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The article reports that the ResearchBuzz Search Gizmos to assist journalists and open-source intelligence investigators with online search including Gossip Machine and Contemporary Biography Builder. Topics include Gossip Machine uses pageview counts on Wikipedia to flag newsworthy days to search on Google News and Google Web; and Contemporary Biography Builder uses Wikipedia birth and death dates to search Google Books, and Library of Congress' Chronicling America, providing targeted results.

The article focuses on how to make most digital maps. Topics include using maps to explore music is entertaining, using maps to display government policy and drill down into that policy on a nationwide level is illuminating, and the information that might come across as downright stultifying in a report is easy to explore and compare when put on a map.

The article offers information related to the impact and benefits of RSS technology, an XML-based format and while it can be used in different ways for content distribution, on searching. It mentions about creation of RSS using Extensible Markup Language (XML) for continually update with information about new content from a website; and that information is delineated in a way that is easily translatable by both computers and humans.

The article highlights the use of the Instagram to get the idea about news and things that goes around the celebrities world. It mentions use of Instagram to record their culture and to preserve and sometimes reenact history, and also mentions it works to upload some photos and to explore human identity.

The article offers information on the transformation of some of the educational and artistic institutions due to launch of websites. Topics discussed include the Metropolitan Museum of Art will launch The Met Collection API, tool that has made JSON data available via a REST API without license or registration required; San Diego launched its Civic Art Collection website; and e Los Angeles County Museum of Art teamed up with Hyundai Motor to beta-launch a project called Collator.

The article focuses on the available blogging networks and some blog search engines including ResearchBuzz (researchbuzz.me). It mentions about the creating own HTML or using some kind of HTML tool used to be popular options. It's states about Medium (medium.com), which is a new kid on the blogging block.

The article evaluates a digital library offered by joint coordination of the United Nations and the Dag Hammarskjöld Library.

The article presents information on the coupon and best-deal blogs offered by online retailers eBay and Amazon. Amazon offers two official monitors, an Amazon Alerts service and Amazon.com Delivers. To get to eBay's advanced search, customers can look for the search box on the right side of the screen and pick Advanced Search. For extra credit, customers should bear in mind that they can run an advanced search for completed auctions and then save that search as a favorite search. While Amazon and eBay are really the big two of online retail, there are literally thousands of other storefronts online. INSET: Coupons and Best Deal Blogs.

This article focuses on the concept of electronic commerce as practiced at the 2003 North Carolina State Fair. In 2003, it celebrated its 50th anniversary with an estimated number of visitors over a 9-day period. The 300-plus acres of the fairgrounds accommodated rides, games, agricultural exhibits, vendors and endless amounts of food. Allegedly, the experience of buying a product or service, preferably a positive, unique and rewarding experience, can be as essential as the product or service itself. In connection with the use of the Internet, it has blended with the offline experience in a symbiotic way, enhancing both the offerings of the fair and connecting exhibiting companies and organizations to virtual fairgoers for the other 356 days of the year. The staff of the North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources allegedly encourages state fair participants to visit their Web site. In fact the whole booth is oriented towards moving people to the site. Most of the brochures at the booth have a Web site address on them, with the aim of pursuing an estimated number of people to log on to the site. On the other hand, the Treasury Department not only wants participants to visit its site, but encourages people to search one of its most important data collections right in their booth.

Provides information on how to set up an online news monitoring system. Factors to consider before starting up news monitoring; Automated monitoring capabilities of news search engines; Internet resources for monitoring news.

This article considers the use of RSS feeds in online shopping. RSS feeds are considered a way to passively gather information with a minimal amount of setup. To understand the merging of online shopping and RSS feeds, think about an RSS feed. It is different from an HTML file in that it clearly delineates and encapsulates information. It also time-stamps easily. For a shopping site, which may rely on time-sensitive deals and a lot of information on one page, this is an ideal setup. A lot of the larger merchants have their own RSS feed offerings. If desired, you can also comparison shop via RSS feed and mix some shopping feeds together and put them up on your Web site.

This article examines Resources Description Framework Site Summary (RSS), an Extensible Markup Language (XML) format for delivering Web content. RSS has gone from fairly modest beginnings to being spread all over the Web. Movable Type, the content management system, generates it automatically, and more and more news outlets are making it available. Even state and national government sites deliver news through RSS feeds. But as it has gotten more popular, the usefulness of RSS has begun to evolve. An increasing number of sites are taking this format, which heretofore has been a pure content delivery service and monetizing it. Some news outlets are embedding advertisements in the feeds and other sites advertise their own products or services. Third-party tools have sprung up to support tracking RSS feed items. RSS is very simple. This XML application is a metadata description and syndication format. Like Hypertext Markup Language, RSS just refers to a text file formatted in a certain way. Special software programs, called Feed Readers, can translate the text file into a readable format. Desktop feed readers include AmphetaDesk and Feedreader. Each RSS file consists of some essential information, such as the name of the content generator, the language and the appropriate contacts. The meat of the RSS file, though, is the content. Each story gets its own listing that is formatted to delineate the content, date and headline.

Focuses on the services offered by content providers and how they expand into the online information market. Overview of the Web sites of Chris Pirillo, Webmaster of the Lockergnome content provider; Services of AsktheBuilder.com home building and remodeling content Web site; Advantages of the QuickBrowse and OnlineHomeBase.com database searching tools.

Focuses on the use of pop-up advertising by Web sites. Types of pup-up advertisements; Features of the NoAds computer software from South Bay Software to stop pop-up advertisements; Marketing applications of pop-up advertising.

Discusses the revenue potential of uniform resource location (URL) inclusion programs for search engines. Distinction between URL inclusion programs and pay-for-placement programs; Selection of such programs.

Recommends several online information services for researchers. Business information provided by Hoover's; Procedure for using the Oxford Reference; Services offered by DialogPRO; Subscription services accessible to solo researchers.

Evaluates software for personal finance management. Functions of the Microsoft Money 99 software allowing customization; Home Page motif of Quicken 99.

Reviews the computer software WordPerfect Suite 8 from Corel Corp.

Reviews the computer software, SmartSuite Millennium by Lotus Development.

Reviews the computer software Nuts & Bolts 98 from Network Associates company.

Evaluates the computer peripheral Laplink 7.5 from Travelling Software. Specification; Key features; Pros and cons; Cost.

Evaluates the computer software Goldmine 4.0 from Goldmine. Specifications; Key features; Pros and cons; Cost.

Evaluates the Google Answers search engine. Features of the service, which charges a price for use of information supplied by external researchers; Similarity of this service to a library; Suggestion that the competition between libraries and this service may benefit both.

Evaluates the Yahoo! Advice search engine. Features of the service, which charges a fee for use; Similarity of this service to both LookSmart Live! and Google Answers, both of which used external researchers or editors to answer queries; Cost of use.