Social Media Tools - a sampling

Aggregation Tools: FriendFeed, Lifestream.fm, Lijit, Ping.fm, Socializr, Socialthing!

Blogs: Blogger, Typepad, Wordpress

Bookmarks: Delicious, Digg, Livejournal, Mixx, Newsvine, Propeller, Reddit, StumbleUpon, Technorati, Yahoo! Buzz

Free Business Listings: BizHWY, Cardboard, CrunchBase, Jigsaw, MerchantCircle, NextMark, Tradevibes, and many more out there!

Post Documents: Google Docs, Scribd

Post PowerPoint Presentations: AuthorSTREAM, Google Docs, Myplick, Slideshare

Post Videos: Vimeo, YouTube

Social Networks: Crowdvine, Facebook, LinkedIn, Plaxo

Twitter Tools: MyTweeple, TweetDeck, TweetLater, Twibes, Twitter, Twitter Browser

URL Shorteners: bit.ly, budURL, cli.gs, Eweri, Hex.io, kl.am, is.gd, POPrl, Pwurl, Short.ie, Snurl, TinyURL, tr.im, Twurl

Wikis: Pbwiki, Wetpaint, Wikipedia

Source: NextMark's blog Social Media Cheat Sheet (May 9, 2009)

Google Search advances

May 12, 2009, 4:54 pm (New York Times)
Data, Not Design, Is King in the Age of Google
By MIGUEL HELFT
Published: May 9, 2009
(former top visual designer at Google deplores design changes because of user feedback)

"CAN a company blunt its innovation edge if it listens to its customers too closely? Can its products become dull if they are tailored to match exactly what users say they want? These questions surfaced recently when Douglas Bowman, a top visual designer, left Google."

May 12, 2009, 4:54 pm (New York Times)
Google Revs Up Some New Search Features

By Miguel Helft

"Google unveiled a grab bag of enhancements to its Web search engine and new experimental features on Tuesday that aim to keep the company ahead of rivals. The new features include Google’s first significant effort not only to find information on the Web but also to understand some of that information and present it in new ways. Google’s engineers showcased an experimental feature called Google Squared that extracts information from the Web and displays it in a table..." more

The Scholarly Kitchen: What's Hot and Cooking in Scholarly Publishing?

The Society for Scholarly Publishing (SSP) has established the Scholarly Kitchen - a comprehensive resource and place to go to for exciting dialogue on current trends and information on what's happening in the scholarly publishing community!

The blog, launched this spring, is primarily written by Kent Anderson, an SSP board member and Executive Director, International Business & Product Development at Massachusetts Medical Society/The New England Journal of Medicine. Other frequent contributors include Howard Ratner of the Nature Publishing Group and Phil Davis from Cornell University.

The moderated blog keeps all those interested in scholarly publishing at the forefront of new developments in publishing by pointing to relevant research reports and projects and helps to interpret the significance of this information in a balanced and, occasionally, provocative way. The Scholarly Kitchen also reports and translates findings from related business endeavors in other areas of publishing as well as from online businesses and other related emerging trends.

Since launching, the Scholarly Kitchen has had over 9200 hits and has featured top posts like The "h-index": An Objective Mismeasure? and Market-based Solution to Info-glut.

Come visit us at the Scholarly Kitchen :
http://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/ and join us for A Balanced Diet of Ideas, Interpretation, and Inspiration!

Submitted on behalf of the Society for Scholarly Publishing by Karen King

Top Ten Facebook Apps for Librarians | JSTOR Facebook App

Top Ten Facebook Apps for Librarians | JSTOR Facebook App

Ellyssa Kroski, a Reference Librarian at Columbia University Butler library, recently posted a Three-Part series on the “Top Ten Facebook Apps for Librarians” on her iLibrarian blog

TheTopTenLibApps include:

*** JSTOR Search - Enables to the user to search the JSTOR full-text scholarly journal archive in the humanities, social science, and other fields. NOTE: Users may need to sign in from their library website before attempting to use the Facebook JSTOR Search

_AppAvailableAt_ [ http://www.facebook.com/apps/application.php?id=2412474777&b ]

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LibGuides Librarian - Allows one to display Springshare LibGuides subject guides within your Facebook profile as well as to search your local OPAC.
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Librarian -This virtual librarian service provides links to books, scholarly sources, open access reference resources, and a community-based ‘Ask A Librarian” service.

_AppAvailableAt_:
http://www.facebook.com/apps/application.php?api_key=4ba85acd652971a6a8633d919bb9a05a
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UIUC Library Search - An App that allows the user to search the OPAC of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign or request live assistance from a librarian. The App also permit the user to search the library’s journal article databases (but not retrieve full-text items
unless university-affiliated)
Other OPAC Apps: University of Michigan library catalog, , Ryerson University Library catalog, Hennepin County Library catalog.

_AppAvailableAt_
http://www.facebook.com/apps/application.php?api_key=ad4ccedf62d21a09bf140d1533102b20&pwstdfy=fa0565221a24b781f7ef3d42d04a9c30
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The Three-Part Series is Available At
[1] http://oedb.org/blogs/ilibrarian/2007/top-ten-facebook-apps-for-librarians-part-one/
[2] http://oedb.org/blogs/ilibrarian/2007/top-ten-facebook-apps-for-librarians-part-two/
[3] http://oedb.org/blogs/ilibrarian/2007/top-ten-facebook-apps-for-librarians-part-three/

If you have other unlisted favorite Facebook library-related apps, let Ellyssa know [ http://oedb.org/blogs/ilibrarian/about/ ]

Thing 4: Tagging Using Technorati

This exercise involved manually notify Technorati of a blog entry and use of multi-engine notifier Ping-o-Matic. I then checked a few of the blog search engines to see how soon the entries are pinged.

I manually pinged Technorati. Then in Ping-o-Matic manually pinged several search engines. Waiting several hours I returned to Ping-o-Matic page and click ‘link’ next to a few of the search engines to test the entry pinging. I entered search keywords "Mashup" and "Irvine" from recent blog posts and noted which engines had logged an entry. Link for Ping-O-Matic blog ping results.

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