The New Law Library of Congress

The Law Library of Congress has revamped their homepage with a new look. View here.

Scout

Scout is a free and new legislative research website that covers the 50 states and Congress. It provided daily insight on how laws and regulations are developed in Washington, D.C. You can subscribe to customized or text alerts on regulations and bills.

CrunchBase

CrunchBase, created by TechCrunch, is a database of technology companies, people, and investors that anyone can edit. Currently, all additions and edits to CrunchBase go through an approval process before they are pushed live.

11 Free Tools for Creating Websites and Simple Webpages

Richard Byrne at Free Technology for Teachers creates an excellent list of websites that will let you quickly build your own Web pages. Here's the article.

Startpage

Startpage is a search engine that uses Google and protects your privacy.

Frame-It

Frame-It by Beta List, is a personal library and workspace where you can store and organize information that interest you - from anywhere on the web. Visually organize and annotate your collected information then search through all your content, including inside your collection of PDF files.

Open Site Explorer

Open Site Explorer is a free search engine tool that performs competitive and marketing research. You can search 65 billion URLs and 9.2 trillion links.

Stealth-Search engine

Stealth is a a new privacy search engine that has no tracking, ads, recording of IP addresses, and cookies. You can search in secret. Want to learn more? Here's how it works, please view here.

DuckDuckGo

DuckDuckGo is a search engine that uses information from crowd-sourced websites that provide instant answers, improved search relevancy, less spam and emphasizes privacy by not sharing or recording one's information online.

Free Legal Research

The Cleveland-Marshall College Law Library provided a list of Free Legal Research.

NowRelevant

NowRelevant is a search engine that can monitor millions of sources and fees to give users the most up to date pertinent information on a subject. It allows users to access a wealth of resources dated back to the past 14 days from the time of their search. Advantages of NowRelevant are:

1. Video Embedding as a PPC Ad - Use a video that is currently online as your PPC ad and have it show up next to search results as the user viewing listings pertaining to your video.
2. Banner Ad as a PPC Ad - Use a 250x250 banner as your PPC ad, as opposed to just text
3. Affiliate Network Friendly - Use hoplinks or affiliate links for your direct linking
4. 20% Affiliate Referral Program - Earn 20% of all deposits from people you refer to the NowRelevant.com PPC program, forever. 2nd Tier earnings at 5% as well.
5. No Traffic Outsourcing - We do not outsource any ad space or take any other advertisers ads for NowRelevant.com. There is minimal chance of phantom clicks or fraud clicks due to this rule. Say goodbye to ad campaigns that received "700 clicks" and no sales or email opt ins. We only show ads that are put directly on our network and we NEVER outsource your impressions to meet a goal.

Here is a video to that demonstrates the comparison between Google and NowRelevant.

TabuLaw

TabuLaw is a new website that makes legal research and writing simple for users. When conducting a search, TabuLaw uses Google Scholar to locate cases. You are able to find the case, read it, and highlight passages. With those highlighted passages, the text can be saved automatically with the citation. In regards to legal writing, the website Google Docs to create and edit a document, can upload documents from your computer and have other features.

Duedil

For those who are conducting business research on international companies, Duedil (short for due diligence) is a database launched in April by Damian Kimmelman and funded by Passion Capital. The database contains a plethora of information such as financial records, litigation, director search, people search, company credit check, stock information and much more. Features include, website previews, keyword search, location search, and company name or address on businesses and companies in the United Kingdom. This is source can be use by analysts, research librarians, business development, marketing and competitive intelligence departments.

Opengovernment.org

Opengovernment.org was launched on January 28, 2011 as a user friendly website to access bill information on the state legislation level. It was a joint project with the Sun-Light Foundation and Open States Project. In addition, the website contains a combination of official government information with news, blogs, discussion forums and tools.

Fee Fie Foe Firm

Fee Fie Foe Firm is a legal search engine that provides users better access to law firms and legal services. It primarily focuses on law firm websites and the following content:

Firm profiles, Practitioner profiles, Media releases, Legal news & updates, Client seminars, Case note & other expert legal analysis, Newletters, bulletins & other publications

Also, it can be used to keep up with current information in the legal market along with locating a legal expert.

Webstarts

Webstarts is a do-it-yourself website builder without having the knowledge and skills of Hmtl and CSS. Interested in creating your own website? You can sign up for a free account.

State Bar of Wisconsin Sues LexisNexis

The State Bar of Wisconsin filed a lawsuit against LexisNexis because the company used a logo that was similar to the pillar icon for it's Lawyers.com website. Read more on this story.

New AALLNET

I'm in the AALL Webmasters' meeting right now in Philadelphia. Chris Siwa, Director of IT for AALL, is showing us the new AALLNET, and the new abilities for my communities. It is interesting.

Some AALL 2011 Links

The Philadelphia Story AALL 2011 - blog for the conference
http://philadelphiastoryaall2011.wordpress.com/

AALL 2011 Local Arrangements Committee Wiki
http://aall2011local.wikispaces.com/

AALL 2011 Local Arrangements Committee Facebook page
http://www.facebook.com/pages/AALL-2011-Local-Arrangements-Committee/171247989594650

AALL Annual Meeting page
http://www.aallnet.org/main-menu/Education/events

Winners of the 2011 AALL Day in the Life Photo Contest

Winners of the 2011 AALL Day in the Life Photo Contest

Also, note that the new version of AALLNET is up and running.