Now here is a challenge…potentially. I’ve been asked to investigate whether there are any applications/tools that will display you contacts visually . In other words rather then a contacts list in word or a list of contacts in Outlook you can look at photos or pictures of your contacts and drill down into more information, does anyone know if such a tool exists?
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jamespmullan
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neilstewart
Nicholas Carr writes an extremely thought-provoking post about the centripetal web, in which Wikipedia and Google are the twin black holes, sucking in website hits to the detriment of smaller sites.
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shucha
The CS-SIS Web 2.0 Challenge site is now up. Enrollment is closed, but anyone can follow along as a guest. To access the course, go to http://www.cssis.org/Web20Challenge/login/ and select “Login as guest”
The Web 2.0 Challenge — a free, comprehensive, and interactive online course — will use hands-on exercises to introduce law librarians to many kinds of social technologies in just five weeks. The course is intended for those who have little experience with these technologies but are interested in learning more.
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neilstewart
This Bookmooch service seems like an excellent example of web 2.0 in action in creating a useful and viable online community, and also yay free books!
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neilstewart
I have some Beta invites for Twine, a very interesting looking new web 2.0 platform. Please leave a comment or email me (neiljstewart [at] gmail [dot] com) if you want an invite. I’m going to blog about the service once I’ve got to grips with it a bit more.
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Davina
Interesting web 2.0 article on BBC – Web 2.0 is set for spending boom
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neilstewart
An interesting site has launched in the US. Called Govit, it’s a kind of social networking site for politics and legislation, allowing citizens to discuss and vote on legislation, and compare their votes with their elected representatives. (via Read/Write Web)
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Barbara Gordon
CULIB’s latest issue has a short article on “Web 2.0” communication amongst library and information students which I contributed to. I’ve been playing a small game of ‘guess which quotes can be attributed to me’ while reading it. Heh. Further thoughts to come in an actual blog post over at Librarian of Prey shortly.
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shucha
I’ve posted an announcement about the CS-SIS Web 2.0 Challenge to Law-lib and to WisBlawg. It’s a free, online course to introduce law librarians to social software and how to use it in their libraries.
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neilstewart
Microsoft Office Live Workspace (catchy title guys!) has been released in Beta. Presumably in response to Google Sites?
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neilstewart
Long article in the ever-excellent NYRB on Wikipedia. (via the also very good Prospect blog)
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neilstewart
Google sites, Google’s internet page publishing service, has been launched.
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neilstewart
Chris Anderson, author of The Long Tail, is practicing what he preaches with his new book Free! by providing a 6,000 word preview of it in Wired.
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neilstewart
Here’s an article from Slate on some of the undemocratic features of web 2.0, and in particular the ever-controversial Wikipedia and Digg.
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jenenifer
Somewhat related to James’ post yesterday – anyone know of any good research/reports on the uptake or use of web 2.0 technologies in law firms/professional services firms?
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neilstewart
Lawrence Lessig is delivering the Society for Computers and Law lecture this year, on Corruption 2.0 (hat tip to Binary Law)
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AbsTracked
Here’s a Web 2.0 for Legal Researchers PowerPoint from ZiefBrief.
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connie
Squidoo has launched a new feature called Hey MonkeyBrain as a place for arguing ideas. Not sure what I think. Written up here.
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neilstewart
Does anyone use last.fm around here? if so, let’s be friends- here’s my profile, please post yours in the comments!
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AbsTracked
Check out George Washington University’s WID Studio: Students’ Researching with Web 2.0 Tools.
