Wednesday, February 21, 2007

Child-Friendly Search Engines

Many parents (and teachers) typically have difficulty configuring and installing Web filters on computers that are going to be accessed by children. Typically the children have a better handle on how to administer the PC. However, parents are frequently on the look for search engines that are child-friendly. These are search engines that filter out objectionable material and provide a cheerier interface.

I don’t have any recommendations that I think are perfect but here are some options to investigate if you are uncomfortable leaving you child on Google.

Monday, February 12, 2007

Yahoo Pipes


For those of you who are fans of the mash-up and RSS Yahoo presents Yahoo Pipes. This looks to be an interesting (and relatively painless) way of combining data feeds from various websites into something new.

To make life easier Yahoo Pipes provides you with a visual editor.

It is interesting to see Yahoo ahead of Google here.