Image via Wikipedia Doomsday for 2009 is … Saturday. Mary Ellen Bates says goodbye to several Google apps, and ponders Microsoft’s persistent relevance. I’ll miss Google Notebook, myself. Better ways to run a workshop. And some damn fine YouTube examples of Patrick McGoohan at work. Chris Blattman summarizes Rapture indicators from The Rapture Index site: …
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Keeping Found Things Found
A web site focused on collecting and managing personal information, from the U of Washington I-School, with some help from Msft. I haven’t compared their publications list with our syllabus to see if there’s any overlap. Keeping Found Things Found “The classic problem of information retrieval, simply put, is to help people find the relatively …
Carrot2, a clustering search engine
Mary Ellen Bates raves about Carrot2 in her latest InfoTip newsletter. Carrot2 clusters search results, much as Clusty.com does. Carrot2 differs in that it’s using a Swiss meta search engine, etools.ch, as the basis for its initial group of search results, while Clusty uses US-based meta search engines. Both the Carrot2 and Clusty home pages …
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