Sunday, October 30, 2005

FeedTier - RSS Web Feed Generator for Web Pages without Syndication

FeedTier is a web feeds generator for web pages without an existing syndication format. FeedTier performs content analysis, picks-up the most prominent cluster of hyperlinks and automatically generates RSS web feeds from web pages without existing sydincation options. FeedTier is an experimental service and free for personal use.

Saturday, October 29, 2005

Blackboard and Microsoft - Sharepoint Services

Blackboard Media Center: "Blackboard and Microsoft Cooperate to Integrate Administrative and Academic Collaboration Products

New Development Initiative Provides Enhanced User Experiences That Are More Easily Managed Through Joint Standards-Based Integration Project

ORLANDO, FL, Oct 18, 2005 (MARKET WIRE via COMTEX News Network) -- Blackboard Inc. (NASDAQ: BBBB) and Microsoft announced today at the EDUCAUSE 2005 annual conference, a joint development project intended to help academic institutions achieve a higher degree of integration and interoperability between their respective portal and collaboration products. The project will result in tighter integration between The Microsoft Office System and The Blackboard Academic Suite(TM) via standards-based integration of The Blackboard Community System(TM) and Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server.

'With this program we plan to bring closer together the administrative power of Microsoft SharePoint with the academic collaboration capabilities of the Blackboard Community System and the Blackboard Content System,' said Todd Gibby, Executive Vice President of Operations at Blackboard."

The Campus Computing Project

The Campus Computing Project
Begun in 1990, The Campus Computing Project is the largest continuing study of the role of information technology in American higher education. The project's national studies draw on qualitative and quantitative data to help inform faculty, campus administrators, and others interested in the use of information technology in American colleges and universities. The US Campus Computing Project also provides the foundation for affiliated research projects in other nations, including Brazil Canada, China, and Hong Kong.

Each year some 600 two-and four-year public and private colleges and universities in the United States participate in the annual Campus Computing Survey, which focuses on campus planning and policy issues affecting the role of information technology in teaching, learning, and scholarship.

Friday, October 07, 2005

Sunday, October 02, 2005

Research Resources

Research Resources (ResearchResources.info) is a Subject Tracer™ Information Blog developed and created by the Virtual Private Library™. It is designed to bring together the latest resources and sources on an ongoing basis from the Internet for research which are listed below. We always welcome suggestions of additional sites and resources to be added to this comprehensive listing and please submit by clicking here. This site has been developed and maintained by Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A.; Internet expert, author, keynote speaker, and consultant. His latest white papers include Searching the Internet, Academic and Scholar Search Engines and Sources, and Knowledge Discovery Resources 2005. All of his Subject Tracer™ Information Blogs and his white papers are available from WhitePapers.us.