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DomainTools Unveils Screenshots.com, a Web Archive of Over 250 Million Historical Website Screenshot Images
By launching on the premium domain name Screenshots.com, DomainTools is able to feature this important content in a more functional way for users that are specifically interested in home page archives. Seattle, WA (PRWEB) December 06, 2011 DomainTools, the recognized leader in domain name research and monitoring , today launched Screenshots.com , a website that allows users to view screenshots of what a website looks like now and throughout its history. Screenshots.com provides a web archive of images and data sets that can be used for discovering and evaluating the history of website homepages. Users can track, and more fully understand, how a website's homepage content has changed in its lifetime. DomainTools has rebuilt the thumbnail engine that for years has provided a visual context to the powerful domain name detail information available at DomainTools.com.<img src="http://www.website- monitoring .eu/wp-content/plugins/wp-o-matic/cache/7f501_111121-problem-loading-page.png” alt=”Problem loading page” title=”Problem loading page” width=”580″ height=”76″ class=”alignnone size-full wp-image-10524″ /> Over the past year, web pages have on average become 25% bigger . We’re not talking about dimensions here, but download size. Based on the top 1,000 websites on the Internet, the average page size has gone from 626 kB to 784 kB. A 25% size increase in just one year is rather drastic.
Website Monitoring News » Blog Archive » Web pages are getting more bloated, and here’s why
By Oscar Valenzuela - bio | email The University of Hawaii's new West Oahu Campus will be home to a unique collection. In addition to it's book collection, the main library will hold thousands of hours of Hawaii's history, all captured on video. A new archives project is currently underway to search for and restore lost and forgotten reels. In 2008 local filmmaker Heather Giugni established Ulu Ulu: The Henry Kuualoha Giugni Moving Image Archive of Hawaii.
New Project Aims to Save Hawaii's Moving Image History
Last Sunday in Montreal, I was part of the panel Digital Anthropology: Projects and Projections organized by Mike and Kim Fortun from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. This post will highlight the groundbreaking projects created by this diverse group of anthropologists. There is a synergy in what is being done, and I want to gather it together in one place online. I’m going to provide a list of people and projects first, and then provide a bit of commentary on the panel itself. Finally, I’ll go over each project, and the accompanying talk, in depth. I know there are other great online projects out there, so please feel free to highlight them in the comments.
Digital Anthropology: Projects and Platforms | Neuroanthropology
Hungry Hobos is expected to fetch £25,000 at auction next month Its whereabouts have been unknown since before World War II Five-minute silent cartoon was last to feature Oswald the Lucky Rabbit before he was turned into Mickey Mouse By Graham Smith UPDATED: 16:14 GMT, 28 November 2011 A long-lost Disney cartoon that features a character who was the prototype for Mickey Mouse has been discovered in a British film archive.
Rare Disney rabbit who later became Mickey Mouse is unearthed in black and white film from 1928
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TNN Dec 3, 2011, 09.14AM IST Chennai: Actor Kamal Haasan has requested the state and Centre to provide funds to improve the digital archival library in the state. This would help preserve old and rare movies . The digital library was set up by FICCI and has around 3,500 films in all Indian languages .
Kamal seeks govt funds for digital archive library - The Times of India
We’re excited to announce development of a new tool to automate the selection of websites for archiving: the Twittervane. At the moment, our selection process is manual, dependent upon internal subject specialists or external experts to contact us and nominate websites for archiving in the UK Web Archive. We benefit from their expertise and wouldn’t be without it, but we recognise that this manual selection process can sometimes be time consuming for frequent selectors. It’s also inevitably subjective, reflecting the interests of a relatively small number of selectors. Automated selection is an efficient and under-utilised alternative, but up until now it has been difficult to see how an automated approach could clearly identify the most popular and widely relevant websites.
Twittervane: Crowdsourcing selection - UK Web Archive Blog
Eighth Italian Research Conference on Digital Libraries, Bari, Italy [Date: 2011-11-28] The Eighth Italian Research Conference on Digital Libraries will take place from 9 to 10 February 2012 in Bari, Italy. A digital library is a library in which collections are stored in digital formats and may be accessed either locally or remotely. This type of library has a variety of uses.