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Should researchers pay more attention to the Now Web — if we could analyze the “Then Web” against last year’s “Now Web” what would it reveal? I found this fascinating quote today: Simply put, it’s the difference between discovery and search, between the “Now Web” and the “Then Web.” Here’s a more specific analogy: In [...]

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Yugma – The goal of the Yugma Education Program is to enhance collaboration and promote advancing technology to students preparing to enter the 21st century workforce. Yugma enables students, faculty and administration to collaborate and share information in real time using our web-based service. Through this program, an accredited higher education institution can receive up [...]

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Wolfram Alpha - Developed by Wolfram Research, Wolfram Alpha was initially designed with academics in mind. The Independent reports that Wolfram Research’s head, Dr. Stephen Wolfram, has said that his goal is to curate, collect and make use of all the information of acquired by researchers over the years. For example, not only can the tool [...]

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Book Glutton – Embeddable book reader – site launched in January 2008 to allow socially-enhanced online book reading, has just launched a nifty little widget. Now, blog and website owners can embed what amounts to a book club just about anywhere. YouTube About Book Glutton Teleread – Free Ebooks Feedbooks – “Feedbooks is a universal [...]