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Consumer Information RSS FeedsGoogle Instant: Breaking It, Gaming It, and The Future - If you were within fourteen miles of the Internet yesterday, you probably heard about Google’s new search engine feature, Google Instant. Google announced it about 1pm EST, and for the rest of the day my Twitter and Hootsuite feeds were filled with opinion, derision, experiments, and arguments over whether Google Instant means the death of [ ]...Feed Source: feedproxy.google.com Morning Buzz ? September 9, 2010 - An archive of thousands of pictures taken by George Bernard Shaw will be going online. The Digital Library of Civil Rights in Milwaukee launches next week. Flickr has some astounding images from the Colorado wildfire. It’s also NASA’s image of the day. Facebooking via OnStar? Wait, what? Oo oo! Kevin Kelly has a new book [ ]... Get The Skinny On Manners With Online Encyclopedia - Go to the Internet to learn how to behave? No, it doesn’t make any sense to me either. But I will take a tip from Emily Post, and she’s got an online resource aimed at teaching the finer points of manners. Check out the Etipedia at http://www.emilypost.com/etipedia. You can do a simple keyword search or, [ ]... Turning Google Instant Into a Quick Head Trip - As you might imagine I’ve been playing with Google Instant for about an hour now and I have lots and lots to write about. Expect a big ol’ article tomorrow. But in the meantime, I wanted to give you a quick tip that can turn Google Instant into a strange ramble through the Web. Normally [ ]... Emory University Makes Huge Library of ?Yellowbacks? Available for Download - Another one that’s been sitting in the queue for a while. Emory University announced a few months ago a new digital book collection from Emory University Libraries’ Manuscript, Archives and Rare Book Library (MARBL). The books are called “yellowbacks,” 19th-century British literature. I guess 19th century pulp fiction or penny dreadfuls? Anyway, there are about [ ]... Database of Captive Wild Animal Attacks - In late August, Born Free USA launched a database of what it describes as “deadly and dangerous captive wild animal incidents” that have occurred since 1990. There have been over 1300 of them, believe it or not. The database is available at http://www.bornfreeusa.org/reports/exo_incidents.php. You can browse the database by state, date, species, type (animal death, [ ]... Morning Buzz ? September 8, 2010 - Congrats to WorldCat for adding its 200 millionth bibliographic record. Boing Boing had a pointer to a cool Google Maps random teleporter called Globe Genie. I could seriously play with this all day. Extensive: 100 Ways Google Can Make You a Better Educator. Y’all got too much free time: Google Doodle conspiracy theories. Adam DuVander [ ]... Movie Reviews Via Tweets - Getcher crowdsourced movie reviews via fflick, a Web site that analyzes tweets to figure out what the masses think of the latest movies. The site’s available at http://fflick.com/. When you first get to the site it’ll invite you to sign in via your Twitter account. You don’t have to do that if you’re not comfortable; [ ]... New Guide to 30,000 Nonprofits in Israel - A slice of coffee cake to The Chronicle of Philanthropy for the heads-up about GuideStar Israel, a new Web site that provides information on 30,000 nonprofits in Israel. It’s available at http://www.guidestar.org.il/default.aspx?c=1&l=en (that is the English link; the site is also available in Hebrew and Arabic.) The site is in beta. You can do an [ ]... Morning Buzz ? September 7, 2010 - This looks like it could be useful: a simple Excel data converter. Also useful, this time from LifeHacker: “Eight Clever Ways to Take Advantage of Free Calling in Gmail.” “On July 24, people around the world made history by capturing glimpses of their lives on camera and submitting the videos to Life in a Day, [ ]... Copyright © 2010, Unselfish Marketers Link Exchange. All Rights Reserved. |