Opfine: "Real-time" financial, company and market sentiment: Part 1
20th February 2012

Opfine or “Opinionated financial news”, provides two views of financial news sentiment. One is an overall view of sentiment over the past year for commodities markets, companies, countries and the housing market. It also provides access to a selection of recent articles contributing to current sentiment for a selected market, company or country.

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Tablet Civil Wars?
20th February 2012

The tablet market continues to flourish with competition fierce among rival companies. The exception is Apple where loyal customers are choosing the new iPhone over the old iPad. However, all may change with the iPad3 out soon.

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Collaborative learning through coding
17th February 2012

Information professionals never have been a group to shy away from professional development. This year, the library and information community is taking on, in large numbers, the challenge of learning to code.

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Mobile, social and heading for the clouds!
16th February 2012

We’re living in a highly connected world with information coming at us from all directions. The big questions for me as an information professional are: how to filter it, how to make sense of it and what to do with it? In short, how to manage it.

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Scientific research news for non-scientists
16th February 2012

Covering science and technology, society and culture, health and medicine, and earth and environment, Futurity aggregates research news and presents it in an appealing lay person-friendly tone. Articles highlight recent scientific discoveries with most of the news articles linking to the original published study.

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Add news to workflow: aggregation moves up a gear
14th February 2012

Information professionals have been understandably sceptical about using news aggregation services for their research. After all, despite being able to access news almost in real-time, content can be unreliable and results may be unrelated to the initial enquiry.

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Citation Management + Current Awareness = Bibliogo
14th February 2012

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Sharing information - A VIP Editorial
14th February 2012

Effective information and knowledge sharing are crucial aspects of both personal and organisational life. Social media tools such as Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter have become indispensable parts of everyday life, and in doing so have brought about a revolution in personal sharing and exchange of knowledge and information.

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paidContent joins GigaOM - watch out Techcrunch
13th February 2012

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Building a rapport with LinkedIn
13th February 2012

Rumours had been circulating for a while that LinkedIn, the most popular professional social network in the world, was planning to purchase Rapportive a browser plugin for Gmail. Now it would appear that the deal has been done and LinkedIn has acquired Rapportive for a sum believed to be between $10 and $15 million.

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