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Common Craft has posted another great video on how to use some of the more popular web 2.0 services — this one on Twitter Search.

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Life Magazine Photo Archive

Google Image Search now includes the photo archive from Life Magazine.  Life was known for its photographs and its great that we can see these photos.  They span the 1860s and the Civil War through the 1970s and Mohammed Ali and Joe Frazier.
You can limit your search to just the Life photos by adding “source:life” [...]

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The New York Times has 22,000 of movie reviews dating back to 1924.  In order to get this information out, they’ve created the Movies Reviews API so people can pull those reviews and use them in their own web sites/services.  They hope to provide access to the trailers and movie clipes in the future.
Wouldn’t it [...]

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Google Turns 10

It seems hard to believe that Google has been around for ten years.  They’ve provided a timeline of their history, which includes all the special graphics they’ve used on their search home page through the years as well as milestones and very interesting tidbits about the company itself.  Happy Birthday!
[from The Official Google Blog]

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When the North Carolina State University Libraries integrated their library catalog into their website, I was excited.  Why do we move our patrons to a different interface just to search our collections?
Now, other libraries are following suit and, thanks to Roy Tennant, I’ve seen the cleanest implementation yet at Villanova University.  Only four tabs in the [...]

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Library APIs

Thanks to Roy Tennant!  He’s created a list of library APIs – a great place to start!
[from Catalogablog]

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Encyclopedia Britannica is now providing access to their content free to those who publish on the web.  Called Britannica WebShare, it allows bloggers, webmasters, writers, and editors to use EB at no charge.  When linking to EB, those using those links will be able to go directly to the content.
There is an application form and [...]

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To answer a question frequently asked of Google — how can webmasters raise their rank in a Google search — they’ve given us some pointers.  

Ensure that all critical content is reachable
Ensure that content is readable
Ensure that content is available in reading order
Supplement all visual content

They also make the statement that and accessible web site [...]

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The Association of Research Libraries has posted a very detailed summary of the settlement which focuses on the library issues.  Remember that this has not yet been approved by the courts.
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Through Google Book Search, Google had been providing snippets of copyrighted materials for their users.  As a result, they were sued both by the Authors [...]

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Do you have materials in your library that are falling apart or are at-risk?  The University of North Texas has received a grant from the Summerlee Foundation to help rescue them.  The grant, Rescuing Texas History through the Digitization of At-Risk Photographs and Maps, will providing funding to digitize these materials and make them available through [...]

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