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Consumer Information RSS FeedsAfternoon Buzz ? July 30, 2010 - Oh Fed nerds! Check out http://www.federalregister.gov/. In the last Morning Buzz I mentioned that Google was experiencing some delays getting the e-mail system for the city of Los Angeles in place. Later in the day Google announced Google Apps for Government. Twitter is going to start showing videos and photos in the stream? I can [ ]...Feed Source: feedproxy.google.com Ask.com Going Back to Its Roots - Ask.com formerly Ask Jeeves, formerly all kinds of different things, announced yesterday the new Ask.com, which is currently available in “public beta.” I put that in quotes because the mention of public beta in the announcement is followed by “Now available on an invite-only basis (you can request your invite here), the capability to pose [ ]... Google Images Gets a Revamp - I don’t do a lot of image searching nowadays unless I’m looking for a logo or I’m trying to win a bet about sloth toes. (Really, really long story.) But I was intrigued when I read that Google had updated its image search and found the results pretty interesting. (I was also interested to note [ ]... Footnote Teams With Lowcountry Africana for Historical Records Collection - This is great. Footnote.com and Lowcountry Africana announced on Monday that they had teamed up to launch a new free collection of historical records from the South Carolina Department of Archives and History. This new collection contains estate inventories and bills of sale for Colonial and Charleston, South Carolina, 1732-1862. You can browse the new [ ]... Digital Atlas of Historical County Boundaries - Thanks very much to DK of the Newberry Library, who was kind enough to drop me a note about the recently-completed Digital Atlas of Historical County Boundaries from the Newberry Library. This atlas is organized by state and documents every change in US counties from 1634 to 2000. This makes my little genealogist heart go [ ]... Morning Buzz ? July 26, 2010 - Google has missed its deadline to switch Los Angeles to the Google e-mail system. “Since winning a battle for the contract with rival Microsoft Corp. last year, Google has run into roadblocks at the Los Angeles Police Department, which has strict rules about the way its data is secured.” http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-google-la-20100724,0,4379217.story. Nifty! Using Flickr photos as [ ]... Morning Buzz ? July 3, 2010 - Hooray! Opera has delivered the final version of Opera 10.6. Google Scholar has a new feature: searching within citing articles. More tools from Wolfram|Alpha: calculating degree days. Cleveland Jewish News has launched its archive, it covers 45 years and access cost depends on whether you’re already a subscriber or not. The site also launched an [ ]... Tracking Social Media Case Studies With a Moose - Need some help with social media for your business? Wondering what other companies in your sector are doing or what tactics they’re trying? Check out Moose Tracker, a Web site that gathers and sorts social media case studies in two dozen categories. At the moment there are over 600 sorted case studies on the site, [ ]... Morning Buzz ? July 2, 2010 - Check out this very cool and huge infographic: How Google Works. Cornell’s Engineering Library to be updated — by having all the print materials removed. Um, what? Happy birthday to the Google Maps API! It has turned 5. Yahoo has launched Yahoo Mail and Yahoo Messenger apps for Android, which is interesting and tangled. YouTube [ ]... New Dictionaries from WebFinance - I got a note from the folks at WebFinance letting me know that they’ve launched a bunch of new dictionaries within the last few months. You can get a full list of the dictionaries available at http://www.businessdictionary.com/aboutus.php, but here’s a list of some highlights. InvestorWords.com — Over 7500 words relating to finance and investing with [ ]... Copyright © 2010, 795hosting-TopLinks. All Rights Reserved. |