Briefs: AddThis.com, UClue Launches; One Button Access to Many Social Bookmarking Services; Splashcast Update
+ uclue Launches
Word tonight that a group of former Google Answer researchers have gotten together to form uclue. We've posted the full text of the news release here. Direct to the uclue site and FAQ. Unlike other Q&A services including Askville, Yedda.com, Yahoo Answers and the new Q&A service from LinkedIn, to use uclue you ask a questien and then post how much you're willing to pay for answer. Just like Google Answers. uclue is a fine idea deserving of your attention, However, they aren't the only source for fee-based research help or getting info professional help for free.
As we have mentioned numerous times on ResourceShelf, many libraries in the U.S. (including the Library of Congress), Canada, U.K. and Australia (to name a few countries) offer FREE, research and reference assistance either via IM, telephone, and/or email. In many cases, 24x7x365.
Examples:
+ California: AskNow
+ Maryland: named AskUSNow.
+ Massachusetts: MassAnswers.
+ New Jersey: QandANJ
In the UK, there is a Enquire and in Australia, Ask Us in Australia. Btw, the Q&A service from the Library of Congress, Ask a Librarian, can be accessed here.
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Recently I have found myself cooing over visualisation maps (and heat maps) of health and well being resources. The content rich data is overlayed with mapping technologies, and some interesting themes and patterns are emerging.
A lot of the talk around social media in the last year has been around information overload. Social media has provided us with new and exciting ways to create content. But it has also meant learning new ways to manage and engage with social media tools. Are we teetering on the edge of an information overload precipice?
Information overload is a figment of your imagination. Or a failure of your filter. Or a symptom of your technological submissiveness. Depends on who you ask.
What if you had to sort through 3.5 million articles and social media posts a day and try to pull out the most relevant items for your organisation? What if you then had to cobble it all together into something readable for your top groups and executives in your organisation?
Alacra Compliance saves time by aggregating information from both free and fee-based sources and enabling users to conduct an accurate federated search across these sources (coined “simultaneous search” by Alacra).
FreePint Family
Quilting big data threads
The fallacy of information overload
Information overload: fact, fantasy or filter failure? 
