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Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.Libology Blog
Established July 2006
ISSN: 1946-1852
by Rick Mason
Monthly Archives: July 2006
Weather Bonk
A new mashup of Google Maps and weather information. View the area you are interested in, and the weather stations, cams, and forecasts are all tagged in the map. It also includes a weather radar overlay – an excellent feature! … Continue reading
Firefox 2.0 Beta released
Mozilla just released the first beta of Firefox 2.0. It will be interesting to see how it fares against IE 7, as the reports of the IE beta have been very good. It would be very nice to have both … Continue reading
Posted in Open Source, Software
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Da da-da da-da-Dah!
Zillow (a real estate mapping service) has created a gallery of famous locations on their site, including the home of Mike and Carol (and Greg and Marcia and Peter and Jan and Bobby and Cindy and Alice and Tiger and…) … Continue reading
Posted in Maps, Online Databases, Search, Statistics
Tagged Alice, Bobby, Carol, Cindy, Greg, Jan, Marcia, Mike, Peter, real estate mapping service
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Googling Google Googlies!
The Xooglers blog (“a gathering spot for ex-Googlers…” – as in former employees of Google) has a post about the increasing acceptance of the use of “google” as a verb. It is a very interesting post, but you don’t need … Continue reading
Posted in Definitions, Google, Search, WebSearch
Tagged Google
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Google Maps updated
Looks like Larry and Sergey have added some functionality to Google Maps. What I have seen so far suggests that it is closer to Google Earth. Try using your mouse scroll wheel: http://local.google.com/maps?q=3280+northfield+drive+springfield+il Wheee!
Worldmapper
Many of the maps remind me of those colorful balloons that one would mix, then blow up with a straw: http://www.sasi.group.shef.ac.uk/worldmapper/ If you don’t know what I was comparing, check out Balloon Mix
Posted in Maps, Statistics, Toys
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Internet Detective
Sure, there are a thousand tutorials on the internet city, but how many are themed this way? http://www.vts.intute.ac.uk/detective/
Posted in Libraries, Tutorials
Tagged detective, internet city, Internet Detective, Sure
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Scirus
Online search for scientific information As an added note, it does patent searching as well. http://www.scirus.com/srsapp/
CUFTS Resource Comparison
Allows you to compare holdings of various online databases side-by-side: http://lib-bladea2.lib.sfu.ca:8088/CUFTS/compare.cgi Credit to http://www.bibliotechweb.com/
Posted in Libraries, Online Databases
Tagged Online Databases
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