Googlers like to think of their company as the Web's library.
And California-based company Roku also offers a digital video player that integrates television, Web content and a video library.
But the 56-kbps hookup should satisfy first-time surfers charmed by access to the vast library of the Web and by letters that arrive in a matter of minutes instead of days.
Along the bottom are buttons for Library, Apps, Web, Email and the newly-redesigned shop.
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Speaking to GigaOM, Redbox Instant CEO Shawn Strickland said his product's focus remains movies -- both physical and digital -- which differs from Netflix's TV-heavy library and emphasis on web content.
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The searches may be conducted on-site at the library or via an online catalog, which will be accessible via the library's World Wide Web site at www.loc.gov.
America's Library of Congress used the web to create an electronic version of an exhibition of manuscripts from the Vatican, letting an electronic visitor wander from link to link, looking at pictures and reading about them rather as a real visitor might stroll from corridor to corridor.
The web is a marketplace as well as a library and a playground.
At that time the web was often described as an enormous digital library that you could visit or contribute to by building a homepage.
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PANDORA, Australia's Web Archive 1996-ongoing held at the National Library of Australia in Canberra.
The interface appears to be quite gorgeous, with large paned windows providing access to your game library, the Steam Store and various web portals.
My personal favorite use of libraries is for photographs that are digitized and up on the Web, provided from the archives of the Denver Public Library and the Library of Congress.
Any book purchased via web browser will be waiting in the user's Reader library, ready to be read.
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Spotify, like Last FM and Imeem, lets its members build and listen to their own library of songs that are streamed to them via the web.
Inspired by the theories of Marshall McLuhan, he envisioned a series of domed theaters scattered around the world, each with its own programming but connected in a networked library of films and images that would have anticipated the World Wide Web.
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In addition to transcripts, the Nixon Library said it would release a separate "historical commentary" on the Web site to put the material in context.
America's Library of Congress enjoys a specific mandate, and budget, to save the web.
The KAUST Library emphasizes support for "e-science" through its digital repository, web-based services, data curation, and full exploitation of the University's extraordinary IT infrastructure.
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