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Tuesday, February 22, 2011
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Greplin Lets You Find Your Stuff in the Cloud
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by Avi Rappoport
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The new Greplin service is much the same as desktop search, only it indexes and makes searchable online social networking accounts—what some people are calling a "personal cloud." The free version indexes content from accounts on Twitter, Facebook, Gmail, Google Docs & Calendar, Dropbox, and LinkedIn, while the paid versions add other sources and more index space. Simple to install, Greplin works quickly; it just doesn't find one's own posts, email, and documents scattered around the various services, but it posts and documents shared by friends' accounts.
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Crocodoc Announces Embeddable HTML5 Document Viewer
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Crocodoc announced the availability of "the world's first embeddable HTML5 document viewer," which can display high-fidelity documents online (including PDFs, Word docs, PowerPoint, and JPEG) without the need for Flash or third-party plugins. The Crocodoc HTML5 embeddable viewer is available immediately and is free for noncommercial use. A consumer version of Crocodoc is available at crocodoc.com free of charge.
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ResearchGATE Rolls Out New Design and Functionality Updates
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The ResearchGATE network announced "a massive update in the way the platform looks and operates." The new design is intended to make site navigation simpler and more efficient, improving access to the information, and making it easier for users to contribute to the research community. The Boston- and Berlin-based startup reports it has more than 700,000 registered users from nearly 200 countries.
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Google Introduces Google One Pass for Purchasing Digital Content
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At Humboldt University in Berlin on Feb. 16, 2011, Eric Schmidt announced Google One Pass, a service that lets publishers set their own prices and terms for their digital content. With Google One Pass, publishers can maintain direct relationships with their customers and give readers access to digital content across websites and mobile apps.
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Update on Gale—Mobile, Global, and In Context
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by Paula J. Hane
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At the recent ALA Midwinter meeting, I caught up with Nader Qaimari, senior vice president of marketing at Cengage Learning, to talk about recent developments at Gale and get a peek at some forthcoming products. Gale continues to be excited about the streamlined company structure implemented last summer—the integration of Gale and Cengage. Qaimari says it lets the company make content connections and help libraries serve as the conduit to information and textbooks. Other news he was eager to discuss included the company's mobile initiatives, its new Gale World Scholar product line, enhancements to PowerSearch, new administrative tools, and ongoing work on the In Context products.
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