TinEye: A reverse search engine. Upload an image and find out where it came from, how it’s being used, and obtain different versions of the same image. Nice! You do have to create an account to use it, but I’ve found it to be worth it.
Healthfinder.gov tour: Take a tour of Healthfinder.gov, learn how to use it, how to search, and what neat features the site offers. This tour would work really well in any library teachable moments about finding health information.
Google Wave: Google’s vision of what web-based email should look like today, reinvented and reinvigorated. Does this look like something you’d use? Better than Outlook?
July 23rd, 2009 at 6:43 am
I watched the Google Wave presentation a while back, and I have to say I really think it’s fantastic. It makes me wonder what other basic stuff we use on a day-to-day basis could actually be signficantly improved if it were redesigned from the perspective of today’s needs…