December 2006
Phil Bradley: Finding what you need with the best search engines
by 29 othersbased on the question: What do you need to find and what do you already know?
3spots: Social Bookmark Tools to View, Search and more...
by 1 otherways to make social bookmark sites more useful
November 2006
SEOmoz's Web 2.0 Awards
March 06; useful discursive comparison by judges of top contenders in each of many categories, which rhetorically can be used to teach students how to write about the Internet; sizeable honorable mention lists
Virtual Karma: Complete List of Web 2.0 Applications | Rian's blog
by 36 othersuseful annotations, garnering many comments and additions
Choose the Best Search for Your Information Need
by 9 othershow to refine a topic and its searches; updated for web 2.0 and specialty searching; good for anyone starting to do Internet research on a topic and will take you to some previously unused search tools
TeacherSource | learning.now . Tag - You're Delicious! | PBS
may 06 discussion of how delicious works; useful overview and collection of comments. PBS teachersouce is also worth visiting from time to time
Bokardo - Social Web Design » Thoughts on the Impending Death of Information Architecture
interesting thesis in post, even more interesting string of comments
Research Beyond Google: 119 Authoritative, Invisible, and Comprehensive Resources | OEDb
by 7 othersThe invisible web, or deep web, is estimated to be 500 times bigger than the searchable web and comprises databases and results of specialty search engines that the popular search engines can't index.
Visualizing Del.icio.us Roundup
by 16 othersvisualize how you use delicious; a generally useful blog here
LibraryThing | Catalog your books online
by 56 othersYou sign up, enter the name of a book, then find out what other folks who liked that book also liked; a tag cloud for the book leads to other books on this topic. Quite addictive, and I just used it to look at the info. around one book.
June 2006
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