Best Betas (and Other Goodies)

Gary Price
gprice@gmail.com
Co-Founder and Senior Editor
INFOdocket.com and FullTextReports.com
October, 2011

Remember, Many of These Tools are Beta (aka Not Ready for Prime Time...But Close)

This Page is Available At: http://j.mp/bestbetas

• Aviary, An Entirely Web-Based Photo and Audio Editor
• Free
  

• Archived Tweets With Snip Bird

• Steady Growth In Terms of Size and Features Over Past 2 Years 
  
• Scholarly Articles and Intelligence
• Microsoft Academic
  

• BASE (Bielefeld Academic Search Engine from Europe)
  
• 31,728,848 Documents of 2,050 Content Providers

• App Discovery
• Quixey
• Android, Blackberry, iOS, Mac, Windows, Others

• Cloud and Social Media Aggregation
• Primadesk
• otixo
• Greplin

• Muse
• Recently Written About in New Scientist
• From Stanford Researcher
• Free
• App Runs Locally
  
• Visualize E-Mail

• Image Recognition
• Leafsnap: An Electronic Field Guide (Snap Image of Leaf, Get Back Info)
• MealSnap (Snap Picture of Food, Get Back Calories)
• Coming Spring '12: WeBIRD (Audio Recognition)
  

• Tin Eye
  
• Reverse Image Search

• Document Management, Archiving, Sharing
• Zotero (Beta 3.0 b1 for Mac, Windows, Linux)
• Mobile Tools Begin to Roll Out

• OCLC Research Works (Many Cool Experiments)
• WorldCat Identities (Updated Quarterly)
• Visualize Relationships (Using Identities Data)

• C-SPAN Video Library
  
• Most programming every aired on C-SPAN Networks
• Keyword Searchable
• View Video Online

• Watch, Know, Learn
• Human Curated, Educational Video Database
• Librarians, Educators and Other Experts Act as Curators
  

• New NARA Search
  
• Online Public Access Database
• User Tagging

• Freebie Alert!!!
  
  • iOS 5 Cloud Users (or Those Who Moght Want to Experiment)
  • Box.net is Offering 50GB of Cloud Storage (Lifetime)
  • Register for a New Account Using Box.net App
  
  Bitcasa (Unlimited Storage)
• Learn More
• They Only Store Data (No Metadata)

• Programmable Web
  
• Source for New Tools, Mashups, APIs

• NeedleBase
• From ITA Software

• DuckDuckGo
• Web Search Engine
• Privacy Stressed
• Direct Links to Specialty Search Tools
  

• SiloBreaker (Not New But Now With Social Media)
• News Search

• Innovative Idea: GlueJar
• Social Commissioning of eBooks
• Discussed at a Presentation Tomorrow