Thanks to James King, Caucus Convener, SLA Information Futurists Caucus for selecting a "best of" shortlist of his posts to the SLA Information Futurists Caucus discussion list to share here on the Government Info Pro. If you are a SLA member, you should definitely consider joining the Information Futurists Caucus. To learn more about the Caucus or to subscribe to the SLA Information Futurists Caucus discussion list visit the SLA Information Futurists Caucus website.
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As guest poster for Marie, I’d like to highlight a summary of recent posts that I’ve made to the SLA Information Futurists Caucus discussion list.
URL Shorteners:
Top 5 URL Shorteners and How They Help You.
This article highlights the top five URL shorteners and their benefits. Specifically, they review doiop.com (which allows you to choose your own URL page name), tinyurl.com (most famous and offers preview), readthisurl.com (can tag url with multiple keywords), memurl.com (create a mnemonic link), dwarfurl.com (track stats on url).
Make Your Own URL Shortening Service
For those that would like additional security or provide some backup in case one of these services disappears (thus causing a loss of link history), this article walks through installing yourls.org on your own server. In addition, the article also highlights four hosted services that can be used for sites that use a hosted service and want to provide more customized url options.
Finally, this article at sean-o.com walks through how to create your own URL Shortener from scratch.
Open Source CMS:
2008 Open Source CMS Market Survey
I ran across this report and found it helpful to see who the market leaders are in the Open Source CMS world, especially since I’m jumping into the Drupal world. I should note that the article is written by a Thailand-based web development company focused on deploying open source technologies. This means they appear to have a lot of experience with Drupal, Joomla, Magneto, and WordPress.
Reported photos, video of Microsoft Tablet seen
“Photos and video of a prototype tablet reportedly being worked on by Microsoft were leaked Tuesday to Gizmodo.com, and if the prototype becomes a reality, it could be quite an impressive device. The tablet shown on the site has dual, multi-touch 7-inch screens that use both touch as well as a stylus for input and writing, and resembles an e-reader more than a computer.”
Microsoft Surface/UNR overview
Will Kurt of UNR created a YouTube account of the work they’ve been doing with Microsoft Surface. They’ve also created videos highlighting an application for anatomy students and Conway's Game of Life.
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