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Now you can Stumble outside of the shadow of the mega-corporate overlords at eBay - two years after Stumble founders Garrett Camp and Geoff Smith cashed out and handed their baby over to the ecommerce giant, they've come back with a team of investors and bought StumbleUpon back from eBay. It's pretty exciting.

WordPress.com search engine launched before a year, after the launch of the search engine the searches made on Wordpress search engine is innumber millions. Recently Wordpress announced an a significant update: instant findability. This feature allows searcher to view all latest related post with the feature "most recent results" available on the search page.

Gmail Labs added yet another useful feature for those who receive messages from all over the world.The new feature in Gmail labs called "Sender Time Zone". you can find this option in Labs tab under Settings. Once you enabled this feature you can see green phone icons next to people who are probably awake and readily reachable.The red ones indicates those who could be sleeping or out of the office.

Check out the following tricks to see how Bing can help students and librarians find the information they need in a snap.

TweetDeck v0.25 Integrates Facebook & Twitpic Previews - TweetDeck is a personal browser used to stay in touch with the latest happening around us and connect you with your contacts across Twitter, Facebook and more. TweetDeck v0.25 recently released..." />

Google and other members of the IT industry recently joined at Google Data Centre Efficiency Submit at Calif, Mountain View, to discuss best practices for building and measuring data center efficiency. The idea behind this submit is tosave resources such as electricity and water is not just good for the environment, it makes good business sense too. Being "green" reduces operating costs and can keep our industry competitive; it is this economic advantage that makes efficiency truly sustainable.

US talk show megastar Oprah Winfrey made her debut on micro-blogging service Twitter on Friday with a shout out to her fans. Oprah issued her first tweet around 7:10 a.m. PDT Friday--the same day Williams and Twitter's top celebrity, Ashton Kutcher, will join her on the show.

Great article that could help with collection development in school libraries. Also, a great way to assess if a book is appropriate for the school library collection.

Shakespeare wittled down to 140 characters ala twitter.

Since we were talking about podcasting last week, I found this interesting. Hard to believe they can control a word like that.

Here's a 5 min. video onFacebook privacy settings-- learn 'em and use 'em!

The PTB at Facebook change its policy to state that they have full control (i.e. they can do whatever they want) over all of your content (photos, videos, etc.) forever! Even if/ after you terminate your releationship with them. Please read this important update.

Kindle 2 just came out today. Since some of us were having a converstation about it earlier, I thought I would share this with you all.

A few Pro's and Con's of Kindle from a librarian perspective via those on twitter.

This is a good interesting article that also sums up some of my feelings regarding our discussion on blogs. Don't take them away, teach them how to use it responsibly.

Great resource for public and school librarians. Tips are give on what to do when a book in your library is challenged. The bibliography is very helpful and gives brief summaries about children's books. If you are interested in storytelling techniques this site has some useful tips.