Emergency Alerts Via Facebook And MySpace Are New Ways To Reach Students

Emergency Alerts via Facebook and MySpace Are New Ways to Reach Students

By JEFFREY R. YOUNG
Chronicle of Higher Education / Friday, August 22, 2008
Colleges are experimenting with Facebook and other social networks to notify students about emergencies like crimes and floods—and get vital information in return. Most emergency-alert systems send out warnings. But social [...]

15 Resources for Finding Jobs in Sports

For sports fans and athletes, the prospect of working for or playing professionally on a favorite team is a fantasy that can become a reality. We’ve put together a list of 15 resources to help you find your dream job in sports.
Whether you’re a high school athlete trying to make a college team or a [...]

Picnik Updates its “Basket” with Batch Uploads and More

While Flickr was busy working on its new slide show features, another growing photo-sharing site, Picnik, was busy adding some new features of its own. All users will be able to preview the new features, while Premium account holders will get unlimited access. The new “Picnik Basket” gives premium users the option of [...]

EasyAutoSales Provides Free Vehicle Listings (The Startup Review)

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Company Name: EasyAutoSales
20-word Description: EasyAutoSales makes selling cars online easy for both dealerships and private sellers.
CEO’s Pitch: [...]

Google Helps You Find Yourself (And Other Stuff Too)

Google announced today that it has launched the Gears Geolocation API for mobile and desktop browsers, which will allow website owners to develop location-based services for their sites and help you find points of interest, nearby locations, and countless other information about your general area.
According to Google, the API can “determine your location using nearby [...]

18 iPhone Drinking Apps to Get the Party Started

Blackberry, SideKick, Nokia users, put aside your differences: Let’s grab a beer! It could go all night, and of course, you’ll need to hang with me because I have the best drinking apps.
Here are 18 iPhone drinking apps that will keep track of how much you’re drinking, store drink recipes, help you figure out what [...]

LibGuides Integration With Twitter

LibGuides Integration With Twitter

Springshare has announced the integration of its LibGuide service

[http://www.springshare.com/libguides/] with Twitter, the free social networking and micro-blogging service [http://twitter.com] [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twitter]

“Now when you publish a new guide you can broadcast the news on Twitter for all your faithful followers to see. Anybody subscribed to your Twitter updates will see the name of [...]

Ma.gnolia Goes Open Source; Wants to be the WordPress of Social Bookmarking

Social bookmarking service Ma.gnolia is going open source, announcing plans to allow anyone to download their code and run their own version of the service under a GPL license. While the project – dubbed M2 – won’t officially launch until next month, the company is launching Ma.gnolia.org today, which includes a project charter, preliminary [...]

Do Privacy and Advertising Mesh?

Earlier this week, I discussed a new advertising service called Lotame, which aims at finding out as much about you as possible and using that knowledge to give advertisers a far more targeted advertising experience than is currently available in the CPM model.
Lotame’s CEO was quick to point out to me over the phone that [...]

20+ Tools and Resources for Inventors

Have an idea that you think could be the next big thing? What about a new way to do something better? Well, how do you go about taking these brilliant concepts from your head to market? How do you turn these ideas into products and services without getting ripped off? Here’s [...]