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SearchTeam Emerges
From The Eponymous Pickle

SearchTeam Emerges

I have seen some fascinating early versions of SearchTeam, the real-time collaborative search engine from Zakta..  A great idea, think of it for collaborative use...

Google Plus and Social Ads
From The Eponymous Pickle

Google Plus and Social Ads

After some playing around with Google+,  what I have seen is that it looks much like Facebook.  With a few nice, easily copy-able features. Hard to see Google+...

Google and suggesting friends
From Geeking with Greg

Google and suggesting friends

A timely paper out of Google at the recent ICML 2011 conference, "Suggesting (More) Friends Using the Implicit Social Graph" (PDF), not only describes the technology...

History of Stuxnet
From Schneier on Security

History of Stuxnet

Nice article.

Reintroduction of TagWhat
From The Eponymous Pickle

Reintroduction of TagWhat

I see that TagWhat, an artificial reality vendor has just reintroduced their product.  Here is their press release   It is delivered via a smart phone and can provide...

Top Digital Marketer
From The Eponymous Pickle

Top Digital Marketer

I was just reminded by a communication that Ilonka Laviz was appointed top digital marketer at P&G.

Are your students entered in the Windows Phone app contest
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

Are your students entered in the Windows Phone app contest

This Summer, build Windows Phone 7 apps and you could earn exciting prizes to catch a movie, eat ice – cream, buy camping gear and more!! This special competition...

Sentience is indescribable
From Daniel Lemire's Blog

Sentience is indescribable

Arguably, one of the most nagging scientific question is the nature of sentience. Can we build sentient computers? Is my cat sentient? What does that mean? Will...

So I Found this Great Learning Games Company...
From The Female Perspective of Computer Science

So I Found this Great Learning Games Company...

Persistence pays off.  Through a long chain of events

Red Hat sees user collaboration as the wave of the future
From Putting People First

Red Hat sees user collaboration as the wave of the future

Jim Whitehurst, chief executive and president of Red Hat Inc., the only publicly traded open-source software company, sees user collaboration as the wave of the...

Reminder:  CCC Council Meeting in DC This Friday
From The Computing Community Consortium Blog

Reminder: CCC Council Meeting in DC This Friday

As I’ve previously noted in this space, the CCC Council is scheduled to meet in Washington, DC, this Friday, July 15. Among the discussion topics will be the role...

Telework in the US
From The Eponymous Pickle

Telework in the US

Steve King in Small Biz Labs collects new data on the state of telework in the US.  Good summary.

Competitive Intel as a Natural Extension to Business Intelligence
From The Eponymous Pickle

Competitive Intel as a Natural Extension to Business Intelligence

This is what I did for some years in the enterprise.   To understand the competition you also need to know your own company.  Rarely done well though, and not with...

Hill Tech Happenings, Week of July 11
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM

Hill Tech Happenings, Week of July 11

July 11 Meeting: The Data Privacy and Integrity Advisory Committee of the Department of Homeland Security will meet. 10 a.m., 111 Massachusetts Avenue, N.W., Washington...

links for 2011-07-11
From Wild WebMink

links for 2011-07-11

The Dropbox Blog – Changes to our policies (updated) Dropbox got lots of bad publicity when they first changed their terms of service and included a broad "all...

Interesting Links 11 July 2011
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

Interesting Links 11 July 2011

If you followed my Twitter or read my blog over the weekend you may be tired of hearing about the Imagine Cup. You may also think I am over sharing on FourSquare...

Computing the Brain's Secrets
From The Eponymous Pickle

Computing the Brain's Secrets

In Kurzweil AI:   Some visual images that give some evidence we may someday understand the brain as a computational problem, but also in their very complexity show...

Kinect Workshop at the Imagine Cup
From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson

Kinect Workshop at the Imagine Cup

These are the views that greeted students entering the Sky Lobby of the host hotel of the World wide Imagine Cup this afternoon. We had room for just over 70 people...

E-Books for Learning (Or Not)?
From Computer Science Teachers Association

E-Books for Learning (Or Not)?

Summer is here. My textbooks are neatly placed on my bookshelf and my Kindle comes out. I rarely have time to pleasure read during the school year. What did I just...

Service design, a strong strategy for local authorities
From Putting People First

Service design, a strong strategy for local authorities

Design Flanders ["Design Vlaanderen"] and the Association of Flemish Cities and Municipalities (both in Belgium) have just published a bilingual Dutch-English booklet...
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