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Cartoon: May We Recommend...
Written by Rob Cottingham / February 22, 2009 2:20 AM / 8 Comments
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Between the iTunes Genius Sidebar, Amazon's recommender system and Pandora's virtual DJ, recommender systems are now getting close to knowing my tastes better than I do. There's a certain seductive Continue reading »


Stimulus Spend Data Coming via Feeds
Written by Lidija Davis / February 21, 2009 7:14 PM / 8 Comments
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In a memo from the Office of Management and Budget last week, Director Peter Orszag outlined the implementation guidelines [PDF] for the new stimulus bill, requiring all government agencies to Continue reading »


Vint Cerf: We Still Have 80 Per Cent of the World to Connect
Written by Lidija Davis / February 21, 2009 2:00 PM / 11 Comments
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"By 2010 we will have run out of IP addresses if we don't do something about it," Vint Cerf, Google's chief Internet evangelist and the man commonly referred to as Continue reading »


Pingle Brings Ping.fm to the iPhone
Written by Lidija Davis / February 21, 2009 10:40 AM / 8 Comments
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Curious Squid has released Pingle, an application for the iPhone which lets you update your status across a selection of social networks at once. Using Ping.fm, Pingle will update Facebook, Continue reading »


Weekly Wrapup: Mobile World Congress, Yahoo Search, Internet in Cars, And More...
Written by Richard MacManus / February 21, 2009 5:00 AM / 1 Comments
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In this edition of the Weekly Wrapup, our newsletter summarising the top stories of the week, we review the action from the Mobile World Congress, find out why many people Continue reading »


New on YouTube: Collaborative Annotations
Written by Frederic Lardinois / February 20, 2009 11:32 AM / 12 Comments
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YouTube today introduced a new feature that allows publishers to invite others to annotate their videos. Just a few weeks ago, YouTube introduced a new annotation feature that made it Continue reading »


What Should Obama's CTO Do With Public Data? Now You Can Vote On It
Written by Marshall Kirkpatrick / February 20, 2009 10:39 AM / 10 Comments
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Two days into the new Presidential administration, Barack Obama issued a memo calling on the still unfilled new office of Chief Technology Officer to make a list of recommendations for Continue reading »


Study: 80% of Web Surfers Concerned About Online Privacy
Written by Frederic Lardinois / February 20, 2009 9:25 AM / 18 Comments
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According to a recent study by Burst Media, a majority of web users are aware of the fact that a lot of websites and ISPs track, collect, and share information Continue reading »


Mobile Phones to Serve as Doctors in Developing Countries
Written by Sarah Perez / February 20, 2009 7:31 AM / 14 Comments
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"There are 2.2 billion mobile phones in the developing world, 305 million computers but only 11 million hospital beds," said Terry Kramer, strategy director at British operator Vodafone at the Continue reading »


How to Reach Baby Boomers with Social Media
Written by Sarah Perez / February 20, 2009 5:48 AM / 64 Comments
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A new report from Forrester Research revealed some surprising information: apparently Baby Boomers aren't exactly the technology Luddites that people think they are. In fact, more than 60 percent of Continue reading »


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