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Search 2.0 vs Traditional Search, Part 2. Written by Ebrahim Ezzy and edited by Richard MacManus. Ebrahim is lead developer and co-founder of Qelix Technologies, the company behind a search 2.0 contender called Qube. This is the second in a 2-part series of posts. In our previous post we coined the term "Search 2.0", in order to compare third-generation search technologies (of, or pertaining to, the current era of social web) with traditional search engines - to see where the future of search lies. Even if some of the startups we're profiling in this series may not survive the next Internet bust, the underlying ideas are evolutionary and have proven to be effective so far.

We think the ideas showcased by these new social search apps are worth embracing, to ensure the future growth of the search industry. And, as we note at the end of this post, the big search companies (Google, Yahoo, Microsoft) think so too... Here then are some further profiles of search 2.0 apps, followed by our analysis of where the search industry is headed. Google Labs Relaunches With Two New Must-See Projects. Google Labs, the company's experimental playground where users can test out new features, has been quiet lately with the exception of Gmail Labs. This is unusual, especially for a company that prides itself on innovation and its famous 20 percent rule.

But it seems that Google's been hard at work behind the scenes. Today, they announced a relaunched Google Labs, moving it to a new domain and rebuilding it on Google App engine. In addition to the relaunch, Google has released two new Google Labs features: Similar Images and Google News Timeline. Here's a quick overview of the new features, as well as the relaunched Google Labs: Similar Images: Image Recognition in Image Search The first new project that Google is touting is Similar Images, which uses image recognition technology to help you filter and organize image search results.

Similar Images fixes this problem. If you can't think of the exact words to search for, this feature could be a boon. The Google Labs Makeover. Kwout | A brilliant way to quote. Mining the Web 2.0 for Better Search. Checkser.com. TradeVibes - Discover find and share information about new top startups and companies. The Quintessential Guide to Job Search 2.0. 43 Things. Emerging Top 100 Tools for Learning 2010.

Emerging Top 100 Tools for Learning 2010. Web 2.0 ja Jyväskylän yliopisto. "On se vaan ihmeellistä!" Skout. ControlC. Copy and share documents. Conrad Hametner is passionate about globalizing technology and building forward thinking companies to address consumer and community needs. He has been called an “all-around executive athlete,” experienced in Marketing, Business Development and Operations.

Conrad is also known by many foreign companies as “our man in the US” for his ability to launch technologies into US markets. He honed his business skills while working for technology companies with roots in Asia, Europe and the United States. Conrad led the US effort to build the French-based Qipit service, recognized by Red Herring as a top 100 "Most Promising" European private technology companies to drive the future of technology. As head of Consumer Marketing, Conrad helped launch the Qipit patented technology that turns a camera phone into a mobile copy center enabling users to scan, copy, and fax from anywhere. This core technology enriches the lives of millions of consumers on over 100 million handsets globally.

The Freelancer's Toolset: 100 Web Apps for Everything You Will Possibly Need. Posted by nitzan on Thursday, May 10th, 2007 Running a business for yourself means you have to be inventive and always on the lookout for a new and better way to get things done. Innovation junkies, take note: the Internet has a lot to offer.

From invoicing to marketing, these are tools that freelancers need to know about. Organization If you’re busy with lots of client work, it’s easy for things to get out of hand. Don’t let your work get away from you; organize information and projects with these tools. Backpack: Get your projects organized by using Backpack.

Calendars & To-Do Lists Client meetings, important events and a never-ending list of things to do can wear you down if you can’t make them manageable. Your Money Money is what keeps your freelance business going, but managing it can be tedious and time consuming. InstaCalc: InstaCalc is a web based calculator with lots of bells and whistles including spreadsheet capabilities, unit conversions and programming commands. Storage. The Best Places To Learn Web 2.0 Basics — 2007. When it comes to technology, I’m not the sharpest knife in the drawer (not to mention being sort of a Luddite).

I need things very, very simple. I thought it would be helpful to a list of the sites that I’ve found most helpful and accessible in explaining how to use key Web 2.0 tools like blogs, wikis, Flickr, social bookmarking, RSS readers, etc. You can also find links to the sites I list here, and many more, on the Teachers’ Page on my website. There are three sites that I think stand above all the others. They all provide very understandable step-by-step explanations for a variety of key tools. And I think all three are equally good. One is Sue Waters’ Mobile Technology In TAFE Wiki. It would probably be okay to stop reading right here, since these three sites more than likely can provide you with all the information you need.

However, there are a few more excellent resources you might want to check-out if you have the time. Other sites have good resources for specific tools. ). Related. Best Web 2.0 Applications for Elementary School | Langwitches. Thanks to an amazing list of “The Best Web 2.o Application for Education-2007” from Larry Ferlazzo’s Website, I decided to create my own list of the applications that have been the most useful or promising in the Elementary School scene. Maybe I even make a meme out of it to encourage other elementary school techies to create their own lists and publish them on their blog. The list does not have to be in any particular order. Great if you write a short sentence about what the tool does. AnimotoCreate your own music video, simply by uploading your own images and selecting music. + Students LOVED seeing themselves on the video. – Limit of 30 secondsSlide.com Create your own slideshow, then embed in your classroom blog.Slideshare Upload your students’ or your own powerpoint files in order to embed them on your classroom blogLunapicWeb based image editor.

Here are your simple meme instructions: Kim Cofino, Melanie Hartsman, Tim Lauer, Anna Adams, Helen Mowers, Elizabeth Helfant Like this: 2008 Web Predictions - ReadWriteWeb. What Web applications and trends will make it big in 2008? In this post the RWW authors ruminate on the current trends in Web technology and look forward to what 2008 might bring us. Topics include Google, semantic web, online advertising, recommendation systems, Facebook, digg, open standards, Mobile Web, search engines, and much more! So check out our predictions for '08 and please contribute your own in the comments. Also you may want to review our track record for 2007 Web predictions. Richard MacManus, Editor, ReadWriteWeb: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. Marshall Kirkpatrick, Lead Writer, ReadWriteWeb: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. Josh Catone, Lead Writer, ReadWriteWeb: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6.

Alex Iskold, Feature Writer, ReadWriteWeb: 1. 2008 will be slow and cautious, with the first half dominated by recession or fear of recession. 2. 3. 4. Emre Sokullu, Feature Writer, ReadWriteWeb 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Sean Ammirati, Editor, ReadWriteTalk (our podcast show): 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Conclusion. Fleck. Libris, Firefox och Skype i samarbete. BeenVerified. The Alphabetizer. Yahoo! Releases Shortcuts Wordpress Plugin. Yahoo! Has released a new plugin for Wordpress that adds its "Shortcuts" search popups to blog content. Shortcuts are informational popups that operate similarly to Snap's SnapShots and AdaptiveBlue's SmartLinks. The key difference is that Yahoo! 's implementation is seeded with Yahoo!

Content. The Wordpress plugin route may limit the potential user base of Yahoo! Shortcuts, but it provides bloggers with more control over how the popups are implemented in each post. The plugin automatically scans the text of a post before publishing and alerts the blogger to how many Shortcuts have been located. The Shortcuts plugin currently supports maps, financial info, products, autos, news, and web search. The plugin also ties in another Yahoo! Online Information 2007. AppJet: Instant Web Programming. Phil Bradley's weblog: Top 10 Useful Web Tools. It's our tree. Press. My Online Information Keynote. Roo Reynolds - What’s Next? » Blog Archive » Online Information 07 - Day 1. Posted by Roo - 05/12/07 at 10:12:09 am I’m in Olympia this week for Online Information 2007. I’m presenting on Thursday, but until then I’m wandering around and taking notes. Here are some of the sessions I went to on Tuesday. Keynote – Jimmy Wales, Wikipedia Real Work – Euan Semple Real Web 2.0 Benefits – Richard Wallis, Talis Tools Technologies & costs of Web 2.0 – Karen Blakeman , RBARSS: The Glue of Enterprise 2.0 – Andre Bonvanie, NewsGator First, some random observations: Olympia is big.The Wifi at the conference sucks mightily.

Jimmy Wales, Wikipedia and Wikia founder, gave the opening keynote. How is Wikipedia funded? In pointing out that it’s free as in speech (not just as in beer), he said the existing Wikipedia license, the Free Documentation License pre-dates the Creative Commons license and is "not really compatible" with it. Then he went on to talk about the Wikia project ("building the rest of the library") which is now up to 66 languages. Some of the questions: [Hmm. Study: Web Will Slow by 2010. If you have a fast broadband Internet connection, enjoy it while it's still fast. According to a study by Nemertes Research, video and interactive web sites will begin to overwhelm Internet service providers as early as 2010. "Users will experience a slow, subtle degradation, so it's back to the bad old days of dial-up," Nemertes President Johna Till Johnson told USA Today.

"The cool stuff that you'll want to do will be such a pain in the rear that you won't do it. " According to the report, cable and phone companies, which provide 94% of the United States' broadband access, must invest about $55 billion to upgrade their networks to cope with the coming bottleneck. That is far more than planned, says Nemertes. The biggest upgrades will need to be made in upstream data capacity. Until recently, the web was mainly read-only, and service providers built their networks around downloading. "Two years ago, nobody knew what YouTube was," said Johnson. SuTree - Knowledge Community: Watch. Learn. Share. StumbleUpon. 20+ Customer Management Tools. After all the ways we've shown you how to set up a web business, now it's time to actually manage all of your customers and clients.

This list comprises 20+ customer relations systems to help you provide everyone with better customer service. BatchBlue.com - Designed with small businesses in mind to keep track of customers, vendors and partners. bConnections.com - Focuses on small to medium sized businesses, allows collaboration of the sales force to share info. ConsideredSales.com - A goal and progress oriented customer management solution that tracks your customers through the entire sales process. CRMDesk.com - Offers a web-based, fully hosted solution for both small and large businesses.

Entellium.com - Besides being a CRM solution, it also offers lesson on what exactly CRM can do for your business, and if they aren't the right solution, they will suggest other companies. InsideSales.com - A CRM with built-in dialers so you can just click and call. Oikeita totuuksia. 80+ File Conversion Services And Tools.

Converting files from one to another format can be a complex task, especially because not many users have the necessary tools handy. Here's our collection of online conversion services as well as offline desktop tools which provide an easy way to convert files of various types and formats ranging from images, video to audio. Don’t forget to check out our post where you can suggest future toolbox topics! Code Converter - Code converter is a simple code conversion utility for converting VB to C# and vice versa. Code to HTML converter - Code to HTML converter is an online converter for small files with support for following languages like Plain, Ada.

Online Code Converter - An online code converter for C# and VB.Net conversionOnline Code converter for .Net 2.0. Currency Delaware currency conversion - Delaware currency conversion site allows users to convert popular currency forms. Gocurrency.com - Gocurrency.com allows you to perform currency conversion using the latest exchange rates. Others. 30+ Reminder Services.

We all could use a little help remembering the things we need to get done in life. Luckily there are a lot of sites out there to help you do just that! What follows is a list of 30+ sites to send you emails, text messages, and phone calls to help you get to where you need to be on time and... what was I saying? AbbyMe.com - Send an SMS broadcast to multiple friends at specified times to remind them of events. BigDates.com - Send yourself reminders to your email or phone for all the big dates in your life. BirthdayAlarm.com - Enter birthdays and holidays and receive email reminders for yourself so you don't miss any. bitBomb.com - Schedule texts to go to your phone at the appropriate time to remind you of tasks. Braincast.com - Schedule reminders to go to any US based cell phone or regular phone network. Candor.com - A birthday reminder site that you can set to remind you before the date so you don't forget. FutureMe.org - Send your future self emails, or just use it as a reminder service.

35+ Ways to Find and Plan Events Online. It seems to us that it's conference season all of a sudden. But no matter what events you're trying to track down or plan, there are hundreds of tools to do just that. We've rounded up 35 of them: feel free to add more in the comments. Attend Events Attendio.com - Detects your location and shows you the most popular events for your area, and allows you to enter keywords to search for more.

BandsInTown.com - See what bands are coming to your town and when. BusyTonight.com - A MediaWiki based system for seeing events in major cities by venue, neighborhood and more. Cityfeeds.com - An RSS aggregator of events feeds from many venues to give you one place to look everything up. Down2Night.com - Check out what's happening at the hottest night spots around the United States tonight, mix it up and check places you don't normally hit. Eventful.com - Look up just about any type of event you can think of for your area, and "demand" the ones you would like to see happen. See also: Del.icio.us ohjeet. 1. Mene sivulle ja rekisteröi itsesi palvelun käyttäjäksi 2. Kirjaudu sen jälkeen Del.icio.us palveluun ja tee itsellesi käyttöä helpoittava linkki/painike selaimeesi Se tapahtuu seuraavasti: - varmista ensin että sinulla on selaimessakin aktiivisena kyseinen Toolbar eli mene Firefox > View > Toolbars > Bookmarks Toolbar ja laita kruksi tuon viimeisen kohdalle ellei siinä sellaista jo ole ja sama Explorerilla View > Toolbars > Links ja kruksi Links kohtaan - sen jälkeen mene osoitteeseen 3.

HUOM Tuo ylläkuvattu vedä ja pudota toimintatapa on mahdollinen vain Firefoxissa. 4. 5. ja pääset liittämään sivun del.icio.us kirjanmerkkeihisi: Sivun nettiosoite ja kuvaus tulevat (ainakin kun käytät Firefox selainta, joissakin vanhoissa Explorer selaimissa joudut lisäämään ne itse) automaattisesti. Huom tämän kurssin yhteinen tagi on intiakurssi . Del.icio.us A-to-Z.

Jiibe - Does Your Company Jiibe? Exploratree. DreamFace Interactive.