The future: how will e-books affect libraries and the culture of reading?
How will the e-book industry affect the conventional print-on-paper distribution chain — and what might it mean for libraries?
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Facebook, Linkedin . . . I haven’t got time!
How to manage social networking in your working day.
Facebook versus Google+: is it really a competition?
Google is always an interesting company to watch — but is its Google+ experiment in social networking sufficiently distinctive?
Wikipedia — ten years old!
It has certainly courted notoriety since its implementation and has also received its share of plaudits. Wikipedia was founded on 15 January 2001. What is its future?
You’ve heard of YouTube — are there any similar sites?
If you have ever wondered if there is an alternative to YouTube for sharing videos, read on . . .
Where is the World Wide Web going?
According to a 2010 study published by Wired magazine, the answer is that the World Wide Web is in decline!
Facilitating collaborative work
TitanPad (http://titanpad.com) provides an application for facilitating collaborative working on documents that is independent of operating system. There are several choices, so it is possible to customise to suit different purposes.
New mapping resource
A new project to create and enhance community maps – Open MapQuest – has been launched using data provided by the OpenStreetMap community.
Displaying and linking search results
Pearltrees (http://www.pearltrees.com) offers an attractive way of mapping sites and creating links between sites that you use and wish to pass on to others.