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Greenspun:
"While Microsoft is trying to replace Google with MSN Search, Google
will be trying to replace Microsoft Office with Google Web-based
Office." [Scripting News]
google is very well positioned to porvide office like services that are
more robust than MS with the big iron of the grid for serious
crunching. This potential web office services model has real
potential when coupled with the new generation think clients (aka
smartphones) that could be augmented by value added vertual personal
proxy servers (aka local isp). When you consider that google has
a lot of unused throughput at different times in across the globe there
is an opportunity for substancial growth in webservices with associated
supercomputer grid support so that the notion of an information utility
seems possible with extremely low marginal cost structure that is
curretnly carried by the search service -- BL
8:55:25 PM  Google It!.
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Modelling scientific publishing. Bo-Christer Bjork and Turid Hedlund, A formalised model of the scientific publication process, Online Information Review 28, 8-21 (2004). Only this abstract is freely available online: The
scientific publishing process has during the past few years undergone
considerable changes. The socio-economic structures have, however, not
changed much, and many academics and librarians view the current
situation as highly unsatisfactory. This has triggered a number of
initiatives to set up e-print repositories and electronic peer reviewed
journals, which usually offer the full text for free on the Web.
Serious in-depth research studying the way the scholarly communication
system is affected by the Internet is needed. In this article a formal
process model of the scientific publishing process is presented (the
Scientific Publication Life-Cycle Model). The model has been developed
in particular to provide a basis for studying the cost implications of
different business models. It describes the life-cycle of the single
publication, in particular the refereed journal article, from the
research leading to it and writing it, to being read by other
researchers years later or used as a catalyst for practical
implementation. Conclusions are drawn about the usefulness of the
modelling methodology for this particular purpose as well as of future
uses of the model itself. In addition to providing a basis for cost
studies the model could function as a road map for different types of
open access initiatives. [Open Access News]
9:33:16 AM Google It!.
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PubMed on the Go. PubMed -- Medical Research in the Palm of Your Hands
"I just saw PubMed on Tap at freewarepalm.com. This is a wireless enabled Palm application (I think over any internet connection) that lets you search Pub Med,
the free subset of Med-Line. Med-line is the repository of all current
and recent medical research, with abstracts often available and
full-text sometimes. While this is an amazing (and required) resource
for medical professionals, savvy lay people will also find a wealth of
information here." [Daily Palm]
Very interesting! I'll have to download this to see how well it
works, but it really highlights how few applications there are for
searching government and library databases. I know Innovative has AirPAC (I sure wish SWAN had it!), but how many other OPAC vendors provide this type of interface? [The Shifted Librarian]
9:23:01 AM Google It!.
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RSS Aloud. Listen To RSS Feeds
"A voice-powered RSS newsreader is now available for immediate try-out from NextUp.com. This is version 1.0 of its NewsAloud software that is designed to automatically retrieve news stories from any RSS source you may select. NewsAloud
uses Voice Synthesis (Text To Speech or TTS) to read these news stories
aloud on a PC (while converting them to MP3 if you like to!).
NewsAloud’s automatic audio file creation can also keep the 100 most
recent stories available as MP3 or Windows Media files ready for
playback on your iPod, PocketPC, or even on your TV with Tivo’s Home
Media Option. Optional premium voices are offered for a range of
available speech including US, British, and Indian accent English as
well as Spanish, German, and French voices. NewsAloud costs $19.95 and
is available for Windows 98, NT, 2000 and XP. A full try-out is immediately accessible online." [Lockergnome's RSS & Atom Tips]
Color me intrigued, although obviously this would work best with those feeds that doen't consist mostly of links to other sites.
In a similar vein, Adam Curry recently highlighted (again) his RSS2iPod script
that automagically loads new RSS enclosures onto his iPod each morning.
Does anyone know of something similar for Windows machines that works
with either the Treo 600 or an Archos Jukebox? [The Shifted Librarian]
9:21:38 AM Google It!.
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Video-Game Graphics Hit the Road.
Sony Japan takes a different turn with GPS car navigation by displaying
information formatted like a 3-D action game. And don't forget the
30-GB drive for music and video clips. By Daniel Terdiman. [Wired News]
9:19:42 AM Google It!.
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China and GSM Operators Will Work Together on 3G.
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - The world's biggest mobile alliance on Tuesday
averted the risk that visitors' phones would soon cease to work in
China by saying it would standardize and integrate the country's
home-grown third generation technology. "The GSM Association and the
TD-SCDMA Forum today signed an agreement to co-ordinate the development
of the two third generation (3G) standards," the GSM Association and
the TD-SCDMA Forum said in a statement. [Reuters: Technology]
8:55:27 AM Google It!.
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Thin client, rich data.
Current approaches to taking browsers offline typically enqueue
messages that later update a server-based data model. An Alchemy
application, though, always works with a genuine local data model that
it stores as sets of XML fragments and navigates in a relational style.
Bosworth's hunch is that a Web-style thin client, driven by a rich data
model intelligently synchronized with the services cloud, could do most
of what we really need -- both offline and online. Nothing prevents
Java, .Net, and Flash clients from adopting the same strategy, by the
way. But if Bosworth is right, the universal client that we know and
love could get a new lease on life. [Full story at InfoWorld.com]
... [Jon's Radio]
8:53:04 AM Google It!.
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Engadget:
"With our crack-like addiction to RSS feeds we're pleased to see that
SmartPhone users have an interesting option to view RSS feeds on their
phones." [Scripting News]
8:50:57 AM Google It!.
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© Copyright 2004 Bruce Landon.
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