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| View | Upload your own A fascinating presentation on developments and trends in mobile. http://m-trends.org I know of my changing habits of information handling since I have this new smartphone with fast mobile internet. Being abled to search, find, produce, publish, communicate anything, from any spot, at any time, is very persuasive and addictive. Tags: mobile2.0 , mobile , cellphone , phone , trends

To my great surprise and fear I found out that the old mini-api widget modules of Netvibes are no longer working/visible in the new Universes . I am not completely sure how long this has been the case, but now I HAVE to speed up the conversion of those mini-api modules. It is not much work but still ..... I just updated the following Netvibes UWA widgets:\ Second Life Search Search Medworm Search BibSys Search Mesh Term Swedish-English And created a few new ones: Search MediGo ( Dutch Medical Search Engine ) E-Book Search NCRC Biblioteka (test) For all these widgets it will take a few days to become life for everybody. Email or comment me if you want to know more.

Yes, I like gadgets and beautiful things. "Toys & Boys", right! Here is my newest asset, a watch. For years I have not been wearing one, because I just could not find the right one (and when I did find one, they were just too expensive ). But now I found a really cool watch company called TokyoFlash that produces wonderful watches with a special concept of displaying time, with little LEDS. Of course it is a matter of taste .... Tags: tokyoflash , watches , gadgets

During the TelecomGala of 2008 the "Golden Graham’s" were made public for this year. In the category of Best Mobile Phones the HTC TyTNII was the winner as the Best Smartphone. On 2nd the Nokia E90 Communicator and on 3rd the Sony Ericsson P1i. Of course this is a lot of commercial bullshit, but my decision to actually buy one "proves" to be a good choice. I use it to: read /send my email (work & private) via Mobile Internet via KPN check / book my calender , as well as my RememberTheMilk account for the ever growing To-Do-list make pictures and movies with both camera's publish them and other blogpost, Twitters directly to the blogs use it as mp3 and movie player Keep in touch via MSN practice my presentations "on the road" via PowerPoint Mobile prepare docs in Mobile Word mindmap via Pocket FreeMind check widgets via Zumobi search mobile sites of Google, the CMB, PubMed, Flickr, Netvibes, Twitku Mobile etc and of course as a phone...

A "new" Dutch Medical Search Engine called Medigo is really turning out to be a resource to trust, with handy functionality to help people to find quality (consumer) health information. It uses a number of filters that help cluster the search results a little. Furthermore, clicking on one of the links will show the resource on the web, and offer a top frame where users can value/vote for the resource by adding a number of stars (1 till 4) Nice extra is the search widget searchbox they offer. For extra info you can check their weblog or check the About page ("Over Medigo"). Here they explain their intensions, criteria and plans for future development. Here is a quick tour to the main features.

The info on the Netvibes pages about creating Universal Widgets via the UWA is needless complicated. Making a searchbox with or without a aditional opions from web-based available search tools is not very difficult. I will describe the steps I took, the difficulties I encountered, and how I solved them. First you need to make an xml page the way Netvibes likes it. Use the Pubmed Searchbox as template if you want a simple searchbox for one resource. Open the link in a browser, save it on your pc and open it with Notepad Don't forget to change the Title info and the meta name info about Author and Description You include the seachbox and add images and links if needed. (For a drop-down searchbox you could use the NLM QuickSearchbox as template.) Then you have to find a way to host it somewhere. (When correctly configured they can be saved as xml or html extensions. The cms of the Rijksuniversiteit Groningen does not accept these files as xml to be saved in their directories, but w...

I had never heard of JupiterResearch but according to one of their reports (Oct. 2007), widgets are popular among users. And that I already DID know, but it is always nice to see confirmation like that "According to Jupiter Research awareness and use of Widgets among online users, which was less than 5% in early 2007, has now increased: 39% of online users are aware of widgets and 26% have used them" An interesting article to read is " Widgets make a big splash on the Net" in USAToday If we ever get rid of our Magic Reference Desk software (;-) another candidate is QuestionPoint. It now has Qwidget. This combines the power of QuestionPoint's reference management system with the simplicity of a chat widget. Similar in appearance to our popular MeeboMe widget , it can be placed throughout your library web page and other environments by simply embedding an HTML code.

Q: Hi Guus, welcome to Askablogr! It looks like you haven't yet installed your widget (let me know if you've run into a bug). And beyond Second Life, who's doing the best work on immersive education now? Posted by Chris DeVore A: It looks likes the widgets "fights"with my blogger sidebar. I will have another go manually  

Healthinfo Island on Blip.TV http://blip.tv/file/750124 Please see my little movie and explanation of HTML on a prim and the build-in web browser of the Test version software of Second Life. You can only see this work if you have downloaded this version that will hopefully will replace the current one! I can not wait. Presenting info, is never going to be the same with the Send Current URL to Parcel functionality See, listen and get excited! Extra info: -html means webpages (;-) -the video i made while demonstrating how this is working and can be done, can be seen by anybody on the web. - the described " technique " however is ONLY to be seen live in SL with the test version of the SL client software. - what it does is, actually SHOW a live webpage (no copy, no import, no pay) on a screen in SL. -i showed that live webpage in the (also new) build-in webbrowser. Yes, a web-browser IN SL! (-You can see practically any webpage IN that web browser. Just type in a...

A so-called chatlog transcript is now available of the presentation PF Anderson (Perplexity Peccable) and her colleagues did at Virtual Worlds: Libraries, Education and Museums, March 8th in Second Life. You can read it from the wiki Second Life University of MIchigan Tags: secondlife , sl , medical library , libraries , health sciences , virtual worlds , vwlem2008

| View | Upload your own They are doing great stuff at the University of Michigan Health Sciences Libraries. Here is Patricia F. Anderson's presentation on Emerging Technologies in Nursing and Nursing Education. I defenitely have to show this to our nursing educational department! Tags: technology , nursing , nursing education , education , trends , nurses , nurse , developments , teaching , training , secondlife , sl

| View | Upload your own Perplexity Peccable is -with her colleagues- very active in SL. She is main drive behind the wiki for all Health and Medical related sims, groups and places in Second Life, calles SlHealthy, http://slhealthy.wetpaint.com Here are the slides of their presentation at Virtual Worlds: Libraries, Education and Museums (VWLEM2008) in Second LIfe of March 8th 2008. Tags: secondlife , sl , vwlem2008 , health sciences , medical libraries , slideshare , umhealthscienceslibraries

Many presentations of the successul virtual conference on "Virtual Worlds: Libraries, Education and Museums (VWLEM2008) have come available on the programm schedule Barbara Galik and Kitty Pope predict the 2008 buzz word for Libraries in Virtual worlds is going to be: " Immersive education experiences" : change the current role of learning to one of immersive participation, roleplay, observation through building, reenacting, writing and participating. See their slides. And there is more to come. The official tag for this event is: VWLEM2008. ( Flickr-set) Several transcript can be found on www.sleeds.org/chatlog Tags: VWLEM2008 , secondlife , healthinfo island , sl , accessibility

Saturday March 8th was the largest virtual conference ever on Libraries, Education and Museums. Organised by Alliance Library Systems they put together an interesting programm. Here are some highlights OPEN KEYNOTE DISCUSSION: "Virtual Worlds: Libraries, Education, Museums, and More" Presented by Barbara Galik (Puglet Dancer in SL) and Kitty Pope (Kitty Phillip in SL) Galik and Pope, who have been active in the development of the Alliance Information Archipelago and other virtual world library projects, will discuss where we are with library service in virtual worlds and where we are going. They will discuss the the fast progress (explosion) of the project to get to the high level of collaborative development that exists today. They also will discuss what we need to do moving forward to sustain and grow library services in virtual worlds. sustain and grow "Persistent Worlds: Will They Ever Go Away?" Presented by Dr. Susan Hazan Now that Second Life has hit t...

The Netvibes Ginger beta program has been a great success, according to the Netvibes Team. They are about to open Ginger to every Netvibes user TOMORROW and offer all testers the opportunity to invite their friends. Whether they are already Netvibes users or not, they can be invited, start building their private and public pages and join on Netvibes. You can also use the Find Friends feature to see who of your Gmail, Hotmail, Yahoo! Mail, Facebook, Flickr, Twitter or AIM friends are already on Netvibes. New stuff on Netvibes Since the start of the beta, many new features have been added and existing ones improved. Check out all Ginger features on the new Ginger website: http://ginger.netvibes.com I can advise everybody to explore the new Netvibes and the endless possibilities the Ginger universes offer, for library users, librarians ánd libraries. Be sure to exploit and submit every email-account you have to get various universes ;-) "The Web is Ours" Tags: ginge...

Today was the first day back at the office, after a week (almost) no work in Austria. And when I left the office again I realised that I did many things in those hours I did not plan to do. I also forgot some things I should have done ... They will be waiting for me first thing tomorrow ;-) RememberThe Milk will help me a little with this, but I decided to blog more frequently about our daily work issues again to show what is going on in the Medical Library of a University Medical Center. These items will be short and mixed. Today i did some preparations for next Thursday. I will give a demo to some people of the LiverTransplant department about Virtual worlds like Second Life, Social Networks and more web 2.0 developments. We need more Reference Manager cd's at our Information desks. More and more people (students & staff) ask for them at our Information desks. Our RM courses are very well attended. I bumped into the GoogleTalk badge at the blog from WoWter and decided to ...

RememberTheMilk is a web-based to-do application that I am testing to keep my tasks [finished+unfinished] organised. It has a mobile version, but synchronising with your pda is possible too. Updating and adding tasks via gmail, igoogle, netvibes and more! What I really need is an Offline pda version that syncs via mobile intenet or desktop. Anyone? Did I miss something reading RTMs site? Tags: rtm , rememberthemilk , to-do , tasks , task management , to-do lists

The website and progamm of the 2008 TICER "Digital Libraries à la Carte" international modular course is now life at: www.tilburguniversity.nl/ticer/08carte/ It prepares librarians for the future. Some modules are also relevant to publishers, researchers, lecturers and IT specialists. Module 1: Strategic Developments and Library Management Module 2: Technological Developments: Threats and Opportunities for Libraries Module 3a: Hands-on: Library 2.0 Module 3b: Change: Making it Happen in Your Library Module 4: Libraries - Partners in Research and Open Access Module 5: Libraries - Partners in Teaching and Learning See the website for more info about previous versions of the Ticer Courses or see what people saved via Del.icio.us about TICER . The 2008 course will take place at Tilburg University, the Netherlands, from Monday 25 up to and including Friday 29 August 2008. I am honoured to be in this years Programm Committee. It was a pleasure ánd a challenge to t...