Monday, February 23, 2009

New York Times article about the "Deep Web"

An article in the New York Times today talks about the latest efforts to plumb the Deep/Invisible Web. Google's efforts in the area are discussed, as is an effort partially funded by Jeffrey Bezos (http://www.kosmix.com). A University of Utah effort is also mentioned (http://www.deeppeep.org).

You can view the article online at:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/23/technology/internet/23search.html

Monday, February 9, 2009

Gmail Tasks and other things

On Monday, the Gmail blog weighed in on whether paper or the iPhone is the more productive tool. All of this as a humorous way to talk about GMail tasks, a new productivity tool available in Gmail (and also, be extension, on the iPhone).

http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2009/02/tasks-paper-vs-iphone.html

In other news, there was an article in the New York Times the other day about digital archivists being in demand right now:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/08/jobs/08starts.html?partner=permalink&exprod=permalink