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Sunday, December 28, 2008

EU's new digital library operational again



BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Union's first large-scale digital library, Europeana (www.europeana.eu), was online again Tuesday, a month after it crashed after being overwhelmed by readers' interest.

"Europeana works again ... after we have quadrupled server capacity," European Commission spokesman Martin Selmayr told a daily news briefing. continue reading

See my previous post: Europeana ~ On hold

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Sunday, December 14, 2008

Europeana ~ On hold

Info courtesy: Dawn Bassett @ A Librarian's ramblings

Please wait, you are in queue, Your Click is Important to Us: "We launched the Europeana.eu site on 20 November and huge use - 10 million hits an hour - meant it slowed to a crawl. We are doing our best to reopen Europeana.eu in a more robust version."

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Wednesday, December 10, 2008

10 clues: A new bubble is blowing

Book titles discussed By Paul B. Farrell, MarketWatch



ARROYO GRANDE, Calif. (MarketWatch) -- No bottom yet? No problem! Wall Street needs another bull, is already secretly blowing a newer, bigger bubble. How do we know? Simple. They're bubble-blowers by nature. It's locked in their DNA, controls their brain waves. It's the divine spark that guides their destiny and America's too. .... continue reading


See also:

  • Leverage: One Cause of the Financial Crisis
  • Financial Crisis: Say it Visually
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