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Monday, November 22, 2010
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HTML5-Powered E-Readers for the Browser
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by Paula J. Hane
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Starbucks recently announced the launch of its Starbucks Digital Network, in partnership with Yahoo! The offer of free Wi-Fi in its U.S. stores caught my eye, but I was even more interested in the free content (some normally subscription-based), which was billed as a "collection of hand-picked premium news, entertainment, and lifestyle content along with local insights and events." But wait, there was even more hidden in the press release: There were free ebooks from major publishers, courtesy of the Bookish Reading Club and New Word City. But here's the sentence that propelled me to investigate this matter further for this article: "A new HTML5 reader, powered by SkyShelf from LibreDigital, allows customers to read books in the browser on their laptops, tablets and many smartphones."
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SirsiDynix Launches BookMyne 2.0 iPhone Application
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SirsiDynix, a provider of library automation solutions, announced the 2.0 release of the BookMyne iPhone application. BookMyne features mobile access to in-demand library information, holdings, and services.
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The British Library Adds 12 Million Records to WorldCat
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OCLC announced that The British Library (BL) added 12 million bibliographic records to WorldCat. OCLC staff worked closely with BL staff to add the records over a 4-month project. As a result of the cooperative effort, OCLC and BL enhanced the process to add these valuable records to WorldCat for the benefit of researchers worldwide.
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All-New ProQuest Platform Goes Live—In France
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France's Université Lumière Lyon II has migrated to the all-new ProQuest platform, making it the first institution to enable students and faculty to search, discover, gather, and share content using the new technology. Users are able to access all the university's ProQuest resources in a single, unified search—on campus or remotely—and work with the content using the platform's sophisticated tools. Université Lumière Lyon II was among the first wave of ProQuest customers worldwide to preview the platform. Each is setting its own schedule for migration to enable a smooth transition.
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Hallmarks of the New RockMelt Browser—Efficiency and Integration
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by Jill O'Neill
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There has been some level of buzz around the new browser, RockMelt, since Aug. 14, 2009, when a New York Times article referenced Marc Andreeson's complaint that browsers hadn't kept pace with the development of the web in terms of new capabilities of available applications and complex database-driven sites. The Times quoted Andreeson as saying, "There are all kinds of things that you would do differently if you are building a browser from scratch." With such words coming as they did from the developer of early web browsers Mosaic and Netscape, it's worth thinking about what this might mean. What exactly might be done differently?
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