Yahoo’s Wikipedia page has been vandalized (screenshot below) and anecdotal reports continue to pour in from users who haven’t had access to Yahoo Mail for more than 8 hours. MORE >>