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Emerging Tech Talk: Google Books Settlement

by lauren pressley
Thursday, December 18, 2008 4:46 pm

Today’s Emerging Tech Talk was on the Google Books Settlement with a brief introduction to the Life Magazine Photo Archive that is now available through Google.

I gave an image heavy presentation, so here is the bit about the Life (with extra notes slides):

If you’re interested in searching for images, you can go to the LIFE photo archive or include “source:life” in a regular Google Search.

And here is the bit about the Google Books Settlement (with extra notes slides):

If this is exciting to you, here are places to go for more information:

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Flickr, Picasa, Facebook, Oh My!

by lauren pressley
Sunday, November 23, 2008 5:28 pm

This month’s emerging technologies talk was requested from several people: a discussion of some of the similarities and differences between popular photosharing sites. We were working with a limited time span, so we covered the three top contenders: Flickr, Picasa, and Facebook.

If you’re interested in more information about current photosharing site, ReadWriteWeb has a great writeup.

Join us on December 18th at 11:00 for a talk on the current state of the Google Books settlement and new resources from Google such as the collection of Life Photos.

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