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Online publishers: growing the display advertising pie
This is the latest post in our series on the future of display advertising. Today, director of product management Jonathan Bellack looks at our efforts to help online publishers generate more advertising revenue - Ed.For millions of online publishers—from the smallest blogger to the largest entertainment, news, e-commerce and information sites—online advertising revenue is vital. When publishers can maximize their returns, everyone benefits from more vibrant online content and websites. But the pace of change in the industry can be intimidating—how can a publisher keep up with what’s new, let alone grow their bus...
Source: Official Google Blog - August 31, 2010 Author: A Googler

Deals & Freebies
Yesterday I was stumbling around the web and came across a site I hadn’t heard of before called 101 Free Tech Books. They have a raffle once a month and give away print tech books (not e-books) to the winners. If you’ve bought a book on programming or computers lately you know that these books can add up in cost pretty quickly. I haven’t won anything yet, so I don’t know how easy it is to snag one of these books, but it seems like a pretty awesome idea and worth giving it a try to get free books! This second site isn’t so much technology related, but I have recently become a fan of a pretty...
Source: What I Learned Today... - August 29, 2010 Author: Nicole Tags: Books Shopping

Book review: Library Mashups: Exploring New Ways to Deliver Library Data Nicole C. Engard (ed.). London: Facet Publishing, 2009. 334pp, {pound}29.95. ISBN 9781856047036
Source: Journal of Librarianship and Information Science current issue - August 26, 2010 Author: Underwood, P. G.

Mashed Library 2010 – MashSpa (UK)
"The sixth Mashed Library event known as MashSpa will be held in Bath, UK, on 29 October 2010. Designed for librarians and technical staff, the one-day event is an opportunity for them to meet, share knowledge and create new mashups. The morning will be given over to a couple of talks while the afternoon will be dedicated to mashing and creating new ideas for your library" The Twitter tag is #mashspa
Source: Peter Scott's Library Blog - August 25, 2010

The Awesomeness of Archives and Mashups
zomg. You have to click through and look at these pictures. Please come back, though. I’ll wait. Okay, did you see them? Weren’t they awesome?! Seeing these pictures made me think about mashups again. I often talk about mashups in my lib100 classes. They’re a good tool for helping people think about how technology changes things and copyright. I show a few demos and that’s about it. There aren’t many that I’ve found to be useful for teaching my content. But can you imagine how much more meaningful a history class would be if looking at those photos? An architecture class? How would see...
Source: lauren's library blog - August 6, 2010 Author: lauren pressley Tags: Uncategorized ideas info lit teaching technology images mashups photos visual learning WWII

#IDSCONF10 -- OCLC Web Services for Developers: WorldCat API, et al.
August 3,2010 -- Tuesday Session #4 (4:10 pm - 5:00 pm) • OCLC Web Services for Developers: WorldCat API, et al. Have you wondered just what a web services is, and what it would mean to use one? Are you thinking of investing effort into building new systems that rely on web services, or enhancing an existing service with API-provided data? OCLC offers a variety of web services such as xISSN, WorldCat Search API, WorldCat Identities, and the WorldCat Registry provide a variety of data which can be used to enhance and improve current library interfaces. This session will provide an overview of the web services offer...
Source: Baby Boomer Librarian - August 5, 2010 Tags: web services OCLC WorldCat

Hurt Wit Chu: 3 Favorite New Mashups
I've posted about mashup artist Pheugoo before (9/07). Here's a new favorite of mine: Johnny Cash covering Nine Inch Nails meets Queens of the Stone Age (the video's a still image; embedding so you can hear the song)You can download the mp3 of "Hurt Wit Chu" free at Pheugoo's site.BRAT mashups are new to me (and available as free downloads at BRAT Productions mashup Page). This one, laying the vocal from the Cure's "Just Like Heaven" over the music and backing vocals from the Commodores' "Easy," is brilliant:Finally, here's "Time After Romance"--Lady Gaga/Cyndi Lauper/Three 6 Mafia by mochi beats (free download). It's more...
Source: poesygalore<IMG SRC=http://www.geocities.com/emilylloyd.geo/glore.jpg> - July 31, 2010 Author: Emily Lloyd

Pixars Inception Mash Up!
Direktlink YouTube Wer «Inception» noch nicht gesehen hat, sollte sich mal diesen Trailer-mashup von «Inception» und «Up!» anschauen. Großartig. Ich war schon begeistert, als ich vorgestern «Inception» sah. Aber das hier ist auch ganz großes Kino. [via Gizmodo, dort auch in den Kommentaren der Hinweis auf weitere mashups, etwa Toy Story 3 Inception mashup] © Markus Trapp for Text & Blog, 2010. | Permalink | No comment | Add to del.icio.us Post tags:
Source: Text & Blog - July 30, 2010 Author: Markus Tags: Kino Video

Searching OPAC* / WorldCat / Any Database >>>With
Colleagues/ In addition to to my interest in mashups (and/or Readers) that allow one to Create A Cloud Tag From An RSS Feed > RSS > TagCloud > 4 > CD : WebFeed-Based TagClouds For Collection Development > i-CD [ http://bit.ly/dyLrF5 ] I am also interest in any initiative implementation in which an RSS feed can be used o search an OPAC / WorldCat / Any Database in order to identify relevant items related to the topics of the RSS search results > To further identity publications/information resources /etc. that might support an individual / departmental / institutional Current/Emerging Research...
Source: gmane.education.web4lib - July 30, 2010 Author: Gerry McKiernan

Library Mashups
mashups zijn webapplicaties die de inhoud van twee of meer bronnen samenbrengen tot één nieuwe, originele toepassing. Slim gebruikt kunnen ze bibliotheekwebsites en -catalogi meer dynamiek, een grotere zichtbaarheid en betere functionaliteit geven. Populaire mashups maken gebruik van kaarten – denk aan Google Maps – of remixen foto’s, video’s, RSS feeds, enz. In Library mashups laat Nicole C. Engard een schare gerenommeerde early adopters aan het woord. Jenny Levine, Darlene Fichter, Tim Spalding, John Blyberg, Karen A. Coombs, Joshua Ferraro en vele anderen implementeerden voor hun bibliotheken ...
Source: Commissaresse 2.0 - July 28, 2010 Author: de Commissaresse Tags: bronnenonderzoek

ReSend: RSS > TagCloud > 4 > CD : WebFeed-Based TagClouds For Collection Development > i-CD
Colleagues/ I am greatly interested in learning of any/all past/present/future initiatives in which an Abstracts/Indexes search results webfeed (RSS; Atom; Etc.) is Mashed into aTagCloud that displays the frequency of terms from the citation and abstracts for the RSS results. I currently subscribe to a variety of altering services and wish to go Beyond The Linear Review of entries in order to expedite the identification of potential candidates for further consideration. My current interest is to use the mashup to visualize RSS search updates from Dissertations & Theses < at > Iowa State University in orde...
Source: gmane.education.web4lib - July 28, 2010 Author: Gerry McKiernan

RSS > TagCloud > 4 > CD : WebFeed-Based TagClouds For Collection Development > i-CD
Colleagues/ I am greatly interested in learning of any/all past/present/future initiatives in which an Abstracts/Indexes search results webfeed (RSS; Atom; Etc.) is Mashed into aTagCloud that displays the frequency of terms from the citation and abstracts for the RSS results. I currently subscribe to a variety of altering services and wish to go Beyond The Linear Review of entries in order to expedite the identification of potential candidates for further consideration. My current interest is to use the mashup to visualize RSS search updates from Dissertations & Theses < at > Iowa State University in orde...
Source: gmane.education.web4lib - July 28, 2010 Author: Gerry McKiernan

Quick and nimble Mashups
JackBe announces new offering
Source: KMWorld RSS Feeds : Research Center: Content Management - July 26, 2010

OCLC Web Scale Management
I am very pleased to finally be able to announce that the Library at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga is scheduled to be the first live implementation of a product that has been talked about for years: a web-based, collaborative, modern library system that does away with silos of data. We are implementing the OCLC Web Scale Management library system even as I type, and will be going live with the system for circulation on August 20, 2010, and with circulation, cataloging, and acquisitions on August 30, 2010. A wiki page documenting the process, working groups, and more is available, and will continue to be update...
Source: Pattern Recognition - July 15, 2010 Author: griffey Tags: MPOW OCLC Personal Web Scale catalog ils library webscale

Literacy News » Blog Archive » Information literacy meets library ...
Information literacy meets library 2.0: library mashups. Library mashups, exploring new ways to deliver library data, is a presentation by Nicole Eng
Source: pligg - all - July 14, 2010 Tags: Library 2.0

University of Southampton’s School of Electronics and Computer Science Releases All Public Data in Open Linked Data Format
The University of Southampton's School of Electronics and Computer Science has released all of its public data in an open linked data format. Here's an excerpt from the press release: In what is believed also to be a world-first, ECS has become the UK’s first University department to release all its public data in open linked data format. The School of Electronics and Computer Science (ECS) at the University of Southampton is at the forefront of the open linked data initiative through the work of its Professors Sir Tim Berners-Lee and Nigel Shadbolt. Now, in accordance with the spirit of the initiative, ECS ...
Source: DigitalKoans - July 14, 2010 Author: admin

University of Southampton’s School of Electronics and Computer Science Releases All Public Data in Open Linked Data Format
The University of Southampton's School of Electronics and Computer Science has released all of its public data in an open linked data format. Here's an excerpt from the press release: In what is believed also to be a world-first, ECS has become the UK’s first University department to release all its public data in open linked data format. The School of Electronics and Computer Science (ECS) at the University of Southampton is at the forefront of the open linked data initiative through the work of its Professors Sir Tim Berners-Lee and Nigel Shadbolt. Now, in accordance with the spirit of the initiative, ECS ...
Source: DigitalKoans - July 13, 2010 Author: Charles Bailey Tags: Linking, Linked Data, and Semantic Web

University of Southampton’s School of Electronics and Computer Science Releases All Public Data in Open Linked Data Format
The University of Southampton's School of Electronics and Computer Science has released all of its public data in an open linked data format. Here's an excerpt from the press release: In what is believed also to be a world-first, ECS has become the UK’s first University department to release all its public data in open linked data format. The School of Electronics and Computer Science (ECS) at the University of Southampton is at the forefront of the open linked data initiative through the work of its Professors Sir Tim Berners-Lee and Nigel Shadbolt. Now, in accordance with the spirit of the initiative, ECS ...
Source: DigitalKoans - July 13, 2010 Author: admin Tags: Linking, Linked Data, and Semantic Web

A New Report From McAfee Labs: “Social Networking Apps Pose Surprising Security Challenges”
3 Paragraphs from the Report: Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, and LinkedIn—oh my! If we’re not using these services ourselves or hearing about them in the media, our friends, colleagues, and children remind us each day of their existence. Although Web 2.0 may be a buzzword we all love to hate, media-rich web applications that allow information sharing among users are here to stay and growing in popularity. An article written in October 2009 (so it’s clearly out of date) on the size of Facebook’s data center states Facebook stores approximately 80 billion photos and serves up approximately 600,000 photos per second—ma...
Source: ResourceShelf - July 12, 2010 Author: resourceshelf Tags: Privacy Social Media Social Search Software and Web-Based Applications

Library Mashup slideshare presentation
(Found via here). Having previously discussed Nicole Engard's book Library mashups : Exploring New Ways to Deliver Library Data, I noted she has a slideshare on the subject of the book here. Interesting too.
Source: librarytwopointzero - July 12, 2010 Author: library2.0

Information Literacy meets Library 2.0: Library Mashups
Library mashups, exploring new ways to deliver library data, is a presentation by Nicole Engard, who also wrote Library mashups Exploring new ways to
Source: pligg - all - July 11, 2010 Tags: Library 2.0

James Bond will return, just not quite yet
Daniel Craig and Sam Mendes are optimistic that the 23rd Bond movie will eventually be made despite MGM's financial problemsReports of the death of the 23rd James Bond film, set to be directed by Sam Mendes with Daniel Craig reprising his role as 007, may have been greatly exaggerated.Speculation ranged far and wide in April that plans for the next instalment of the famous franchise had been all but abandoned due to ongoing financial problems at the MGM studio. However, the Deadline blog reported yesterday that both Mendes and Craig still have high hopes that the film will see the light of day.It does not exactly sound as ...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Books - July 9, 2010 Author: Ben Child Tags: James Bond Film Daniel Craig Ian Fleming Sam Mendes Culture Action and adventure guardian.co.uk News

Last Week in FRBR #28
Have you been trying RDA Online? Test accounts for RDA Online were set up and log information sent around a couple of weeks ago. Have you tried it? The offer is open until the end of August. I had a short look, but I’ll go back for a longer look and post about it. I didn’t try doing anything with workflows, which is the most important part of it all. Summers, Libraries and Linked Data: Confessions of a Graph Addict Ed Summers (who works at the Library of Congress in the United States) gave a talk on 24 June 2010 at a preconference session on linked data before the American Library Association conference: Librar...
Source: The FRBR Blog - July 9, 2010 Author: William Denton

Map of Woes
The Losing Libraries blog has a mashup available that shows a map detailing libraries currently suffering fiscal troubles: The Big (Awful) Picture Libraries are labeled for staff layoffs/furloughs, branch closures, reduced hours and more.  It is a sobering visual representation of the scope of the problems facing communities. And there will be even more markers as time goes on… that is the worst part. Thanks to Petter Naess for posting this to Web4lib
Source: LibrarySupportStaff.Org - July 7, 2010 Author: Rick Mason Tags: Uncategorized

map showing public library closings
I believe I recently (past 10 days) saw a Google Maps mashup showing public library closings across the U.S., but now I can't find it. Ring a bell with anyone? I'm aware of the A Nation Without School Librarians mashup, but I thought I'd seen something comparable for public libraries. Thanks in advance for any advice. Petter Næss Information Resource Director American Embassy Office of Public Affairs Henrik Ibsens gate 48 0244 Oslo, Norway 47 21308802 fax 47 22440436 naessp-ZM7Pm/iYlqnyG1zEObXtfA< at >public.gmane.org <mailto:naessp-ZM7Pm/iYlqnyG1zEObXtfA< at >public.gmane.org> <mailto:naessp-ZM...
Source: gmane.education.web4lib - July 7, 2010 Author: Naess, Petter

Nasce JLIS.it, rivista italiana di LIS peer reviewed e Open Access
E’ online il primo, attesissimo numero della nuova rivista di biblioteconomia e information science, JLis.it: e-journal italiano peer reviewed e completamente open access. Il first issue si compone di diversi, interessanti articoli (immeritatamente ce n’è anche uno mio: I mashup e le biblioteche: le tecnologie dietro le quinte, ovvero la versione italiana del capitolo sulle tecnologie alla base dei mashup pubblicato nel volume Library mashups). JLis.it è il risultato del lavoro, della creatività e del grande impegno sull’Open Access in primis di Mauro Guerrini, presidente AIB, e dei suoi valenti collab...
Source: The Geek Librarian - June 27, 2010 Author: bonaria Tags: Copyright - Copyleft E-journals Library OAI-PMH Open Access Open Source accesso aperto mauro guerrini cilea jlis.it peer review

Bibliothekssterben via Mashup dokumentiert
Das Library Journal meldet: In an effort to map and chronicle the full range of cuts, closings, and diminished library services nationally, Library Journal, in partnership with Mandy Knapp and Laura Solomon (contributing author and web designer of SaveOhioLibraries.com, has launched LosingLibraries.org. Interessante Umsetzung!
Source: netbib weblog - June 26, 2010 Author: jplie Tags: Bibliothek Bibliothekssterben mashup usa

June 25th Stream
@JustinLibrarian #ala10 #twitter stickers for badges are at registration and the networking uncommons. or flag me down-I carry a few with me [shifted] @JustinLibrarian w00t! I’ll be there for EL poster session at 3pm in room 201 of wcc. can’t wait to see JBots in action! u all rock! #ala10 [shifted] Posted JustinLibrarian: @shifted @mstephens7 Sunday 1pm at on-site registration..JBots group photo! #ala10 #el10ala. @stray it’s like lord of the flies to get the hello kitty totebag.… [shifted] we’re set up for the #ala10 Open Gaming Night in th...
Source: The Shifted Librarian - June 26, 2010 Author: jenny Tags: Lifestream

Restless Cities edited by Matthew Beaumont and Gregory Dart | Book review
PD Smith enjoys a stroll through the ever-changing spaces of urban lifeMarco Polo, the narrator of Italo Calvino's Invisible Cities, does not attempt to describe the city of Zaira by simply listing the number of steps in its streets that rise like stairways, or the precise type of zinc tiles used on its roofs. He knows that mere facts alone are not sufficient. For Zaira, like all great cities, consists of "relationships between the measurements of its space and the events of its past". Monuments, city squares, even street names are dense with memories and recollections: the city is a place of living history, a mashup of pa...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Books - June 25, 2010 Author: PD Smith Tags: Books Culture Society The Guardian Reviews

Real time map information of London Underground – unbelievably cool!
Not strictly ebook related, but this is so unbelievably cool that I just had to bring it to your attention. From Resource Shelf: Here’s one of the cooler (and practical) mashups we’ve seen in a long time. While there are several services that map where an aircraft is located at any given moment in time (with a brief delay), here’s an example of the same type of thing for public transport in London, UK. Many public transit services around the world offer near real-time bus and train info with text, this new service shows users precisely where a train is (using a Google map) in the London Underground system at at any ...
Source: TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home - June 25, 2010 Author: Paul Biba Tags: Paul Biba London Underground map Resource Shelf