Archive for the ‘business’ Category

Delicious customer support and Yahoo turmoil

Sunday, July 6th, 2008

I've been a huge user and proponent of Del.icio.us for about two years now.  I've got over 5,000 bookmarks there with a proportionately vast number of tags.  I've given a lot of thought to its benefits and enthusiastically sung its praises to multiple audiences of friends and colleagues in library ...

Resource review : HPL business databases

Saturday, June 21st, 2008

Some observations about a few of the business databases offered by the Houston Public Library: 1.  infoUSA's ReferenceUSA, Dun & Bradstreet's Million Dollar Database, and Factiva from Dow Jones each are powerful tools for getting data about companies.   A few advantages and disadvantages of each stand out at a glance. ReferenceUSA covers ...