Attending Cornell University as an undergrad will cost you around $17,000 per semester. But if you just want to look through the school’s libraries, it’s free – some of their content will become available to everyone, thanks to an arrangement with Google’s Library Project.
Google Library Project Gets Japanese Partner
For a while there, Google was gaining partners for its Books Library Project on what seemed like a daily basis. That rush (appears to have) stopped, but now one more school has signed up: Japan’s Keio University.
Project Red Stripe Reveals Lughenjo
Google and Yahoo do good deeds on a weekly basis. Microsoft and Ask also make the occasional selfless act. And now Project Red Stripe, a team within The Economist Group, has unveiled Lughenjo. Lughenjo is intended to be “[a] business that does good, and returns a profit.”
Google Library Project Gets University Consortium
Aw, isn’t that nice: the Committee on Institutional Cooperation (CIC) is set to cooperate with Google and join the search engine giant’s Library Project. The CIC is composed of 12 major American research universities.
Google Library Project Befriends Belgium
Ghent University is located in Ghent, which is a city in Flanders, which is a region in Belgium. You probably recognized at least one or two of those names, but you’re sure to know this next one: Google. And Google has just partnered with Ghent University.
Keeping Clients Within Project Boundaries
I suspect most of you have experienced “scope creep” before. Scope creep begins at the moment when your client asks for something outside of the scope of work for which you’ve contracted (you do have a contract, right?). Naturally, they’re asking for this thing to be included at no extra cost. Actually, they’re probably not asking. They’re probably acting like it’s always been understood that this thing will be included. Duh.
SES: Campaign & Project Management
The Search Engine Strategies conference series is back in full swing this week, providing insight from some of the more forward thinkers in the search industry. Emanating from London, this SES conference promises to be one of the most robust we’ve seen.
Murdok guest correspondent Debbie Harrison provides with coverage of the first day’s session, kicked off by Anne Kennedy, Managing Partner at Beyond Ink, who emphasized strategies to manage pay-per-click services.
Princeton Signs On With Google Library Project
The list of libraries, foreign and domestic, that have agreed to take part in Google’s Library Project is slowly but surely continuing to grow. Book searching with Google will now carry a touch of Ivy League sophistication as Princeton has agreed to take part in the efforts of the search company to digitize book content.
Pondering a Google Project in Social Space
Google’s Niniane Wang is currently leading a team of Googlers to develop a new product in the social application space.
Choosing the Right Project Management Software
Project management continues to become an important and popular topic today. This is understandable because project management done correctly will help an organization get better at what it does, and make it more competitive.