Internet Happenings, Events and Sources
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Wednesday, August 31, 2005 Innovativeness of Open Source Software Projects by Krzysztof Klincewicz http://opensource.mit.edu/papers/klincewicz.pdf Abstract: The paper addresses an ongoing debate about the innovativeness of open source projects and critically evaluates the innovative potential of 500 most active projects registered by SourceForge.net. The analysis is based on a proposed framework, distinguishing between radical inventions, technology / platform modifications, and marketing innovations. Research findings include relatively low levels of technical newness in the studies sample, alongside high interest of developers and users in the innovative projects. The article discusses the underlying mechanisms, restricting innovativeness of community-driven open source efforts, and postulates the establishment of an institution of idea brokers playing roles corresponding to venture capitalists in the commercial software domain. posted by Marcus | 4:15 AM USIIA New White Paper Released http://www.usiia.org/news/0503principles.doc In a white paper released last week, the US Internet Industry Association (USIIA) announced a set of self-regulatory principles for broadband and Internet Protocol-based services. The principles come in the wake of recent Supreme Court and Federal Communications Commission decisions that have significantly changed the telecommunications regulatory environment. [SOURCE: US Internet Industry Association] Text of paper at: http://www.usiia.org/pubs/principles.doc posted by Marcus | 4:10 AM  Last Minute Auction Last Minute Auction http://www.lastminute-auction.com/ lastminute-auction.com provides a new way to hunt for great bargains on eBay.com. They search current offers on ebay.com for auctions which meet their strict simple criteria: 1) The auction ends in 1 hour, and 2) The price is currently 1 dollar or less. Although they find a bunch of stuff that's not even worth 1 dollar, they are constantly uncovering some really great deals. This has been added to Auction Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM  CodeFetch http://www.codefetch.com/ Codefetch's mission is to connect programmers and authors so that programmers get the information they need, and the work of authors is supported and encouraged. Today, Codefetch sells books, but watch for change -- they envision an infrastructure where authors can get their content out more quickly and with less environmental impact than selling books printed on paper. This has ben added to Script Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM Tuesday, August 30, 2005  Awareness Watch™ Newsletter V3N9 September 2005 Awareness Watch™ Newsletter V3N9 September 2005 http://virtualprivatelibrary.blogspot.com/Awareness Watch V3N9.pdf Awareness Watch™ Newsletter Blog and Archives http://www.AwarenessWatch.com/ The September 2005 V3N9 Awareness Watch™ Newsletter is a freely available 32 page .pdf document (659KB) from the above URL. The Awareness Watch Featured Report this month features a comprehensive listing of online resources, sources and sites covering areas for Online Tutorials. The Awareness Watch Spotters cover many excellent and newly released annotated current awareness research sources and tools as well as the latest identified Internet happenings and resources. The article review covers Search Engines and Resource Discovery on the Web: Is Dublin Core an Impact Factor? by Mehdi Safari.   posted by Marcus | 4:15 AM  China Sourcing Links China Sourcing Links http://www.chinasourcinglinks.com/ China Sourcing Links provide a channel with extensive knowledge of China sourcing and business practices for companies. Looking for a China manufacturing and product sourcing strategy to cut manufacturing costs, stay ahead of the competition or improve quality over your current North American, European or Asian supplier. China Sourcing Ltd. functions as a buying agent to protect the interests of the sourcing company and eliminates the premium charged by brokers and trading companies. This enables companies to gain a competitive edge and increase their bottom line with minimum investment and risk. This will be added to Business Resources 2005 Internet MiniGuide. This will be added to International Trade Resources 2005 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus | 4:10 AM  Online Searchable Death Indexes and Records Online Searchable Death Indexes, Records & Obituaries http://www.deathindexes.com/ This website is a directory of online death indexes listed by state and county. Included are death records, death certificate indexes, death notices & registers, obituaries, probate indexes, and cemetery & burial records. Also included is information about searching the Social Security Death Index online. This has been added to Genealogy Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM  DoWire - Democracies Online http://dowire.org/ DoWire is your primary source for what's important and happening with the convergence of democracy and the Internet around the world. DoWire is a free, low volume, moderated blog and e-mail announcement list. Launched in January 1998, DoWire connects over 2750 experts, practitioners, journalists, and citizens across 80 countries. Each week, well known e-democracy expert and speaker Steven Clift forwards, with occasional analysis, no more than seven carefully selected messages. Posts include news, article, and report web links, event and conference announcements, calls for papers, and often uncover important "primary source" online resources, projects, and initiatives of significance. This has been added to Reference Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM Monday, August 29, 2005  EBI and Ghent University Launch PRIDE: An Open Source Database Of Protein Identifications http://www.innovations-report.com/html/reports/life_sciences/report-48290.html The European Bioinformatics Institute and Flanders Interuniversity Institute for Biotechnology (VIB)Ghent University have launched the PRoteomics IDEntifications database (PRIDE; www.ebi.ac.uk/pride). PRIDE allows researchers who work in the field of proteomics the large-scale study of proteins to share information much more readily than was previously possible. This will allow them to exploit the growing mass of information on how the bodys complement of proteins is altered in many disease states, paving the way towards new predictive and diagnostic methods in medicine. Proteomics is the identification and characterization of all the proteins produced by a particular type of cell, tissue or organism under certain conditions. While an individuals genome remains the same from one moment to the next, proteomes are extremely dynamic. For example, the set of proteins produced by your liver will change in response to eating a meal, and a healthy liver produces a different set of proteins than a diseased liver. Proteomics therefore has great potential, not only for helping us to understand how our environment affects the healthy body, but also for understanding disease mechanisms and developing new ways of diagnosing disease. Large international efforts to document all the proteins produced by several tissues, including liver, brain and blood plasma, are now underway. But although the high-throughput identification of proteins is gathering momentum, until recently there was no straightforward means of sharing or comparing the results. Proteomics labs were publishing their protein identifications, explains Henning Hermjakob, leader of the EBIs Proteomics Services Team, but they had no guidelines as what information should be captured or how the information should be formatted. The proteomics community rapidly realized that researchers would only be able to exploit the results of their endeavours if they had a central repository that would allow them to make their results publicly available using agreed data standards. This has been added to Biological Informatics Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:15 AM  Diving Deep Into The Web - Pair's Search Engine Scours 'Hidden' Sites - by Michael Bazeley, The Mercury News http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/business/technology/12404789.htm "You think the Web is big? In truth, it's far bigger than it appears. The Web is made up of hundreds of billions of Web documents -- far more than the 8 billion to 20 billion claimed by Google or Yahoo. But most of these Web pages are largely unreachable by most search engines because they are stored in databases that cannot be accessed by Web crawlers. Now a San Mateo start-up called Glenbrook Networks -- says it has devised a way to tunnel far into the 'deep web. and extract this previously inaccessible information. ... Komissarchik and her father, Edward Komissarchik, say they have figured out how to analyze the forms on Web pages and understand the type of information the sites are looking for. Then, Glenbrook's Web crawlers use artificial intelligence to walk themselves through sometimes complex Web forms, answering questions, such as the location of their desired job, in the same way a human would." This has been added to Deep Web Research Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:10 AM  Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy http://www.iatp.org/ Started in 1986, the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP) "promotes resilient family farms, rural communities and ecosystems around the world through research and education, science and technology, and advocacy." Designed for the general public and for experts in the field, the Institute's website contains information on its own research initiatives and on the broader subject of agricultural policy, both in the United States and abroad. As a matter of fact, the homepage provides a nice sample of the Institute's work, as it includes factsheets (such as "The Costs of Cheap Food") and links to its latest reports, including "Healthy Food, Healthy Hospitals, Healthy Communities." Perhaps the most valuable area of the site is the Resource Centers section. Here users can access a number of special sites designed to provide the latest material on a number of thematic areas of interest, such as water policy and agribusiness. This has been added to Agriculture Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. [From The Scout Report, Copyright Internet Scout Project 1994-2005. http://scout.wisc.edu/] posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM  Center for Higher Education Policy Analysis http://www.usc.edu/dept/chepa/ Located at the University of Southern California, the Center for Higher Education Policy Analysis performs research on a host of topics that are germane to the world of postsecondary education. Some of the Center's projects include work on financial aid and access for students of color, successful college outreach programs, and the retention of doctoral students of color. On its website visitors will find information on events sponsored by the Center and a number of recently released publications that will be of interest to persons working in the field and educational policy analysts. Some of these publications include titles such as "Show us the Money: Low-income Students, Families, and Financial Aid" and "Creating Helping Environments for College-Going." The site is rounded out by a helpful bibliography of works on cultural literacy that deal with higher education. This has been added to Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. [From The Scout Report, Copyright Internet Scout Project 1994-2005. http://scout.wisc.edu/] posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM Saturday, August 27, 2005 The Complete Edition of Murphy's Laws http://www.cpuidle.de/edition.htm A nice bookmark and read when you are looking for some light enjoyment of laws and rules created by Murphy ;-) posted by Marcus | 4:15 AM  Internet Slang Dictionary and Translator http://www.noslang.com/index.php Translate Internet Slang & Online Acronyms Into Readable Text. No Slang.com is a translator similiar to those offered by Google or AltaVista with one major difference: They don't translate language, they translate slang and acronyms. You know, those weird acronyms your kids use; things like lol, idk, rotflmfao, bbiab, and those stupid alternate spellings like kewl, dood, ur, and thanx. They hate those, and have made it their life's goal to educate people about proper grammar. This has been added to Reference Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:10 AM  Conflict of Interest Information and Resources - National Institutes of Health http://www.nih.gov/about/ethics_COI.htm The National Institutes of Health (NIH) and its employees are dedicated to upholding the highest standards for patient safety, the ethical conduct of research, and scientific excellence. It is important that NIH scientists stay involved in the scientific and health community beyond NIH to share their broad knowledge in their respective fields and advance public health. Such activities must be conducted in accordance with stringent standards and transparent policies for addressing potential conflicts of interest. NIH and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services have developed the resources below to help ensure transparency regarding outside activities and proactive management of conflict of interest issues. This has been added to Healthcare Resources 2005 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM  Web Accessibility Business Case Documents Published http://www.w3.org/WAI/bcase/ http://www.w3.org/WAI/ The Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) Education and Outreach Working Group (EOWG) has published "Developing a Web Accessibility Business Case for Your Organization." The 5-page resource suite describes social, technical, financial, legal and policy aspects of Web accessibility. It is designed to help organizations develop their own customized business case for Web accessibility. It provides text that can be used as is, as well as guidance on identifying the most relevant factors for a specific organization. Visit the WAI home page for more information on making the Web accessible to people with disabilities. posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM Friday, August 26, 2005  Precision and Recall of Five Search Engines for Retrieval of Scholarly Information in the Field of Biotechnology by S. M. Shafi and Rafiq A. Rather http://www.webology.ir/2005/v2n2/a12.html This paper presents the results of a research conducted about five search engines- AltaVista, Google, HotBot, Scirus and Bioweb -for retrieving scholarly information using Biotechnology related search terms. The search engines are evaluated taking the first ten results pertaining to 'scholarly information' for estimation of precision and recall. It shows that Scirus is most comprehensive in retrieving 'scholarly information' followed by Google and HotBot. It also reveals that the search engines (except Bioweb) perform well on structured queries while Bioweb performs better on unstructured queries. This will be added to Academic Resources 2005 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus | 9:59 AM  Virtual Private Library http://www.VirtualPrivateLibrary.com/ The Virtual Private Library™ is the gateway for 45 Subject Tracer Information Blogs constantly updated daily. posted by Marcus | 8:38 AM Thursday, August 25, 2005  September 2005 Zillman Column - Employment Resources September 2005 Zillman Column - Employment Resources http://VirtualPrivateLibrary.BlogSpot.com/Employment Resources Sep05 Column.pdf http://www.zillmancolumns.com/ The September 2005 Zillman Column is now available and is titled Employment Resources. This September column is a comprehensive listing of employment and job resources on the World Wide Web. Looking for a new job or career? Looking to hire additional staff for your organization? These resources and sites on the Internet will be an exciting starting point for you! Download this excellent 14 page free .pdf (352KB) column today. © 2005 Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. posted by Marcus | 4:15 AM  National Marine Sanctuaries Encyclopedia of the Sanctuaries http://sanctuaries.noaa.gov/education/ The US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's National Marine Sanctuary Program (NMSP) has launched a new free online resource that highlights the diverse marine life of America's oceans and the Great Lakes. The "Encyclopedia of the Sanctuaries" offers photos, streaming video, and important facts for more than one hundred key animal and plant species from each of the national marine sanctuaries. This has been added to Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:10 AM  APDIP e-Notes http://www.apdip.net/apdipenote/ APDIP e-Notes present an analytical overview of specific issues related to information and communication technologies for sustainable human development in the Asia-Pacific region. In these pdf documents, the bullet points in the blue box are clickable and will take you to the related sections of the e-Notes. The URLs are also clickable. posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM  Mindset List from Beloit College http://www.beloit.edu/~pubaff/mindset/ In the coming weeks, millions of students will be entering college for the first time. On average, these members of the Class of 2009 will be 18 years old, which means they were born in 1987. Starbucks, souped-up car stereos, telephone voicemail systems, and Bill Gates have always been a part of their lives. Each August, as students start to arrive, Beloit College releases the Beloit College Mindset List, which offers a world view of today's entering college students. It is the creation of Beloit’s Keefer Professor of the Humanities Tom McBride and Director of Public Affairs Ron Nief. McBride, who directs Beloit’s First Year Initiatives (FYI) program for entering students, notes that "This year’s entering students have grown up in a country where the main business has become business, and where terrorism, from obscure beginnings, has built up slowly but surely to become the threat it is today. Cable channels have become as mainstream as the 'Big 3' used to be, formality in dress has become more quaint than ever, and Aretha Franklin, Kermit the Frog and Jimmy Carter have become old-timers." “Each year,” according to Nief, “When Beloit releases the Mindset List, it is the birth year of the entering students that is the most disturbing fact for most readers. This year will come as no exception and, once again, the faculty will remain the same age as the students get younger.” This has been added to Student Resarch Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM Wednesday, August 24, 2005  Google Talk http://talk.google.com/ Google Talk is a simple and free way to talk with and send instant messages to your friends. Like Gmail, Google Talk uses Google's innovative technologies to help people communicate more effectively and efficiently. Think of it as Google's approach to communications. Google Talk is easy and intuitive to use. All you need to make free calls is an Internet connection, a microphone, and a speaker. After you download Google Talk, sign in with your Gmail username and password. Invite your friends to download Google Talk, and once they do, you'll be able to talk or IM with them instantly. This has been added to the tools section of Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:15 AM  Freelance Work Exchange Freelance Work Exchange http://www.freelanceworkexchange.com/ Doing business on the Internet can seem rather impersonal sometimes. Are there real people behind the site you are visiting, or is it all just bits, bytes and autoresponders? Freelance Work Exchange is a real site run by real working freelancers. Work from home, running your own business and take control of your own future. Sounds great, huh? And now you can make it happen. Freelance Work Exchange is dedicated to bringing you all the latest freelance jobs and projects, with new listings added daily. So whether you're an experienced professional, or just starting out, we can bring you hot leads and cool projects in every work-at-home job and freelance sector. This has been added to Employment Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:10 AM  TradStat Web - Tade Satistic's On Commercially Traded Products Worldwide http://www.tradstat.com/ Monitor the global marketplace with TradStat. With comprehensive data on the shipment of thousands of individual products around the world, TradStat offers authoritative reports covering more than 90% of world trade. Use TradStat standard or custom reports to explore business opportunities, track shifting demand, and identify developing markets. This will be added to Inernational Trade Resources 2005 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM  State of Spyware Report http://www.webroot.com/land/sosreport.php Webroot Software released their State of Spyware Report today (free but requires registration), which states in part that "...the number of websites distributing spyware has quadrupled since the beginning of 2005 to an astonishing 300,000 unique URLs." [press release] In addition, 80% of corporate computers are infected with malicious software, which can take the form of trojans, spyware or adware. [ beSpacific - Accurate, Focused Law and Technology News - August 23, 2005 ] posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM Tuesday, August 23, 2005  Universities Worldwide http://univ.cc/ Universities Worldwide with Links to 7219 Universities in 181 countries updated August 3rd, 2005. This is a searchable database of Universities around the world! Starting as a mirror site of Christina DeMello's "College and University Home Pages" list that hasn't been updated for a long time, the listing of Institutions is now based on the "World List of Universities 1997" published by the International Association of Universities (IAU) and links discovered or posted here. This Database is maintained by Klaus Förster, reproduction and distribution are permissible for non-profit purposes only, but no changes are to be made to these documents without the author's written consent. This has been added to Reference Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 8:00 AM  World Telephone Books World Telephone Books http://www.researchspot.com/phonebooks2.htm World Telephone Books including yellow pages and white pages and reverse, search near, college, emergency services, fax, government directories, and directories. This includes a number of starting points for researching world telephone books and directories. This has been added to Finding People Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 7:49 AM  U.S. Blue Pages - Your Online Guide to U.S. Government http://www.usbluepages.gov/ The U.S. Blue Pages program is devoted to helping you connect with your federal government agencies and services. The U.S. Blue Pages is funded by the federal government and administered by the U.S. General Services Administration, Federal Technology Service. The U.S. Blue Pages is a multi-agency effort that establishes a standard, easy-to-use format for acquiring key federal telephone listings. The effort includes gathering, validating and formatting information for publication in local telephone directories and this website. The latest includes: a) Comprehensive search capabilities to easily find phone numbers when searching for listings by key words, city, state, and zip code, b) More information about federal services and how to connect to them, c) Quick links to the most frequently requested federal sites, d) A virtual help desk that will respond to your email questions within 72 hours, and e) Hiawatha Software's AccVerify approval for Federal Regulation 508 compliance. Section 508 requires that Federal agencies' electronic and information technology is accessible to people with disabilities. This has been added to Reference Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 7:42 AM  Global Yellow-Pages http://www.globalyp.com/world.htm The Global Yellow-Pages is a collection of phone directories from around the world. To find a number anywhere in the globe select a country from the available list. This has been added to Finding People Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 7:30 AM Monday, August 22, 2005  Net Transport - Downloading Tool http://www.xi-soft.com/default.htm Net Transport is a faster, exciting and the most powerful downloading tool that you ever saw, now support the most prevalent Internet protocols, including: a) HTTP / HTTPS, b) FTP / through SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) / SFTP (SSH File Transfer Protocol), c) MMS (Microsoft Media Services), d) RTSP (Real-Time Streaming Protocol), and e) PNM (rename PNM to RTSP). With independently developed Enhanced Multi-Threading (EMT) technology, Net Transport can make the most of the network bandwidth of various types of internet connection. As the fact is now quite apparent that more and more software sites are giving their support to resume and multi-threading downloads, you probably will find Net Transport is the right stuff you have long been seeking. If you had some experience of online downloading before, you will notice that the added support of MMS and RTSP streaming media data, powered by the EMT technology mentioned above, is almost enough to make Net Transport unique among its numerous counterparts. Besides, its built-in functionalities such as support for HTTPS streaming retrieval, powerful and flexible multi-proxy (including HTTP  Instructables - Step-By-Step Collaboration http://www.instructables.com/ Instructables is a venue for showing what you make and how others can make it. Making things is part of being human. Whether you make bikes, kites, food, clothing, protocols for biology research, or hack consumer electronics, good instructions are critical. Instructables is a step-by-step collaboration system that helps you record and share your projects with a mixture of images, text, ingredient lists, CAD files, and more. We hope to make documentation simple and fast. Show your colleagues how to operate a machine, show your friends how to build a kayak, show the world how to make cool stuff. This has been added to Reference Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This has been added to Tutorial Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:10 AM  Fiddler - HTTP DeBugger http://www.fiddlertool.com/fiddler/ Fiddler is a HTTP Debugging Proxy which logs all HTTP traffic between your computer and the Internet. Fiddler allows you to inspect all HTTP Traffic, set breakpoints, and "fiddle" with incoming or outgoing data. Fiddler is designed to be much simpler than using NetMon or Achilles, and includes a simple but powerful JScript.NET event-based scripting subsystem. This has been added to World Wide Web Reference Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM  Google Earth - A 3D Interface To the Planet http://earth.google.com/ Want to know more about a specific location? Dive right in -- Google Earth combines satellite imagery, maps and the power of Google Search to put the world's geographic information at your fingertips. Fly from space to your neighborhood. Type in an address and zoom right in. Search for schools, parks, restaurants, and hotels. Get driving directions. Tilt and rotate the view to see 3D terrain and buildings. Save and share your searches and favorites. Even add your own annotations. Google Earth puts a planet's worth of imagery and other geographic information right on your desktop. View exotic locales like Maui and Paris as well as points of interest such as local restaurants, hospitals, schools, and more. This has been added to the tools section of Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM Sunday, August 21, 2005  CSS Property Index CSS Property Index http://www.blooberry.com/indexdot/css/propindex/all.htm All CSS Properties Listed Alphabetically in a comprehensive database and format. This has been added to World Wide Web Reference Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM  Capital Numeric Forecaster http://www.capitalnumeric.com/ A leading-edge computer software to forecast financial market, Capital Numeric Forecaster is designed to clearly decipher the market for you. Its technology is more advanced than regular neural networks. Its interpretation of the market is unique. Featurers include: a) Preview price range and market trend, b) Review past forecasts and accuracy, c) Build winning trading strategies, d) Forecast stocks, indexes, international markets, and e) Scan forecasts of multiple securities. This has been added to Prediction Markets Subject Tracer™ Information Blog and Financial Sources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM Saturday, August 20, 2005  Ethereal: A Network Protocol Analyzer http://www.ethereal.com/ Ethereal is used by network professionals around the world for troubleshooting, analysis, software and protocol development, and education. It has all of the standard features you would expect in a protocol analyzer, and several features not seen in any other product. Its open source license allows talented experts in the networking community to add enhancements. It runs on all popular computing platforms, including Unix, Linux, and Windows. This has been added to World Wide Web Reference Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 8:10 AM  Artcyclopedia http://www.artcyclopedia.com/ They have compiled a comprehensive index of every artist represented at hundreds of museum sites, image archives, and other online resources. They have started out by covering the biggest and best sites around, and have links for most well-known artists to keep you surfing for hours. They have now indexed 1800 art sites, and offer over 60,000 links to an estimated 150,000 artworks by 8,100 renowned artists. This has been added to Reference Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM Friday, August 19, 2005  BizzBangBuzz - Technology and Startup Blog BizzBangBuzz - Technology & Startup Blog http://bizzbangbuzz.blogspot.com/ Entrepreneur law blog (blawg) of Pittsburgh strategic business and technology attorney Anthony Cerminaro, focuses on small business, venture capital, entrepreneurship, technology and other items of interest to entrepreneurs, startups and emerging growth companies. This is an excellent site for the entrepreneur and has been added to Entrepreneurial Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:15 AM  Free RSS to HTML PHP Script http://www.feedforall.com/free-php-script.htm In addition to making your RSS feed available to your visitors for use with their RSS Feed Reader, you may also want to make the same feed available on your website for viewing with a regular web browser. There are several ways to do this, some have advantages or disadvantages compared to others. The best solution is one where the webpage is automatically updated on-the-fly, is easily spidered by search engine robots, and easy to implement. To attain this optimal solution, the developers of FeedForAll have created a free RSS to HTML PHP script. When used, this script will allow you to create webpages that will always display the most current information from your RSS feed, and because the resulting page is pure HTML, it will be in a format friendly to search engine robots. This has been added to my presentation resources links at Bots, Blogs and News Aggregators. posted by Marcus | 4:10 AM   HackerWatch http://www.hackerwatch.org/ HackerWatch is a community and collection point for Internet users to report and share information to block and catch 'hackers' and other unwanted traffic. We have entered an age of the Internet where the biggest threat to our safety, and the very viability of the network, is that of automated attacks and 'worms'. HackerWatch is a 'neighborhood watch' for the Internet age. Their mission and goal at HackerWatch is simple: a) collect a broad spectrum of firewall event data. b) determine patterns from the attacks submitted, and c) identify and stop the hacker attempts & unwanted traffic. By combining the data submitted by thousands of separate sources or users over the Internet, they detect patterns that would otherwise go unseen. Now instead of just blocking annoying traffic you can do something about it. This has been added to World Wide Web Reference Subject Tracer*trade; Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM  HOWTO ByPass Internet Censorship HOWTO ByPass Internet Censorship http://www.zensur.freerk.com/ A tutorial on how to bypass Internet Censorship using Proxies, Shells, JAP e.t.c. Different ways to beat the filtering in schools, countries or companies (blocked ports e.t.c). This is the original and so newer than the translations because they are still working on it. This has been added to Privacy Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM Thursday, August 18, 2005  Feed On Feeds Feed On Feeds - Server Side Personal RSS and ATOM Aggregator http://feedonfeeds.com/ Desktop aggregators are great. They sit there all day, pinging away at sites, and as soon as they notice something new, they pop up little windows on your desktop, and let you read items. But what about when you go home from work? Or what about when you are on a trip? You get totally out of sync, and don't know what you've read and haven't read. You are enraged. A server side aggregator solves this. It keeps track of what items you've read, and keeps happily checking up on your feeds no matter where you are. Whenever you want to see what's new, you just bring up a web page and scan the newest items. You can mark the items as read so they won't be shown again. Or, you can just always show the most recent N items, like the way LiveJournal's friends pages work. Also, having the aggregator in your browser eliminates the "impedance mismatch" that sometimes occurs between a desktop aggregator and your browser. All your native browsing methods work on a FEED ON FEEDS page. Open pages in new tabs, bookmark them for later, browse whatever way you like. This has been added to the resource links of my presentation Bots, Blogs and News Aggregators. posted by Marcus | 4:15 AM  WorkHappy - Resources for Entrepreneurs http://www.workhappy.net/ An excellent resource for entrepreneurs highlighting the latest and greatest resources for entrepreneurs. This has been added to Entrepreneurial Resources Subject Tracer™ Informnation Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:10 AM  Information Professional http://www.information-professional.com/ This site for library information professionals covers the following areas: a) IP - Information Professional deals with LIS related information and services, b) ALISP - Association of Library & Information Science Professionals is intended as a information exchange forum for all Information Professionals and Students of LIS. Free Registration, c) IPD - Information Professionals Directory is a directory of the member listings (Online and Printed versions available!). Paid service., d) IPDG - Information Professionals Discussion Group is intended to function as a medium for communication for information professionals and students of LIS all over the world. A information exchange ground for LIS related professionals to discuss on important issues that concern LIS activity. Free Access, e) IPYP - Information Professional Yellow Pages is an easy-to-use buyer's guide created by librarians for librarians. Free Access, and f) KIP - Kaleidoscope : Information Patterns is a newsletter developed by IP - Information Professional specifically to keep LIS community informed on the latest issue of interest. Free Access. posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM  RSS Compendium Blog RSS Compendium Blog http://ast.antville.org/ A service from The RSS Compendium, designed to link you to information about RSS readers, resources, tools, etc... This has been added to the link resources of my presentation Bots, Blogs and News Aggregators. posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM Wednesday, August 17, 2005  RssFwd : Reading RSS Via Your eMails http://www.rssfwd.com/rssfwd Why re-invent the wheel or run yet-another-application to read your stuff? Create another set of folders, sub-folders, filtering, spam-filter training,... when your existing E-mail application has done it all - tried and tested - and finally just the way you like it? This site allows anyone to subscribe to any RSS / Atom feed and receive the updates in their email inbox. You can get more technical information at the blog (e.g. download source codes, updates). This has been added to the link resources in my Bots Blogs and News Aggregators presentation. posted by Marcus | 4:15 AM   W3C Workshop on Internationalizing the Speech Synthesis Markup Language http://www.w3.org/2005/08/SSML/ssml-workshop-cfp http://www.w3.org/2003/08/Workshops/ http://www.w3.org/Voice/ Position papers are due 23 September for the "W3C Workshop on Internationalizing the Speech Synthesis Markup Language (SSML)" to be held 2-3 November in Beijing, China. Attendees will discuss ways to improve rendering of non-English natural languages using the SSML W3C Recommendation which generates synthetic speech and controls pronunciation, volume, pitch and rate. Read about W3C Workshops and visit the Voice Browser Activity home page. posted by Marcus | 4:10 AM Continuity and Change - A Journal of Social Structure, Law and Demography in Past Societies http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayJournal?jid=CON Continuity and Change aims to define a field of historical sociology concerned with long-term continuities and discontinuities in the structures of past societies. Emphasis is upon studies whose agenda or methodology combines elements from traditional fields such as history, sociology, law, demography, economics or anthropology, or ranges freely between them. There is a strong commitment to comparative studies over a broad range of cultures and time spans. This has been added to Social Informatics Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM  Open2.net http://www.open2.net/ The Open University and the BBC have teamed up to create this very informative online learning portal that draws on the strengths of both organizations. The site contains several primary sections, including those dedicated to providing online learning content, discussion forums, and broadcast programs on television and radio. The learning section of the site includes a section where visitors can learn how to make their own catapult and find out about the geology of the British Isles. In the "Open2 Today" area, visitors can learn about the programs featured that day. The moderated discussion forums also provide access to additional debate and discussion on topics brought up by some of the primary programs, including those on the English language and migratory birds. This will be added to Education and Distance Learning Resources 2005 Internet MiniGuide. [From The Scout Report, Copyright Internet Scout Project 1994-2005. http://scout.wisc.edu/] posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM Tuesday, August 16, 2005  Drugs@FDA Data Files http://www.fda.gov/cder/drugsatfda/datafiles/default.htm On this site you will find a compressed data file of the Drugs@FDA database. All fields are double-quoted and separated by commas. Each table's primary key, data types, field lengths and nulls appear in the list. While the official online application, Drugs@FDA is updated daily, this data file is updated once per week, on Wednesday. Once you have downloaded the compressed file (drugsatfda.zip), you can unzip the file into 7 text tables. You can then import the tables into a database, spreadsheet or word processing program. Generally a database program is the best program to use for these types of files. They offer little guidance on how to construct your database design, as each user has different requirements or uses. This has been added to Healthcare Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This will be added to Healthcare Resources 2005 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus | 8:14 AM  Cool Deal Online Cool Deal Online - Compare Book Prices http://www.cooldealonline.com/ Search over 100 bookstores to compare prices on new and used books, in seconds! Save up to 98% on everything from best sellers, textbooks, to rare used books! Now that is a COOL DEAL! This has been added to ShoppingBots Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:10 AM  SizeMe - Automatic Directory and Filesize Comparator http://lars.werner.no/sizeme/ SizeMe makes it possible to scan a directory and compare it to how many floppy/zip/CD-R/DVD-discs you need. It tries to fill each disc up as much as possible, and gives you the result on each disc. This has been added to the tools section of Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM  MapMachine - Country Profiles http://plasma.nationalgeographic.com/mapmachine/countryprofiles.html The 2004 National Geographic Atlas of the World, Eighth Edition, recognizes 192 independent nations. All of these, plus U.S. states and Canadian provinces, are profiled in the Atlas—and right here. In each entry you'll find key geographic, demographic, and economic data as well as a brief overview. This will be added to International Trade Resources 2005 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM Monday, August 15, 2005  EdComp - Free Computer Education and Training Search http://www.edcomp.com/ A comprehensive search engine for finding free computer education and training materials on the Internet. This has been added to Tutorial Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:15 AM Kevin Kelly's Cool Tools Site http://www.kk.org/cooltools/ Cool tools really work. A cool tool can be any book, gadget, software, video, map, hardware, material, or website that is tried and true. This site is chiefly interested in stuff that is extraordinary, better than similar products, little-known, and reliably useful for an individual or small group. The site depends on friends and readers to suggest things they actually use. There are plenty of places to read about stuff that should be cool, or that looks new and cool, and that might be useful. These recommendations here, on the other hand, are based on people who have used these items and many similar and have come to see their superiority. Items can be old items, or cheap things that you still dote on after years of use. Great new gear, if well tested by you, are also wonderful. This has been added to the tools section of Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:10 AM  Malware Help Malware Help http://www.MalwareHelp.org/ Step-by-Step visual guides for Cleaning and Preventing Malware for those new to Online Security. Learn about cleaning Malware which includes Spyware, Adware, Trojans etc. Their methods, symptoms, how to cure and prevent recurrence. This has been added to Tutorial Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM  Evaluating Web Site Accessibility Evaluating Web Site Accessibility http://www.webaim.org/techniques/evaluating/?templatetype=3 One of the first steps towards creating accessible content is evaluating the accessibility of existing content. This 7-step process will help you in evaluating the level of accessibility of a Web site using a variety of easy-to-use tools and methods. This has been added to Information Quality Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM Saturday, August 13, 2005  Lexicometrica http://www.cavi.univ-paris3.fr/lexicometrica/index.htm The review Lexicometrica is addressed to researchers, to students, to professionals of the communication and of textual data searching... to people who are interested by theoretical and practical work undertaken in following fields: Lexicometry/ Textual statistics, corpus linguistics, extraction of information starting from text corpora, knowledge acquisition... It is published on the Internet and gathers articles about the reseach or reports about the experiments. The editorial board which is assisted by the network of correspondents, selects the articles which will appear in the review. A summary with a double entry gives access to the articles by the date of publication and by the topic. posted by Marcus | 4:15 AM  City Town Info http://www.CityTownInfo.com/ CityTownInfo.com is the easy way to find info on thousands of US cities and towns. Want to know the population of a town? Or its latitude and longitude? Need to find mortgage brokers licensed to do business in your city or town? Looking for a weather forecast for the next few days in your specific location? How about a map of your home town or somewhere you are about to visit? Curious about how people in different locations commute to work? Need to know the time zone for anywhere in the US? Or the zip codes? This has ben added to Reference Resources Subject Tracer Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:10 AM  Games and Culture: A Journal of Interactive Media http://www.sagepub.com/journal.aspx?pid=11113 Games and Culture: A Journal of Interactive Media is a new, quarterly international journal (first issue due January 2006) that aims to publish innovative theoretical and empirical research about games and culture within the context of interactive media. The journal will serve as a premiere outlet for ground-breaking and germinal work in the field of game studies. Games and Culture's scope will include the socio-cultural, political, and economic dimensions of gaming from a wide variety of perspectives, including textual analysis; political economy; cultural studies; ethnography; critical race studies; gender studies; media studies; public policy; international relations; and communication studies. Other possible arenas include: a) Issues of gaming culture related to race, class, gender and sexuality, b) Issues of game development, c) Textual and cultural analysis of games as artifacts, and d) Issues of political economy and public policy in both US and international contexts. Of primary importance will be the bridging of the gap between games studies scholarship in the United States and in Europe. This has been added to Games Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM  Semantic-Based Resource - Discovery, Retrieval and Composition (RDRC) http://sisinflab.poliba.it/sac2006/ The Semantic-Based Resource Discovery, Retrieval and Composition -- RDRC track aims at gathering researchers from various fields, spanning from matchmaking in electronic commerce, to intelligent multimedia retrieval, to planning in artificial intelligence, to web services discovery and composition. We envisage the following topics as central for the track: a) matchmaking of resource request and resource providers, b) planning and scheduling, c) semantic-based resource negotiation, d) semantic-based resource negotiation, e) retrieval of resource descriptions, f) semantic annotation for multimedia, g) information integration, h) supply chain formation, i) knowledge management, j) web-service discovery and composition, k) semantic grid, and l) combinatorial auctions . posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM Friday, August 12, 2005  Forbes Best of the Web http://www.forbes.com/bow/b2c/main.jhtml If Google or Yahoo searches aren't your idea of conquering the Web's vastness in an efficient manner, Best of The Web's directory will deliver the highly relevant results you are seeking. Forbes editors continue to uncover the most interesting and useful sites in scores of well-defined categories, including a newly added section dedicated to Blogs. They identify the best blogs in categories ranging from Art and Literary Blogs, to Small Business, Marketing, Shopping and Music Blogs. You'll find more than 3,000 sites reviewed here, each selected according to five criteria: Content, Design, Speed, Navigation and Customization. Looking for only the best of the best? Forbes Favorites are clearly marked at the beginning of each category. This has been added to Reference Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:15 AM  The Journal of Services Marketing http://puck.emeraldinsight.com/vl=3391372/cl=80/nw=1/rpsv/cw/www/mcb/08876045/contp1-1.htm The Journal of Services Marketing provides a specialist source of academic information in the field, providing insights into consumer behaviour, how they react to service encounters and the factors dictating marketing success or failure. It not only details the latest research and concepts, but also examines thetheoretical and managerial implications - suggesting future research opportunities and how to turn the information into profitable practice. Cutting through boundaries between service businesses, service industries, nations and economies, it provides a valuable source of knowledge and information for both academics and corporate practitioners. This will be added to Advertising, Marketing and Public Realtions Resources 2005 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus | 4:10 AM  Journal of Electronic Resources https://www.haworthpress.com/web/JERML/ The Journal of Electronic Resources in Medical Libraries is a peer-reviewed professional journal devoted to the access, evaluation, and management of electronic resources in the medical library environment. This journal will be an essential resource for academic medical school libraries, hospital libraries, and other health sciences libraries. The material in the Journal of Electronic Resources in Medical Libraries will complement articles published in Medical Reference Services Quarterly (also edited by M. Sandra Wood), which highlights the reference and bibliographic instruction aspects of electronic resources. This will be added to Healthcare Resources 2005 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM  CollaborativeRank -- del.icio.us Search Engine http://collabrank.web.cse.unsw.edu.au/del.icio.us/?cmd=helpful_users Del.icio.us users who bookmark helpful/timely URLs (as evidenced by others subsequently bookmarking those URLs) will be rewarded with higher CollaborativeRank, which means that their tagging will have greater influence on this search engine's rankings. This will be added to the search engines section of all the 2005 Internet MiniGuides. posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM Thursday, August 11, 2005  Agripedia Agripedia http://www.ca.uky.edu/agripedia/ Agripedia is an Internet Accessible Interactive Multimedia Instructional Resource, developed by the University of Kentucky's College of Agriculture created with a USDA Higher Education Program Grant. This has been added to Agriculture Resources Subject Tracer&tradew; Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:15 AM  EduBlogs edublogs.org http://www.edublogs.org/ edublogs.org is a no-profit adventure into providing free WordPress blogs and hosting for teachers, students, researchers, librarians, writers and anyone who is interested in or working in education. It’s really very simple. If you want a blog you can create one here and enjoy it for as long as you want. Their initial upload limit is 10MB per user and unlimited posts… although they are trying to upgrade that upload limit to somewhere near ‘unlimited’ as soon as possible. In the meantime ourmedia might be a good place for you to visit. This will be added to Education and Distance Learning Resources 2005 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus | 4:10 AM Internationalization Articles Published http://www.w3.org/International/questions/qa-escapes.html http://www.w3.org/International/questions/qa-navigation-select http://www.w3.org/International/tutorials/ruby/ http://www.w3.org/International/ The Internationalization GEO (Guidelines, Education & Outreach) Working Group publishes information to help people understand and use international aspects of W3C technologies. In the past month, the group published "Using Character Entities and NCRs," "Using Link to Localized Content" and "Ruby Markup and Styling," as well as numerous updates and translations. posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM  StrongSpace - Secure File Storage and Sharing http://www.strongspace.com/ Strongspace is a safe place to gather, store, back-up and share any type of file. You can upload and download files via SFTP (Secure File Transfer Protocol), HTTPS (web browser access over Secure Socket Layers) and even RSYNC over SSH (a rapid, low bandwidth way to "sync"). They designed Strongspace so that everything happens over a secure, encrypted connection. Your password and other sensitive information is encrypted with Blowfish – a fast, military-grade cipher. Files are moved to-and-from their servers to your computer over encrypted channels at all times. Strongspace is a great place to back-up or store important files from any internet-connected computer. Companies can use it as an inexpensive off-site file server, friends and family around the world can use it to share files, and if you regularly use multiple computers, it's a perfect centralized place to store your files. This will be added to the tools section of Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM Wednesday, August 10, 2005  The Pirate Bay - BitTorrent Tracker http://thepiratebay.org/ The Pirate Bay is the worlds largest bittorrent tracker. Bittorrent is a filesharing protocol that in a reliable way enables big and fast file transfers. This is an open tracker, where anyone can download torrent files. To be able to upload torrent files, write comments and personal messages one must register at the site. This is free. This has been added to Deep Web Research Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:15 AM  rssWatcher rssWatcher http://www.rsswatcher.com/ rssWatcher is a site that allows you to create a custom set of searches against a number of RSS feeds. rssWatcher will monitor these feeds once an hour, and if a match is found will send an email. Matches will be stored so can retrieve them later. This has been added to my presentation links at Bots, Blogs and News Aggregators. posted by Marcus | 4:10 AM  Good Experience Games http://www.goodexperience.com/games/ These are online games that, in their opinion, offer a "good experience" - good game design with an overall attention to quality. Unless otherwise noted, they're all free, online, and available right now. This has been added to Games Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM  Anonymous Browsing Quick-Start Page Anonymous Browsing Quick-Start Page http://www.space.net.au/~thomas/quickbrowse.html An excellent starting page for anaoymous browsing and surfing. This has been added to Privacy Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM Tuesday, August 09, 2005  China Data Center (CDC) http://chinadatacenter.org/ The China Data Center at the University of Michigan is a new initiative to advance the study and understanding of China. A primary goal of the Center will be the integration of historical, social and natural science data in a geographic information system, where spatial and temporal references will be maintained through a relational database. This will facilitate comparative and interdisciplinary uses of the data, enable both non-specialists and China scholars to understand and utilize these data, and enhance knowledge of China. Its missions include: to support research in the human and natural components of local, regional and global change; to promote quantitative research on China studies; to promote collaborative research in spatial studies; and to promote the use and sharing of China data in teaching and research. This will be added to Interneational Trade Resources 2005 Internet MiniGuide. This has been added to Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:15 AM  Liberated Games http://www.liberatedgames.com/gamelisting.php A nice listed of freely available downloadable games. This has been added to Games Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:10 AM  svk - Decentralized Version Control System http://svk.elixus.org/ svk is a decentralized version control system. It uses the Subversion filesystem but provides additional, powerful features. svk plays well with others, it can mirror remote Subversion, Perforce, and CVS repositories to perform offline operations. svk was originally developed by ChiaLiangKao since his sabbath year in 2003, with the help from SVKPeople and generous SVKSponsors. This has been added to Script Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM  MochiKit - A Lightweight Javascript Library MochiKit http://mochikit.com/ MochiKit is a highly documented and well tested, suite of JavaScript libraries that will help you get things done, fast. They took all the good ideas they could find from their Python, Objective-C, etc. experience and adapted it to the crazy world of JavaScript. This has been added to Script Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM Monday, August 08, 2005  World Wide Web Reference Subject Tracer™ Information Blog World Wide Web Reference http://www.WWWReference.info/ World Wide Web Reference (WWWReference.info) is a Subject Tracer™ Information Blog developed and created by the Virtual Private Library™ . It is designed to bring together the latest resources and sources on an ongoing basis from the Internet for reference resources about the World Wide Web. posted by Marcus | 7:20 AM  Gas-Buddy - Local Real Time Gas Price Information Portal http://www.gasbuddy.com/ GasBuddy.com can help you find cheap gas prices in your city. It is comprised of 170 gas price information web sites that help consumers find low gasoline prices. All web sites are operated by GasBuddy. GasBuddy has the most comprehensive listings of gas prices anywhere by far. This has been added to Reference Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:10 AM  Rulers http://www.rulers.org/ This site contains lists of heads of state and heads of government (and, in certain cases, de facto leaders not occupying either of those formal positions) of all countries and territories, going back to about 1700 in most cases. Also included are the subdivisions of various countries (the links are at the bottom of the respective country entries), as well as a selection of international organizations. Recent foreign ministers of all countries are listed separately. In cases where not even the exact year of the beginning or end of a ruler's term is known, the asterisk (*) is used to indicate dates at which the person is known to have been in office, e.g., *1924 - 1925* means the term began in 1924 or earlier and ended in 1925 or later. All dates are New Style (Gregorian). (f) indicates female rulers. Birth and death years are also provided (b. = born, d. = died, s.a. = see above), but note that the given birth years may be questionable, as different sources often give contradictory information. In cases where it is particularly unclear, the birth year is followed by a question mark (e.g., 1923?) but that does not mean that the year is guaranteed to be correct when there is no question mark. Also, when no death year is given, it should not be taken for granted that the person is indeed still alive. This has been added to Reference Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM  ResearchGuide http://researchguide.sourceforge.net/ ResearchGuide is an open-source software application that helps librarians make subject guides and information pages about themselves using Web forms. Consider the fictitious librarian Marcus Aurelius, a subject specialist in Classics at a university library. With ResearchGuide, Marcus and his colleagues can create guides to resources in various subjects by entering the information in web forms. They can also create specialist pages with contact information and other background information on subject specialists in the library. Because many libraries seem to face the challenge of maintaining subject resource guides, they sought, and got, permission to make this application available under an open-source license. They thank the University of Michigan Graduate Library for agreeing to this. This has been added to the tool section of Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM Saturday, August 06, 2005  Tutorial Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog Tutorial Resources http://www.TutorialResources.info/ Tutorial Resources (TutorialResources.info) is a Subject Tracer™ Information Blog developed and created by the Virtual Private Library™ . It is designed to bring together the latest resources and sources on an ongoing basis from the Internet for tutorial resources posted by Marcus | 4:15 AM  Tutorials - Pixel2life.com Tutorial Search Engine http://www.pixel2life.com/ Their tutorial indexing service and search engine is completely free to use, and completely free for Webmasters to submit their sites. The goal of this indexing service is to provide an easy to use website for visitors looking to improve their design or programming skills, or look for new ideas to help them develop their skills. Their index is also a superb method of generating traffic and exposure to websites all accross the world. Their users can browse the site or look for specific keywords with an advanced Boolean search combined with our unique sorting tools. This has been added to Tutorial Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:10 AM  WebFeat Federated Search Engine http://www.webfeat.org/ WebFeat (U.S. Patent #6,807,539) is the original federated search engine—used by over 2,500 leading academic, public, Global 1000, and government libraries and information centers. This has been added to Deep Web Research Subject Tracer*trade; Information Blog. This will be added to the search engines section of all the 2005 Internet MiniGuides. posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM  Cellphedia Cellphedia - Ubiquitous Social Encyclopedia http://www.cellphedia.com/ This is a cell phone application that promotes the sharing of knowledge. It allows users to send and receive encyclopedia-type inquiries between specific, pre-defined groups of users, through Text messaging. Users can register on this site and start building the quick-reference Cellphedia-type encyclopedia entries, by asking other users and answering other users' questions where-ever cell phone service is available. This has been added to Social Informatics Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM Friday, August 05, 2005  Theology Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog Theology Resources http://www.TheologyResources.info/ Theology Resources (TheologyResources.info) is a Subject Tracer™ Information Blog developed and created by the Virtual Private Library™. It is designed to bring together the latest resources and sources on an ongoing basis from the Internet for theology resources. posted by Marcus | 4:15 AM  Snippy - Snip and You are Done http://www.bhelpuri.net/Snippy/default.htm How often have you carefully selected some text from a Web page and copied it to an email message? Snippy makes this a snap! Simply click on the little Snippy icon in the taskbar notification area, and mark out the region of the screen that you want to copy — that's it, you're done! The cut-out image will now be in your clipboard, and you can paste it in another application. If you are cutting out a portion of an Internet Explorer window, the URL will also be copied to the clipboard; this makes it very convenient to select something interesting on a Web site and send it out in an email message. This has been added to the tools section of Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:10 AM  Trixie - Teaching An Old Browser New Tricks Trixie - Teaching An Old Browser New Tricks http://www.bhelpuri.net/Trixie/Trixie.htm Trixie is to Internet Explorer as Greasemonkey is to Firefox. It lets you remix the Web via scripts. You may do this to either make it more readable, fix bugs or to even add little features to make the site more usable to you. Trixie by itself does none of this. It is just a plugin for Internet Explorer that enables executing chunks of JavaScript code and thus lets you use the Web the way you want to use it. This has been added to Script Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM  Free Online Translator Free Online Translator http://www.worldlingo.com/en/products_services/worldlingo_translator.html A nice free online translator that allows free translation from text, web pages and email. Numerous languages translated as well as additional professional fee based services available. This has been added to the tools section of Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM Thursday, August 04, 2005  Student Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog Student Research http://www.studentresearch.info/ Student Research Resources (StudentResearch.info) is a Subject Tracer™ Blog developed and created by the Virtual Private Library™ . It is designed to bring together the latest resources and sources on an ongoing basis from the Internet to aid the student in performing research for their independent research projects as well as undergraduate and graduate subject research posted by Marcus | 4:15 AM  BioConductor - Open Source Software for Bioinformatics Bioconductor http://www.bioconductor.org/ Bioconductor is an open source and open development software project for the analysis and comprehension of genomic data. The project was started in the Fall of 2001. The Bioconductor core team is based primarily at the Biostatistics Unit of the Dana Farber Cancer Institute at the Harvard Medical School/Harvard School of Public Health. Other members come from various US and international institutions. Bioconductor Packages. Although initial efforts focused primarily on DNA microarray data analysis, many of the software tools are general and can be used broadly for the analysis of genomic data, such as SAGE, sequence, or SNP data. Goals of the Bioconductor Project. The broad goals of the projects are to: a) provide access to a wide range of powerful statistical and graphical methods for the analysis of genomic data; b) facilitate the integration of biological metadata in the analysis of experimental data: e.g. literature data from PubMed, annotation data from LocusLink; c) allow the rapid development of extensible, scalable, and interoperable software; d) promote high-quality documentation and reproducible research; and e) provide training in computational and statistical methods for the analysis of genomic data. This has been added to Biological Informatics Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:10 AM  Theses Canada http://www.collectionscanada.ca/thesescanada/index-e.html This is your central access point for Canadian theses and information about the Theses Canada program. From here you will be able to: a) Search AMICUS, Canada's national online catalogue, for bibliographic records of all theses in Library and Archives Canada's theses collection, which was established in 1965; b) Access and search for free the full text electronic versions of Canadian theses and dissertations that were published from the beginning of 1998 to August 31, 2002; and, c) Find out everything you need to know about Theses Canada, including how to find a thesis, how our program works, information on copyright and much more. This will be added to Academic Resources 2005 Internet MiniGuide. This has been added to Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM  Blinksale Blinksale - Invoice Online http://www.blinksale.com/ Blinksale is perfect for anyone who needs to invoice customers and clients for services or products sold. As a design company, we created Blinksale with professional service industries in mind. Additionally, with time-billing invoices and product invoices, Blinksale is an excellent choice for attorneys, accountants, IT professionals, software developers, journalists, contractors, engineers, architects, videographers, and more. Basically, if you need to send invoices, Blinksale can work for you. This has been added to eCommerce Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM Wednesday, August 03, 2005  Statistics Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog Statistics Resources http://www.statisticsresources.info/ Statistics Resources (StatisticsResources.info) is a Subject Tracer™ Information Blog developed and created by the Virtual Private Library™ . It is designed to bring together the latest resources and sources on an ongoing basis from the Internet for statistics. posted by Marcus | 8:38 AM  QuirksMode http://www.QuirksMode.org/ QuirksMode.org is the personal and professional site of Peter-Paul Koch, freelance web developer in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. It contains more than 150 pages with CSS and JavaScript tips and tricks, and is one of the best sources on the WWW for studying and defeating browser incompatibilities. It is free of charge and ads, and largely free of copyrights. This has been added to World Wide Web Reference Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 8:30 AM  Web Standards Project (WaSP) http://www.webstandards.org/ Founded in 1998, The Web Standards Project (WaSP) fights for standards that reduce the cost and complexity of development while increasing the accessibility and long-term viability of any site published on the Web. We work with browser companies, authoring tool makers, and our peers to deliver the true power of standards to this medium. This has been added to World Wide Web Reference Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 8:21 AM Principles for Evaluating Websites http://www.downes.ca/cgi-bin/website/view.cgi?dbs=Article&key=1121531748 How do you know whether something you read on the web is true? You can't know, at least, not for sure. This makes it important to read carefully and to evaluate what you read. This guide by Stephen Downes will tell you how. This has been added to Information Quality Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM Tuesday, August 02, 2005  Social Informatics Subject Tracer™ Information Blog Social Informatics http://www.SocialInformatics.net/ Social Informatics (SocialInformatics.net) is a Subject Tracer™ Information Blog developed and created by the Virtual Private Library™ . It is designed to monitor social informatics resources and sites on the World Wide Web and available over the Internet posted by Marcus | 4:15 AM  Pew Global Attitudes Project http://pewglobal.org/ The Pew Global Attitudes Project is a series of worldwide public opinion surveys that encompasses a broad array of subjects ranging from people's assessments of their own lives to their views about the current state of the world and important issues of the day. More than 90,000 interviews in 50 countries have been conducted as part of the project's work. The Pew Global Attitudes Project is co-chaired by former U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine K. Albright, currently Principal, the Albright Group LLC in Washington, DC, and former Senator John C. Danforth, currently Partner, Bryan Cave LLP in St. Louis, MO. The project is directed by Andrew Kohut, president of the Pew Research Center, a nonpartisan "fact tank" in Washington, DC, that provides information on the issues, attitudes and trends shaping America and the world. The project is principally funded by The Pew Charitable Trusts. The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation provided a supplemental grant for the 2002 survey. This has been added to Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:10 AM  PhoneBlogger PhoneBlogger http://www.wombatnation.com/phoneblogger/ PhoneBlogger is a tool for publishing to a blog via a phone call. PhoneBlogger is an automated voice application that first asks you for info about which pre-configured blog you wish to post to. After collecting the necessary information, PhoneBlogger records your audio message. Finally, it posts a blog entry that links to the recorded audio. In a little more technical detail, PhoneBlogger is a VoiceXML application. It uses speech recognition and text to speech to collect information from you over the phone concerning the blog to which you want to post. A couple Python CGI scripts and some other programs are used to save the audio and convert it to an audio file format that can be easily played in a web browser. An XML-RPC call is used to post a blog entry linking to the audio file. posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM  iEARN http://www.iearn.org/ iEARN is the world's largest non-profit global network that enables teachers and young people to use the Internet and other new technologies to collaborate on projects that both enhance learning and make a difference in the world. iEARN (International Education and Resource Network) is a non-profit organization made up of over 20,000 schools in more than 109 countries. iEARN empowers teachers and young people to work together online using the Internet and other new communications technologies. Approximately 750,000 - 1,000,000 students each day are engaged in collaborative project work worldwide. Since 1988, iEARN has pioneered on-line school linkages to enable students to engage in meaningful educational projects with peers in their countries and around the world. This will be added to Education and Distance Learning Resources 2005 Internet MiniGuide. posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM Monday, August 01, 2005  ShoppingBots 2005 ShoppingBots http://www.ShoppingBots.info/ ShoppingBots (ShoppingBots.info) is a Subject Tracer™ Information Blog developed and created by the Virtual Private Library™ . It is designed to bring together the latest resources and sources on an ongoing basis from the Internet for all forms of Online Shopping and ShoppingBots. posted by Marcus | 4:15 AM  The Regulator http://regex.osherove.com/ The Regulator is an advanced, free regular expressions testing and learning tool. It allows you to build and verify a regular expression against any text input, file or web, and displays matching, splitting or replacement results within an easy to understand, hierarchical tree. The Regulator was created and is maintained by Roy Osherove. posted by Marcus | 4:10 AM  OpenCores http://www.opencores.org/ OpenCores is a loose collection of people who are interested in developing hardware, with a similar ethos to the free software movement. Currently the emphasis is on digital modules called 'cores', since FPGAs have reduced the incremental cost of a core to approximately zero. Activity is centered around the opencores web site (http://www.opencores.org). There is no formal affiliation between the people who make up opencores. They are a bunch of people who just happen to be walking in the same direction along a road. This is a dynamic group. People regularly join and leave. As a whole, the group progresses through the independent contributions of individuals. posted by Marcus | 4:05 AM Commentary Today http://www.commentarytoday.com/ Commentary Today is devoted to presenting the most diverse and comprehensive collection of opinions and commentary from America's leading columnists. In one spot you can access the opinions of the country's greatest commentators on every topic in today's news. Every day this site is updated with the most recent articles from the featured columnists. More columnists are being added every day so if you don't see your favorite now, wait a short while and you probably will. This has been added to Reference Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus | 4:00 AM |
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