Best of the Blogs - June 2012 - Summary

Best of the Blogs - June 2012 - Summary

Inside Google's Plan to Build a Catalog of Every Single Thing, Ever - database has grown rapidly to over 500m items objects.

The new internet names: a plain English explanation - Critics say it will lead to a new flood of cyber-squatting.

The Top Free Ways To Stream Video From Your Computer To Your Mobile Or Tablet - 1. Connect To A Desktop Client Application; 2. Connect To a UPnP/DLNA Server; 3. Connect To An FTP Or SMB Server.

Meet your clients’ new couch companion: the tablet - a sharp increase towards the end of the night.

Pew: 17% Of U.S. Cell Phone Users Now Mostly Use Their Phones To Go Online - users said that they are more easily available, fit their usage habits better and good enough to perform basic online activities.

Australians Are Still Second-Class Citizens In Android Jelly Bean - many new features aren’t going to work in Australia.

5 reasons everyone will be using Chrome OS in 3 years - It’s cheap; flexible; Chrome OS and Android will merge; It’s Google; webification.

Google makes a big push for offline Chrome apps - run in Google’s browser without requiring full-time connectivity.

Google Maps Available Offline For Android Phones - You can store up to six large metro areas.

Google Play Web Store Now Lets You Update And Uninstall Apps Remotely - from your web browser.

How To Track Your Emails In Gmail & Find Out If The Recipient Has Read It - SpyPig; WhoReadMe; and Link Shortening Applications.

Social curation is much more than just a market - complete democratization of a Web.

Disqus Revamps Its Commenting Tools: Faster, More Social, And Now With Article Discovery

The 5 biggest mistakes users make in Amazon’s cloud - screwups users make.

Australian Subscription Music Services Compared - Spotify and Grooveshark  - totally free; JB Hi-Fi, Zune Music Pass and Samsung Music Pass all offer discounts.

The 6 Best PDF Readers For Windows - Google Chrome; Firefox; Windows 8; Foxit Reader; Sumatra PDF; Nitro PDF Reader; PDF-XChange Viewer; Adobe Reader.

The Easiest Ways To Make A Personal Website Without Any Coding Skills - Flavors.me; Adobe Muse; Wix.com; Spinto ; Sidengo; Breezi.

Turn Your Email Into The Best Social Network - Folders, Labels and Contact Groups; Filters and Mute; App Choices; Plenty of Storage and Data You Own. Create Contact Groups; Organise and Sort Your Groups; Use Priority Inbox; Turn On Threaded Conversations; Mute Conversations; Phone Calls and Video Chats; Turn On Maps, Flickr, Picasa and Docs Previews; Use Third-Party Apps.

Music Piracy Is NOT a Problem, It’s an Excuse - you need to sell them something they actually want.

Pay attention to what Nick Denton is doing with comments - a user who replies to an existing comment is likelier to get her contribution seen.

EXTRA ETHER: eBooks Gone in 5 Years? - The distinction between “the Internet” and “books” is arbitrary, making them look a lot more like print books and a lot less like the Internet.

17 FREE YOUTUBE TOOLS EVERY TEACHER SHOULD KNOW ABOUT - YouTube Preview; Skip Youtube Ads; YouTube Leanback; YouTube Trends; YouTube Instant; YouTube for Schools; Grockit Answers; Watch2gether; iDesktop ; OrbitDownloader; Mobile Media Converter Online; Listen to YouTube; A Cleaner Youtube; Quietube; ViewPure; Tube Chop’ EmbedPlus.

Yeah, e-books are great — but libraries are in a tough spot - Over 75 percent of libraries now offer e-books; 62% of users weren’t sure if they could borrow e-books from their library. Libraries introduce patrons to new technologies and help them become paying customers.