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“Researchers at U.C. Berkeley say they’ve produced the world’s smallest radio. It’s 10,000 times thinner than a strand of hair.” Wow, this gave me ideas for lots of sci-fi stories. Give it a listen.
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“New study: players reported feeling less stressed, had higher self esteem, & were more confident. The level of the players’ stress hormone, cortisol, fell 17%. The idea: repetitive playing trains the mind to focus on the positive aspects of life.”
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“This was a 3-dog race with Google, Yahoo and Microsoft. Today I would say Yahoo is out and has been replaced with Facebook. And I still stand firm that Yahoo acquiring AOL would be beneficial for both companies.”
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“Thanks to a new technique for manipulating charged copper particles at the molecular scale, researchers at Arizona State University say their memory is, bit-for-bit, one-tenth the cost of — and 1,000 times as energy-efficient as — flash memory.”
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“Collaborative effort to collect the best of Wikipedia, clean it up, vet it, and save it for all time. Articles are stable and cannot be edited. Goal: quality stable version that can be trusted by students, teachers, & anyone else seeking reliable info.”
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“Nanowires will go inside microprocessors that could, in turn, go inside PCs, laptops, monile phones or even supercomputers. And the smaller the wires, the smaller the chip can be.”
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actually play those stress-reducing games.
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Taking your favorite online tools to work: “How popular social interaction tools can be used in business & government . He assesses how the organizations can adapt the tools for use. He discusses how security is an important part of this process.”
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Cool stuff to do with Twitter: “Lately there’s been a bunch of scripts and other cool ideas pushed forward and it’s finally time that we had a place to bring them all together.”
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“Google’s vision — “Social Will Be Everywhere” — is more compelling than anything Facebook could possibly devise. Who wouldn’t prefer the unlimited freedom to take one’s own trusted circle anywhere on the Web?”
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Cool free service for creating pretty good videos. “web application that automatically generates professionally produced videos using their own patent-pending technology and high-end motion design. “
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I’ll be speaking at this event: “Analyze the latest trend in online journalism: audience participation in news production, inside and outside of mainstream media. Digital tools are becoming so easy to use that citizen media are ubiquous.”
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I’ll have to add this for Contentious and Tidbits! “Here’s how to get your blog (or any other RSS or Atom feed) twittering…”
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“The key to effectiveness is that you’re doing things that lead to results in the realm of your responsibilities. Meanwhile the key to efficiency is getting your things done in a manner that consumes just the appropriate amount of energy and resources.”
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“Google new OpenSocial platform, a standard set of APIs that will allow developers to create applications that can run in any social platform that adheres to the API. Initial partners include LinkedIn, Ning, Plaxo, hi5, Friendster, Viadeo and Oracle.”
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