Author: timbatchelder

  • How to Migrate All Your Data to iCloud from Google without going mad

    How to Migrate All Your Data to iCloud from Google with Minimal Fuss. Related articles Apple extends iCloud storage following downgrade glitch (reviews.cnet.com) How to share documents with iCloud (macworld.com) Apple Gives Previous MobileMe Users An Extra Year Of iCloud Storage (geeky-gadgets.com) Apple extends iCloud storage upgrade for MobileMe users another year (engadget.com) iCloud.com Still…

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  • Brian David Johnson and the Intel futurism department

    Brian David Johnson: Intel’s Guide to the Future – Forbes. Related articles Biology vs. The Machine – Part 3: Conversations about Synthetic Biology (uk.tomorrow-projects.com) Maker Faire New York: Brian David Johnson/Vintage Tomorrows (makezine.com) Breaking Down Barriers – Part 1: Conversation with Ariel Waldman & Brian David Johnson (uk.tomorrow-projects.com) Intel’s Futurist Brian David Johnson: Don’t Let…

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  • Is Buddhism the most bio-scientifically accurate religion?

    Buddhism: The Most Accurate World Religion? – Boston.com. Related articles New research reveals Christianity’s Buddhist roots (examiner.com) Six Tibet Facts get Travelers Thinking about This Year’s Tibet Vacation Tour: Devin Moore’s New Tibet Travel Tips and Facts (prweb.com)

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  • Molecular archaeology: learning from our waste

    Something in the water – Boston.com. I’ve long followed the field of garbology, or what we can learn from our waste, but now a new molecular twist has come along…. Related articles Molecular Gastronomy Comes To Fast Food (qsrmagazine.com) The Initiation and Growth of Molecular Biology and Genomics (pharmaceuticalintelligence.com) Managing Archaeological Data in the Digital…

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  • The 10 best American colleges for writers: Hamilton College

    The 10 best American colleges for writers | USA TODAY College. Wow. My college made #2 in best colleges for writing! Related articles What’s Better Than College Art History 101? A Campus Museum (forbes.com) Undergrads Do Archaeology, Civic Engagement and Digital Humanities (rebeccafrostdavis.wordpress.com) Why Listening is Hard and How to Think Critically (conversationagent.com) Ezra Pound…

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  • Evolutionary basis of maximum connections on Facebook (150)

        Robin Dunbar: We can only ever have 150 friends at most… | Technology | The Observer.   Related articles   Social Media Maximum: 150 Friends (forbes.com) This Man Knows Exactly How Many Friends You Should Have (businessweek.com) The Dunbar Number, From The Guru of Social Networks | Drake Bennett | Business Week |…

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  • Bard MBA in Sustainability

    Bard MBA in Sustainability . Related articles Bard College to Launch Innovative MBA in Sustainability in New York City in Fall 2012 The Importance of Embedding Sustainability in Secondary Education Curriculums R. Paul Herman: Who Are The Real “Job Creators”? They Are Not Who You Think Where the Jobs Are: How to Reach Full Employment…

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  • BzzAgent is the leading word-of-mouth marketing (WOM) company

    BzzAgent is the leading word-of-mouth marketing (WOM) company. Another cool Web 2.0 application that allows you to create word of mouth communities and viral networks for your product. Related articles BzzAgent’s Dave Balter Offers Word-of-Mouth Advice Rockin Week with BzzAgent Spread the Word! The Secrets of Word of Mouth Marketing Bzz or bust? Put your…

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  • Communispace, The Leader in Online Consumer Insights Communities

    Communispace, The Leader in Online Consumer Insights Communities. After benchmarking Sermo and other online communities for BI and market intelligence I was introduced to this company. They provide a similar service but will allow you to create instant communities of smaller groups to target product research. Related articles From Boston to Shanghai: 5 Things Communispace…

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  • Evolutionary medicine: parasitic hookworms for allergy relief

    A fascinating story on the discovery and use of parasitic hookworms to treat allergies based upon bio-anthropological research by a long time allergy sufferer. Gut instinct: the miracle of the parasitic hookworm | Life and style | The Observer. Related articles Worms, Germs, and Dirt: What Can They Teach Us About Allergies and Autoimmune Diseases?…

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  • UIC – Master of Engineering

      UIC – Master of Engineering. Related articles Master’s Degrees Part II: But Does That Mean You Need One? (avoidingadulthood.com) Two New Online Master of Engineering Degrees from Colorado State… (prweb.com) Roominate: Inspiring Artists, Engineers and Visionaries (engineering.curiouscatblog.net) Accuracy of Medical Information on the Internet (blogs.scientificamerican.com) Cornell Tech Campus Opens Applications for First Class (theepochtimes.com)…

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  • Spigit: Lightweight business intelligence for social networks

    Spigit. Related articles Spigit Offers ICON as Free Service to Expand Crowdsourcing (theappgap.com) Spigit Further Strengthens Executive Team With Appointment of Jim Walker as Chief Financial and Operating Officer (sys-con.com) Spigit Offers Release S3 to a Maturing Market (billives.typepad.com) Spigit Recognized as a Hot Company in the Emerging Social Enterprise Market (sys-con.com) Collective Intelligence Summit:…

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  • Mercer’s 2011 Cost of Living survey highlights

    Mercer’s 2011 Cost of Living survey highlights. best cost of living index for 150 cities. lists cities which are least expensive to retire to worldwide. Related articles Cost of countryside living rises – Confused.com (confused.com) How does your cost of living compare to other cities? (christianpf.com) Tax the Rich? Itemized Deductions & Cost of Living…

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  • Health 2.0: Crowd-Sourcing Life Sciences Maxiom Group Blog

    Please read my latest blog post Health 2.0: Crowd-Sourcing Life Sciences on the Maxiom Group blog. Related articles NYC plays matchmaker to hook up healthcare groups with startups to commercialize tech tools (medcitynews.com) Speed dating for startups: NYC and Health 2.0 pair health organizations with entrepreneurs [GigaOM] (gigaom.com) Crowd Sourcing: The Time Has Come (pharmexec.com) How To…

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  • Knowledge Jolt with Jack

    Knowledge Jolt with Jack. This guys has been at it for years, trying to get companies to embrace KM and has assembled a great collection of articles. Related articles Can you make tacit knowledge…explicit? (therunninglibrarian.co.uk) Technology Change (ivythesis.typepad.com) Move It or Lose It – Keeping Knowledge on the Move (blogs.gartner.com) Process Aligned Knowledge Management and…

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  • IIR ePharma Summit

    I’ve been a speaker a these conferences and they do a good job of covering new developments in life science and social media. IIR USA – Events Deliver Business. Related articles Viva the Healthcare (Social) Revolution! (gigipeterkin.com) Profiles of Drug Companies “Doing it Right”: AstraZeneca (medmeme.com) #ePharma Annual Summit: leveraging innovative digital marketing strategies (pharmastrategyblog.com)…

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  • Simple Online Time Tracking Software – Harvest

    Simple Online Time Tracking Software – Harvest. I’ve used this software to track time on a team and it worked pretty darn well. It is part of the Basecamp portfolio which I also use for project management and is entirely cloud based so is very easy to set up and rollout with minimal IT resources.…

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  • IBM Gaming and Leadership Report

    IBM Research | IBM Innovation | Gaming and Leadership Report. Related articles InterConnect 2012: Where business and IT leaders connect (ibm.com) Is Big Tech Back on Top? (fool.com) The first step to changing the culture in healthcare (kevinmd.com) IBM Watson: All grown up and off to medical school (katsinsight.com) Who Should Replace Mark Zuckerberg? (fool.com)…

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  • Stanford’s Online High School Raises the Bar

      Stanford’s Online High School Raises the Bar – NYTimes.com. Related articles StartX, Stanford’s nonprofit accelerator, nabs $800,000 funding grant (venturebeat.com) Inside Stanford’s creativity factory (management.fortune.cnn.com) The Way of the Future: Coursera (jaypgreene.com) Home Schooling As the 21st Century Model for Public Schools? (etcjournal.com) Dear Candice, I’m Sorry About The Internet – LockerGnome (lockergnome.com) The…

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  • Electromagnetic Hypersensitivity: fact or fiction?

    Recently I’ve become aware of more and more concern about the electromagnetic soup we are embedded in from all of our various gadgets. While Europe has taken a much more cautious approach on this, the USA as always, has let free enterprise rule. Here is a fairly balanced Wiki article on this topic. Needless to…

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