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17 Jan 09
Share contact info, social graph via Google Profiles
The first steps to getting social search functionality in Google. Will be interesting to see where this goes.
13 Jan 09
Eurekster Launches Personalized Social Search - (old story)
Personalized search? The concept has been that by knowing some things about you, a search engine might refine your results to make them more relevant. A teenager searching for music might get different matches than a senior citizen. A man looking for flowers might see different listings than a woman.
Eurekster's twist on this concept is to provide personalized results based not on who you are but who you know. Friends, colleagues and anyone in your Eurekster social network will influence the type of results you see.
09 Jan 09
History of the Internet
"History of the Internet" is an animated documentary explaining the inventions from time-sharing to filesharing, from Arpanet to Internet.
03 Jan 09
How the Lowly Text Message May Save Languages That Could Otherwise Fade - WSJ.com
Can predictive text in SMS help save languages from going extinct?
05 Dec 08
Social Computing in 2020: Bluesky Innovation Competition
The Bluesky Innovation Competition on “Social Computing in 2020” seeks to promote new research directions for social-computing technologies of the future. We encourage participants to think broadly and freely about how society and technology will interact 10 to 20 years from now — far enough in the future to stretch our imagination of technology, yet near enough to be plausible. (DUE Jan 30, 2009)
25 Nov 08
Internet as a Social Ally
How do people use the Internet to solve problems? We find that a significant portion of online Americans turn to the Internet at times because it seems to fulfill their needs more readily and thoroughly than the people in their community network do. We present evidence of when people use the Internet versus seeking the assistance of friends and family and possible reasons for this behavior. This research demonstrates how, to what extent, when and why the Internet supplements people's lives.
20 Nov 08
Energy Efficiency: Potential Fuel Savings Generated by a National Speed Limit Would Be Influenced by Many Other Factors
Review of literature and experts by a government agency. Produces a report on the myriad factors that would influence actual gas savings on a national speed limit.
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In response to the request, we reviewed existing literature and consulted knowledgeable stakeholders on the following: (1) What is the relationship between speed and the fuel economy of vehicles? (2) How might reducing the speed limit affect fuel use?
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peed that optimizes fuel economy for all vehicles. Optimal speed for fuel economy for individual vehicles ranges widely, but is generally between 30 and 60 mph, depending on a vehicle's characteristics. However, a vehicle's fuel economy also depends on other factors besides air resistance. Factors that enhance
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18 Nov 08
Internet changes the rules for researchers
“The concern for internet research is that regulations are firmly rooted in face-to-face settings and the literature culture of paper and print,” Beddows says. “In order to relieve the problems associated with online research, there needs to be an effort made to develop methodological guidelines that take into account both the unique nature of the internet, and its relationship to the physical world.”
Organizational Contributors to the Yes on 8 Campaign
These organizations all contributed to the Yes on Prop 8 campaign in California. Seriously, shame on you.
17 Nov 08
Information Retrieval/Search Technologies Seminar 2008
This looks like a really interesting Seminar (organized by IBM Hailfa Research Lab), including discussions of social search, sensemaking, and discovery.
from52to48withlove :: zefrank.com
How can the reds and the blues come together for the sake and well-being of our country going forward? This is an awesome set of photo submissions that will inspire you no matter who you voted for in the US election. (How I can make use of (or include) this great work with the post-election reactions I captured from Turkers?)
T N T — The Network Thinker: Twitter Maps
Valdis Krebs demos his InFlow Twitter map to show meaningful relationships between people and between clusters of people among his network of Twitter followers (as opposed to the only pretty TweetWheel.)
What Happens If You're on the Gay "Enemies List" - TIME
"Gay activists have begun publishing lists online exposing individuals and organizations who have donated money in support of Proposition 8. On AntiGayBlacklist.com, individuals who gave money toward Proposition 8 are publicized, with readers urged not to patronize their businesses or services."
Mechanical Hype « The Alter Egozi
Is Aardvark really a social search engine if it outsources your search queries to random people?
10 Nov 08
Obama-Biden presidential website
Change.org looks like the Obama Administration's official website---already live!
05 Oct 08
The Choice: Comment: The New Yorker
This an well-written article by the editors of the New Yorker in full support of Barack Obama for Presidency!
03 Oct 08
Augmented Social Cognition: CSCW2008 Paper on "Towards a Model of Understanding Social Search"
A teaser for our paper on social search (written by Ed Chi).
23 Sep 08
The social web: All about the small stuff
From the Google blog: they argue that the benefit of the social web and social technologies is that people are able to stay close to friends because they are aware of the small events going on daily in their lives.
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I'd argue that a big part of it is the small details that you know about each other.
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ie they saw two nights before. Closeness often comes from knowing the small things, not just the big things. Distance makes knowing those small things harder. When you live together, either with your family or your friends, knowing the small things is easy. They get con
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18 Sep 08
The Potential End Of America's Government - The Market Ticker
It is shocking what is happening to the economy right now and what our government is doing about it. I am no expert--not sure how this will play out, but I am frightened.
11 Sep 08
Official Google Blog: The future of search
Marisa Mayer talks about using location, natural language (and voice), mobile media, and social networks to personalize search in the next 10 years.
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s impact on people's lives around the world in the 10 years since Google's founding. It has changed politics, entertainment, culture, business, health care, the environment and just about every other topic you can think of. Which got us to thinking, what's going to happen in the next 10 years? How will this phenomenal technology evolve, how will we adapt, and (more importantly) how will it adapt to us? We asked 10 of our top experts this very question, and over the next three weeks we will pre
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Alan Kay has famously observed, the best way to predict the future is to invent it
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