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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 / 11 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 / 31 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 / 3 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 / 9 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 »


How Big is Facebook?
Written by Marshall Kirkpatrick / April 8, 2009 10:17 AM / 38 Comments
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Facebook announced this morning that it will welcome its 200 millionth user today. That's a whole lot of people. Just three months ago the company announced it was starting the Continue reading »


Sense Networks: 4 Million Sensors to Help You Find a Party in San Francisco
Written by Richard MacManus / April 6, 2009 7:11 PM / 11 Comments
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Yesterday we discussed MIT's project WikiCity, which monitors location data in cities via mobile sensors and creates visualizations from that. That project comes out of the SENSEable City lab at Continue reading »


Real Time Cities, or Just Info Porn?
Written by Richard MacManus / April 6, 2009 2:12 AM / 9 Comments
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Andrea Vaccari, from the SENSEable City lab at MIT, spoke at ETech recently about how cities are being transformed by mobile Web technologies. He described MIT's project WikiCity, which monitors Continue reading »


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