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Information Today Inc Book Sale!
Information Today, Inc. is offering a one-time discount to all of our customers, friends, and family. From now through Monday, January 16, 2012, receive 40% off all book purchases made through the Information Today, Inc. website. The discount is good on an unlimited number of orders placed during the sale period—and with more than 150 titles available on our website, there’s something for everyone.
To get the discount, use the promo code ITIHOLIDAY at the check out on our online store.
Chapter 11 Update
While doing a check of the links in the book I have found that the service mentioned in chapter 11, ‡biblios.net, is no longer available or supported. All links from this chapter will be removed and the chapter page updated accordingly.
25% Discount on Library Mashups
Didn’t get the chance to buy books from ITI (including Library Mashups) when you were at ALA or SLA this summer? Well fear not, there is still time to get the books you want!We are offering a discount of 25% off the retail price on our books purchased online at www.infotoday.com.
The sale runs from Monday, August 1 through Monday, September 5. The discount is good on an unlimited number of orders placed during the sale period—and with more than 150 titles to choose from, there’s something here for everyone.
Ordering on the ITI website is secure and easy, and the discount applies to all in-stock titles published by ITI and featured on our website, including:
- CyberAge books for internet-savvy businesses and consumers
- ITI Books for library and information professionals
- American Society for Indexing (ASI) books
- American Society for Information Science & Technology (ASIS&T) books
- Plexus Publishing books
To get the discount use the promo code ITISP when you check out!
Important: This discount offer applies to the regular retail cover price of each book and cannot be combined with any other discount offer. Directories and periodicals are excluded from this offer, as are co-published/distributed titles and ASI/ASIS&T member prices. Standard shipping rates apply. For international orders please email our customer service department at custserv@infotoday.com for shipping costs. New Jersey residents please add 7% state sales tax.
Library Mashups in Chinese
Library Mashups has been translated to Chinese and is now available in print!
Creating Mobile Mashups
Jason Clark, Library Mashups chapter author, shared a link to a series of articles about using HTML5 to create mobile mashups via his Google Buzz page. I thought that this series would be perfect to share with you all here. The following is the summary of the series:
HTML 5 is a very hyped technology, but with good reason. It promises to be a technological tipping point for bringing desktop application capabilities to the browser. As promising as it is for traditional browsers, it has even more potential for mobile browsers. Even better, the most popular mobile browsers have already adopted and implemented many significant parts of the HTML 5 specification. In this five-part series, you will take a closer look at several of those new technologies that are part of HTML 5, that can have a huge impact on mobile Web application development. In each part of this series you will develop a working mobile Web application showcasing an HTML 5 feature that can be used on modern mobile Web browsers, like the ones found on the iPhone and Android-based devices.
Check out part one (with links to all of the other parts).
Library Mashups now on Kobo
We’ve slowly been adding Library Mashups to ebook readers. I have previoously announced the Kindle and Nook editions. Today I get to announce the Kobo edition!
Library Mashups Available on Nook
A few months ago I announced the availability of Library Mashups on the Amazon Kindle. Today (as a Nook owner) I’m happy to let you know that the book is available for the Nook.
If you’ve been holding off on buying the book because it wasn’t available for your ebook reader, hopefully now you can find the version of the book that’s right for you.
Delicious acquired by YouTube Founders
I wrote recently about the fact that Delicious might be discontinued by Yahoo!, but today I have good news! This from the Delicious blog:
Today, we’re pleased to announce that Delicious has been acquired by the founders of YouTube, Chad Hurley and Steve Chen. As creators of the largest online video platform, they have firsthand experience enabling millions of users to share their experiences with the world. They are committed to running and improving Delicious going forward.
Providing a seamless transition for users is incredibly important for both companies. Yahoo! will continue to operate Delicious until approximately July 2011. When the transition period is complete, your information will be moved over to Delicious’ new owner.
This hopefully means that your Delicious mashups will continue to work for a long long time!
Library Mashups Available on Kindle
I’m happy to inform my fans that Library Mashups is now available for purchase at the Amazon Kindle store. I have been informed that more ebook formats will follow!!
TinyURL API
Just found out today from Jonathan Rochkind that TinyURL (the tool used to shorten urls for posting to sites like twitter) has an API that may be of use to your library.
tinyurl is a simple one-purpose service. And it correspondingly has a delightfully simple “api”. If you ever want to automatically create tinyurls from within an application, you can just request “http://tinyurl.com/api-create.php?url=$URL”, and you get back a text/plain document which contains the created tinyurl (and nothing else). Couldn’t be easier to use.
