links for 2008-03-25
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Mr. Spitzer’s technological ensnarement wasn’t quite as naïve as that of Carmen Kontur-Gronquist, the former mayor of Arlington, Ore., who was voted out of office last month after she left unrestricted lingerie-clad images of herself up on her MySpac
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Whether Arthur C. Clarke is measured by such enduring science-fiction novels as “2001: A Space Odyssey,” in which he conceived of a space-travel program before man walked on the moon, or purely scientific papers like “Extraterrestrial Relays,” in
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Satellite-television provider DirecTV Group Inc. spent more than $1.2 million in 2007 to lobby on the nation's switch next year from an analog to a digital TV format.
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It claims, in a case filed Thursday in federal district court in Nashville, that by developing, distributing and promoting the video game "Rock Band," Harmonix, MTV Networks and Electronic Arts are violating a virtual-reality patent the guitar maker holds
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When faced with a nasty opponent, turning the other cheek and continuing to cooperate — or at least not handing out punishment — paid off more in the long run, the study found.
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Women's online resource for opinion, poetry, fashion, resources, fun and irreverence.
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Thieves have commonly pilfered card data from databases maintained by merchants or card processors, but the Hannaford episode appears to be the first large-scale piracy of data in transit.
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Users may bid on trips (and other items) that have been put on the block by various nonprofit organizations to raise money
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What are the common traits of survivor technologies? First, it seems, there is a core technology requirement: there must be some enduring advantage in the old technology that is not entirely supplanted by the new.
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Google Banned From US Military Bases; Will Google Get 90% Of US Market & More!
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EU Says Oui To GoogleClick
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Google's Now An SEO, The Google Earth Town & More
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The members of PatientsLikeMe don’t just share their experiences anecdotally; they quantify them, breaking down their symptoms and treatments into hard data.
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Social networking site that compiles and analyzes aggregate user information to provide practical knowledge about symptoms and treatments.
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Poll results released last October by the American Psychological Association found that one-third of Americans are living with extreme stress, and that the most commonly cited source of stress — mentioned by 74 percent of respondents — was work. That
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The prominent mention of her Web site was intentional, part of the Clinton campaign’s recent efforts to keep pace with Senator Barack Obama’s fund-raising juggernaut. The campaign has nearly doubled the volume of her e-mail solicitations, showcased he
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AOL Buys Bebo; Google Offers Ad Management; Yahoo Details Search Monkey
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But soon it became clear that dependable reception required more routers than initially predicted, which drastically raised the cost of building the networks. Marketing was also slow to begin, so paid subscribers did not sign up in the numbers that provid
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The huge social networking sites that seek to use music as free content are as much to blame for the malaise currently affecting the industry as the music lover who downloads songs for free. Both the corporations and the kids, it seems, want the use of ou
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The Facebook Newsroom CMS framework is generic Facebook application code which can be quickly and easily installed, configured and customized for any small organization
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The ubiquitous digital camera and its liberating delete button have turned life into one ongoing photo op.
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Saint Paul Mommy blogger.
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The company, called Phorm, has created a tool that can track every single online action of a given consumer, based on data from that person’s Internet service provider.
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Some good, basic tips on blogging.
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Cool tee shirts.
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Watch a citizen generated John McCain music video.
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Visionary thinkers are particularly important to those of us in the fields of communications because they can get us thinking about where technology may be headed and therefore, how people will use technology.
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The technology, part of a field of computer science known as silicon photonics, would eradicate the most daunting bottleneck facing today’s supercomputer designers: moving information rapidly to solve problems that require hundreds or thousands of proce
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Rickrolling is a descendant of an older Internet joke called duckrolling. A Web site or blog post would offer a link to something popular — say celebrity photos or video gaming news — that led unsuspecting viewers to a bizarre image of a duck on wheel
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The problem, for some in the industry, is that when someone enters a term into that secondary search box, Google will display ads for competing sites, thereby profiting from ads it sells against the brand. The feature also keeps users searching on Google
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Smart businesspeople who appointed themselves as life savers for newspapers are finding it more difficult than they thought to keep their businesses afloat.
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With an eye to the social networking ethos that has made Facebook and MySpace wildly popular, Toyota will let Scion owners design their own personal “coat of arms” online, a piece of owner-generated art that is meant to reflect their job, hobbies and
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A slide show by Paul Isakson.
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The economy has been forced to the forefront of the national conversation in a way it has not been since the go-go 1990s, and for entirely opposite reasons.
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Will the HDTV set be the new picturephone? Quanta Computer Inc., a leading contract maker of laptop computers, and OoVoo, a maker of video chat software, are announcing plans Monday to take high-definition videoconferencing to the living room with a gadge
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Traditional media companies trying to stem the flow of advertising dollars to Google and other large Internet companies are increasingly building ad networks of their own, anchored by their brands.
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Islamic radicals have mastered the Internet as a tool to organize and communicate - amongst themselves and to the world at large. Now some moderates are attempting to spread a message of non-violence on sites such as Hadithuna and altmuslim.
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Some futurists and designers believe keyboards and mice are endangered devices, to be replaced by interfaces that will allow users to control their computers in new ways. We've already seen a lot of that of course, from touch screens to new technology tha
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Researchers have demonstrated it's possible for hackers to manipulate newer heart defibrillators that wirelessly transmit medical data to a nearby device connected to the Internet.
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The Pew Internet and American Life Project says 51 percent of people it polled in a recent survey would rather give up the Internet, televisions and landline phones than their cells.
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Older Americans are often one step behind in technology adoption, but they still live an active online life, according to David Markus, chief product officer at social networking site TeeBeeDee.
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An news industry report says the the Internet has profoundly changed journalism, but not necessarily in ways that were predicted.
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Just as some filmmakers, novelists, and poets seek to fight social ills like poverty and violence by highlighting those problems, computer game makers, too are beginning to use their medium to promote social and political change.
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Peace Maker is a video game simulation of the Irsraeli-Palestinian conflict: a tool that can be used to promote a peaceful resolution among Israelis, Palestinians and young adults worldwide.
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Dafur is Dyins is a narrative-based simulation where the user, from the perspective of a displaced Darfurian, negotiates forces that threaten the survival of his or her refugee camp. It offers a faint glimpse of what it's like for the more than 2.5 millio
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Video game that teaches players about world hunger by placing gamers in the role of a World Food Program team member.
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In a big expansion of casual games, Viacom, the parent company of Nickelodeon and MTV, is investing $100 million dollars to add 1600 new titles to its lineup of Web site.
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The Casual Games Association is a professional international trade organization founded to facilitate a healthy and stable global casual games industry.
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BusinessWeek media business columnist and contrarian Jon Fine on the state and future of the news gathering business, social media and productive relationships with public relations representatives.
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Podcasts for people who care about communicating with employees, customers, prospects and the world, hosted by Donna Papacosta
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Have you been invited as a guest on a podcast or radio show? Listen to these tips for giving good audio so that you’ll be asked back. At the same time, you’ll be making the most of the investment of your own time.
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