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ChunkIt! Personal Search Engine - 0 views

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    Discover a whole new world of information from the Web. With a SINGLE click, ChunkIt! lets you immediately extract and preview the valuable "chunks" of content buried in the myriad hyperlinks found on ANY Web page
Pam Thompson

http://www.behold.cc/ - 0 views

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    search engine for flickr that allows you to specify to search for images that are: - free to use - and modify - commercially
Nigel Robertson

Video Search Engine - Blinkx - 0 views

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    Search for videos online. Uses text and narration from the video to catalogue
anonymous

Google Experimental Search - 0 views

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    Google is always experimenting with new features aimed at improving the search experience. Take one for a spin and let us know what you think.
John Pearce

YouTube - How Search Works - 4 views

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    This neat video from Google looks at how the Google search function works from the spiders though to the software algorithms that search the index of Search Terms that makes up Google. The only drawback is the self promotion tacked onto the end of the video.
John Pearce

YouTube - How Google Search Works - 1 views

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    A really nice Google movie on how Google Search works. There is a bit of Google propaganda at the end but if you want you can trim this.
John Pearce

How to: Use Twitter Search Effectively | Ask Aaron Lee - 1 views

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    From Aaron Lee comes a great article on being more efficient in using Twitter to locate information. It is based around the use of the Firefox Twitter plugin though this is not mandatory.
John Pearce

The Wikipedia Game - 2 views

  • You're given a start Wikipedia article, like "Banana" And a winning article, like "Britney Spears" Now click as few links as possible to get from "Banana" to "Britney Spears", as fast as you can!
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    Via Adrian Camm, a link to The wikipedia game is played by having you begin with a start Wikipedia article, eg banana and a winning article eg "Britney Spears". The task is to get from the start article to the winning article in as few clicks as possible.
John Pearce

Twurdy Search - Search for Readable Results - 4 views

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    Twurdy has been created to provide people with access to search results that suit their own readability level. Twurdy uses text analysis software to "read" each page before it is displayed in the results. Then Twurdy gives each page a readability level. Twurdy then shows the readability level of the page along with a color coded system to help users determine how easy the page will be to understand.
John Pearce

100 Google Search Tricks for the Savviest of Students - 8 views

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    In today's schools, most research is completed online, and Google is a great resource for combing the web. But at the same time, it's not always easy to find exactly what you want, given that there are usually millions of results - with varying degrees of accuracy. These tricks can help you find the best results, while saving time and making your life easier.
Roland Gesthuizen

Alfred Hitchcock's 9 Smart Ways to Create Remarkable Videos | Video Camera School - Lea... - 3 views

  • It’s not what you shoot, but how you shoot videos that matters.
  • The key is to mix it up, experiment and see what happens. Don’t be afraid to bend the rules. The more you work with video, the more you’ll come into your own style.
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    "Ever wondered how Alfred Hitchcock would have used YouTube? Many of his techniques work well with video, for example, the sharp editing, cutaways, sudden sounds and pacing. These nine ways will jazz up your videos and turn the most ordinary scenes into more compelling videos."
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    Good resource that explains with some examples, how to jazz up your videos.
Ruth Howard

SuperNova Awards | Constellation Research - 1 views

    • Ruth Howard
       
      "innovation is life blood of businesses. We need to celebrate those pioneers who can see what others don't, who are willing to invest their time and money where others don't dare to." Paul Papadimitriou  How do we disrupt public education to imbibe a learning that allows for all possibilities and reward uniqueness of each rather than conformity of the many? Should we do away with rewards even? How? What disruptions are already mitigating this innovation engine in other fields? 
Tania Sheko

What do you love? - 3 views

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    Google has no shortage of services around the web, but those various information resources often seem disconnected. A new Google interface, called WDYL - or "What Do You Love?" - resolves that by bringing together previews of various specialized Google searches in one place.
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    Google's 'what do you love' search retrieves results organised by medium, eg books, videos, pictures, etc. Some random things here too.
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