Thursday, May 31, 2007
Wednesday, May 30, 2007
O'Reilly Radar
O'Reilly Radar
seems like excellent source for late-breaking IT news. Someone just posted here an announcement about a new feature of Google maps: Streetside View based ImmersiveMedia technology, where you can get a human-scale view of walking down the street as featured in a Google map̮
seems like excellent source for late-breaking IT news. Someone just posted here an announcement about a new feature of Google maps: Streetside View based ImmersiveMedia technology, where you can get a human-scale view of walking down the street as featured in a Google map̮
Monday, May 28, 2007
OPAC 2.0 discussion at Yale
I'm hoping to get a wider discussion going about functional requirements for Yale's "next generation OPAC". This discussion paper in Sakai might be a start. The requirements table in particular could lend itself to communal effort [but note that the deeplinks in classesV2 don't quite make it through all the way].
Google Gadgets, Cold Fusion, and Adam Brin
Mike Cunningham writes about "Getting Stuff into the OPAC", specifically by using ColdFusion, javascript, the MARC 970 field, and DOM. He credits Adam Brin at Bryn Mawr, i.e., the devloper of the "Search Triad" Google gadget, with providing some useful tips. Here's the Google Gadgets API.
Sunday, May 27, 2007
Saturday, May 26, 2007
Steve Ettlinger Deconstructs the Twinki
Cited by LIS News, Steve Ettlinger interviewed by Moira Gunn at IT Conversations. Ettlinger is author of Twinkie, Deconstructed.