Tag Archives: Google

Google Election Maps

Posted on 1 October 2010 by Rick Mason

The mid-term elections are shaping up to be quite dramatic (although not quite the roller-coaster ride that we had with the 2008 election season). And Google has come up with a new way to visualize the flood of data that … Continue reading →

Posted in Google, Government, History, Maps, Online Services, Politics, Web Design | Tagged 2010 Election, election, Google, Google Maps, Government, History, Politics | Comments Off

How the Digital Revolution Changed Our World

Posted on 24 July 2010 by Rick Mason

An visual chart in the current Newsweek sums up many of the changes we have seen over the past decade: Exactly How Much Are The Times A-Changin’? The categories that are in decline speak volumes: The US Postal Service is … Continue reading →

Posted in Blogs, Books, Google, Government, History, News, Periodicals, Publishing, Statistics, WebSearch | Tagged Blogs, Books, Google, History, News, Newsweek, Publishing, Statistics | Comments Off

gOOGLE Barcode

Posted on 7 October 2009 by Rick Mason

Google is celebrating the 57th anniversary of the first barcode patent by (surprise!) replacing their logo: Having played around with barcodes over the years, I got curious. I printed out the page, plugged in my declawed CueCat, and scanned the … Continue reading →

Posted in Google, History, Libraries | Tagged barcode, Barcodes, CueCat, Google, Google Inc., Libraries, Patents, Technology/Internet | Comments Off

Google Library?

Posted on 27 August 2009 by Rick Mason

As the Google Books settlement works its way to becoming reality, it is becoming apparent that Google Books will be transformed into something very much resembling a library. Think of how this might change our roles in society. found via … Continue reading →

Posted in Books, Google, Libraries, Library 2.0, Search, WebSearch | Tagged Google, Google Books, Google Books settlement, Libraries, Technology/Internet | Comments Off

PLOS Currents : Influenza

Posted on 20 August 2009 by Rick Mason

For those who have been following H1N1 influenza virus news (and those who might expect to get questions about it), the Public Library of Science (PLOS) and Google have launched a new mashup service: PLOS Currents : Influenza is built … Continue reading →

Posted in Google, Government, Libraries, Library 2.0, Medical, News, Online Databases, Online Services, Open Access, Publishing, Search | Tagged Google, Government, H1N1, influenza, mashup, Open Access, Public Library of Science, Swine Flu, Technology/Internet | 1 Comment

Books : A Plan To Scan

Posted on 13 August 2009 by Rick Mason

A very straightforward and readable overview of the issues surrounding Google’s book scanning project appeared in yesterdays Financial Times : Books : A plan to scan. A prime focus of the analysis is the Orphan Works issue, books that fall … Continue reading →

Posted in Books, Copyright, Ethics, Fair Use, Google, Libraries, Library 2.0, Licensing | Tagged Book scanning, Copyright, Digital libraries, Financial Times, Google, Library and information science, Orphan works, United States copyright law | Comments Off

Trends in the WebSphere

Posted on 6 July 2009 by Rick Mason

A couple of news items that signal trends in the way the web will evolve: Internet Explorer has lost a significant amount of market share recently. This is good news in a couple of ways. First, it signals growing diversity … Continue reading →

Posted in News, Open Source, Software, Web Design | Tagged Apple, Chrome, firefox, Google, html, HTML 5, IE6, IE7, IE8, Internet Explorer, Markup languages, Mozilla, Opera, Safari, Technology/Internet, web browser, web browsers;, web standards, XHTML, XHTML 2 | Comments Off

Why HTML 5

Posted on 5 June 2009 by Rick Mason

This has been a busy week; so much so that the previous post, HTML 5, Google Wave, and the Future of the Web was started last weekend, with some editing and additions each day, and them actually posted yesterday. Note … Continue reading →

Posted in Online Services, Web Design | Tagged Google, html, HTML 5, Web Design, web developers, web standards, XHTML | Comments Off

HTML 5, Google Wave, and the Future of the Web

Posted on 4 June 2009 by Rick Mason

Amidst a great many other topics, HTML 5 has been on my mind the past couple of weeks. It started on Tuesday, May 26th, with Kevin Yank posting HTML 5 : Now or Never? on the SitePoint blog. He was … Continue reading →

Posted in Books, Google, Groups, Libraries, Library 2.0, News, Online Services, Open Source, Publishing, Web Design | Tagged collaboration mash-up tool, Facebook, FaceBook/Twitter/Blogging, Google, html, Kevin Yank, Libraries, online meetings, Online Services, Open Source, Sergey Brin, Twitter, Web Amidst, Web Design, web presences | Comments Off

Commencement Speeches by Tech Leaders

Posted on 2 June 2009 by Rick Mason

OnlineColleges.net has a post listing their Top 10 Commencement Speeches for Tech Lovers, containing descriptions and links to speeches given by, among others, Bill Gates (Microsoft), Steve Jobs (Apple), Larry Page (Google), Eric Schmidt (Google), Melissa Mayer (Google), and Ray … Continue reading →

Posted in Blogs | Tagged Apple, Bill Gates, Car Talk, Eric Schmidt, Google, Jessica Merritt, Kelly Sonora, Melissa Mayer, Microsoft, NPR, OnlineColleges.net, Ray Magliozzi, Steve Jobs, Tech Leaders OnlineColleges.net, Tom Magliozzi | Comments Off

Google and Microformats

Posted on 14 May 2009 by Rick Mason

Google has made the jump into supporting Microformats as well as RDFa, calling their implementation “Rich Snippets”! This is great news on several different levels. Semantic markup within web pages provides a way to target searches much more effectively. TechCrunch … Continue reading →

Posted in Google, Libraries, Library 2.0, OPAC, Web Design, WebSearch, XML | Tagged Barack Obama, David Peterson, Google, leader, library web sites, microformats, president, RDFa, Rich Snippets, search engines, SitePoint, smarter search results, TechCrunch, United States | Comments Off

Google Book Search Settlement Links

Posted on 6 May 2009 by Rick Mason

Peter Murray has an incredibly good selection of links about the Google Book Search Settlement on the Disruptive Library Technology Jester blog. Really. Spend some time perusing them.

Posted in Books, Copyright, Fair Use, Google, Government, Libraries, Library 2.0, Online Services, Publishing | Tagged Copyright, Google, Google Books, Peter Murray, Publishing | Comments Off

Google Ventures and Libology

Posted on 31 March 2009 by Rick Mason

Now that Google Ventures has been officially announced, I can go public with my own news: Libology is one of the first group of startup companies which will be receiving Google Ventures funding. I have been in talks with someone … Continue reading →

Posted in Blogs, Google, Humor, News, OCLC, Web Design | Tagged April Fools Day, Google, Google Ventures, Humor, Libology, OCLC | Comments Off

Social Backrub

Posted on 31 March 2009 by Rick Mason

This is just one of my passing thoughts, which I suspect is understood by many, but not necessarily expressed this way: Google’s PageRank is, for all practical purposes, a form of social networking applied to the concept of a particular … Continue reading →

Posted in Google, Search, Web Design, WebSearch | Tagged Google, html, PageRank, social networking, Web Design | Comments Off

A Heavenly Library in Austria

Posted on 10 March 2009 by Rick Mason

Jessamyn posted this link, in an effort to help identify the library. I wasn’t the first to come up with the correct answer, but it was a treat to scan several pages of Google Images containing library frescos before finding … Continue reading →

Posted in Libraries, Photography, WebSearch | Tagged Austria, fresco, Google, Google image search, Heavenly Library, Jessamyn West, Librarian.net, Library | Comments Off

Confusing Assistance with Performance

Posted on 1 March 2009 by Rick Mason

Amazon.com has given in to the Publisher’s Guild on the issue of text-to-speech capabilities in the Kindle 2. In their press release, Amazon states up front that “Kindle 2′s experimental text-to-speech feature is legal: no copy is made, no derivative … Continue reading →

Posted in Audio, Books, Copyright, Fair Use, Google, Licensing, News, OCLC, Publishing | Tagged Amazon, Amazon.com, BookFinder.com Journal, Copyright, copyright law, Fair Use, Google, Google Inc., OCLC, public domain, text-to-speech, writer | Comments Off

Walt Crawford on the Google Books Settlement

Posted on 21 February 2009 by Rick Mason

The March 2009 issue of Walt Crawford’s Cites & Insights is devoted to a 30 page essay on the Google Books settlement. His is an opinion that spans many of the issues : he is at once a writer, fair … Continue reading →

Posted in Books, Copyright, Google, Libraries, Licensing, Publishing | Tagged Cites & Insights, fair use advocate, Google, Google Book settlement, Google Books, Walt Crawford, writer | Comments Off

Google Book Search – Publisher’s Perspective

Posted on 29 January 2009 by Rick Mason

A Fire on the Plain is a post by Peter Brantley of the University of California that relates the essence of conversations he has had with several rightsholders who were part of the Google Book Search negotiations. An exerpt: From … Continue reading →

Posted in Books, Copyright, Google, Libraries | Tagged Copyright, e-audio, e-book, Google, Google Book Search, Libraries, Peter Brantley, University of California | Comments Off

NYT Best Sellers API

Posted on 27 January 2009 by Rick Mason

The New York Times Blog announced today that they have released an API for their Best Sellers list. Library programmers should jump on this. Imagine being able to display information about an item’s rankings – dates, placement, etc. – in … Continue reading →