GrabMyBooks: A Firefox Add-On For HTML To ePub Conversions & Making Your Own eBooks Now, is it a happy chance that our lack of time has coincided with the mushrooming of productivity tools and apps; more likely its necessity that has been the mother of invention. This catchphrase is summed by the very useful Firefox experimental add-on called GrabMyBooks. GrabMyBooks is your browser based tool that can grab content from any webpage (or the entire webpage itself) and compile it in a very readable ePub format for your digital handhelds or eBook readers. The best thing about GrabMyBooks is that it works right from your browser. You don’t have to go looking for online converters (e.g. BookGlutton) or desktop tools (e.g. Just after you download the Firefox plugin you can put it into action the following three ways to ‘grab’ content. Grab a Selection Selecting text of course, copies only that part into your ePub file. Grab a Link Selecting a link grabs the content that the link points to and helps you to quickly add content when building your ePub file. Grab a Webpage
Référencement Google – 8 Questions/Réponses Avec Matt Cutts Matt Cutts est une source d’information précieuse dès qu’il s’agit d’appréhender toute la complexité du référencement chez Google et d’optimiser un site internet ou un blog pour son moteur de recherche. J’ai sélectionné 8 questions auxquelles il a répondu sur la chaine youtube Google Webmaster et je les ai rapidement traduites ci-dessous. 1. Puis-je utiliser la balise link rel= »canonical » lorsque je publie des articles sur des plusieurs sites? [youtube] Lorsqu’on distribue du contenu sur plusieurs sites, il est recommandé d’utiliser cette balise pour indiquer quelle est la source originelle, lui en donner crédit et ainsi augmenter son PR. 2. [youtube] Google n’utilise pas cette balise dans son algorithme. 3. [youtube] Google apporte à peu près un changement par jour soit une moyenne de 350 à 400 changements dans l’année. 4. [youtube] 5. [youtube] 6.
How Twitter Works as a Q&A App [INFOGRAPHIC] If you think about it, Twitter actually serves as one of the most widely used and engaging Q&A apps. Around 3 million questions are asked on Twitter each month, and the questions range from tech support and product recommendation requests to job and relationship advice, as well as pleas for new music. And the more followers you have, the more likely you are to ask them questions publicly. The below infographic from Q&A service InboxQ contains tons of fun — and valuable — facts about how Twitter is being used by average folks and businesses to ask and answer questions. Twitter, like many modern social media tools, can be just about anything you want to make it. Click image to see larger version. [Source: InboxQ]
Wave As we announced in August 2010, we are not continuing active development of Google Wave as a stand-alone product. Google Wave will be shut down in April 2012. This page details the implication of the turn down process for Google Wave. Stage 1: Google Wave is read-only -- January 31, 2012 In this stage, you will no longer be able to create or edit waves. Marking a wave as read will also not be saved. Robots that try to write to a wave will stop functioning. During this time, you will continue to be able to export your waves using the existing PDF export feature. If you want to continue using Wave, there is an open source project called Walkaround that includes an experimental feature to import all your waves from Google. How Online Education Is Changing the Way We Learn [INFOGRAPHIC]
Positionnement Google: 18 Conseils SEO de Matt Cutts (Vidéos) Aller au contenu Positionnement Google: 18 Conseils SEO de Matt Cutts (Vidéos) Sommaire Si vous souhaitez améliorer votre positionnement sur Google, voici une série de questions auxquelles Matt Cutts répond sur la chaîne Youtube de Google Webmaster. Cet article est le premier d’une série consacrée à l’amélioration du référencement et du positionnement d’un site Internet ou d’un blog sur Google. 1. Google accorde de l’importance à l’autorité du site qui émet les liens plutôt qu’au nombre de liens qui pointent vers un site. 2. Au moment de cette vidéo, Google teste encore cette nouvelle fonctionnalité et il est donc difficile d’apporter une réponse précise. 3. Le cross-linking est envisageable seulement sur un très petit nombre de sites ayant la même thématique. 4. Non, Google analysera tous les liens présents sur la page. 5. 6. 7. La réponse est non.
It’s A Facebook World … Other Social Networks Just Live In It Twice a year (in June and in December), Vincenzo Cosenza creates a “world map of social networks”, showing the dominant social networks by country, based on traffic data gathered from Alexa and Google Trends for Websites. In June 2009, Facebook was already quite big, and at the end of that year its accelerating growth became even more apparent. By December 2010, the map colored bluer than ever. The trend shows no signs of stopping this year. How long until it turns all blue? You can see an animated version of the different maps here. Google propose une site pour son raccourcisseur d’URL Google avait lancé son service de raccourcissement d’URL de goo.gl (le .gl étant l’extension du Groenland), en décembre dernier au sein de la barre d’outils Google et de Feedburner. Depuis, la société a intégré sa technologie dans d’autres produits Google dont Actualité, Blogger, Maps, Picasa Web Albums, et Moderator. Désormais Google donne à son raccourcisseur d’URL goo.gl son propre site Google annonce qu’avec goo.gl, à chaque fois que vous raccourcissez une URL, vous vous protégez des virus, arnaques et spam grâce à la meilleure technologie sur le marché. Avec une connexion au compte Google, le service propose en plus d’avoir accès à des données statistiques concernant ces URL courtes. Vous avez aimé cet article ? Inactif Partager vos lectures sur Facebook exemple : Benjamin a lu : Google propose un site pour son raccourcisseur d'URL sur Begeek.fr Réagir à cet article Vous souhaitez réagir ? Je n'ai pas de comptecréer un compte en 15 secondesCréer un compte Connexion
The 5 Models Of Content Curation Curation has always been an underrated form of creation. The Getty Center in Los Angeles is one of the most frequently visited museums in America – and started as a private art collection from one man (J. Paul Getty) who had a passion for art. Aside from a few well known examples like this one, however, the term curation has rarely been used outside of the world of art … until now. One of the hottest trends in social media right now is content curation – thanks in no small part to the leading efforts of several thought leaders actively promoting the idea. What Is Content Curation? Back in 2009 I published a blog post called the “Manifesto For The Content Curator” which predicted that this role would be one of the fastest growing and most important jobs of the future. Content Curation is a term that describes the act of finding, grouping, organizing or sharing the best and most relevant content on a specific issue. The 5 Models Of Content Curation Additional Posts About Content Curation:
YouTube - Chaîne de UneHistoire One account. All of Google. Sign in to continue to Google AdWords Find my account Forgot password? Sign in with a different account Create account One Google Account for everything Google App, App and Away: Workshop Handout #open4ed #GAS « MASHe Friday (20th May) was our Open for Education event. There was a real buzz as over 100 delegates squeezed into the NeSC to absorb a packed programme of open and free stuff. Once we get the videos from the event up I should do a separate post to highlight some of the best bits. In the meantime below is video and workshop handout from my App, App and Away workshop. Handout This guide was written to support the App, App and Away workshop might be delivered on the 20th May 2011 as part of Open for Education event (unless otherwise stated available under CC-BY-SA). 1. Some more background on Google Docs has been collected by EdTechTeam (CC-BY-SA 3.0) 1.1 What is Google Docs? 1.2 Interactive Overview (with Links to Help Pages): 2. Google service to allow easy customisation of Google products and 3rd party serviceA bit like macros but much moreWritten using a JavaScript syntax but run on Google serversNot just for the coders 2.1 Key resources 3. 4. 5.
Products: Google Browser Use this free Java application to explore the connections between related websites. Try it now! Enter keywords or a URL, and click 'Graph it!' See Getting Started below for more details. Getting Started Make sure you have the latest version of java, at least Java 1.5 Type in your search keywords or a URL, and press "Graph It!" Sample Searches: Infographic: A Look At The Size And Shape Of The Geosocial Universe In 2011 Thanks to Jesse Thomas of interactive design agency JESS3, we now have an updated look at the structure of the geosocial universe as it exists in anno domini 2011. It wasn’t so long ago that the International Astronomical Union booted Pluto out of the solar system or that MySpace was overtaking Yahoo! and Google as the most-visited site in the U.S. Well, a few rotations around the sun later, and the overall shape of the geosocial universe has changed dramatically. New stars have been born and others have been scattered out across the cold recesses of Internet space. As you’ll see, Thomas’ infographic shows the current size of major social networks as well as the other well-known online services we use on a daily basis relative to their peers. Some other notable trends in the geosocial universe, courtesy of JESS3: Mobile: 5.3 billion mobile devices are used worldwide — that’s 77 percent of the world’s populationSmartphones: 21.8 percent of all mobile devices are smartphones.