Okay, I had promised some information industry ideas a while back. I was going over my conference notes, and here are some search ideas:
A9 - Amazon has a search engine on it's welcome page now. It was hyped at the conference as having exterior photography of businesses for map searches, and they actually had interior photos of my library when I did a search.
Google is pretty secretive, but you can look at some of their beta ideas: http://labs.google.com - I used GoogleSuggest to find out more info on ziggurats... I mean, I know already it's ziggurats, not zigurrats, but what if I needed to know more? GoogleSuggest found "ziggurats of Ur," okay, so I wanted to expand my knowledge a bit more and went to http://www.clusty.com - a site of Vivisimo's, which went on to suggest I look up sits of ancient Sumer, and so on.
http://www.keyhole.com - Keyhole is a cool satellite-imaging map-finder, which Google lets you use at, it was said, $20 a year. You can view the demo to see how neat its little zoom-in feature is.
You can also use, as a YahooMaps or MapQuest alternative, http://maps.ask.com - Jeeves's site, or http://www.terrafly.com - which has satellite imaging too; not as snazzy as Keyhole's, and you have to allow pop-ups for it's maps to open, but it's free. Another good site for zooming in n out is Google Maps on the beta site.
Avoiding traffic - MSN Maps and Yahoo Local are supposed to allow text-message updating by cell phone on traffic in areas you'll be driving in... I'm not so hip on these things, but you can go to the website of the last lecture I attended at my conference, http://www.digbig.com/4cxfk - and see how, and some more on these and other sites. Also, http://www.trafficland.com - if you're in the DC/ Baltimore area, has traffic/highway cameras. I just tried it, and some of 'em were working.
Lastly, you can use http://www.jux2.com - to search something on Google, Jeeves, and Yahoo simultaneously... but you might wanna give MSN Search or Clusty the occasional try. I used jux2 to search on the phrase "amy linton" and found a nice article on her by a zine named after an Aislers Set song - http://www.friendsoftheheroes.co.uk/archive/issue16.html#3 - and found out the odd meaning of the song and got quite jealous of her late Sunday mornings.
GOOD news- I am online at home!
MEDIOCRE news- I gotta keep all my passwords un-automatic cuz my brother's around here. Ah, well.
A9 - Amazon has a search engine on it's welcome page now. It was hyped at the conference as having exterior photography of businesses for map searches, and they actually had interior photos of my library when I did a search.
Google is pretty secretive, but you can look at some of their beta ideas: http://labs.google.com - I used GoogleSuggest to find out more info on ziggurats... I mean, I know already it's ziggurats, not zigurrats, but what if I needed to know more? GoogleSuggest found "ziggurats of Ur," okay, so I wanted to expand my knowledge a bit more and went to http://www.clusty.com - a site of Vivisimo's, which went on to suggest I look up sits of ancient Sumer, and so on.
http://www.keyhole.com - Keyhole is a cool satellite-imaging map-finder, which Google lets you use at, it was said, $20 a year. You can view the demo to see how neat its little zoom-in feature is.
You can also use, as a YahooMaps or MapQuest alternative, http://maps.ask.com - Jeeves's site, or http://www.terrafly.com - which has satellite imaging too; not as snazzy as Keyhole's, and you have to allow pop-ups for it's maps to open, but it's free. Another good site for zooming in n out is Google Maps on the beta site.
Avoiding traffic - MSN Maps and Yahoo Local are supposed to allow text-message updating by cell phone on traffic in areas you'll be driving in... I'm not so hip on these things, but you can go to the website of the last lecture I attended at my conference, http://www.digbig.com/4cxfk - and see how, and some more on these and other sites. Also, http://www.trafficland.com - if you're in the DC/ Baltimore area, has traffic/highway cameras. I just tried it, and some of 'em were working.
Lastly, you can use http://www.jux2.com - to search something on Google, Jeeves, and Yahoo simultaneously... but you might wanna give MSN Search or Clusty the occasional try. I used jux2 to search on the phrase "amy linton" and found a nice article on her by a zine named after an Aislers Set song - http://www.friendsoftheheroes.co.uk/archive/issue16.html#3 - and found out the odd meaning of the song and got quite jealous of her late Sunday mornings.
GOOD news- I am online at home!
MEDIOCRE news- I gotta keep all my passwords un-automatic cuz my brother's around here. Ah, well.
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I ALWAYS want to go to Key West!