Obviously, what do I know. But, wouldn't it be great if PennVibes widgets could also run on Netvibes, Google IG, Apple Dashboard and many more? woohoo.

Here is a search plugin for the subscription version of the OED. I'm not sure if it works from outside of the University, but with conquery, it's super powerful.

View news feeds from around the University in a single, automatically updated page.

Built with the PEAR XML_RSS parser.

While Creative Commons offers a range of license choices and public domain options direct from its license page, if you have created an application or built a website that allow people to contribute works you may prefer to integrate the license engine directly into your site or application. This guide serves to explain all the steps necessary and options available for integrating Creative Commons into your software. If you are integrating Creative Commons licenses with a non-web application, or would like more control over the user interface, the Creative Commons Web Services may be more appropriate.

Really well, reviewed in TechCrunch, this is a new, open source social bookmarking tool. Apparently, it allows you to upload and bookmark all kinds of files.

 

Google is sponsoring a "summer of code". What if we were a mentoring organization?

Just doing my weekly stalk of the internet for mentions of PennTags, and here's one that my technorati feed missed.

A long, annotated list of sites and products that allow some form of note taking.

How come this doesn't go to any url? Seems true for all of this person's stuff: http://tags.library.upenn.edu/egore

Some nice features in a photo album sharing site. Includes the ability to attach an audio file to a slideshow.

Same article as above on second try.

Ok. Here's what happens in IE when I am not logged in and I tag an article from the penntext menu right after logging in.

Instructions on how to import from delicious to Magnolia.

A cumulative datafile for ESS1-2002 and ESS2-2004 will be made available when a dataset including all participating countries in ESS2-2004 has been published.

Nesstar Limited, the leading provider of data publishing and analysis solutions, is proud to announce the release of version 3.0 of the Nesstar product suite. Publishing and sharing of data on the Web has never been easier with Nesstar 3.0 that comes with numerous functional enhancements and a fresh look and feel.

Check this out. Feedburner has added this really cool feature to their feeds, which allows you to email, or tag to delicious, an item directly from your feedreader. From techcrunch.

Web application LibraryThing lets you catalog all the books you own and use tags to organize your collection.
Add book titles by entering a title and viewing search results from the Library of Congress or Amazon. LibraryThing adds the book’s card to your catalog with ISBN, publisher, year and an image of the book cover. You have space to add a book summary, tags, your comments and a review. See what other users also have each book in their library and what they’ve tagged it. LibraryThing is an impressive cataloging app that feels like del.icio.us for books.