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An In-Depth Look at AOL, Gmail, Hotmail, and Yahoo Email Users – Part 2: Social Media Profiles and Friend Counts

New Stats from Rapleaf In our last post, [An In-Depth Look at AOL, Gmail, Hotmail, and Yahoo Email Users – Part 1: Age and Gender] we analyzed age and gender of AOL, Gmail, Hotmail, and Yahoo users. For this post, we sampled the same 120,000 users and studied their online social media profi...

Semantic Web: Can Your Computer Read a Web Page Without Your Help? Soon it Might

From the Post: Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the Web format, and the organization that keeps the standards of the Web, the World Wide Web Consortium, have recently been promoting the idea of making the Web machine-readable, or a Web of data. What does that mean? After all, at least in one sens...

Twitter Begins Work to Improve Relevance of Trending Topic Searches

A post on the Twitter Blog says that the company is beginning to “experiment” to improve the relevance when you run a search on a trending topic by returning “higher quality” and thereby more useful results. The improvement won’t be very noticeable at first, but thi...

GAO — National Archives: Progress and Risks in Implementing its Electronic Records Archive Initiative

On the Definition of the 21st Century Academic Library

From the Article: “Let’s face it: the library, as a place, is dead,” said Suzanne E. Thorin, dean of libraries at Syracuse University. “Kaput. Finito. And we need to move on to a new concept of what the academic library is.” Thorin prefaced her comments by saying tha...

Digital Preservation: ACM Will Partner with Portico and CLOCKSS for Preservation of Its Digital Library Resources

From an Announcement: ACM (the Association for Computing Machinery) announced today that it is providing its institutional library customers with advanced electronic archiving services to preserve their valuable electronic resources. These services, provided by Portico and CLOCKSS, address the sc...