One Laptop per Child (OLPC) is a new, non-profit association dedicated to research to develop a low-cost, connected laptop, a technology that could revolutionize how we educate the world's children.
This all began with an introductory presentation about social network analysis to a group of medical students. What better way to grab their attention than with attractive, fake doctors having sex on television? Naturally this led to the dense network … Continue reading →
Its so fun to write oversimplified posts about such-and-such is dead. Not because its true. At best you can point out something is broken and alternatives are rising fast. But I wonder how the people behind the aging technology and...
Twitter ist ein soziales Netzwerk und damit eine Kommunikationsplattform. Man kann dort Kurznachrichten miteinander teilen, wir selbst nutzen diese auch um in unserer IR Gruppe die Kapitelinhalte zusammengefasst zu posten.
Brad Fitzpatrick recently wrote an elegant and important post about the Social Graph, a term used by Facebook to describe their social network. In his post, Fitzpatrick defines "social graph" as "the global mapping of everybody and how they're related". He went on to outline the problems with it, as well as a broad set of goals going forward. One problem is that currently you need to have different logins for different social networks. Another issue is portability and ownership of an individual's information, explicitly and implicitly revealed while using social networks. As was recently asserted in the Social...
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Open Journal of Ecology (OJE) is an international journal dedicated to the latest advancement of Ecology. The goal of this journal is to provide a platform for scientists and academicians all over the world to promote, share, and discuss various new issues and developments in different areas of Ecology. All manuscripts must be prepared in English, and are subject to a rigorous and fair peer-review process. Accepted papers will immediately appear online followed by printed hard copy.
Chad Hurley and Steve Chen have some experience with turning a small Web site into Internet gold. In 2006 they sold their scrappy start-up YouTube to Google for $1.65 billion. More recently they picked an unlikely candidate to be their next Web sensation: a Yahoo castoff. The men are trying to inject new life into Delicious, a social bookmarking service that, in its time, was popular among the technorati, but failed to catch on with a broader audience.
mspro will channels statt circles bei google+ (einerseits ja, andererseits immer noch zu kompliziert, konversationen werden schwierig weil unklar ist, wer was gelesen hat oder haben könnte, also worauf aufbaubar ist)
weiterführende links! auf john perry barlow of grateful dead, sehr guter text, hab ich ausgedruckt und pam samuelson über clinton gesetzidee für strikteres copyright, weniger aktuell aber worth a read, ausgedruckt too
gnizr™ (gə-nīzər) is an open source application for social bookmarking and web mashup. It is easy to use gnizr to create a personalized del.icio.us-like portal for a group of friends and colleagues to store, classify and share information, and to mash-it-up with information about location. It's free.
Einst erfand Delicious die "sozialen" Lesezeichen. Zuletzt stand der Dienst aber kurz vor dem Aus. Die Youtube-Gründer wollen ihn nun zum Twitter-Konkurrenten umbauen.
Einst erfand Delicious die "sozialen" Lesezeichen. Zuletzt stand der Dienst aber kurz vor dem Aus. Die Youtube-Gründer wollen ihn nun zum Twitter-Konkurrenten umbauen.
readwriteweb anlässl. des (vermeintlichen) delicious-endes eine gute übersicht des tools und mögliche hacks, ad übersicht: Tell an everyday person they can put their bookmarks online, making them accessible from any computer via a service like Delicious, and they are often amazed. Tell them they can then see other bookmarks that other people have tagged with the same categories - and they begin to see another world, a world where the Web is social and interconnected, where we all benefit from the trails of data created by one another's everyday use of the Web.
hackr on Umair Haque, theses: social web is bad: "On the demand side, relationship inflation creates beauty contest effects, where, just as every judge votes for the contestant they think the others will like the best, people transmit what they think others want. On the supply side, relationship inflation creates popularity contest effects, where people (and artists) strive for immediate, visceral attention-grabs — instead of making awesome stuff."
Social search, which may be the defining quality of Google's next generation of search products, is any search that is aided by a social interactions or connections.