Estimote aka “OS For The Physical World” delivers beacon for precise, close encounter location aware applications
The great weakness of location aware mobile apps is precision and location relevance. Mobile apps that are supposed to push
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WordPress Security: best practices, site hardening, remediation after an attack
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KredibleNet Workshop at Stanford U – Most intriguing topics and active interactions on Twitter
Crowdsourcing and social media trust emerged to be the most Twitter-discussed topics related to the second Kredible Net workshop on Trust,
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Self check-out machines are slower than check out clerks and many think that the race against robots is not lost.
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#Snowden #Prism revelations goads Google to reveal number of judicial requests by country
In the context of the Snowden and Prism scandal, Google released a transparency report, which discloses the number of judicial
Read MoreWhat and how large is PRISM, the NSA surveillance program leaked by Edward Snowden?
According to Edward Snowden, the National Security Agency (NSA) leaker, the US government has recruited several major Internet
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The latest on Jimmy Wales, the Wikipedia founder
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Read MoreBarnes and Noble to spin off Nook HD
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Read MoreCopyright Alert System Applies Nudge Theory to Prevent Naive Peer to Peer Network Users from Breaking the Copyright Law
A method of monitoring copyright infringing P2P traffic meant to notify users in real time that the content they are
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Is Social Media a Spiral of Silence Machine? From “Daily Me,” to Homophily Bias, Filter Bubbles, and Echo Chamber Effects
This is a learning module for the class Contemporary Social / Mass Media Theory taught at Purdue University by Sorin
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Knowledge Gap Hypothesis and Digital Divides – A review of the literature and impact on social media research
This is a learning module for the class Contemporary Social / Mass Media Theory taught at Purdue University bySorin Adam Matei Knowledge
Read MoreSocial Media Monitoring of 2012 US Presidential Campaign: Latest News from Google Trends, Social Mention, Twazzup, Klout
The relative popularity of the contenders in the 2012 US Presidential campaign can be measured not only by traditional polling
Read MoreMicrosoft Surface tablet may cost $599, have Wi-Fi only – Gadgetbox on NBCNews.com
Microsoft Surface tablet prices swing widely between $599 and $1000… Microsoft can’t realistically sell it over $999 and in fact
Read MoreNSA chief: Internet ‘at great risk,’ needs defense system
See on Scoop.it – Mapping current events General Keith Alexander, head of the National Security Agency, gave an address at
Read MoreDigital Nation – Life On The Virtual Frontier | FRONTLINE | PBS
See on Scoop.it – Virtual community and societies A TV/Web report on the digital revolution and how it’s changing our
Read MoreSocial media brings us closer than ever to Olympic athletes. | Social Media Today
See on Scoop.it – Virtual community and societies Want to know what Tom Daley’s bedroom looks like? Or how Matthew
Read MoreEating from the Social Media ROI Cookbook | Social Media Today
See on Scoop.it – Virtual community and societies ROI eludes many folks in the social media space. Not because social
Read MoreThe Location Aware Services Daily
See on Scoop.it – Virtual community and societies A newspaper by Pekka Puhakka – updated daily with a curated selection
Read MoreWhich Social Platform Really Drives the Most Traffic? | Social Media Today
See on Scoop.it – Virtual community and societies In preparing for our morning show we were doing some research and came
Read MoreKeyword Research! – Why You Should Use “Quotation Marks”
See on Scoop.it – Virtual community and societies This really is for anyone who is new to this exciting business!
Read MorePath 2.5 Inches Closer To Human-Centered Social-Networking
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Read MoreBioSpace Spotlights the growing Midwest Life Science Community – Today’s Market News (MARKCOMM) News – InvestorPoint.com
See on Scoop.it – Virtual community and societies BioSpace Spotlights the growing Midwest Life Science Community [February 7, July –
Read MoreNarrative Theory: A reading list
Our colleague, H. Porter Abbott, at UCSB teaches a great course on Narrative theory, which includes this awesome reading list…
Read MoreSecurity company Imperva disects Anonymous hack attack on Vatican in Case Study to Be Presented at Morgan Stanley Technology Conference in San Francisco on March 1st (paper, pdf, YouTube video)
In a an extremely detailed report to be delivered to the computer security conference, Imperva, an IT security consulting company
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Intrade, HSX predict Oscar for Best Film to Go to the Artist
Prediction market Intrade evaluates The Artist’s chances to win the Oscar for best movie at over 90% and Dujardin’s chance
Read MoreObama administration proposes a Consumer Privacy Bill of Rights
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Read MoreA list of Twitter Sentiment Analysis Tools
A wonderful list of Twitter Sentiment Analysis Tools collated by Twittersentiment.appspot.com… Twitter Analysis Tools look at the meaning of the
Read MoreGoogle Search Trends in New Hampshire Indicate Strong Interest in Ron Paul, Santorum
Following the successful social media exercise of predicting the outcomes of the nomination race in Iowa using Google Searches and
Read MoreWhat Do The Latest Google Search Trends Tell Us About The Republican Nomination Race
This self-updating chart provides the latest trends in Google searches for candidate names. According to this post, search frequency seemed
Read MoreSocial Media Monitoring Predicts Close Romney – Santorum Race in Iowa Caucus
Mashable hints that Twitter might have caught a whiff of Santorum’s possible dash in the last straight line before the finish
Read MoreEx Yale professor William Deresiewicz rejects bureaucratic education and thinking in American Scholar Essay “Solitude and Leadership”
Current college students are called “digital natives.” They are heralded as a new type of intellectual foragers, who can multitask
Read MoreWhy the Russian elections are in fact a very, very, very bad thing
Via Scoop.it – Foreign AffairsRussians replaced half of their corrupt parliament with 30% old style communists and 20% brown-red nationalists…
Read MoreRead Write Web Legal Analysis of SOPA / PROTECT-IP concludes this is not censorship
Via Scoop.it – Foreign AffairsThe Stop Online Privacy Act would block traffic from sites that stream and disseminate on a
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The knowledge based economy
What is the entropy level of this team? (Apud Paulo Coelho and many other internet peddlers of humor)
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A KML Historic and Literary Map of Pearl Harbor on the Morning of December 7, 1941 (7:55 am) According to Walter Lord’s Day of Infamy
Digital Humanities Showcase: Walter Lord’s Day of Infamy mapped Walter Lord’s meticulously documented book “Day of Infamy” recounts the trivia
Read MoreEarth-like planet discovered in ‘habitable’ zone
Via Scoop.it – Foreign AffairsAstronomers report the discovery of an Earth-like planet about 600 light years from our solar system.
Read MoreFortress at Sea? The Carrier Invulnerability Myth | U.S. Naval Institute
Via Scoop.it – Virtual community and societies7 billion worth of vulnerability. Aircraft carriers are weighing just as heavy on the
Read MorePakistani artist Quayyum Anila Agha brings the tears of Pakistan floods and Japanese tsunami to Purdue University Gallery
On my way to lunch I pass by the extraordinary gem that is the Purdue Art Gallery. An unpretentious room,
Read More[December 5] The Fate of Civic Education in a Connected World | Berkman Center
Via Scoop.it – Virtual community and societiesDoes social media lead to rich, networked lives and increased social capital? Or not?
Read MoreXbox Live Challenges the Cable Box
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Read MoreToo Big to Know:
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Read MoreIran shoots down US drone
Via Scoop.it – Mapping current eventsUS drone downed and captured almost intact by Iranian air force… Not the first incident
Read MoreKnow What You’re Protesting – Economic View
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Read MoreHow the Internet Is Ruining Everything and Why This is A Great Thing, Too
Via Scoop.it – Virtual community and societiesA good example of having the cake and eating it too… Weinberg both decries
Read More100 Notable Books of 2011
Via Scoop.it – Virtual community and societiesThe Book Review’s annual list…. A selection of titles.. FICTION THE
Read MoreSmashwords needs to improve Meatgrinder if it wants to beat CreateSpace
Via Scoop.it – Virtual community and societiesDude, get a life… If you want Smashwords to beat CreateSpace, make sure that
Read MoreFacebook Friend Request From Your Future Son is in fact condom ad campaign
Via Scoop.it – Foreign AffairsIs this the smartest ad campagin ever, or what? via Mashable “Olla Condoms’ campaign, which
Read MoreAndrew Wilson, “Belarus: The Last European Dictatorship” (Yale UP, 2011)
Via Scoop.it – Foreign AffairsOf note…. “Andrew Wilson‘s book, Belarus: The Last European Dictatorship (Yale University Press, 2011), is
Read MorePonzi Scheme Unleashed: Euro Central Banks May Provide $270B Through IMF
Via Scoop.it – Foreign AffairsIt goes like this: private banks borrow from governments, governments borrow from FMI, FMI gets its
Read MoreWorld Blog – Myanmar’s new capital: a vast, empty city
Via Scoop.it – Foreign AffairsMyanmar’s spooky capital. “NAYPYITAW, Myanmar – U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton could be
Read MoreDesigning Books in the Digital Age (Craig Mod) | Book: A Futurist’s Manifesto
Via Scoop.it – Media convergenceLet us reinvent the ebook by imagining a continuous horizontally scrolling canvass… (From one of the
Read MoreIs open, non anonymous peer review better at producing accurate reviewes?
What if we allowed the authors and the reviewers of academic papers to interact with each other and, horribile dictu,
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