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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"><b
style=""><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><small>4Cast #94:
FriendFeed...Facebook...Internet
Growth...Readers Advisory Online</small><br>
</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt;">March 19, 2008<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p>1. From Friendfeed.com: FriendFeed enables you to keep up-to-date on
the web
pages, photos, videos and music that your friends and family are
sharing. It
offers a unique way to discover and discuss information among friends."<br>
Great. But how does one use it? Here are some sites to get you started.</p>
<ul type="disc">
<li class="MsoNormal" style=""><a
href="http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/03/14/friendfeed-is-this-years-twitter-but-why/">FriendFeed
Is This Years Twitter, But Why?</a> (Tech Crunch)</li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style=""><a
href="http://www.webware.com/8301-1_109-9896535-2.html">FriendFeed is
not the new Twitter. Is it?</a> (WebWare)</li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style=""><a
href="http://guidewiregroup.wordpress.com/2008/03/14/constructive-criticism/">The
blog world is atwitter (pun intended) today over FriendFeed.</a> (The
Guidewire)</li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style=""><a
href="http://www.winextra.com/2008/03/17/has-friendfeed-found-the-secret-sauce/">Has
FriendFeed Found The Secret Sauce?</a> (WinExtra)</li>
</ul>
<p>2. Because of demand and rapid growth, Facebook announced last week
that it
was going to add instant messaging within the next few weeks. Looks
like
privacy controls received some tweaking as well...and now there are new
apps to
help you find your friends...and to help you find a job, or news
articles or well,
almost anything.</p>
<ul type="disc">
<li class="MsoNormal" style=""><a
href="http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/03/18/facebook-to-launch-new-privacy-controls-confirms-chat-is-coming/">Facebook
To Launch New Privacy Controls; Confirms Chat Is Coming</a> (Tech
Crunch)</li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style=""><a
href="http://mashable.com/2008/03/18/facebook-privacy-chat/">Facebook
Updates Privacy and Planning to Add Chat</a> (Mashable)</li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style=""><a
href="http://www.searchenginejournal.com/top-search-based-facebook-apps-to-help-you-find-anything/6534/">Top
Search Based Facebook Apps to Help You Find Anything</a> (Search Engine
Journal)</li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style=""><a
href="http://mashable.com/2008/03/14/facebook-instant-messaging/">Facebook
IM Won’t Hurt All IM Applications</a> (Mashable)</li>
</ul>
<p>3. Just how big is the Internet? Last year, YouTube alone consumed
as much
bandwidth as the entire Internet did in 2000...with no decrease in
sight.</p>
<ul type="disc">
<li class="MsoNormal" style=""><a
href="http://http:/www.nytimes.com/2008/03/13/technology/13net.html?_r=1&oref=slogin">Video
Road Hogs Stir Fear of Internet Traffic Jam</a> (NYT)</li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style=""><a
href="http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080312-study-amount-of-digital-info-global-storage-capacity.html">Study:
amount of digital info > global storage capacity</a> (ars technica)</li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style=""><a
href="http://http:/hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/03/12/1234228&from=rss">Stored
Data to Exceed 1.8 Zettabytes by 2011</a> (Slashdot)</li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style=""><a
href="http://www.enterprise2blog.com/?p=530">Will The Internet Support
Enterprise 2.0?</a> (<st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Enterprise</st1:place></st1:City>
2.0)</li>
</ul>
<p>4. Merging technology and libraries continues to be a challenge. As
the two
are merged, readers are turning to online services to not only meet
their <i>information
</i>needs, but there <i>reading </i>needs as well.</p>
<ul type="disc">
<li class="MsoNormal" style=""><a
href="http://zigmasb.profy.com/blog/post/32811401">80 Online Resources
for Book Lovers</a> (Profy)</li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style=""><a
href="http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/social_issues/jan-june08/libraries_03-13.html">In
Internet Age, Libraries Still Draw a Crowd</a> (PBS)</li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style=""><a
href="http://www.webware.com/8301-1_109-9896881-2.html">BookLamp is a
'Pandora for books' </a>(WebWare)</li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style=""><a
href="http://otherlibrarian.wordpress.com/2008/03/17/treading-on-the-commons-book-recommendations-and-the-wisdom-of-the-crowd/">Treading
on the Commons: Book Recommendations and the Wisdom of the Crowd</a>
(The Other Librarian)</li>
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