The Biblio File

Lifehacker reports that a company named Perooz is making it possible to read magazines on your ipod. Interesting choice of demographic to start marketing this service towards. . .

The LITA Blog has several entries from some people I think are smart talking about what they think some of the upcoming technology trends are going to be, and what they mean for libraries. Several of the authors on this blog are going to be giving a panel on technology trends at ALA Mid-Winter, so if you’re going you might want to check it out.

Via Intelligent Agent, I came across TagCrowd (from the good folks at Creative Commons), which lets you enter any text and create your own tag cloud of that text. I can see this being a useful tool to create visual representations of, say, an article abstract, or the transcript of a speech.

Cite Bite is a tool that lets you link not just to a page, but to a specific part of a page. It even highlights the quoted part in yellow, so the person you are sending the link to can see the part of the article that you want them to see. Check out the link I made to this article on the new apple iPhone.
http://citebite.com/y8k1q4u6stvn

This could be especially useful for e-reference situations when co-browsing is not available, and could be a good tool to use in conjuntion with our IM service.