LibConf.com from Information Today

Visionary and funny man, Stephen Abram first set the scenario with all the things that Google’s announced lately and its MANY initiatives – scary stuff! The company has bought 6 social networking companies. We let them read our e-mail and tell us what we want. Soon, Google will control all the ads, all the wallets, [...]

A panel of engineers from A9.com, Google, and Yahoo! gave attendees a look at recent developments and some future plans for the search engines. DeWitt Clinton of A9.com, which is a subsidiary of Amazon, focused on the OpenSearch feature, introduced in March 2005. He says it basically offers a common format (currently RSS but in [...]

I found this Flickr picture of Groxis pins, in case anybody didn’t know what I was talking about in my Beyond Search Engines post earlier. Marydee Ojala Editor, ONLINE: The Leading Magazine for Information Professionals IL05

Many of us were disappointed last night during the Google-brary panel that Barbara Quint’s telephone contributions were so faint. So, she obligingly sent me some notes to post with her take on the topic at hand—here’s her year 2020 scenario. Way back in 2006, Google — irritated at those lawsuits from the Authors Guild and [...]

Check out Steven Cohen’s movie of the light pen show in the yesterday’s blog & wiki session.