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Amit Kelkar

Reference Notes: Library Mashups: Exploring New Ways to Deliver Library Data - 0 views

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    New book on collaboratively "mashing up" data for use in libraries.
Sandra Rivera

The powerful and mysterious brain circuitry that makes us love Google, Twitter, and tex... - 0 views

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    Seeking. You can't stop doing it. Sometimes it feels as if the basic drives for food, sex, and sleep have been overridden by a new need for endless nuggets of electronic information. We are so insatiably curious that we gather data even if it gets us in trouble. Google searches are becoming a cause of mistrials as jurors, after hearing testimony, ignore judges' instructions and go look up facts for themselves. We search for information we don't even care about.
Adriana Delgado

Teaching Students to Sift Mountains of Data - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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    Google and IBM to donate computing wares to universities with the "hope of training a new breed of engineers and scientists to think in Internet scale".
anonymous

Vodafone Continues Its Move Beyond the Mobile Market With New, Cloud-Based Service - Re... - 0 views

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    Vodafone is launching a cloud-based service designed for business people and consumers who are looking for a way to back up the data on their desktops, laptops and netbooks. The move is significant as Vodafone is making another move beyond the mobile market and is using cloud-based services to get there
Yichen Zhu

Are ebooks the Greatest Thing Since Sliced Bread? We Think So, Why Don't They? - 0 views

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    E-book collections, such as ebrary and Netlibrary, provided an economical opportunity to fill gaps in our print collection. With an institutional focus on distance education, e-books seemed to provide the obvious solution for how to serve users who will never come to campus. With our traditional users taking to e-journals immediately, we thought e-books would be a win-win solution. However, use statistics indicated that our e-book collections remain underutilized.
Yichen Zhu

D-Lib Magazine June 2004 Volume 10 Number 6 ISSN 1082-9873 Comparing the Impact of Ope... - 0 views

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    The way to test the impact advantage of Open Access (OA) is not to compare the citation impact factors of OA and non-OA journals but to compare the citation counts of individual OA and non-OA articles appearing in the same (non-OA) journals. Such ongoing comparisons are revealing dramatic citation advantages for OA.
anonymous

Programming Amazon Web Services by O'Reilly Media - 0 views

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    With this book, you'll learn how companies can take advantage of Amazon Web Services (AWS) to 'rent' computing power, data storage and bandwidth on Amazon's vast network infrastructure. Programming Amazon Web Services gives developers the background and technical detail they need for using Amazon's subscription-based Simple Storage Service (S3), Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), Simple Queue Service (SQS), Flexible Payments Service (FPS), and SimpleDB to build web-scale business applications
anonymous

Could Wowd Be the Skype of Real-Time Search? Private Beta Invites - ReadWriteStart - 0 views

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    Using cloud architecture and crowdsourced data on web pages, this real-time discovery and recommendation engine ranks pages based on whether users actually visited them and returns results from all over the web, not just a handful of indexed pages.
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