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Justin Hopkins

(2) Product Launches: What are some disastrous failures on a demo day or public product... - 2 views

www.quora.com/...y-or-public-product-launch-day

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  • When Microsoft introduced the dictation feature in windows vista they demoed it on stage and it went terribly wrong.
  • Who could forget bill gates and the very public blue screen of death. I believe this was demoing the USB plug and play feature of windows 98, aptly renamed to plug and pray for a period of time :)
Sharla Lair

The Launch of Scholrly: new search engine seeks to change the way people find research ... - 0 views

chronicle.com/...e-the-way-people-find-research

Professional Development Scholrly search engine launch

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  • Sharla Lair on 01 Jun 12
     
    Scholr.ly looks like a very interesting tool. They describe it as "Making Academic Search Social". Here is a description of the search engine: "Undergraduate physicists and comparative literature postdocs have very different search needs. We're building an academic search engine that takes these individual differences into account. The more we know about what you do, the better we can tailor our results to fit your needs. Sometimes, though, it's good to look at a problem from another perspective. Maybe you're doing research in an area you aren't familiar with and want an insider's view. Maybe you're doing interdisciplinary work, or want to better understand your colleague's work. To address these cases, Scholr.ly offers you the opportunity to search as another author- literally. You can search as your professor, a famous linguist, or the highly cited scholar in the department next door- and get the same results they would." It's a very interesting idea...
Scott Peterson

A New Chapter? A Launch Of The Bookless Library - 0 views

www.npr.org/...launch-of-the-bookless-library

Professional Development

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  • Scott Peterson on 18 Jan 13
     
    Not exactly the first time one of these has been tried, but very close to it. The success or failure ultimately isn't how much access it provides but how much it will serve the needs of the user public.
anonymous

Google Drive cloud storage launch planned for early April, sources tell GigaOm | The Verge - 0 views

www.theverge.com/...orage-launch-early-april-rumor

google cloud storage

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  • anonymous on 14 Apr 12
     
    I'm just learning of this today. Apparently they are only offering 1GB of free storage, which puts them at half of what Dropbox offers for free. That said, Dropbox is painfully slow at upload and download and Google storage is insanely cheap. I just bought 20GB of storage for my photo archive and it costs me a WHOPPING $5/year - and the extra storage is shared by all my Google apps which I'm guessing will include Drive. 
Scott Peterson

CrossRef - 0 views

www.crossref.org

Professional Development

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  • Scott Peterson on 04 May 12
     
    CrossRef is the official DOI registration agency of the international DOI Foundation. It was launched in 2000 and includes over 900 voting members and publishers who represent over 3000 societies and publishers. The organization includes metadata services and on the front page a resolver so DOI strings that are not hyperlinked will connect directly to the resource to determine what it is.
  • Jennifer Parsons on 04 May 12
     
    Interestingly enough, III seems to use it for WebBridge (which I know little about): http://csdirect.iii.com/webbridge/index.php?n=LinkSyntax.DOI-CrossRef
Sharla Lair

OverDrive to Launch New HTML5 Based Reading App - The Digital Reader - 1 views

www.the-digital-reader.com/...ch-new-html5-based-reading-app

ebooks overdrive cloud app

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  • Sharla Lair on 30 May 12
     
    Interesting news from Overdrive.
Sharla Lair

TED Books Launches New iPad App with Enhanced eBooks - The Digital Reader - 2 views

www.the-digital-reader.com/...-ipad-app-with-enhanced-ebooks

ted ipad app ebooks reader

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  • Sharla Lair on 10 Jul 12
     
    For those of you that enjoy TED videos...
  • anonymous on 11 Jul 12
     
    So awesome. I'm not sure I'll pay $3 for many of these, but it's cool just the same. I'm actually kinda surprised they are directly monetizing their old content.
Justin Hopkins

Google Fiber to launch next week - Tech News and Analysis - 2 views

gigaom.com/...ogle-fiber-to-launch-next-week

google bandwidth fiber drool

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  • Justin Hopkins on 19 Jul 12
     
    It's on now...
  • Sharla Lair on 20 Jul 12
     
    There are some MOBIUS members in the KC area that are highly considering dropping MOREnet if this actually comes to fruition.
  • Jennifer Parsons on 20 Jul 12
     
    I didn't know that, Sharla. I wonder how many people-- including MOBIUS institutions-- will jump to Google.
adrienne_mobius

Book News: Vast 'Digital Public Library Of America' Opens Today : The Two-Way : NPR - 0 views

www.npr.org/...ic-library-of-america-launches

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  • adrienne_mobius on 26 Apr 13
     
    The Digital Public Library of America opened last Thursday. http://dp.la/
Donna Bacon

New Partnership of Barnes & Noble and Microsoft Will Promote Digital Textbooks - chroni... - 5 views

www.readability.com/read

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  • Donna Bacon on 01 May 12
     
    College students still don't want e-textbooks!  Wonder if this partnership will help students change their minds.....
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  • anonymous on 02 May 12
     
    Are you serious? They LOVE e-textbooks... you can pirate them instead of spending $160 on a dead tree...
  • Donna Bacon on 02 May 12
     
    Did you read the article???? It says e-textbooks are just not taking off....they seem to like the dead trees....
  • Sharla Lair on 02 May 12
     
    While getting my MLIS, I was often given the option of buying the textbook or the e-textbook. The highest priority for me was $$$$$. eTextbooks often cost more than the el cheapos in the bookstore, AND you don't even get to keep the e version. I was usually given access to the etextbook for only 4 months. To remedy this issue all together I got my books through MOBIUS! That way I didn't have to pay anything and I didn't have to store the book after the semester was over. For students to adopt e-texts, the model has to be changed. Make them pay a flat fee with their tuition. Call it a library fee or information fee. Then give them access to the required texts while they are enrolled in a course at no additional cost. Make the texts collaborative so digital notes can be taken perhaps Diigo style so they can be shared and commented on. There is a cool tool called Citelighter http://www.citelighter.com/. Citelighter is a virtual highlighter that automates the research and paper writing process. It allows the user to find and capture unique facts online, automatically generate citations, and write better quality papers in less time. They just launched a pro version in a partnership with Cengage. Citelighter Pro users are able to add to their experience with materials from Cengage Learning. If you make it affordable, accessible, and social, college students will dig it!
  • anonymous on 02 May 12
     
    @donna I skimmed it. They are cheaper in some cases than the book new - while buying a used book ten selling it back is cheaper in the long run. Also currently ebooks don't have any really compelling features over the paper ones. Still, I'm saying that the point of view that they "aren't taking off" just means the companies selling them haven't figured out how to make money off of them. I know from talking to friends that ebooks are fairly popular, but when people pirate them these companies can't track them. On the whole I agree with Sharla - if they made the product better and keep it affordable they will see sales. If I were going to college today I'd pirate every book I need. No way am I carrying all those heavy things, but I can't afford to pay for them. It's like with music and movies. I quit pirating that stuff because Netflix/Hulu/Spotify got good and cheap. If the ebooks improve, people will pay for the same reason - it's easier.
  • Jennifer Parsons on 02 May 12
     
    I think the reason why the print versions are preferred is here: ""Most e-textbooks are slightly glorified PDF's of the print version, although that's changing," [a National College Stores Association rep] said. "Digital e-books sell for about 60 percent of the cost of a new printed copy. Since students can go to their college store and rent a print copy for between 33 and 55 percent of the cost of a new book, the e-book really needs to have more functionality to make the higher price worth their while."" Add to that what Sharla pointed out-- you can't even keep the ebooks because you're really just leasing them-- and it's no wonder nobody's interested. It's a shame, too, because I'd love to be able to do things like textbook exercises in an ebook on a tablet, or make notes in the electronic text to export and read later.
anonymous

"Defensive Patent License" created to protect innovators from trolls | Ars Technica - 1 views

arstechnica.com/...protect-innovators-from-trolls

patent license

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  • Any company that commits to the terms of the Defensive Patent License would have to pledge all of the patents it owns to this league of do-gooders. Any other member of the league would gain a free license to any other member’s patents, and no one in the league would be allowed to launch offensive patent lawsuits against other members of the league. Doing so would be grounds for the member to have its license revoked.
  • Regardless of the likelihood of success, it’s an intriguing idea. Even if it has no impact on the IBMs and Microsofts of the world, it might make trouble for patent trolls. If a patent has been de-weaponized, there’s no reason for a troll to buy it, Schultz said. “The trolls won’t go after the DPL people because they already have an irrevocable license, forever, for free,” he said. “We think this will decrease the weapon supply of trolls.”
Megan Durham

Stunning idea: digital library in Bucharest subway station [pictures] - 0 views

ebookfriendly.com/charest-metro-station-pictures

Professional Development library libraries technology ebooks

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  • Megan Durham on 12 Jul 13
     
    Vodafone Romania, in collaboration with a publishing house Humanitas, launched an ambient advertising campaign, which is simply fantastic. A Victoria Square metro station was turned into... a digital library. The walls are being covered with large format posters, from top to bottom. Bucharest commuters who enter the station suddenly discover that they're in an impressive library.
  • Megan Durham on 12 Jul 13
     
    @Sharla can we use this to promote the new Ebsco ebook purchase. . . we just need a big wall!
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