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HyperScope Arrives, Serves Up OPML

The HyperScope is a high-performance thought processor that enables you to navigate, view, and link to documents in sophisticated ways. It’s the brainchild of Doug Engelbart, the inventor of hypertext and the mouse, and is the first step towards his larger vision for an Open Hyperdocument System.

HyperScope

This is great stuff.  Basically it extends OPML in a number of useful ways and provides a mechanism for viewing OPML files in a browser.  This will be useful as I work on eLangdell.

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Blogs Added to LexisNexis Index

LexisNexis has added blog content to its Newstex database. They’ve picked an interesting and eclectic mix of blogs covering business, computers & technology, financial services, government & politics, marketing, medical & health, and media. Check out the full list of blogs on Newstex (pdf).

BoleyBlogs! » LexisNexis Adds Blog Content- Paul L. Boley Law Library

Wow.  LN licenses a blogging indexing service from a closed-source blogging aggregator.  Nice.  According to the press releases (here and here) Newstex “licenses influential blog content directly from independent bloggers and then takes in each carefully selected blog feed in text format and uses its proprietary NewsRouter technology to scan it in real-time”.  In turn Newstex sells this tagged info to corporate rubes to slow to have figured out that they can get pretty much the same thing for free from Google or have their IT department whip something together over lattes at Starbucks.  Sometimes I do believe I’m in the wrong ned of the business:)

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Get Your Linux, Your Way

So you want a Linux that’s set up with just the applications you want — no more, no less. What do you do? Well, an expert Linux user does it himself. But, not everyone’s a Linux legend. For the rest of us, there are two good choices.There’s a low-end personal option: Instalinux.com‘s free service, SystemDesigner. There’s also a high-end corporate choice: rPath‘s rBuilder.

DIY Linux, the easy way

A couple of interesting approaches to rolling your own Linux distros.  Handy for getting the whole stack together.

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Pre-Order MSFT Vista!

Microsoft appears to be on track to release Windows Vista for sale at retail outlets in January 2007—that’s if the information posted on Amazon.com is correct.Online retailer Amazon.com is accepting preorders for Windows Vista software, which it says will be available on Jan. 30, 2007.

Amazon Reveals Windows Vista Pricing

We’ll skip the boring details, suffice to say it ain’t cheap and MSFT is not solid on the release date. 

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CA Western SOL Debuts Weekly Podcast

“Although a handful of other law schools use podcasts for lectures and speaker events, we believe California Western is the first law school to offer a weekly news commentary,” said David Bowers

California Western Podcast: Law in 10, Your Weekly Legal Analysis, Debuts

Well, Classcaster has podcasts from about 3 dozen law faculty representing some 30 schools.  The Classcaster podcast network includes over 1250 podcasts totaling nearly 1500 hours of lecture and commentary from law faculty and librarians.  Not bad since Classcaster turns 1 year old this week.

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Corel Buys InterVideo for $196 Million in Cash

Corel on Monday announced an agreement to acquire multimedia software publisher InterVideo, most known for its WinDVD lineup, in an all-cash deal valued at $196 million. The move expands Corel’s portfolio into video editing and DVD creation.With its office products largely reaching their peak amid increasing competition from OpenOffice.org, Corel has endeavored to shift its software business into multimedia. The company acquired JASC Software and its popular Paint Shop Pro offering in 2004 and is readying a new imaging platform code-named “Alta.”

BetaNews | Corel Acquires InterVideo for $196M

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