Both Google and Yahoo provide a year-end summary of the types of searches done throughout the year. Most of the summaries provide little new, but bringing it all together allows you to consider the year as a whole.
Google’s 2007 Zeitgeist is divided into five major parts:
Overall — fastest rising and fastest falling searches
Newsmakers –most popular, [...]
According to Wired:
Tom Drapeau, AOL’s director of the Netscape brand, announced in a blog post Friday that AOL will cease development on all Netscape web browsers on February 1, 2008. The company will continue to support the current version of the browser, Netscape 9, by releasing patches or security fixes until that date. After February [...]
Ellyssa Kroski has culled the 2,000 extensions for Firefox and provided three lists that can be helpful for librarians and within libraries:
Part One
Part Two
Part Three
There are 40 extensions in each list and they run the gamut — have fun!
[from LibrarianInBlack]
A new LITA guide will be available in early February:
Lehman, Tom and Terry Nikkel. Making Library Web Sites Usable. Neal Schuman, 2008. ISBN 978-1-55570-620-3. 208 pp. $65.
From the LITA Blog:
With clear, non-technical language, Making Library Web Sites Usable breaks down what usability assessments are, why they are important for libraries, why libraries [...]
The Web Standards Project encourages the use of web standards in software used on the web — browsers, in particular. They have a quick way to tell if browsers are supporting the major standards — the Acid 2 test. If you see a happy face, you’re set.
Internet Explorer has been one of the [...]
Researchers at Duke University are trying to speed up data transmission within fiber optic cables, which can now move at about 10gb/s. In addition to the speed, when electricity is converted to light, heat is generated and that has to be dealt with by using something like a cooling fan. When they convert [...]
