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Wikipedia and Encyclopedia Brittanica trying to find the right measure of participation

In this harsh economic climate, class trips to exciting places like New York City and San Francisco are probably out of many people's reach. But the educational Web site MeetMeAtTheCorner.org offers kids virtual tours of these and other cities without leaving the classroom. And it's all free. 

A new era of change has even come to the White House Web site!

collaboration online as the new learning method

Web 2.0: A New Wave of Innovation for Teaching and Learning?

"Web 2.0: A New Wave of Innovation for Teaching and Learning?"

Actor Ashton Kutcher recently challenged CNN to be the first to 1 million followers on the micro-blogging site, had more than 959,360 Twitter followers as of 1 p.m. ET Thursday. CNN's breaking-news feed had about 12,000 more Twitter fans, with some 968,000. But the real intresting part is the Ashton reaches one million fans on his Facebook fan page while am writing this post Ashton has1,037 ,940 fans on his Facebook fan page.

It's simple with the new "AwesomeBar" this is a completely revamped URL bar in firefox 3. it lets you use the URL field of your browser to do a keyword search of your history and bookmarks. No longer do you have to know the domain of the page you're looking for - the AwesomeBar will match what you're typing (even multiple words!) against the URLs, page titles, and tags in your bookmarks and history, returning results sorted by "frecency" (an algorithm combining frequency + recency).

Firefoxquickly became the favorite browser for most power users. But while extensions are a great way to make Firefox more functional. In January 2000, T-Online asked Oliver Reichenstein, what we'd do if we could design a browser from scratch. The answer was "Tabs". Eight years later Aza Raskin, head of user experience at Mozilla, again asked about the future of new tab. Oliver Reichenstein answer after days of mailing back and forth: "Forget tabs!"

Finally Gmail's rich-text editor become more powerful with the addition of the new features in Gmail Labs called Insert Images. The major drawback in Gmail text editor is people can't insert in to the editor. Initially we have to attach the images and this usually displays at the bottom of the mail client as thumbnails.

Namechk is a new web application, that help users to find an username over 84 websites with less than 8 sec. This is amazing user don't need to got to each website to check availability of the preferd username. Namechk brings complete solution on checking for username availability is various social media and bookmarking websites.

Friendfeed introduce a new design for Friendfeed at http://beta.friendfeed.com/ on April 06, 2009. The newly re-designed friendfeed beta version looks a lot like Twitter. Forget the refresh button. All pages now update in real-time. You'll see your friends' photos and messages stream in as they're shared. Comments and likes also get displayed as they happen.

In the past years communication and way to communucate changes dramatically. The advent of the social and mobile web has made it easy to connect to large groups of people. Web technologies are used to connect millions of people online. This eases the sharing information simpler. Following the Social media smashers Twitter and FaceBook, It's tome now to micromessagging service from Quub, In this fast moving world stay connected over millions of people is a real tough one. To effectively deal with maintaining so many connections, frequent status updates have emerged as a popular method of staying in contact.

Just thought I would share a cute story with my fellow library lovers. :-)

Literary Cat

iGoogle gadgets interact with the user and utilize the Google Gadgets API. Some gadgets developed for Google Desktop can also be used within iGoogle. The Google Gadgets API is public and allows anyone to develop a gadget for any need. iGoogle recently added a new gadget named " What's Popular". It seems to be similar to Digg, Reddit, Stumbleupon. where you can vote the web pages and add content you find interesti

Have you become addicted to telling the world what you're up to in 140 characters or less? If so, say three cheers for wordpress. Wordpress recently launched a cool new feature that all bloggers will love to use : a Twitter widget for your wordpress sidebar.

A student speaks out to save the school library

Little funny about facebook

Great NY Times article profiles model librarian in NYC school. Also talks realistically about our standing in today's economy.

This is who we are...forget the stereotypes!