Here is something to check out….. below from their press release.
NEW SEARCH ENGINE ZOTSPOT LETS USERS AND CHARITIES REAP THE RICHES OF
INTERNET SEARCH
Zotspot is the first to compensate users with cash earnings that increase
through usage and referrals
NEW YORK, New York‹Oct. 31, 2006‹Internet search has proven to be one of the
most lucrative businesses in technology. Improving upon an already
successful model, Zotspot today announced its official launch as the first Internet search engine to pay its users in cash for
their normal search behavior. By using Zotspot as their primary search
engine, users earn money and also have the option of allocating a portion or
all of their earnings to one or more of their favorite charities or
universities.
Payments, disbursed monthly through PayPal, are calculated based upon
personal usage. In addition, by referring their friends, Zotspot users can
add greatly to their pocketbooks or increase their donation to charities.
Creating an account is quick and easy. All personal information is secure,
and the data collected by Zotspot will never be sold or shared.
Free to use, Zotspot provides users with a high-quality syndicated search
service. Zotspot makes money the same way all of the other major search
engines do ‹ through advertisements in the search results. The key
difference between Zotspot and its competitors is that Zotspot shares its
revenue with its users. In addition, users may elect to give all or a
portion of their earnings to universities, non-profits or charitable
organizations. Zotspot already enables users to donate to more than 300
charities and universities.
KMWorld & Intranets 2006 got off to a great start today in San Jose. Steve Wunker of Innosight focused on innovation and seeings what’s next. He talked about the innovator’s dilemma in not wanting to undermine their existing business but still innovate and move ahead. Jeffrey Veen, founding partner of Adaptive Path and currently Design Manager at Google gave a lively talk about design in the age of Web 2.0.
Darlene Fichter gave a great overview session on mashups today at Internet Librarian 2007 in sunny and warm Monterey. Darlene talked about mashups being in the sandbox stage — today’s playground, tomorrow’s high rises built from many pieces of content, your own or third party content connected via API or RSS feed. She talked about the mashup ecosystem. Darlene showed many examples:
* book covers
* blogging librarians at frappr.com
* book burro
* weatherbonk.com
J.A. Jance was the opening keynote speaker at Internet Librarian 2006 in sunny, warm Monterey CA. She inspired the over 1,000 in the morning crowd and concluded her talk with two songs! What a lady!
The best, though, was when she inspired my almost 85 year old mother, a retired teacher and reading specialist, by signing her book at dinner last night. Thank you!
It is amazing to me how information professionals embrace new technologies. Last spring the Computers in Libraries 2006 conference wiki exploded with activity. Thanks again to Meredith Farkas for getting it started and for being my wiki mentor! The Internet Librarian 2006 conference wiki is also blooming with attendee profiles & schedules and discussions. On the other hand, the KMWorld & Intranets conference wiki is slower to develop although there are some cool things from the intranet techie side.
Yes, it’s true and isn’t it interesting. Took Dave Snowden a long time to get blogging and a push from Euan Semple, but he admits he now likes to blog! He compares it to giving a keynote speech (which he does regularly, and well, for events that I program) and the conversations/comments following the talk.
I always love Dave Pollard’s take on things as well as his cool flow charts. Check out his latest post on weblogs. See why he thinks, “what is most significant is all the changes that have not occurred despite the explosion of weblogs and attention given to them.”
Information Today’s blog for the Internet Libraian conference is active. The conference is in Monterey CA, Oct 23-5. The IL conference blog also links to many bloggers who will be at the conference. Should be lots of coverage of IL06 activities!
I just posted on the ITI blog about our great keynotes. Take a look.
And also check out the IL conference wiki.
Talking about learning and learning spaces, so many courses and seminars are offered over the web these days. Not only from univerisities but also from consortiums like the Education Institute which represents most provincial library associations in Canada, and provides a range of programs on many different topics utilizing audio conferencing, online courses from the desktop and webcasting technologies. They are reasonably priced. Another example is the SirsiDynix Institute which provides free programs over the web and you get podcasts of past sessions.
So with all these going on, Teach Beyond Your Reach written by Robin Neidorf and published by Information Today is recommended as “an instructor’s guide to developing and running successful distance learning classes, workshops, training sessions and more.”
