Facebook is everywhere. Everyone uses Facebook. If you're not on Facebook, you're either rebelling or living in a cave. Or both. So, what better platform is
Today, the Southeastern Conference (SEC) is expected to release a final version of its new media policy. For the sake of sports fans everywhere, let’s hope
Yes, you Facebook addicts. The app for Android will be out soon.
Alright, obviously this news is a little tamer than an iPhone app that judges your performance in the bed, Google’s official Google Voice app being rejected by Apple or AT&T doing something good in the world, but it is important nonetheless.
An announcement of a forthcoming meeting
“Where Content Management Meets Social Media” is the focus of the fifth annual Gilbane Boston Conference, set to take place December 2-4, 2008, at the Westin Copley Place in Boston.
The event’s purpose is to help organizations better understand how to address rapidly growing and increasingly diverse collections of content by implementing the latest technologies to create, manage, share and deliver richer content more easily, sometimes cheaper — and often quicker.
SOPAC (Social Online Public Access Catalog) is a module for the Drupal CMS that provides true integration of your library catalog system with the power of the Drupal content management system while allowing users to tag, rate, and review your holdings. User input is then incorporated into the discovery index so that SOPAC becomes a truly community-driven catalog system. Other features include:
* Faceted browsing
* Ajax-empowered interface with native jQuery support
* 100% customizable interface via the Drupal template system
* Ability to remove search limiters
* Saved searches
* Integrated renewals, holds placement, and fine payment
* Ability to customize the user experience via the administrative control panel
* Ability to create custom functionality via a Drupal sub-module
Because SOPAC depends on Locum to connect to your integrated library system, it has the potential to work with any ILS.
What is Locum?
Locum is a PHP software library that does two things:
First, it creates an abstraction layer between your ILS and any PHP application you wish to build on top of it. 'Connector' pieces can be developed so that Locum will operate with any ILS. This will allow application developers to write programs that will work in any library running locum, regardless of what ILS they are using.
Second, Locum provides a bibliographic discovery layer and interface to the open source full-text indexing engine Sphinx. This gives Locum the power to not only provide an open transactional interface with your ILS, but a very powerful, external index of your holdings an open RDBMS--MySQL.
What is Insurge?
Insurge allows developers to associate interactive social data with bibliographic records. You could say that Insurge puts the "S" in SOPAC. It provides the programmatic mechanism and social storage facility to any application built on top of it.
Insurge also allows developers to harness the power of a repository of social data that can be imported via Locum and displayed via applications like SOPAC to bolster local bibliographic social data sets.
So-called "friend sites" are wising up to wireless. Before long, everyone's cell phone might make space for MySpace. This is an excelent article from the business week. A bit outdated though.
This browser add-on makes it easier to connect with friends around books, music, movies, restaurants, stocks, wine and more. Glue automatically appears on Amazon, Last.fm, Netflix, Yahoo! Finance, Wine.com, Citysearch and hundreds of other popular sites to show friends who looked at the same thing and what they thought.
S. Ioannidis, and A. Chaintreau. SNS '09: Proceedings of the Second ACM EuroSys Workshop on Social Network Systems, page 19--25. New York, NY, USA, ACM, (2009)