Friday (8/1/08) I attended the GOLD/GALILEO Annual Users Group Conference. This conference gets better and better every year and I think the session offerings get better, too.The keynote speaker was funny and enthusiastic (Cliff Landis) -- always a plus. I attended a session on website redesign, blogging, and the third, on the GALILEO Institutional Repository project.The first session was on website redesign.

Friday (8/1/08) I attended the GOLD/GALILEO Annual Users Group Conference. This conference gets better and better every year and I think the session offerings get better, too.The keynote speaker was funny and enthusiastic (Cliff Landis) -- always a plus. I attended a session on website redesign, blogging, and the third, on the GALILEO Institutional Repository project.The first session was on website redesign.

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Okay, I'm not the biggest twitter fan, but I think this does a good job of explaining how twitter works.

Okay, I'm not the biggest twitter fan, but I think this does a good job of explaining how twitter works.

Most of you know about flickr, the online service to host images and photos. Now that Yahoo owns it, it replaces Yahoo photos. If you used Yahoo photos (as I did) Yahoo just migrated your photos for you right on over to flickr. ;-) If you have a Yahoo account now, but never signed up for a flickr account, you now have a flickr account via your Yahoo login (I think Yahoo needs to promote that more). In addition to simple image (and now video!) hosting, there are all sorts of tools and add-ons to extend flickr. Cool enough, right?

Most of you know about flickr, the online service to host images and photos. Now that Yahoo owns it, it replaces Yahoo photos. If you used Yahoo photos (as I did) Yahoo just migrated your photos for you right on over to flickr. ;-) If you have a Yahoo account now, but never signed up for a flickr account, you now have a flickr account via your Yahoo login (I think Yahoo needs to promote that more). In addition to simple image (and now video!) hosting, there are all sorts of tools and add-ons to extend flickr. Cool enough, right?

So, some folks formerly of google have launched their own search engine, called, cuil. Looks coool, but then half of what I searched didn't even turn up 1 hit. nada. zip. (including me!)Preferences are kind of light -- typing suggestions and safe search. I didn't see any advanced searching features.

So, some folks formerly of google have launched their own search engine, called, cuil. Looks coool, but then half of what I searched didn't even turn up 1 hit. nada. zip. (including me!)Preferences are kind of light -- typing suggestions and safe search. I didn't see any advanced searching features.