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IL2007: Best of ResourceShelf
Presenters: Gary Price

Below are some of the items mentioned by Gary during his session.  There are dozens more resources listed on his site, www.tinyurl.com/2alsln.  http://www.tinyurl.com/2alsln

Ask’s SmartAnswers: including the federated National Wedding Registry
Board Tracker: discussion boards federated searching
The USGS’s Earthquake Global Search
Asks’s life real time earthquake indicator (just do a search for "earthquakes")
Terrafly: just search for an address and get an amazing amount of local information
SkylineGlobe.com: similar local information search
Copernic Desktop Search + Copernic Mobile which lets you search your local documents from any mobile device and view any docucment in mobile format
Metavid: lets you keyword search congressional transcripts and find the right video clip immediately
Alluc.org: metalisting of free television shows online
TVGuide.com: another great video directory
Nexidia: transcription of spoken audio
Light Reading: list of 80+ video sharing sites
TVeyes: free service with keyword searching of open ewb video, can also search for stations by area and set up RSS feeds for ego searches
Reuters Labs: search for people’s faces in video clips
Podscope: keyword search words in podcasts
Podzinger (which is now EveryZing): another transcription/search service for audio
Public Radio Fan: list of public radio stations and podcasts
Podlines (from Phonecasting.com): This is awesome.  Just plop the URL of a podcast into this site, and then within 5-`0 minutes they provide you with a phone number that to give to people to call to listen to the podcast.  This has huge potential in libraries – have a "Dial-Best-Of-The-Web" or "Dial-A-Bedtime-Story" etc.!!!!
Wize.com: consumer information and opinions in a federated search, showing both expert and user reviews
Farecast: airline and hotel info along with predictions for price fluctuations

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“IL2007: Best of ResourceShelf”

  1. Deborah Fitchett Says:

    You’ve got a typo in your tinyurl – should be http://www.tinyurl.com/2alsln.

  2. Deborah Fitchett Says:

    Whoops and that gives a “page not found” error. This search seems to give results though I’m not sure if it’s what you/he was referring to.

  3. Tony Says:

    I can’t get that URL to work. I just get an “Internet Explorer cannot display the webpage” error.

  4. Kelly Says:

    The tiny url link didn’t work for me. I’d be really interested in seeing what Gary had.

  5. Sarah Houghton-Jan (LiB) Says:

    Thanks for the correction Deborah. The first correction you listed was right: http://www.tinyurl.com/2alsln, and I have fixed it in the post (I had the last slash as a period instead). Thank you! It works now :)

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