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In March, Mr. Payne created downforeveryoneorjustme.com, as in, “Down for everyone, or just me?” It lets visitors type in a Web address and see whether a site is generally inaccessible or whether the problem is with their own connection.As Web Traffic Grows, Crashes Take Bigger Toll - NYTimes.comA most interesting tool.  So, if your having [...]

The Sun Wiki Publisher enables you to create Wiki articles on MediaWiki servers without having to know the syntax of the MediaWiki markup language. Publish your new and existing documents transparently with the Writer to a wiki page.All important text attributes such as headings, hyperlinks, lists and simple tables are supported. Even images are supported [...]

Produced by Primary Research Group, The International Survey of Institutional Digital Repositories (ISBN: 1-57440-090-8; $89.50) describes norms and benchmarks for budgets, software use, manpower needs and deployment, financing, usage, marketing and other facets of the managment of international digital repositories based on data from higher education libraries and other institutions involved in institutional digital [...]

The following package of extensions will incorporate a social profile, user board, and basic profile information into MediaWiki, specifically Avatars, Friending, Foeing, User Board, Board Blast, and basic Profile Information. Extension:SocialProfile - MediaWikiSome cool extensions to MediaWiki.  I find it amusing that not only lets you make friends , but also foes.  That’s good because [...]

The following fifty proprietary programs are listed in no particular order within broad categories along with their open source alternatives. In some cases you could probably write your own book on frustrations with the proprietary programs shown here. In other cases, you’ll discover that the open source alternative isn’t quite up to snuff yet. And, [...]

As announced at public.resource.org, CC and public.resource.org have announced the first release of material to support our free law project. After raising a large chunk of change from great and generous sorts like David Boies, John Gilmore, the Omidyar Network and the Elbaz Foundation, we’ve purchased a database of a substantial part of all federal [...]

Got a small network, home network, medium-size network — even an enterprise network — and want to get the most out of it? Then I’ve got good news for you: 10 free pieces of software that can make your network easier to use, troubleshoot and maintain. These freebies will help everyone from networking pros to [...]

Top 2007 Education Apps: Learning 2.0 - an iternesting list.  Lots of stuff I didn’t know about.  Many worth looking into.  Be sure to chekc the comments for additions.Blogged with FlockTags: elearning2007

Now that Facebook has opened up its pages to independent software developers, there are plenty of course-listing applications like this one floating around. And none of those tools seem especially popular: According to VentureBeat, the most widely-used course-listing tool has less than 3,300 “daily active users.” Applications like Courses might be useful, but their success [...]

Announcement Public.Resource.Org and Fastcase, Inc. announced today that they will release a large and free archive of federal case law, including all Courts of Appeals decisions from 1950 to the present and all Supreme Court decisions since 1754. The archive will be public domain and usable by anyone for any purpose.I’m pretty sure that [...]

alphaWorks : Web Browser-Based Interaction with the Eclipse IDE : Overview This Eclipse plug-in requires an embedded Web server; the one we use is the Jetty Web server. The Web server receives requests from the browser client, interacts with the current Eclipse instance, and sends the response back to the browser client in the [...]

The search company has done a lot of work customizing MySQL to meet its special needs. Those efforts include improving database replication and adding tools to monitor a high volume of database instancesMySQL to get injection of Google codeLook for these additions in MySQL 6, expected in late 2008.  This will certainly add a lot [...]

LOC Collecting Blogs | Library Stuff - There is a comment to the post from someone at the LOC that point to  the LOC webcapture page.  It is a more finely tuned, human mediated collection as opposed to the Internet Archives “spider it all” approach.  They are using some interesting tools for building this collection [...]

Meanwhile, Laszlo, which is rooted in providing RIA software and solutions, and CounterPath Solutions, a Vancouver, British Columbia, provider of multimedia VOIP softphones and SIP (Session Initiation Protocol) applications, announced a strategic relationship to bring standards-based voice communications to Laszlo Webtop.The companies plan to join forces to build CMC (CounterPath Multimedia Communicator) WebPhone, a softphone [...]

Books often live a vibrant life offline, and through digitization Google Book Search tries to help them live an even more exciting life online through full text search. Today we’re launching some new features that go beyond search so you can collect, share, and discover new books.Official Google Blog: Collect, share, and discover booksIt is [...]