Meebo widget

David Lee King posted about the use of the Meebo widget in the Topeka library catalog and then posted again about the responses to his post about using the widget.  All interesting conversations.

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Creating a useful library catalog

A colleague of mine at work forwarded information about this to our reference librarians, but I just read about it on Jenny Levine’s blog: the idea of using Meebo’s IM widget in the library catalog to create a user-librarian interaction at the point of need. Our library has gone back and forth about using IM [...]

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Create your…self

Tired of that sad ‘ol picture you use to populate your MySpace, Facebook, website and other social networking tools?  Well…mEgo is here to help!  Design and build your own customized avatar to use on the web and share with your friends.  What is neat, though, is that you create the look of your avatar, even [...]

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The New York Times – my style

News junkies beware: The New York Times released a beta version of myTimes, a customizable homepage for your favorite Times content. TechCrunch is not impressed, although Jenny Levine at Shifted Librarian makes the comment that this is a “tipping point” for the mainstream public and their acceptance of RSS and news aggregators. [...]

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