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Weekly News Digest
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January 21, 2025 — In addition to this week's NewsBreaks article and the monthly NewsLink Spotlight, Information Today, Inc. (ITI) offers Weekly News Digests that feature recent product news and company announcements. Watch for additional coverage to appear in the next print issue of Information Today.
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Bluesky May Soon Offer an Alternative to Instagram
Sarah Perez writes the following in “Bluesky Is Getting Its Own Photo-Sharing App, Flashes” for TechCrunch:More good news for those looking to exit Meta’s social app ecosystem in favor of a more open alternative: An independent developer is building a photo-sharing app for Bluesky called Flashes. The soon-to-launch app is powered by the same technology that underpins Bluesky, the AT Protocol, and has been built using code from the developer’s earlier Bluesky client, Skeets. When launched, Flashes could tap into growing consumer demand for alternatives to Big Tech’s social media monopoly. This trend has led to the adoption of open source, decentralized apps like Mastodon and Bluesky, among others, including the recently launched Pixelfed mobile apps, built on ActivityPub protocol, also used by Mastodon. For more information, read the article.
SOLUS Integrates hoopla Digital Content Into Its Library App
hoopla Digital partnered with SOLUS’ Library App to integrate hoopla’s content collection into online public library catalogs. “This integration delivers an intuitive experience, allowing library patrons to effortlessly discover and borrow from hoopla’s millions of titles, including audiobooks, eBooks, comics and manga, music, movies, television, and more with BingePass,” the press release states. The Library App is available in all hoopla markets.For more information, read the press release.
SOLUS Integration Enables hoopla Digital Content in TLC's Library App
The Library Corp. (TLC) introduced “a new hoopla Digital integration for TLC•Go!, its mobile app for libraries. This integration is available following a recent partnership between hoopla Digital and SOLUS, to bring the expansive hoopla content collection to TLC libraries using the SOLUS-based mobile app. Libraries with the app can extend access to hoopla’s millions of titles to their patrons—directly from the app, including audiobooks, eBooks, comics and manga, music, movies, television, and more with BingePass.” TLC•Go! is compatible with all of TLC’s ILS options.For more information, read the press release.
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