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NYC Waterfalls: How Real-Time Cellphone Data Can Impact Local Economies
Written by Richard MacManus / June 8, 2009 6:00 AM / 2 Comments
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Last week we looked at the emerging world of real-time cellphone data, via the projects of the MIT SENSEeable City Lab. This lab has been producing interesting analysis and visualizations Continue reading »


Obama Inauguration: Check Out These Real-Time Visualizations
Written by Richard MacManus / May 27, 2009 3:45 AM / 6 Comments
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The MIT SENSEable City Lab recently released visualizations of mobile phone call activity over the week of President Obama's inauguration on January 20, 2009. The visualizations are of course stunning, Continue reading »


Evernote for Blackberry Review
Written by Doug Coleman / May 24, 2009 3:51 PM / 9 Comments
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Note-taking, cataloging, and bookmarking service Evernote divides people. Either people love it or meh...not so much. Many of us fell into the latter category and never really used it until Continue reading »


United Methodist Church Listens, Responds to Social Media
Written by Jolie O'Dell / May 7, 2009 1:12 PM / 6 Comments
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Churches aren't the first organizations that come to mind when you think about intelligent adoption and incorporation of social media. Nevertheless, many feel that if there was ever an organization Continue reading »


Flash Comes to the Living Room
Written by Frederic Lardinois / April 20, 2009 9:45 AM / 8 Comments
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Adobe today announced that it has partnered with a number of prominent content creators and hardware manufacturers to bring its Flash platform to the living room. As a part of Continue reading »


Domino's: How One YouTube Video Can Ruin a Brand (Updated)
Written by Frederic Lardinois / April 16, 2009 12:30 PM / 28 Comments
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In terms of its social media presence, Domino's Pizza gets a lot of things right. It has a YouTube Channel, a Twitter account, and both a Facebook and MySpace profile. Continue reading »


Web as Platform For Research on Oceans, Galaxies
Written by Richard MacManus / April 15, 2009 6:45 PM / 0 Comments
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The University of Washington has announced two new research projects that will utilize cloud computing platforms from Internet companies such as Google, Microsoft, Amazon and IBM. According to the press Continue reading »


Microsoft Europe: Internet Usage Will Overtake Traditional TV In 2010
Written by Frederic Lardinois / April 9, 2009 11:37 AM / 2 Comments
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Microsoft, in a new report about Internet usage in Europe, predicts that the Internet will overtake TV as the most consumed form of media in Europe by the middle of Continue reading »


It's Alive! Conficker Wakes Up - And Now It Has a Business Model
Written by Frederic Lardinois / April 9, 2009 9:38 AM / 6 Comments
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Conficker, the Internet worm that caused a mild panic reminiscent of Y2K late last month, but which failed to do anything spectacular that would have warranted the breathless coverage on Continue reading »


When Sensors and Social Networks Mix
Written by Richard MacManus / April 9, 2009 3:32 AM / 10 Comments
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The integration of sensors with social networks will lead to real-time data and more useful web apps. In recent posts we reviewed an MIT experiment called WikiCity, that gathered real-time Continue reading »


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