IM (Instant Messaging) with Pidgin
Pidgin is an instant messaging program for Windows, Linux, BSD, and otherUnixes. You can talk to your friends using AIM, ICQ, Jabber/XMPP, MSNMessenger, Yahoo!, Bonjour, Gadu-Gadu, IRC, Novell Google Talk, GroupWise Messenger,QQ,Lotus Sametime, SILC,    SIMPLE, MySpaceIM, and Zephyr. The client you could download here. No administration rights is needed [...]

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Workshop on blogging (blogger.com), Google account & Google Talk
As a part of the IT strategy for NTNU library, facing the future, we had our 2nd workshop Friday the 23th of November held at Dragvoll Library. It was a workshop showing library employees how to make a simple blog and how to use instant messaging [...]

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Protopage
A very handy and cool new customizable approach to sharing favourite RSS feeds, Webpages and Widgets. You just have to try this. This is the most flexible solution I have seen in a very long time. Here is my contribution to sharing.

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AJOL-African Journals online.
You don’t need to register/sign up in order to use this sites, but :“This will allow you to sign up for Email alerts. You can change your personal details or your Email alerts at any time – when you log in, you will be shown a “profile page”where you can correct your [...]

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Webwag Toolbar in Firefox
The Webwag account interface is much like Pageflakes when it comes to being a collection of favourite RSS feeds, but it has some very cool features when it comes to the widgets. Here you could make a widget on demand inside your webwag’s pages or just create a widget on demand [...]

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Newspapers around the world
Thanks to a colleague (Randi Tyse Eriksen) this is the tip of the week. Through NIAS (Nordic Institute of Asia Studies) NTNU has access to newspapers in a very userfriendly format and possiblities to search and subscribe to RSS feeds in a portal called:Library PressDisplay

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Blogger Archive Calendar The widget is for the new blogger and layouts templates. It’s working wonderful in Firefox,Opera and Safari and of course not in Explorer, why should everything be so problematic with Explorer? Another big issue with the Exporer browser is the constant worrying about Sidebar drop down if your widgets or anything else [...]

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National Geographic News
National Geographic News has made a really cool widget displaying the latest headlines.

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Viewable blog
This blog is best viewable in Firefox, Opera and the Safari browser, this particular template seem to have some major problems with Internet Explorer.

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MIT World at MIT school of engineering.
“MIT World™ is a free and open site that provides on-demand video of significant public events at MIT”. The format is ram (RealMedia).

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