Ofcom research identifies social networking profiles
Nearly half of all children in the UK who have access to the internet have their own personal profile on a social networking site, according to Ofcom research published today.
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Cobalt
an emerging open source and multi-platform metaverse browser and toolkit application being built using the open source Croquet SDK.
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edublogs: Tipping Point Toast for Communities?
There's new research from a Yahoo mathematician researcher which shows that Malcolm Gladwell's 'Tipping Point' theory, where small groups of influential people tip new objects or ideas into the mainstream, may be mere whimsy.
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PicAnswers.com
Ever wondered what is this? Snap a picture, upload it to find out
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TextMap - The Entity Search Engine - Newspaper Analysis
a search engine for entities: the important (and not so important)people, places, and things in the news. Our news analysis system automatically identifies and monitors these entities, and identifies meaningful relationships between them.
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Silobreaker
an online search service for news and current events beyond traditional search and aggregation engines. Its relational analysis and explanatory graphics provide users with unparalleled contextual insight into the news stories of the day.
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Research Blogging
Research Blogging allows readers to easily find blog posts about serious peer-reviewed research, instead of just news reports and press releases.
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Google to Host Terabytes of Open-Source Science Data | Wired Science from Wired.com
a home for terabytes of open-source scientific datasets. The storage will be free to scientists and access to the data will be free for all
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The "Google generation" not so hot at Googling, after all
A new UK report finds that kids born since 1993 aren't quite the Internet super-sleuths they're sometimes made out to be... they also "tend to use much simpler applications and fewer facilities than many imagine."
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Facebook Up, But MySpace Still Leads By A Very, Very, Very Long Way
New figures release by Hitwise show that despite Facebook’s rising traffic, MySpace still dominates US social networking traffic.
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Technology and the World of Consumption
Mary's mother was completely flabbergasted by the way in which her daughter moved seamlessly between the digital and physical worlds to consume clothing. More confusing was the way in which her daughter viewed her steps as completely natural.
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Meeting Business Needs by Meeting Social Needs in Small Communities: Why Size Matters
The answers come from social science and the study of basic human needs – mapped to what’s happening now in Web 2.0. (Fast forward Maslow and his famous hierarchy of human needs
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Google Zeitgeist 2007
To get a glimpse of what's been on our collective consciousness, we mined billions of search queries to discover what sorts of things rose to the top.
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Pew Internet: More teens are creating and sharing material on the internet
Content creation by teenagers continues to grow, with 64% of online teenagers ages 12 to 17 engaging in at least one type of content creation, up from 57% of online teens in 2004.
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gluttonous texting
Needless to say, this alters the culture of texting. From the getgo, Americans have been very cautious about texting. To be on the safe side, many Americans did not add texting to their plan so sending a text message was often futile
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YouTube users prefer lousy science over the real deal
A study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association finds that the cranks may be winning; videos with a negative depiction of immunizations had higher ratings and more views.
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Research Paper - Social network websites — faberNovel
a new Research Paper on best practices from leading social network websites
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Study suggests 100% mobile phone penetration in the US by 2013 - Engadget Mobile
Current estimates reportedly suggest that "nearly 84-percent of the US population will have mobile phones by the end of 2007," and according to SNL Kagen, that figure should shoot to 100-percent in just six years
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Homepage of Ozan Cakmakci
I always had the eyeglass-based display
problem in the back of my mind, I went on to earn a degree in optics working with Prof. Jannick Rolland to learn how to build such
devices.
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