+ OverDrive Digital Kiosk & Library eBook Devices:
OverDrive will release the next version of its OverDrive Download Station software, which provides direct access to eBooks and other popular media inside hundreds of schools and libraries. OverDrive is also working with several PC, Tablet, Netbook, and eReader device manufacturers who will introduce products specifically designed for use in schools, libraries, and institutions to access OverDrive catalogs of eBooks, audiobooks, music, video and enhanced content.
+ Content Reserve Plus
OverDrive's global distribution platform will integrate third party digital catalogs to add their eBooks, databases, music, video, and enhanced multimedia content to OverDrive's network of retail and institutional accounts. In March, OverDrive will demonstrate interactive educational eBook products including "read aloud" features and DRM-free eBooks in "Open EPUB" and "Open PDF" formats at the Public Library Association National Conference in Portland, Oregon.
+ OverDrive First Gear:
Enhanced DRM-free eBook and audiobook excerpts for streaming or offline reading with direct "buy-it-now" options and coupons dynamically customized into each title. First Gear will also be able to connect readers with retailers, publisher and author websites, and fan communities.
+ OverDrive Catalog Apps
OverDrive catalog apps, REST APIs, web services, RSS and other tools utilizing XML and open standards will enable mobile app developers and wireless devices to directly manage eBookselling, catalog access, discovery, and eCommerce support for customers of digital books directly from OverDrive-powered retail eBookstores, library catalogs, and other digital collections.
OverDrive's eCommerce bookstore platform, MIDAS, is enhancing its subscription and continuity sales services to include eBook Clubs, metered content sales, and new customer retention and loyalty programs, for its multi-national, multi-language, and multi-currency platform. OverDrive MIDAS powers digital book services for Borders.com, WHSmith.co.uk, eHarlequin.com, ReadWithoutPaper.com and others.
+ OverDrive Reciprocal:
OverDrive's consolidated bookshelf service will provide readers a single location for access, preferences, permission-based contact from publishers and authors across numerous eBook formats, audiobooks, interactive titles, subscriptions, and suppliers of premium media.
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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? 
