{"id":30,"date":"2007-05-04T12:28:31","date_gmt":"2007-05-04T16:28:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/hcl20\/2007\/05\/04\/resources-to-explore\/"},"modified":"2012-05-04T00:08:49","modified_gmt":"2012-05-04T04:08:49","slug":"resources-to-explore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hcl20\/2007\/05\/04\/resources-to-explore\/","title":{"rendered":"Resources to Explore"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font size=\"3\"><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><strong>NOTES <\/strong><\/font><\/font><font size=\"3\"><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><strong> <\/strong><\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><font size=\"3\"><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><strong>AJAX<\/strong> &#8211; <\/font><\/font><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/AJAX\"><font size=\"3\" face=\"Times New Roman\">http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/AJAX<\/font><\/a><font size=\"3\"><font face=\"Times New Roman\"> &#8211; makes web pages feel more responsive by exchanging small amounts of data with the server behind the scenes, so that the entire web page does not have to be reloaded each time the user requests a change<br \/>\n<\/font><\/font><\/li>\n<li><font size=\"3\"><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><strong>Browster<\/strong> \u2013<\/font><\/font><a href=\"http:\/\/www.browster.com\/\"><font size=\"3\" face=\"Times New Roman\">http:\/\/www.browster.com<\/font><\/a><font size=\"3\"><font face=\"Times New Roman\"> \u2013Opens up a small browser on a search page allowing user to quickly see if the search result is of further interest<br \/>\n<\/font><\/font><\/li>\n<li><font size=\"3\"><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><strong>Bizmaps<\/strong> \u2013<\/font><\/font><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bizmaps.ie\/\"><font size=\"3\" face=\"Times New Roman\">http:\/\/www.bizmaps.ie<\/font><\/a><font size=\"3\"><font face=\"Times New Roman\"> \u2013a core application framework that supports location-based functionality including address finding, mapping, routing, and proximity searching<br \/>\n<\/font><\/font><\/li>\n<li><font size=\"3\"><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><strong>Camtasia<\/strong> \u2013 <\/font><\/font><a href=\"http:\/\/www.camtasiastudio.com\/\"><font size=\"3\" face=\"Times New Roman\">http:\/\/www.camtasiastudio.com<\/font><\/a><font size=\"3\"><font face=\"Times New Roman\"> \u2013 An application for screen recording, editing and sharing high-quality screen video on the Web, CD-ROM and portable media players, including iPod.<br \/>\n<\/font><\/font><\/li>\n<li><font size=\"3\"><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><strong>Captivate<\/strong> \u2013  <\/font><\/font><a href=\"http:\/\/www.adobe.com\/products\/captivate\/\"><font size=\"3\" face=\"Times New Roman\">http:\/\/www.adobe.com\/products\/captivate<\/font><\/a><font size=\"3\"><font face=\"Times New Roman\"> \u2013 Software to record screen simulations, software demonstrations, and scenario-based training without programming knowledge or multimedia skills<br \/>\n<\/font><\/font><\/li>\n<li><font size=\"3\"><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><strong>Citebite <\/strong>\u2013<\/font><\/font><a href=\"http:\/\/citebite.com\/--allows\"><font size=\"3\" face=\"Times New Roman\">http:\/\/citebite.com<\/font><\/a><font size=\"3\"><font face=\"Times New Roman\"> \u2013 Allows user to link directly to a spot on a web page<br \/>\n<\/font><\/font><\/li>\n<li><font size=\"3\"><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><strong>Cmaps<\/strong> \u2013  <\/font><\/font><a href=\"http:\/\/cmap.ihmc.us\/\"><font size=\"3\" face=\"Times New Roman\">http:\/\/cmap.ihmc.us<\/font><\/a><font size=\"3\"><font face=\"Times New Roman\"> \u2013 Graphical tools for organizing and representing knowledge<br \/>\n<\/font><\/font><\/li>\n<li><font size=\"3\"><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><strong>Conduit<\/strong> \u2013 <\/font><\/font><a href=\"http:\/\/www.conduit.com\/\"><font size=\"3\" face=\"Times New Roman\">http:\/\/www.conduit.com<\/font><\/a><font size=\"3\"><font face=\"Times New Roman\"> \u2013 Creates customized toolbars<br \/>\n<\/font><\/font><\/li>\n<li><font size=\"3\"><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><strong>Connotea<\/strong> \u2013 <\/font><\/font><a href=\"http:\/\/www.connotea.org\/\"><font size=\"3\" face=\"Times New Roman\">http:\/\/www.connotea.org<\/font><\/a><font size=\"3\"><font face=\"Times New Roman\"> \u2013 Online reference management<br \/>\n<\/font><\/font><\/li>\n<li><font size=\"3\"><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><strong>Creative Commons <\/strong>\u2013 <\/font><\/font><a href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/\"><font size=\"3\" face=\"Times New Roman\">http:\/\/creativecommons.org<\/font><\/a><font size=\"3\"><font face=\"Times New Roman\"> \u2013 Alternative approach to full copyright.<br \/>\n<\/font><\/font><\/li>\n<li><font size=\"3\"><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><strong>Dodgeball<\/strong> \u2013 <\/font><\/font><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dodgeball.com\/\"><font size=\"3\" face=\"Times New Roman\">http:\/\/www.dodgeball.com<\/font><\/a><font size=\"3\"><font face=\"Times New Roman\"> \u2013 Mobile social software<br \/>\n<\/font><\/font><\/li>\n<li><font size=\"3\"><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><strong>Del.icio.us<\/strong> \u2013 <\/font><\/font><a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/\"><font size=\"3\" face=\"Times New Roman\">http:\/\/del.icio.us<\/font><\/a><font size=\"3\"><font face=\"Times New Roman\"> \u2013 A social bookmarks manager<br \/>\n<\/font><\/font><\/li>\n<li><font size=\"3\"><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><strong>Digg<\/strong> \u2013<\/font><\/font><a href=\"http:\/\/digg.com\/\"><font size=\"3\" face=\"Times New Roman\">http:\/\/digg.com<\/font><\/a><font size=\"3\" face=\"Times New Roman\"> \u2013 Share, discover, bookmark user powered content<\/font><\/li>\n<li><font size=\"3\"><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><strong>Flickr<\/strong> \u2013<\/font><\/font><a href=\"http:\/\/flickr.com\/\"><font size=\"3\" face=\"Times New Roman\">http:\/\/flickr.com<\/font><\/a><font size=\"3\"><font face=\"Times New Roman\"> \u2013 Online photo management and sharing application<br \/>\n<\/font><\/font><\/li>\n<li><font size=\"3\"><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><strong>Furl<\/strong> \u2013<\/font><\/font><a href=\"http:\/\/www.furl.net\/\"><font size=\"3\" face=\"Times New Roman\">http:\/\/www.furl.net<\/font><\/a><font size=\"3\"><font face=\"Times New Roman\"> \u2013 Online bookmarking site<br \/>\n<\/font><\/font><\/li>\n<li><font size=\"3\"><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><strong>Google (My Maps)<\/strong> \u2013 <\/font><\/font><a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/\"><font size=\"3\" face=\"Times New Roman\">http:\/\/maps.google.com<\/font><\/a><font size=\"3\"><font face=\"Times New Roman\"> \u2013 (My Maps tab) Create and share personalized, annotated maps<br \/>\n<\/font><\/font><\/li>\n<li><font size=\"3\"><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><strong>Meebo<\/strong> \u2013 <\/font><\/font><a href=\"http:\/\/meebo.com\/\"><font size=\"3\" face=\"Times New Roman\">http:\/\/meebo.com<\/font><\/a><font size=\"3\"><font face=\"Times New Roman\"> \u2013 Web messenger that accesses IM from anywhere<br \/>\n<\/font><\/font><\/li>\n<li><font size=\"3\"><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><strong>Gliffy<\/strong> \u2013 <\/font><\/font><a href=\"http:\/\/gliffy.com\/\"><font size=\"3\" face=\"Times New Roman\">http:\/\/gliffy.com<\/font><\/a><font size=\"3\"><font face=\"Times New Roman\"> \u2013 Web-based diagram editor creates and shares flowcharts, network diagrams, floor plans, user interface designs and other drawings<br \/>\n<\/font><\/font><\/li>\n<li><font size=\"3\"><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><strong>Google Gadgets<\/strong> \u2013 <\/font><\/font><a href=\"http:\/\/code.google.com\/apis\/gadgets\/\"><font size=\"3\" face=\"Times New Roman\">http:\/\/code.google.com\/apis\/gadgets<\/font><\/a><font size=\"3\" face=\"Times New Roman\"> \u2013 Mini-applications that work with the Google homepage, Google Desktop, or any page on the web<\/font><\/li>\n<li><font size=\"3\"><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><strong>Google Reader <\/strong>\u2013 <\/font><\/font><a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/reader\"><font size=\"3\" face=\"Times New Roman\">http:\/\/www.google.com\/reader<\/font><\/a><font size=\"3\"><font face=\"Times New Roman\"> \u2013 RSS aggregator<br \/>\n<\/font><\/font><\/li>\n<li><font size=\"3\"><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><strong>LibraryThing <\/strong>\u2013 <\/font><\/font><a href=\"http:\/\/librarything.com\/\"><font size=\"3\" face=\"Times New Roman\">http:\/\/librarything.com<\/font><\/a><font size=\"3\"><font face=\"Times New Roman\"> \u2013 Catalog book collections online, social functions<br \/>\n<\/font><\/font><\/li>\n<li><font size=\"3\"><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><strong>Libworm<\/strong> \u2013 <\/font><\/font><a href=\"http:\/\/www.libworm.com\/\"><font size=\"3\" face=\"Times New Roman\">http:\/\/www.libworm.com<\/font><\/a><font size=\"3\"><font face=\"Times New Roman\"> \u2013 Information for librarians on a wide range of topics available as RSS feeds<br \/>\n<\/font><\/font><\/li>\n<li><font size=\"3\"><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><strong>Livepalsma<\/strong> \u2013 <\/font><\/font><a href=\"http:\/\/www.liveplasma.com\/\"><font size=\"3\" face=\"Times New Roman\">http:\/\/www.liveplasma.com<\/font><\/a><font size=\"3\" face=\"Times New Roman\"> \u2013 Liveplasma maps and displays music and movie search results with linkages and groupings. <\/font><\/li>\n<li><font size=\"3\"><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><strong>NetVibes<\/strong> \u2013 <\/font><\/font><a href=\"http:\/\/www.netvibes.com\/\"><font size=\"3\" face=\"Times New Roman\">http:\/\/www.netvibes.com<\/font><\/a><font size=\"3\"><font face=\"Times New Roman\"> \u2013 Personalized news aggregator and home page<br \/>\n<\/font><\/font><\/li>\n<li><font size=\"3\"><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><strong>Page2rss<\/strong> \u2013      <\/font><\/font><a href=\"http:\/\/page2rss.com\/\"><font size=\"3\" face=\"Times New Roman\">http:\/\/page2rss.com<\/font><\/a><font size=\"3\"><font face=\"Times New Roman\"> \u2013 Creates RSS feed of a page that doesn\u2019t have one built in<br \/>\n<\/font><\/font><\/li>\n<li><font size=\"3\"><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><strong>Picasa<\/strong> \u2013 <\/font><\/font><a href=\"http:\/\/picasa.google.com\/\"><font size=\"3\" face=\"Times New Roman\">http:\/\/picasa.google.com<\/font><\/a><font size=\"3\"><font face=\"Times New Roman\"> \u2013 Photo organizing site and desktop application<br \/>\n<\/font><\/font><\/li>\n<li><font size=\"3\"><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><strong>Pbwiki<\/strong> \u2013 <\/font><\/font><a href=\"http:\/\/pbwiki.com\/\"><font size=\"3\" face=\"Times New Roman\">http:\/\/pbwiki.com<\/font><\/a><font size=\"3\"><font face=\"Times New Roman\"> \u2013 Online collaborative editing and publishing<br \/>\n<\/font><\/font><\/li>\n<li><font size=\"3\"><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><strong>Snapper<\/strong> \u2013 <\/font><\/font><a href=\"https:\/\/addons.mozilla.org\/en-US\/firefox\/addon\/2703\"><font size=\"3\" face=\"Times New Roman\">https:\/\/addons.mozilla.org\/en-US\/firefox\/addon\/2703<\/font><\/a><font size=\"3\"><font face=\"Times New Roman\"> \u2013 VERY useful for presentations, allows user to show just a portion of a screen shot rather than entire page (which usually can\u2019t be seen from beyond the third row)<br \/>\n<\/font><\/font><\/li>\n<li><font size=\"3\"><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><strong>Trailfire<\/strong> \u2013 <\/font><\/font><a href=\"http:\/\/trailfire.com\/\"><font size=\"3\" face=\"Times New Roman\">http:\/\/trailfire.com<\/font><\/a><font size=\"3\" face=\"Times New Roman\"> \u2013 Enables user to discover the web through the expertise of others. Follow a trail and find what you need<\/font><\/li>\n<li><font size=\"3\" face=\"Times New Roman\"><strong>Twitter<\/strong> \u2013 <\/font><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/\"><font size=\"3\" face=\"Times New Roman\">http:\/\/twitter.com<\/font><\/a><font size=\"3\"><font face=\"Times New Roman\"> \u2013 Social networking site<br \/>\n<\/font><\/font><\/li>\n<li><font size=\"3\"><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><strong>Userscript<\/strong> \u2013 <\/font><\/font><a href=\"http:\/\/userscripts.org\/\"><font size=\"3\" face=\"Times New Roman\">http:\/\/userscripts.org<\/font><\/a><font size=\"3\" face=\"Times New Roman\"> \u2013     Uses Greasemonkey (<\/font><a href=\"http:\/\/www.greasespot.net\/\"><font size=\"3\" face=\"Times New Roman\">http:\/\/www.greasespot.net<\/font><\/a><font size=\"3\"><font face=\"Times New Roman\">) a Firefox extension to customize the way web pages look and function<br \/>\n<\/font><\/font><\/li>\n<li><font size=\"3\"><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><strong>Yahoo! Developer <\/strong>\u2013 <\/font><\/font><a href=\"http:\/\/developer.yahoo.com\/\"><font size=\"3\" face=\"Times New Roman\">http:\/\/developer.yahoo.com<\/font><\/a><font size=\"3\"><font face=\"Times New Roman\"> \u2013      Network that offers Web Services and APIs that make it easy for developers to build applications and mashups that integrate data sources in new ways<br \/>\n<\/font><\/font><\/li>\n<li><font size=\"3\"><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><strong>Yelp <\/strong>\u2013 <\/font><\/font><a href=\"http:\/\/www.yelp.com\/\"><font size=\"3\" face=\"Times New Roman\">http:\/\/www.yelp.com<\/font><\/a><font size=\"3\" face=\"Times New Roman\"> \u2013 User-generated way to find, recommend and talk about reviews <\/font><\/li>\n<li><font size=\"3\" face=\"Times New Roman\"><strong>Youtube<\/strong> \u2013 <\/font><a href=\"http:\/\/youtube.com\/\"><font size=\"3\" face=\"Times New Roman\">http:\/\/youtube.com<\/font><\/a><font size=\"3\" face=\"Times New Roman\"> \u2013 Hosts user-generated videos <\/font><\/li>\n<li><font size=\"3\"><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><strong>Wink<\/strong> \u2013 <\/font><\/font><a href=\"http:\/\/www.debugmode.com\/wink\/\"><font size=\"3\" face=\"Times New Roman\">http:\/\/www.debugmode.com\/wink<\/font><\/a><font size=\"3\"><font face=\"Times New Roman\"> \u2013  Tutorial and presentation authoring software<br \/>\n<\/font><\/font><\/li>\n<li><font size=\"3\"><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><strong>Zotero<\/strong> \u2013 <\/font><\/font><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zotero.org\/\"><font size=\"3\" face=\"Times New Roman\">http:\/\/www.zotero.org<\/font><\/a><font size=\"3\"><font face=\"Times New Roman\"> \u2013 Open source Firefox extension to collect, manage, and cite research sources<\/font><\/font><font size=\"3\"><font face=\"Times New Roman\"> <\/font><\/font><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><font size=\"3\"><font face=\"Times New Roman\">QUESTIONS<\/font><\/font><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"3\"><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Have you tried any of these resources?  If so, tell us what you think of them.<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"3\" face=\"Times New Roman\">Are there other resources HCL staff should be exploring?<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"3\"><font face=\"Times New Roman\">Are there resources that you think would be useful for HCL to employ library-wide?<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"3\"><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><br \/>\n<\/font><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NOTES AJAX &#8211; http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/AJAX &#8211; makes web pages feel more responsive by exchanging small amounts of data with the server behind the scenes, so that the entire web page does not have to be reloaded each time the user requests a change Browster \u2013http:\/\/www.browster.com \u2013Opens up a small browser on a search page allowing user<a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hcl20\/2007\/05\/04\/resources-to-explore\/\">View Full Page&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1228,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1509],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-resources-to-explore"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hcl20\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hcl20\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hcl20\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hcl20\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1228"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hcl20\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hcl20\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hcl20\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30\/revisions\/50"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hcl20\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hcl20\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hcl20\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}