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Scribd & Scientology : accepting ads or not?

I am using Scribd to publish and share documents about our library services, my activities and some tools.
For our Ipad on Loan project I uploaded a manual to get access to our hospital network and applications from the "outside". It is called WOA (Werkplek Op Afstand | Workplace Off-campus). It's a citrix-solutions and gives our medical staff -even when not IN the hospital, but on-call from home- access to detailed, live stats of critital patients very quickly and smoothly.

How To Access your UMCG WOA on the iPad

I am pretty content with the Scribd service, and the usage stats are positive as well. ( >1000 views within 2 months).
But last week I received a complaint about an ad, visible next to the main page of this document. The ad is from the Scientology.org and ever since this was showing, we are having a discussion inside the library if this is acceptable ... to show library related info next to this questionable organisation.
Do we want to confront our readers/users with these kind of ads?
Should we trust our users to be clever enough to look passed this, or should we not even go this way?
Do we tell our users they can "manage" their own ads showing on webpages via the Google "Ads Preferences Manager"?

I am temped to keep using Scribd because of its unique free features, the nice embedding. Maybe we can get an API subscription and embed it in our corporate/library portal, but then we need to make sure those ads are gone.

Mobile App Building made easy? Conduit Mobile takes it a step further

I am trying this new Mobile App Builder from Conduit. It claims to create Apps for the big 5 platforms: Android, iPhone, Nokia, Windows 7, Blackberry
http://mobile.conduit.com/

You can create one in minutes with help of the clever wizard that will analyse your website for rss feeds and your social media presence in Facebook, Twitter and YouTube.

There is a promising "custom" part to hopefully make it possible to show and use previously created Conduit Apps via the Toolbars, and embed html widgets. I am going to test that.

Also interesting is the "Slice" function, a kind of Web-scraping tool that magically takes the selected html from any selected web-pages. It will be nice to try out what the limits are here.

Short video at http://www.conduit.com/Home/AboutUs/media-coverage/Conduit-Mobile--Build-Native-Apps-From-The-Web-Qui.aspx

Create Mobile Apps | Conduit Mobile

mobile.conduit.com

Here the current status of the Medical Apps Daily App ...
http://mob.conduit.com/medicalapps

The Science Network - A Social Network Parody : a must-see

Yes , I know, i should write more posts ....., but am just adding up topics to the to-do list:

• TEDxMaastricht The Future of Health!
• Netvibes as Social Media & Corporate Scan
• MedPilot
• Medical Museums Worlwide
• Our iPad Loan project from the library
• Dutch Digital Library Award 2011
• Medical Apps Daily
• Doctors 2.0 Daily
• and many more ....  to follow