4 Places To Find FREE Music
Posted by briansmithmccallum in Uncategorized on October 15, 2011
I’m struggling to keep up and master the myriad options for finding and listening to FREE music on the Web.
Here is my cursory list of resources:
1. Last.fm
http://last.fm
Hyrdid social networking site and music recommendation service. Offers FREE accounts in U.S.
2. Pandora
www.pandora.com
FREE Internet radio and music recommendation service.
3. Spotify
www.spotify.com
Register for a FREE account. Users will see advertising and must download software.
4. Rdio
http://rdio.com
Now users can sign up for a FREE account, sans ads.
Navigating the Web
Posted by briansmithmccallum in Uncategorized on October 12, 2011
How To Improve Your Search Skills
Posted by briansmithmccallum in Search Engines on October 10, 2011
Back to basics. Came across this video below from Common Craft. It’s difficult to explain how a search engine works in words. Therefore, a graphical story helps to grasp cerebral concepts. The video (called “Web Search Strategies in Plain English”) discusses phrase searching, refining keywords, and excluding keywords to help you find what you need.
Which Search Engine and News Outlet Joined Forces?
Posted by briansmithmccallum in Search Engines on October 3, 2011
The Web is abuzz with the announcement that Yahoo! News and ABC have created an “information alliance”. This post from TechCrunch discusses the partnership and how it may compete with CNN and Huffington Post. TechCrunch reports that the joint effort will provide Web-only exclusives at times. It’s estimated that Yahoo! News has an audience of 100 million users. NPR indicates that the alliance will debut with a presidential chat this afternoon. The interview will be webcast live on Yahoo.com and ABCNews.com today at 2:35 p.m. ET.
How Many Users Does Twitter Have?
Posted by briansmithmccallum in Uncategorized on September 15, 2011
Twitter, the microblogging service, that launched a mere five years ago now claims that it has 100 million active users, according to the Official Twitter Blog. Who exactly users Twitter? Twitter lists leaders, atheletes, humanitarians, entertainers, reporters. etc. Remember, too, that Twitter is a search engine.
Google Gets Inked
Posted by briansmithmccallum in Uncategorized on August 1, 2011
The New York Times Review of Books highlights several books about Google. See How Google Dominates Us by James Gleick.
Hotel Finder
Posted by briansmithmccallum in Search Engines on July 28, 2011
Google now offers an experimental tool called hotel finder. See Barry Schwartz’s writeup in Search Engine Land.
