Category: Regenerative Economy

  • Matchmaking takes a high tech approach

    Matchmaking takes a high tech approach – The Boston Globe. High tech meets cross cultural reality: biodata approaches take tradition family based decisions about marriage which account for education, income, genes, background, occupation, and interests and were once decided by families Related articles Traditional Matchmaking Goes On-Line With the First of its Kind Hosted Video…

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  • Social Science Research Network (SSRN)

      Social Science Research Network (SSRN) Home Page.   This is a great new site for publishing social science findings. It uses Web 2.0 to allow ranking of the best articles.   Related articles What’s Soft about Social Science? (everydaysociologyblog.com) New Professional Network Brings Chinese Scientists and Researchers into International Community (prweb.com)  

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  • M.Eng Distance Learning – Systems Engineering @ Cornell University

    M.Eng Distance Learning – Systems Engineering @ Cornell University. Related articles Cornell University Breach Exposes Data To Public For Five Days (teamshatter.com) Cornell University Signs two-year Procurement Contract with Procurex Inc. (prweb.com) A New Way of Learning for Cornell University (wbng.com) LaunchPlan: Cornell Students Have an Advantage Creating Businesses in the Classroom (prweb.com) Education Innovation:…

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  • Online video based learning: a brief intro

    Want a free education? A brief guide to the burgeoning world of online video lectures. – The Boston Globe. Academic you tube sites Related articles Asia eLearning Market to Reach $11.5 billion by 2016 (sacbee.com) [eLearning] (bluestockingsblog.wordpress.com) Asia eLearning Market to Reach $11.5 billion by 2016 (prnewswire.com) Twitter Used as an Educational Tool within the…

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  • Born to party: bio anthropological perspectives on party affiliation

    Born to party – The Boston Globe. Republicans are actually more afraid of outside intruders while Democrats are more collaborative and less paranoid. This research shows that Republicans have a biological difference and startle more easily. It draws upon an emerging field of evolutionary anthropology and psychology. Related articles Boston Globe endorses Barack Obama over…

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  • Adobe Acrobat.com Treads on Google, Microsoft Turf

    Adobe Acrobat.com Treads on Google, Microsoft Turf – Enterprise Applications – News & Reviews – eWeek.com. Adobe connect is probably the best all around web conferencing and document sharing solution. It’s hosted version would be good for your workgroups. Related articles Adobe Reader Shuns iCloud In Favor Of Acrobat.com For New Cloud Storage Integration (appadvice.com)…

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  • Buzz factor: evolution of techie catch phrases

        Buzz factor – The Boston Globe.   Related articles   Linguists Tracking Slang Through Twitter (euzicasa.wordpress.com) Steven Pinker: Linguistics as a Window to Understanding the Brain (popalx.wordpress.com) African Linguist Network – Home (metaglossia.wordpress.com) ‘Fiscal cliff’ for Word of the Year! (economy.money.cnn.com) George Lakoff, Conceptual Metaphors, and Biblical Interpretation (chajc.wordpress.com) The Biological Origin of…

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  • Downloads transform iPhone into handy tool

    Downloads transform iPhone into handy tool – The Boston Globe. Definitely get apps: where, stanza, recorder Related articles Asahi Launches iPhone Application Development Services in New York (prweb.com) iPhone 5 Travels 20,096 Miles Before Ending Up in Your Hands [INFOGRAPHIC] Mashable iPhone 5 Travels 20,096 Miles Before Ending Up in Your Hands [INFOGRAPHIC] | The…

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  • Click to translate: computational linguistics hits its stride

      Click to translate – The Boston Globe.   Related articles   Breakthrough Linguistic Ventures – The Microsoft Speech Translator is Debuted at Asian-Based Seminar (TrendHunter.com) (trendhunter.com) Linguistics tool simultaneously compares multiple translations of Othello (wired.co.uk) Language is shaped by brain’s desire for clarity and ease (eurekalert.org) pattern, a Python web mining and NLP tool…

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  • Obama Uses Social Networking for Content Focused Campaign

      This is amongst the rare elections in my experience where the Democrats have succeeded in communications and this is due to Obama’s clever use of social networking technologies, as this MIT article describes. While McCain and Palin continue to use their crudely effective cliche sound bytes to attract less knowledgeable voters, Obama/Biden are proving…

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  • KMWorld & Intranets

    KMWorld & Intranets 2008. Related articles Search Technologies Named to KMWorld’s 100 Companies that Matter in Knowledge Management (prweb.com) Mindbreeze InSite Wins KMWorld Trendsetting Product Award (arnoldit.com) Smartlogic’s Semaphore, the Open Semantic Platform, Has Been Named by KMWorld as a Trend-Setting Product of 2010 (prweb.com) KMWorld Recognizes TheBrain Technologies Knowledge Management Software as a Trend-Setting…

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  • Christopher Tennant: Ethnography of the very rich

    The laugh of luxury – The Boston Globe. This is hilarious. This guy went to the best schools and grew up around the rich and now has written a funny ethnography of what it is like to be one of the rich. Turns out they are even more neurotic, stressed, and unkempt than the rest…

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  • The Political Mind by George Lakoff

    Book Review – ‘The Political Mind,’ by George Lakoff – Review – NYTimes.com.

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  • Understanding the customer experience with social networks

    Hurry up, the customer has a complaint – The Boston Globe. A number of companies are now developing positions such as Chief Twitter Officer, Chief Facebook officer, LinkedIn, YouTube etc. due to the growth of customer feedback in online web 2.0 communities and the need to address it. Related articles The 8 Things You Should…

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  • Infoporn: Tap Into the 12-Million-Teraflop Handheld Megacomputer

    Infoporn: Tap Into the 12-Million-Teraflop Handheld Megacomputer. This article argues that each hyperlink in the internet is like a synapse in the brain which now results in the internet having the computational power of a brain. Related articles Building a virtual supercomputer (thehindu.com) AMD unveils teraflop FirePro GPU (zdnet.com) The smartphone is the PC of…

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  • Transcranial magnetic stimulation | Magventure – Versatility in Magnetic Stimulation

      Transcranial stimulation | Magventure – Versatility in Magnetic Stimulation. Related articles Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Proves Effective For Treatment Refractory Depression – BMED Report (thoughtsbysarit.wordpress.com) New research confirms efficacy of transcranial magnetic stimulation for depression (eurekalert.org) Right or Left Handed? Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Can Shift Your Preference (izabael.com) New research confirms efficacy of transcranial magnetic stimulation…

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  • Dimdim: Webex without the downloads

    Dimdim. This looks a lot easier to use than Webex and does not require downloads. Related articles WebEx Blogger Updates Dimdim Review (pr.typepad.com) Cisco WebEx Blogger Deletes Competitor’s Comment (pr.typepad.com) Salesforce.com Acquires DimDim: Stops Freemium Model In March (pr.typepad.com) Cloud Computing: Salesforce to Buy GoInstant (sys-con.com) Top 10 Applications to Access Remote Desktop (techieapps.com) Alternatives…

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  • ROFLCon: The internet culture conference

    ROFLCon. The internet culture conference Related articles How to Live-Blog as a Team (pbs.org) How people cash in on stupid internet memes (holykaw.alltop.com) OpenMeetings.org (meta.wikimedia.org) NewsGame aims to populate a virtual world with real reporting and pretend correspondents (niemanlab.org) Event: The 7th International Conference for Internet Technology and Secured Transactions (net-security.org) What makes SSWC so…

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  • Opera Mini & Opera Mobile browsers

    Opera Mini & Opera Mobile browsers. Best browser for stability, reliability, never crashes. Related articles Opera Mini browser for iPhone? (reviews.cnet.com) Opera readies mini browser for iPhone (reviews.cnet.com) Hands on Opera Mobile 11, Opera Mini 6 (reviews.cnet.com) Opera And Google To Remain BFFs Until 2014 (webpronews.com) Starring role for the web on media players (opera.com)…

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