This morning I was poking around the Apple website, pretending like I was going to buy an iPod touch (so very tempting, so many reasons not to right now…). Anyhow, I was struck by a few things. First, I was interested in whether the 8 GB Touch was in stock in my local Apple Store. [...]
Student computer labs still in demand — Chronicle of Higher Education Wired Campus Blog, 10/8/2007. According to this blurb in the Wired Campus blog, around 80% of college students own laptops, yet 8 out of 11 institutions surveyed report that campus computer lab use has remained steady or increased. This certainly seems to be the [...]
Lately I’ve been thinking about how we could move towards being able to offer a single search box that can placed on the library homepage. Ideally, the box could also be easily dropped into disparate locations (subject search pages, WebCT, departmental research pages? personal websites? MySpace?) The box would search the libraries’ catalog, databases, and [...]
Meebo, a popular web-based instant messaging tool, has just announced the creation of Meebo Rooms. Kind of like chat rooms, but with some extra fancy features. Everyone with a Meebo ID automatically gets “their” own room. Meebo has set up some rooms around different interests. And, users have gotten busy creating all types of rooms. [...]