SLA2005 - New Web Tools - Wednesday 11:30

... waiting for them to sort out the technology ...

Web Tools 2005

Gary Price (ResourceShelf and many others) and Genie Tyburski (Web Manager, The Virtual Chase)

Gary Price's part at
http://www.freepint.com/gary/2005/2005cooltools.html

(battery switch time)

Capturing the Web

Onfolio
- capture, RSS, etc.

Gary talking about 3 types of RSS feeds
- headline only
- snippet - title and first 20-40 words
- full-text

So if you have search engines using RSS, they may not be able to search the full text.

... switch to Gary

DocuTicker
- new high-quality full-text reports they have found

... switch back to Genie

NetSnippets
- capture screen shots
- assign keywords and bibliographic info
- create bibliography, index, report
- highlight info in a report
- create professional reports with your own logo

... switch to Gary

List of all specialized databases?
- Virtual Chase Directory
- SearchSystems.net (public records)

... switch to Genie

Scanning the News with RSS

Bloglines

... switch to Gary

Gary mentions the coming wave of RSS advertising.

Speakwire - listen to your RSS feeds

... switch to Genie

Live Bookmarks in Firefox

check out news.yahoo.com for news via RSS

... switch to Gary

a good web page editor
Nvu

... switch to Genie

RSS Search Engines

Daypop
Feedster
Fagan Finder Blogs and RSS Search Engines

... switch to Gary

RedLightGreen
- 120 million bibliographic records with a lot of added features
- was created for undergrads, but has many great features that are useful for anyone doing bibliographic searching

... switch to Genie

JiWire Hotspot Locator
- search for wireless access around the world
- variety of search criteria
- can show map with nearby hotspots

... switch to Gary

Who2 biography database

Gary discusses issues with Wikipedia, he added some fake info to his own Wikipedia entry and it hasn't been removed.

... switch to Genie

[US] Criminal Activity Research

pacer.uspci.uscourts.gov
Legal Dockets Online

... switch to Gary

Yahoo Local Download to Excel

... switch to Genie

more US legal stuff

... switch to Gary

Look at what Yahoo is doing.
http://next.yahoo.com/
- Yahoo MindSet
modify results using a slider

Yahoo Shopping SmartSort
sort results using sliders

Yahoo Industry Center
industry-specific pages

... switch to Genie

johnny.ihackstuff.com
- hacking Google

(there's more, but I'm taking a lunch break)