Student starters
- extras - from Katie Lefevre
- 22 April 2008 - Brian
Barrett showed us a site he
uses when he wants to relax and get away from information tools
- 17
April 2008 - Shu-Hwa Chen showed us
xDrive, on online file
storage and backup service
- 15
April 2008 - Amanda Leger showed us how to
experience
natural hallucination
- 10
April 2008 - unless someone really want to show us something,
we'll forego it in favor of spending more time on our databases
- 08
April 2008 - Harrison Kirby showed us Blinkx - a service
that calls itself the World's
largest video search engine
- 03
April 2008 - Li Chen showed us a site that was very similar
to one we saw on 01 April, but one that offered us the opportunity to
think about the things we can learn from it
- It had a interesting
Country code top-level domain name, which we discovered was
the name registered to
The Territory of Cocos (Keeling) Islands, also called Cocos
Islands and Keeling Islands, which is a territory of Australia.
According to Answers.com, it is
administered by VeriSign through a subsidiary company eNIC, which
promotes it for international registration as "the next .com".
- The domain name (cc) sounds a lot like the conventional
abbreviation for a "carbon copy" and leads us to wonder if it is a copy
of a previous site. It turns out that it is a copy of a previous site.
According to some bloggers, Everyone knows that
TV-LINKS.CO.UK was one of the greatest site ever created.
- But not everyone agrees with that position. Apparently,
the owners of the previous site ran into some legal challenges.
An article in The Guardian on 19 October 2007
noted
One of the world's most-used pirate film websites has been closed after
providing links to illegal versions of major Hollywood hits and TV
shows. The first closure of a major UK-based pirate site was also
accompanied by raids and an arrest ... A 26-year-old man from
Cheltenham was arrested on Thursday in connection with offences
relating to the facilitation of copyright infringement on the internet.
- There is some issue about the legality of the entire
enterprise. Clearly, the persons who carried out the arrest in the UK
had one perspective, but the owners of the new site continue to feel
they are in the right. According to their site (the spelling that
follows is as found on the site),
- Author is not
responsible for any contents linked or referred to from his pages - If
any damage occurs by the use of information presented there, only the
author of the respective pages might be liable, not the one who has
linked to these pages ... [the site] doesn't host any content. All [the
site] does is linking to content that was uploaded to popular Online
Video hosting sites like dailymmotion.com/Youtube. All
youtube/dailymotion users signed a contract with the sites when they
set up their accounts wich forces them not to upload illegal content.
By clicking on any Links to videos while surfing on [the site] cant
take the responsibility for any content hosted on other sites.
- Clearly, the site producers are passionate about the
issue, but they seem to be on the losing side whenever the topic has
gone to court. According to a Wired blog item, Is Linking To
Copyright Infringing Material Illegal? In A Word, Yes.
- There are legal ways to do the right thing. The
Online Copyright Infringement Liability Limitation Act
provides a set of steps for content providers to follow to comply with
the letter and the intent of the law. But the issue of providing links
to material that seems clearly to be copyright protected seems to be
skirting the edges of the law and ethical behavior, and it seems that
the site providers are trying to stay one step ahead of the law.
- Wikileaks, a website
that publishes anonymous submissions and leaks of sensitive corporate
and government documents, while taking measures to preserve the
anonymity and traceability of its contributors,
encountered a similar situation and followed a similar path by moving
its site offshore after a Swiss bank obtained an injunction against it.
In Wikileaks' case, the injunction was reversed and the suit against it
was dropped.
- The same might not be in store for the providers of
this site.
- 01
April 2008 - three today
- Nick Zerona showed us
answers.com, which amalgamates answers to user questions, by
trolling a variety of trusted sources
- Vincent Delille showed us Hulu TV, which was founded
in March 2007 and is a joint venture owned by NBC Universal and News
Corp. and offers free and authorized viewing of selected
movies and TV shows
- Jack Garver showed us
Gmail Custom Time. After the fact, he provided
a bit more context from CNET News.
- 27
March 2008 - Jonathan Vollinger showed us Yahoo's
fantasy sports site.
Wikipedia has a good, concise definition of fantasy sports
and notes the statistical measures that make it work.
- 25
March 2008 - Daniel Lowe showed us digg which is, according
to Wikipedia, a
community-based news article popularity website. It combines social
bookmarking, blogging, and syndication with a form of non-hierarchical,
democratic editorial control. Recently, an
article in the Economist also discussed how it works (also
available through UNC Libraries e-journals).
- 20
March 2008 - Samantha Buckner showed us the Carolina Navigators site and the
link to presentations that students who have the
opportunity to study abroad can give to schools and organizations in
order to share the experience
- 18
March 2008 - Kulpana Akpan showed us imeem, an online
community where millions of fans and artists discover new music,
videos, and photos, and share their tastes with friends.,
not too dissimilar from last.fm
- 06
March 2008 - Jason Purvis showed us a site we can use when we are
tired of doing our endless INLS261 tasks
- 04
March 2008 - Corinne Spangler showed us several sites that
offer sound files for our use.
- 28
February 2008 - Matt Ellis showed us Finale NotePad music
notation software, a free program than can help one create one's own
musical scores.
- 26
February 2008 - Jeeshan Faridi showed us all we can do with Google Calendar and may have
tempted me into making the switch.
- 21
February 2008 - Veronica Wu showed us Spokeo, a tool that
reminds us (as if we needed reminding) about how little anonymity we
have on the web
- 19
February 2008 - we had two today
- 14
February 2008 - we had two today, both of whom showed us
several things
- Mike Tarrant
- Brady McReynolds
- 12
February 2008 - Andrew Abernathy showed us fireTunes,
a downloading tool that can be used within Facebook. Or, as the site
says: a
program that makes sending music to friends as easy as sending them a
message
- 07
February 2008 - Juan Baron showed us Zillow, a site that
relies on information visualization, geographic information, and
interconnected databases to show us the market value of real estate
- 05
February 2008 -we had two today
- Mallory Conlon showed up how W3Schools
has online aids that can walk us through individual challenges as we
work with the detail in our websites
- Ben Jones showed us SpaceTime, a new
browser that incorporates many i-Phone visual display characteristics
- 31
January 2008 - Jack Garvey showed us Open Design Community
website, where one can find XHTML and CSS
based free web design templates available for download.
- 29
January 2008 - Corrine Spangler showed us Entertainment
Magazine's site where one can download and watch old movies.
I recommend The 39
Steps.
- 24
January 2008 - Sachiv Shah showed us two things: images of Udaipur,
Rajasthan,
India (Udaipur is
famous around the world as the City
Of Lakes or Venice of The East) and also the
social networking power of Facebook images sharing
- 22
January 2008 - Anneliese Gegenheimer showed us the Wayback
Machine, a way to see how
things were or used to be
- 17
January 2008 - Brady McReynolds introduced us to Stumble
Upon, an alternative to Google
- 15
January 2008 - Jimmy Nguyen gave us a demonstration of Ubuntu,
a free,
open-source
operating system
- 10 January
2008 - Rob Moore (from the fall class) showed the email
riddler, one way to simultaneously give people an email link
to reach you while hiding that link from spam link harvesters.
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