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31 Oct, 2006

Google Reader and the Academic Community

Posted by: Jeff VanDrimmelen In: General

When Google Reader was first introduced, the product manager, Nicholas Baum, said it was like your “inbox for the web.” (Read his full introduction here) As many of you know I am a big Google fan and will try out any of their products so I jumped right in. After several weeks [...]

Last Thursday I had the opportunity to hear Craig Silverstein speak on the campus of UNC-CH.  For those who don’t know, here is currently the Technology Director at Google and was the first employee hired by Google’s founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin.  The lecture was sponsored by UNC’s Health Sciences Library and [...]


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Jeff - I am an Instructional Technologist at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. I love Google, Mac's, and Web Technologies that help us better reach, teach, connect, and prepare students to solve the world's greatest problems.