http://library.osu.edu/blogs/techtips Welcome to TechTips. The goal of this site is to inform and educate the students, staff, and faculty of The Ohio State University Libraries System about various emerging technologies that may impact the services that the Libraries provide. Thu, 29 Oct 2009 19:28:42 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I received an email  from a colleague about a month or so ago about a search engine they uncovered, called DeepDyve. DeepDyve was started in 2005 by two scientists who had previously worked on the Human Genome Project. It makes sense that the search engine searches for information spanning the ... http://library.osu.edu/blogs/techtips/2009/10/29/techtip-renting-scholarly-articles-through-deepdyve/ The folks at Google released 100,000 invites today to preview their new model of Web-based communication and collaboration, called Google Wave. Since it has been in private beta, one has to rely upon others to explain what Wave is. It has been described "as much of a real-time chat room as ... http://library.osu.edu/blogs/techtips/2009/09/30/techtips-google-wave/ In the movie The Terminator, the viewer is taken frequently to the Terminator's point-of view. We know this is Terminator's POV because there is image digitization and the people he is chasing are more luminous than objects in the foreground and background, which suggests infra-red. In the margins of ... http://library.osu.edu/blogs/techtips/2009/09/21/techtips-augmented-reality/ A growing number of university organizations are now managing an online presence on Twitter. In a complex organization like OSU's library system, there could be accounts for news and events, accounts for any number of special collections, and accounts for projects and initiatives. The larger the organization the greater the likelihood ... http://library.osu.edu/blogs/techtips/2009/08/11/techtip-managing-multiple-twitter-streams/ Hashtags are used by Twitter users to make it easier to search for tweets about specific topics and events. A hashtag consists of a word or code which is preceded by a “#” which helps denote what the tweet is about. Think of it as tweet-metadata.  Hashtags allows specific tweets to be ... http://library.osu.edu/blogs/techtips/2009/07/08/techtips-whats-a-hashtag/ There is an advanced option within Google Scholar that makes it easier to access OSU Libraries electronic and print resources. Since OSU Libraries that make their resources available via an OpenURL link resolver, Scholar automatically links to these resources as a part of search results. Scholar identifies a user's physical location ... http://library.osu.edu/blogs/techtips/2009/06/25/techtips-localizing-google-scholar/ The other week I got a 'tweet' from a new colleague. The update seemed harmless enough. It enthusiastically pointed me a web site they thought was humorous. Suspecting nothing, I clicked on it. I thought it a bit odd when my browser opened to my Twitter account requesting that I ... http://library.osu.edu/blogs/techtips/2009/06/11/techtips-twitter-phishing/ Wolfram Alpha is a 'computational knowledge engine' that answers questions, solves equations, and cross-references data types by synthesizing it into different combinations. The goal of WA is to make systematic knowledge immediately computable by drawing on terabytes of curated data. The service is the brainchild of Stephen Wolfram, who is ... http://library.osu.edu/blogs/techtips/2009/05/19/techtips-wolframalpha-computational-engine/ Powerset is a discovery tool that (currently) extracts and organizes information contained  in Wikipedia and Freebase. A natural language algorithm allows the searcher to use keywords, phrases, or even simple questions.  The results page aggregates information from across multiple articles, in essence creating an enhanced Wikipedia article.For example, here ... http://library.osu.edu/blogs/techtips/2009/05/07/techtips-searching-wikipedia-using-powerset/ Do you have a particular hobby or interest that you have compiled a collection of Webs sites and blogs for? Do you keep extensive bookmark lists for these collections? Are you frustrated that you need to visit each of those sites? Do you finding yourself sifting through pages of results ... http://library.osu.edu/blogs/techtips/2009/04/27/techtip-customized-google-search/