He noted that top social networking sites had overtaken Google in popularity, so this is a major phenomenon. Youtube, CiteULike, connotea) There was a question about whether Web of Science or Google Scholar would count in the latter category, but they wouldn't, as you don't have a personal profile you can control. Social Networks.

I see from Martin De Saulles' blog (Brighton University) that he and Jackie Chelin (University of the West of England) have produced a video Beyond Google: Developing Training Skills for Library and Information Students in Their Work With the Google Generation. It was funded by the Higher Education Academy.

The Loki tool bar takes the information on your location and lets you identify local stores on Google or Yahoo Maps or see a map of nearby wifi hot spots, info on gas prices in your neighborhood, nearby apartments for rent. I remember one three-week on-site training gig that had me staying in a new town every night. even local geocaches.

My latest BatesInfoTip newsletter covers SortFix.com , a new search interface for Google (and, to a lesser extent, Yahoo and Open Directory Project). The ability to put search words in a "maybe later" bin just blows my socks off. Imagine. Ah, if one of the value-added online services offered this. Dialog, Factiva, LexisNexis.

haven't had a chance to play around with it but will look into whether it's as easy to use as Google Custom Search Engine According to an announcement on their web site, Yahoo is no longer supporting the well-designed Yahoo! Search Builder. To get the same functionality, you need to use its BOSS (Build your Own Search Service).

familiarity with Google News Timelines and Google Search Timelines. trending tool for analyzing buzz over time, like Blog Pulse , and Google Trends and Google Insights. A colleague emailed me the other day to ask me what Web 2.0 tools and resources are critical for research. Following are what come to mind for me.

Google just announced that they are rolling out a new browser Sept. You can see a comic book about Google Chrome here with nerd-speak: ["What if we have multiple processes? Google Chrome is still in beta, of course, so what it's missing now may be available later. I'm telling ya, this is good stuff.].

The "reporter" for Income Securities Advisor, an investment info service, found a 6-year-old article about United filing for bankruptcy when using Google to search for news about distressed companies. Within 10 minutes, UAL's stock had fallen from $12.45/share to $3/share before trading was halted. Hellooooo?

So I googled “CEO’s blog&# and found a wiki list of CEO’s blog from all over the world. Attended an iKMS talk last evening by Bonnie Cheuk of Environmental Resources Management (ERM). The talk was about the successful rollout of their Sharepoint portal named Minerva, which includes Web 2.0 tools like blogs and wikis.

Google on Google Chrome - comic book. tags: google , chrome , browser. Sugata Mitra shows how kids teach themselves | Video on TED.com. “Sugata Mitra talks about his Hole in the Wall project. Young kids in this project figured out how to use a PC on their own — and then taught other kids. Not available for Macs yet.

We use Google Docs to collaborate until we feel like the script is close to finished. FileFactory - free file hosting. Free file hosting - useful for student assignments. Link to large files, and don’t overload blog or wiki storage. This one claims embedding possibilities. tags: hosting. tags: hosting.

However, you can read most of it on Google book search here. At long last, Cisco Press has published Why Buy the Cow? How the On-Demand Revolution Powers the New Knowledge Economy and our book is now up on Amazon. technologies are creating." Read the introduction and first chapter online. Why buy the cow, eh?)

Just to remind myself of how much time to allow getting there, I entered the address into Google Maps on my smartphone. So the clogged arteries that are the Southern California freeway system are notorious, but this is ridiculous. Last night we wanted to see Wall-E at a discount movie house in Huntington Beach.

Google has quietly released another tool. While this release does not have all the buzz that accompanied Chrome ( see my post ), I think most users will find this new Google Search service of greater use. Google Side by Side Translated Search. Let me demostrate. view my results!). LINUX Quick Reference Guide.

I was wondering what data was sent to Google from Chrome users. Matt has the answers , and so far, seems innocuous

An Anthropology of Google's Search Experiments (with all data exposed, of course). Never will happen, but we get some tantalizing hints in this post on the Google blog: At any given time, we run anywhere from 50 to 200 experiments on Google sites all over the world.

In the past two weeks nearly every press outlet on the planet has called me asking for thoughts on where Google is going and how Google got to where it is. Google turns 10 years old, according to most estimates, this weekend. starting with the Daily Telegraph in London: Ten years of Google - Telegraph. Google At Ten - Om.

Not content to lease data from others who have satellites, Google today launched its own satellite into space. And it brings Google one step closer to what I think could be the company's Waterloo - a viral meme that Google is sensing too much, knows too much, and is too powerful. Via BeetTv , thanks Andy.

Here's the full list so far

It's Google Books for Newspapers ! Wonder what the Adwords spreadsheets looked like before they greenlit this badboy

If you don't think this is keeping the folks up late at night over at Google, you're wrong. vice chairman Sanford Litvack, for a possible antitrust challenge to Google Inc.'s is preparing to take court action against Google and its search-advertising deal with Yahoo Inc. And if they are NOT up late at night, sell your shares.

From the post on the Google Blog: Today, we're announcing a new logs retention policy: we'll anonymize IP addresses on our server logs after 9 months. that what it knows is scary. Hence, this move.

New terms for Chrome , new terms for IP addresses , new terms for Google Suggest. And it's getting very serious about addressing the issue. But there's more to do

Last Fall we took a big step at FM and launched our own conference series focused on the media business, in particular, the marketing piece of the media business. But given the speakers - Kevin Rose, Sarah Fay, Steve Hayden, The Ninjas, Suzie Reider and tons more - I should have known it'd be fine. And that one sold out early. Now to the discount.

Via BeetTv.good background on Chrome

One of my colleagues in marketing pointed to the new Google Insights service that helps you analyze the search terms people are using at Google. Google Insights provides a simple UI and some basic graphics to help track the terms. The Google Insights team have built several help pages that describe these analyses and results.

Google has released a beta version of its Chrome Internet browser for Windows, with Mac and Linux versions to follow

Or more precisely, happy tenth birthday, Google. How would your life as a web worker be different today if there were no Google? Whatever else you think of their dominance of the web search market, the plain fact is that Google search works - and it works fabulously better than what we had before. Search that works. Share/Send.

In Jaiku’s case, it’s not difficult to imagine the universe of Google applications setting and utilizing presence through Jaiku. It’s arguable that time & distance are no longer useful measures of the value or cost of communication, but the richness of contextual signaling available in any one medium.

Unlike a lot of other desktop search offerings, especially Google’s, Copernic doesn’t reach for too much. Desktop search products can come to the rescue here, though, and my favorite Windows desktop search program Copernic Desktop Search has some good new features. Best of all, it’s a free download. Share/Send.

Now that Google’s Chrome browser has been out in the wild for a while, there are some new resources for it appearing out on the web. Love it or hate it, you have to hand it to Google for being able to create a buzz around a new offering. There are also some good metrics for how the browser is faring. Check out their thoughts.

The world already has a pretty good supply of mobile, social applications who mistake using Google AdWords for a business strategy. Depending on how much you pay attention to the tech press, you may be aware that the DEMOfall08 and TechCrunch50 conferences were this week. Why not? Share/Send

The web is an interesting place, and Google is an interesting player.  Of course, Google’s Android OS for mobile phones also challenges Apple’s Mac OS X for the iPhone.  They’re just announcing their new browser, Chrome, which uses the same WebKit engine as Safari (as opposed to Firefox’s Gecko engine). 

Google ads to the left and right, Amazon ads in the body!  I found out another site was aggregating my, and other’s, blogs, indicating that they had the best folks in knowledge management.  Flattered as I was, I asked that my blog be taken off their roles.  Let me explain why. First, I hadn’t been asked. Why are they hiding it? 

Search Google for "Sheila Webber: Tivoli Gardens, Copenhagen" (the photo I used in my posting) and you will find the original entry and the entry in the spam blog (I don't want to create a link to it directly!) Last Thursday I (as Sheila Yoshikawa ) led a discussion in Second Life (the virtual world) about blogging in Second Life.

So, for every listing, here are some of the steps I took: Went to Google Maps and ran a search of the neighborhood. I've been looking for a house to rent for my folks, who are moving out this way. found listings through the usual sources -- CraigsList, the local newspapers' classified ads, a local rental agency, and so on.

The Official Google Blog. I admit it, I am addicted to good blogs. by David Zinger. We do not use an extensive blog-roll on Slacker Manager. published the list of blogs I follow on my site: www.davidzinger.com. Happy Reading! AAA Employee Engagement Network. Absotively Integration Blog. acidlabs. Adam Salamon. Alex Shalman. Author Blog.

friend, knowing my web-fascination, sent me a link to Cuil - [link] - I have only briefly played with it, but the information has hit the Twitterverse, and it was created by Google alumni, so you might want to check it out. In the past few days I’ve been alerted to two new search tools. Searching for Vygotsky. Searching for Vygotsky 2.

The inbound links reported by Google and the Technorati ratings and the number of reported blog reactions are provided and they are listed in order of Technorati blog reactions. The Google reports of inbound links were taken today. found other bloggers through Google and Technorati searching on the terms web 2.0 Bloggers.

also continue to be amazed at how this blog shows up in Google searches when I look at the Typepad referrals. It is more fun to see that this blog has been number one for the Google search - best beach bars in Sardinia - for three years than a business topic like - blog coaching and consulting. and Enterprise 2.0

These get filed away in Backpack, tagged on delicious, starred in Google Reader, and then, um. Like many of us, I spend quite a lot of time on the web and come across a staggering number of interesting things.  ignored - until now. SimpleHelp offers 5 Desktop Wallpapers to increase your productivity. Share/Send

Tools like Google Alerts or Filtrbox can handle news, blogs and web pages while Summize keeps tabs on Twitter. Monitoring the Internet for people discussing your product or brand can be invaluable to help understand how the public views you. For forums and message boards there is Twing. How do you track your brand online? Share/Send

We had a good time co-writing using Google docs, a little skyping and slowly iterating back and forth. A few months back, Josien Kapma and I were invited to write an article for the Dutch publication, Leren in Organisaties. The journal is not yet online, so we have permission to share it with you. Photo Credit: Uploaded on August 28, 2007.

You can see it here –> FAO/CGIAR KS Workshop II Agenda - Google Docs. I’m very happy to be involved in the second iteration of the Knowledge Sharing Workshop , this time with FAO joining forces with the CGIAR ICT-KM group to offer the workshop. Take a peek and let me know what you think?

We'll be sure to post the names of the 2008 Most Admired Knowledge Enterprise (MAKE) Award Winners when they are announced later this year. National Aeronautics & Space Administration Space, or NASA (exploration and aeronautics research). We're humbled to be in such great company

Note - I have updated the Google results on 7/31/08 as there was some wide variations in the numbers I had before. also noticed the the Google numbers are generally down, perhaps they have a different approach to doing the stats. Michael Arrington (and others) TechCrunch - Google reports 15,800 inbound links. and enterprise 2.0

Like many others, five years ago I treated the internet as a huge library (with, thanks to Google and the other search engines, a rudimentary card catalog). Analogies are tricky things, but one recently proposed by Ernie the Attorney should ring true for many web workers: he writes about living his life in ATM mode. Share/Send

when they might care about a capital in their life (when they might want to know about a capital) and how to look up a capital (and possibly how to check the accuracy if they are just using google). Part of our conversation was in my changing belief about the importance of learning a bunch of facts that someone can look up at a later time.

A few days ago Microsoft released a beta for Office Outlook Connector 12.1 ; essentially a plugin for Microsoft’s near-ubiquitous email client that helps address some of the issues we’ve discussed previously at Web Worker Daily including Jailbreaking Hotmail and Exchange-ing Microsoft for Google. beta here… Share/Send

Google appears to have finally noticed that Mac users would like to sync their desktop calendars with their online ones: they’ve released (in beta form) Google Calendar CalDAV support. By following their instructions, you can set up synchronization between your OS X Leopard calendar and your Google one. Share/Send

For example, if I start typing “Google,&# I’ll see Google.com, GoogleTalk and other options in my list. Lately, as I’ve bogged my computer down with with a bunch of new applications, I’ve gotten back into using a little Windows utility that I used to use all the time: Launchy. It’s definitely worth a try, though.

blogs by Technorati ratings, blog reactions and Google inbound links. I recently came across this list through Jason English at iTKO of the Top 100 analyst blogs from Technobabble. The author comments many analyst companies are unsure whether to give away their IP in this format. believe that you have to give a little to gain credibility.

news sites, you’ll find the Cuil story on all of them - big new search engine, backed by lots of money, ex-Google founders, new ideas. The hot tech news story today - starting last night, actually - is the new search engine Cuil. If you click around the usual run of Web 2.0 Share/Send

new search engine, created by Google alumni - [link]. Cuil - The World’s Biggest Search Engine. tags: search

Well, today’s blog entry from Google should warm your heart: their new content hunting systems are now tracking upwind of 1 trillion unique URLs on the web. Google, of course, manages to trawl through it several times daily, but they have more computing power than you and I). Image credit: stock.xchng user barunpatro. Share/Sen

The results that show up when people Google our names, our social networking profiles, our websites, our blog posts - why, that’s almost everything! Charlie Chaplin is one of the most iconic performers of our time. He is known across generations and cultures, and his films are still enjoyed today. Possibly. The first impression counts.

Twitter), Facebook etc , and virtual worlds (the latter page has "entrances" to 2 Google Lively rooms and then just a couple of links to do with Second Life - I don't see SL as just a social networking tool either). There is a general page with some general information and links, then a page each on Microblogging (e.g.

To get you started on this path Google offers some ready made templates for GoogleDocs users while Microsoft has always been generous with templates for their Office Suite. It can be a struggle to juggle the ups and downs of this process so these suggestions are always timely and useful. Share/Send

Google’s GMail has always used the secure https: protocol to protect logins, but it would allow you to switch to an insecure http: session after you were connected. This may cause a problem with some applications like Gmail for mobile , but there are workarounds. Share/Send

At the end of June, I shared a link in Google Reader - The End of Theory: The Data Deluge Makes the Scientific Method Obsolete The short version of what's in the article: Correlation between data does not guarantee causation. If X increases when Y increases, they share correlation. It's the way science works. No I'm not. and Enterprise 2.0)

For simple sharing and collaboration, consider Google Documents (or Google Apps for Domains), Zoho, and the like. If you want a more personal alternative to instant messaging and email, without the constraints of teleconferencing, check out virtual worlds like Second Life or Google’s new Lively. What to do? Share/Send

While it isn’t unusual for a web worker to cut out, say, IM or Twitter–something that seems to demand more immediate attention–I took a different approach: I stopped reading my RSS Feeds on Google Reader , the popular online feed reader. Why did I choose to cut out this activity? What about you? Let me know in the comments.

While it was initially announced in December 2007 and covered on our parent blog GigaOm, Google has just released its Knol service to the public. Anyone is free to contribute a Knol, which Google defines as “an authoritative article about a specific topic.&# Will they be incorporated into our Google search returns?

The Official Google Blog. I admit it, I am addicted to good blogs. by David Zinger. We do not use an extensive blog-roll on Slacker Manager. published the list of blogs I follow on my site: www.davidzinger.com. Happy Reading! AAA Employee Engagement Network. Absotively Integration Blog. acidlabs. Adam Salamon. Alex Shalman. Author Blog.

enjoyed my time with Kevin, but wondered a bit about whether his strategy, outlined somewhat in this Fortune piece , was going to be enough to sate Steve Ballmer's appetite for competing with Google. never did get around to writing what I thought of that meeting, partially due to a request from Microsoft PR that the session be on background.

Most of us rely on Google when we want to search for information, but standard Google searches don’t always return the most timely information. Most importantly, the results I got back for this timely topic were much more timely and more accurate than what I got searching for the same terms in Google. Share/Send

and Google have been running large-scale (and even free) mail services for years. Or perhaps that should be “what is down with MobileMe?&# Apparently, for some customers, the answer is that email is down, and has been that way for up to four days. We apologize for any inconvenience.&# Share/Send

had fun playing with Google Street View. Scoople is for all those who are not yet familiar with all the possibilities of Google and all the required syntaxes. I greatly enjoyed the recent KM Forum on Categorization and Tagging - Where's the Beef? On June 25. led a session on Social Bookmarking within Enterprise 2.0. Take a look

More intriguing, though, are features promised for the future: data feeds from their partners and the ability to use Google Docs or Amazon Simple DB as data sources (thus opening up the possibilities of collaborative widget publishing). Widgenie calls itself “the all-powerful data visualizer.&# Share/Send

The author discusses a 7-country study on ICT Learning (ICTs stand for Information and Communication Technologies) showed workers primarily use Google for informal-based learning. The use of the Google search engine as the major tool for learning is interesting. Authored by gminks. Hosted by Edublogs

The fact remains that no other giant has started offering commodity storage at similarly attractive prices, though it’s obvious that Google or even Microsoft could get into the game if they wanted to. As I write this, Amazon’s S3 storage servers have been unreachable for 90 minutes. uptime or part of your money back. Share/Send

Certainly the tech majors of Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo! I visited several venture capital firms in Silicon Valley this week and also met the CEOs of a number of VC-funded companies. Not surprisingly, much of the talk was about the climate and outlook for venture capital, which is the spigot from which much of Silicon Valley drinks.

This means that people can now pull in information from any widget on the Internet - details from a Facebook profile, a photo from Google Images or the local weather forecast from Yahoo! Now users simply drag and drop widgets, RSS feeds, Flash components and more into their business mashups. Weather -- into a mashup. Enterprise 2.0

Google Inc.'s This is the first time Google has acknowledged weakness. The headline in the Wall St. Journal. second-quarter net income rose 35%, but the results disappointed investors and shares fell nearly 10% in after-hours trading. Update: If you want snark, but worthy analysis, read SAI : GEORGE REYES takes over. Grab the coffee.

Analysis of data from our client index showed that Google took more than its fair share of the overall increase in search spending: for every new dollar spent on search in Q2 2008 versus Q2 2007, $1.10 went to Google. If I were at Google, I'd be more than a bit worried. Said it here. Yahoo lost $0.09, and Microsoft lost $0.01.

Google rolled out a new feature for its online Google Docs suite yesterday: templates. Google brought some partners into this deal - there are templates from TemplateZone, Vertex42, and others as well as ones developed in-house. Share/Send

use Google Reader so I clicked on “Settings,&# then “Import/Export,&# and finally “Export your subscriptions as an OPML file.&# Well, when I went to test out Newsfire, I couldn’t figure out how to import the OPML file that I had exported from Google Reader. The app works on both OS X and Windows. Share/Send

Only way to get them not to use Google would be to block it at the firewall." I wrote about Andrew McAfee at the Fast Forward Summit a while back. Now I am catching up on email. Where is Luis Saurez when I need him. Andrew has been getting around. What he saw instead was a fantastic article on the topic. Maybe the 2.0

I have signed up with Google Lively, another free virtual world, though rather limited in functionality at present. If you are a Google Lively user (the application can be downloaded free at [link] ) you can enter the room below. This is me in my "room" trying to work out whether it has applications for information literacy.

Thanks, Google. We knew someone would listen when we posted our list of 25 things that annoy us about Google services. Now, Google, about those other 24 suggestions…? Here’s the proof: in GMail, you now have the option to decide which addresses you email should get added to your main contacts list. Share/Send

Right now, my Google account has 4 different calendars that I rely on. Even though Google has a wonderful utility for syncing multiple Google calendars with the single BlackBerry calendar, with a lot of events that interface bogs down quickly. really liked my BlackBerry 8800. So why the switch? It adds up quickly. Email. Email.

Thanks to Lost Remote , I found this post from a fellow who found an interesting Google experiment in crowdsourced SERP personalization, what they call " Edit Search Results.". When you search for the same keywords again while you are logged in to your Google account, you'll continue to see those changes.

google lively. I hate learning curves. hate having to futz and fiddle with my apps to figure them out. want the functionality to be intuitive, and if it is not, I throw up my hands and move on to something else. That said, I am so glad that I took the time to seek out a demo of Filtrbox. The rankings consider: 1. plurk. social media. kaneva.

Over the past several days, Google has been busy posting many videos shot at its recent Google I/O and Developer Day events. These were held all around the world, and for anyone involved with not just Google’s tools, but many of the prevalent development tools of the day, they’re worth a look. Share/Send

That's what I am, of Google's " traditional media blog ," launched early this month. think the idea that Google, which most "traditional" media companies fear, "helping" samesaid companies execute is going to take some.finesse. Here's the feed. The idea of having a voice that humanizes that relationship is a good one.

The Journal pokes a beehive about YouTube's revenue, which is not what it should be and is a real thorn for Google. Then Cuban claims the porn issue means Google will lose - it only sells ads on non porn content, meaning it's filtering, meaning it's not a safe harbor DMCA defensible play. It's never like you think it is, inside.

different sort of wiki - links to Google, Flickr, Yahoo and other web apps. MindTouch Wik.is: Free Deki Wiki Hosting. Interesting. via Harold Jarche. tags: wiki. eLearn: In Depth Tutorials. tags: elearningpapers. MindNode » MindNode. For Macs X.5 - a very nice clean design - free. I’m using it to plan a presentation.

found this description of the place in Google Maps that linked to the wikip[edai entry. Last weekend I wrote about The Summer of 1970 - Our Farm House in Cape Breton Nova Scotia. We would travel around Cape Breton a bit. It is one of the more beautiful parts of the world. You go over a ridge and it was like stepping back in time. here is tis.

If you want to see PostRank in action, you can visit the AideRSS site - but even easier for many web workers, you can install their Google Reader integration. They’ve gotten some traction through their integration with services like NewsGator and Trawlr. As part of this effort they offer more details on PostRank than before. Share/Sen

This gives you several useful capabilities: a visual browser history (somewhat like Apple’s Time Machine) that lets you search back for a page you remember, and an additional set of results when you search Google that shows you pages from your own archive. WebMynd takes a different tack: it saves everything that you see. Share/Send

Just as KPBS used Google Maps to show the extent and the nature of both the fire and the help - so we plan to do the same. With by the way the active help of KPBS and Google Maps. It is the hope of CPB that Public Media can do more to serve its country than offer great content alone. Many people can be helped to stay in their homes.

Consumer-oriented services such as Facebook and Google, increased mobility, and SaaS software delivery models are influencing the marketplace offering more options for enterprises to support different working models and styles. The event sessions will run Wednesday through Friday ( details here ). security, and compliance). Thursday, June 26.

Google litigation , the federal court for the Southern District of New York ordered Google to produce to Viacom (over Google's objections): all data from the Logging database concerning each time a YouTube video has been viewed on the YouTube website or through embedding on a third-party website The court???s

that other systems (perhaps using Google???s where they stand on some of the following technology trends: microformats (especially hCard and XFN), FOAF, Apache Shindig (which leverages OpenSocial ), Project SocialSite (sponsored by Sun) and related initiatives such as Google???s have become a fan of microformats (e.g., hCard , XFN ???

Different than the GoodSync application I also recently reviewed , The GooSync service is designed to allow you to synchronize your Google Calendar with just about any mobile device. There is task functionality included as well, but with no Google counterpart, it’s GooSync specific. Share/Send

63,100,000 results for this term on Google, a very small percentage of which actually prescribe skills you'll need to thrive in it). There's an old saying about the weather: "Everyone talks about it , but no one is doing anything about it." " The same thing seems to be happening with Web 2.0 One last thing about the KM Forum.

In this month's Atlantic Monthly, Nicholas Carr explores the notion that the always-on, always-at-our-fingertips nature of the Internet in general and Google specifically is changing the way we, as humans, process information.  It's worth a read (not just a skim, seriously -- really READ it), and perhaps a re-read. .

I was fortunate a few weeks ago to attend a breakfast meeting where the featured speaker was Nicholas Carr , he of the recent Atlantic Monthly article " Is Google Making Us Stupid ?" and the famous and controversial essay (and, later, book) " IT Doesn't Matter.". see pp 151-157 in the book). the death of privacy as we know it).

These startups can't offer meaningful security, they may not even be around in a year - I'll wait until Google or our enterprise software vendor starts offering this kind of functionality. will update this over time. Objection #13: How Do You Measure ROI? Objection #12: How Will You Measure That It Is Working? Objection #1: Socialize!

But if you love it, take a look at CyberSearch, which integrates Google search results in with your history and bookmarks. You can set up searches of specific Google properties (like news or images), color-code the results so they stand out, and adjust the size of the address bar result list. on OS X. Read on for the details.