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Thursday, August 11, 2011
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SearchTeam: Collaborative Asynchronous Searching
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by Greg R. Notess
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Zakta launched a new collaborative search site, SearchTeam.com, on July 12. Proposing to "search the web together with people you trust," SearchTeam lets groups of searchers save results, add notes, modify results, "like" specific hits, and share results with others. Rather than requiring that the entire team (or group of collaborators) be online at the same time, SearchTeam is asynchronous, letting each team member save results, annotate them, and even upload files to share with others. As described in the SearchTeam FAQ, searchers can create a SearchSpace for gathering and organizing search results for each topic. "You can find and save only what you want while you are searching and throw away what you don't want or find irrelevant. You can automatically organize what you save, into folders of your choosing."
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bitly Acquires Twitterfeed
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The bitly service helps web users collect, organize, shorten, and share links. It is available via its website, browser extensions, mobile web, and numerous third-party tools integrated with its open public API. All links shared via bitly allow users to view complete real-time traffic and analytics data. It also powers more than 10,000 custom short URLs and offers an enterprise analytics service that helps web publishers and brands grow their social media traffic. For years, it has worked closely with Twitterfeed to enhance its social media publishing tools by integrating bitly's branded short links and real-time data. Now bitly has acquired Twitterfeed.
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EBSCO Discovery Service Reachable via Innovative Interface’s Encore
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Mutual customers of the Encore Synergy discovery feature from Innovative Interfaces and EBSCO Publishing's EBSCO Discovery Service will have an API from Innovative to improve accessibility and usability for customers requesting various ports of entry into EBSCO Discovery Service (EDS) and EBSCO Publishing. The two companies are working to develop improved access into these resources via Innovative's Encore discovery platform. The result of the partnership is a smarter experience for mutual customers and library users who begin their search from Encore. EDS will be available via a dedicated API with enhanced functionality.
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Social Media Features Included in New AccuWeather for Android App
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AccuWeather an AccuWeather for Android application for Android phones. In addition to the forecasts updated hourly, interactive Google Maps, and weather in 23 languages, AccuWeather for Android has customizable color themes and the ability to share forecasts via the social media applications users have installed on their Android phone.
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Inmagic’s New Idea Management System for Collaborative Innovation
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by Paula J. Hane
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Idea management systems are one way to approach innovation and product development. They provide a structured and disciplined approach for managing idea generation, capture, collaboration, assessment, implementation, and outcome monitoring. In 2010, Gartner's Emerging Tech Hype Cycle put the technology as being 2-5 years from mainstream adoption. I hadn't really paid much attention to this category until the recent announcement by Inmagic of IdeaNet, its "next-generation innovation application," powered by Inmagic Presto.
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