It’s an often overlooked source, but libraries frequently have access to a lot of databases and research that can cost tens of thousands of dollars to buy. Researching a new market, customer, or channel can be wildly inefficient.
Other iOS6 highlights include the Passbook app for virtual loyalty card organization, Siri enhancements, shared photo libraries and iCloud tabs for shared Safari browser tabs between devices. As hotly anticipated, earlier this week Apple pulled the...
Libraries are using QR codes to facilitate learning via interactive scavenger hunts. I recently spoke at SES New York on best practices for mobile marketing with QR codes. Here's a follow-up crash course on tools, tactics, and best practices to...
Version 3.0 is an all new release that contains new libraries for other languages like PHP, Ruby, and Python. With all the new features Google Analytics has been unrolling since version 3 launched in August, the Google Analytics was in need of a...
A small fraction of the population believes in a true "free market" that follows the laissez-faire model, but the majority of us are glad to have both government resources (public streets, parks, schools, and libraries to name a few) and...
That's certainly different than the approach used by Google Music and Amazon, where users must upload their entire libraries. Google Music is one of several services that have ventured into the legally treacherous realm of cloud music storage and...
Hachette will be making the digitized books available to the national library (Bibliothèque Nationale de France) and other libraries. Google has reached an agreement with France's largest publishing company, Hachette Libre.
I would start with older libraries, colleges, government offices, archives, and used book stores. There are limitless opportunities to create things for your Web site from public information that people will link to.
The Google Books project has scanned over 12 million books, largely thanks to the 40-plus libraries in its Library Projects Partner program. With many major libraries having unique copies of historical texts, partnerships like the one with the...
PushLife created an app for Android and BlackBerry that lets users sync songs from their iTunes or Windows Media Player libraries on their computer to mobile phones. Google has acquired Toronto startup PushLife for a reported $25 million...
JQuery is infamous for having you download complete libraries of scripts you'll never use. In the past, it was often arguable how much your front-end site code impacted your site's usability and SEO. While we all know download time has an effect on...
The Bush II regime was happy to sign a law requiring libraries and bookstores to submit lists of names of people who bought or checked out books on particular topics, complete with an automatic gag order that prevented anyone discussing the order...
We want to see these books have the broadest reach possible -- the books we scan are available for inclusion in Europeana, of which the Florence Library is a founding member, and other digital libraries.
AS3 has better syntax, less hacks, more robust libraries, etc. Marketers have started a petition on Facebook requesting Google AdWords to accept AS3 flash banners. This week i was contacted by a member of a Facebook fan page called "Petition for...
Search now provides access to 4,600 databases worldwide and serves over 2,000 libraries. Serials Solutions has announced the launch of their new and improved 360 Search. The federated search service incorporates technology from WebFeat, which they...
Libraries Here are the new ones: ATM's (Now Over 72,000! Parks Stadium Arenas and Athletic Fields Tourist Attractions (Includes 1.5M Locations! Court Houses City Hall MapQuest has also updated existing categories.
Additionally, they will have agreements with libraries to provide access to Google Books. The Google Book Settlement has finally been revised. There are two main changes that have been made: how the settlement pertains to other countries and...
Today, if you want to access a typical out-of-print book, you have only one choice -- fly to one of a handful of leading libraries in the country and hope to find it in the stacks. Brin closed his editorial with a reminder that books and libraries...
I'm not a software developer, but my husband develops for all sorts of languages, libraries and frameworks, so I asked him what the significance of this SDK is. If you develop applications for the iPhone or for Mac, you now have the ability to...
That means libraries, councils, schools, businesses, government offices, you name it" could be dropped. If you see black avatars on Twitter or blacked out MySpace and Facebook profiles it is not some glitch or virus, but a protest against...
