Friends:Social Networking Sites for Engaged Library Services: Horizon Report 2007: Social Networking

Friends:Social Networking Sites for Engaged Library Services: <strong>Horizon Report 2007: Social Networking</strong>

Portable Apps

PortableApps.com

Mary Ellen Bates presentation @ AJCUVR Coordinators Meeting

Links from Mary Ellen Bates presentation
Mary Ellen's Blog - Librarian of Fortune

GoogleLabs
R & D @ Google

GooFresh
Limits Google search to only sites recently added or updated in the index.

SearchMash
Unbranded Google site - deep web, results sorted by webpage, blogs, videos, images....
One page per site with links to search of site or domain.

Google's Topic Search
Destination Guides (based on contributors)

Google Talk (and Text)
Google search results spoken on the phone 1-800-goog411 or quick answers by texting Google.

Yahoo Feature: ing
Looks for pages with a type of feature (audio, index, homepages, region) ex. region: northamerica or feature: audio

SearchAssist - Yahoo - that little arrow below the search box that acts as a auto truncator.
Search Assist is selective. Ever had one of those moments when you start to type in a query, enter a word and then pause because you're not quite sure what other words to add to it? Search Assist senses this. It notes that you've paused, takes that as a sign you need help and magically makes suggestions appear below the search box. In addition, you don't just get suggestions that contain some of the letters you initially type. Search Assist goes beyond the original word to suggest related topics. See more info @ searchengineland

Exalead
Advanced (and complex) searching - proximity search, phonetic and approximate spelling with a customizable front page for adding short cuts to other finding tools. -- suggested related terms and result types. Search results include thumbnail -- points to audio, video, RSS w/in results, links to the dmox.org open directory project.

Ask.com
Quick and dirty. Not complex.

Clusty
Meta-search - sources tab shows what was searched - builds clusters. Topic clouds.
Clusty has a jobs topical search -- and blogs, images, gov, labs, web, news....

Beta sites of search engines
Google - searchmash
Yahoo - au.alpha.yahoo.com
Microsoft - Tafiti - requires download to use -- of course it's microsoft.

Ms. Dewey

Intelways
Comparison of search results - organized finding tool.

Factbites
Delivers full sentences "bites" Good for identifying in-depth sites - no phrase or advanced searching.

SRCHR
Creates RSS feeds for search results, create your own tools page

Scandoo
Searches Google, Yahoo, MSN, or Ask for malware, phishing and offensive content

FindSounds.com

Gigablast CTS
Specify domains to search
Gigablast search engine

WeBlogs: In the Classroom

Blogging can be a means for expressing personal statements, exchanging information, a social environment, entertaining, a political platform, instructional or as I began; for project management. I started my first a Blog for communication between a committee that is scattered throughout NEPA to alleviate the volume of email (more than 300) for planning a single workshop. Blogging is a versatile tool that can be used in lieu of PowerPoint or other medium as a presentation tool and for teaching. I have set up several Blogs for classroom instruction. The classroom Blog has its applications and will require a certain amount of market savvy to convince students and faculty of the medium’s merit.