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“Wiki-History Shows the Chronology and Conversation Around Wikipedia Edits”
From The Verge: Wikipedia lives and dies by its edits, and the process of adding information to the site is not without controversy. With debates flaring up around most pages dedicated to contentious subject matter, the edit history of the page itself can be a valuable source for points of view that don’t make it […]
New Report from Pew Internet Looks at the Use of Location-Based Services
Title: Three-quarters of smartphone owners use location-based services Author: Kathryn Zickuhr Direct to Complete Report ||| PDF Version From the Overview: A new report finds that 74% of smartphone owners use their phone to get real-time location-based information, and 18% use a geosocial service to “check in” to certain locations or share their location with […]
Twitter’s Discovery Tab Enhanced, More “Social Context” to Posts Added
From the Twitter Blog: The Discover tab makes it easy to discover information that matters to you without having to follow additional accounts. Starting today, the Discover tab will begin to surface content that is even more personalized and meaningful to you. We’ve incorporated additional personalization signals to select Discover stories, including Tweets that are […]
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LinkedIn Launches New and Improved Group Search
From the LinkedIn Blog: Group search helps you search across all the groups on LinkedIn and find the right group for you. We’ve made several improvements to make your search results smarter and more relevant. First, instead of relying on the title and description of the group, we give you the best results based on […]
Europeana Now "Experimenting" With Pintrest
Direct to Europeana on Pintrest See Also: Pinterest for GLAMs: Europeana’s Experiment (via Europeana Blog) At Europeana HQ we have already been testing the waters for a while now with a wide variety of Public Domain content from all over Europe. We have chosen to test ride a number of themes to get the hang […]
FY13 Budget of the United States Government Goes Mobile With New Web App
The FY13 Budget of the United States Government was released today. Along with the full text now available via FDYsys the GPO has also released a mobile web app. The mobile app includes the FY13 Budget of the U.S. Government main budget book, including the Budget Message of the President, information on the President’s priorities, […]
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UK: Real Time Information: Transport for London Launches Live Traffic Map
From the Transport for London Web Site: The new information tool identifies traffic hotspots and makes congestion easier to avoid. By simply visiting tfl.gov.uk/trafficnews, motorists can now gain a bird’s eye view of London’s traffic hotspots to see where traffic is building up and which areas to avoid. This includes access to a network of […]
FT: "Wikipedia in Clash Over Editing Rights"
From the Financial Times: Jimmy Wales, Wikipedia co-founder, was on Friday invited to address around 50 employees at the Chime Communications-owned public relations agency by its co-founder, Lord Bell, after December’s sting by The Independent newspaper and the Bureau of Investigative Journalism recorded executives boasting of online manipulation and other “dark arts”. [Clip] “Our policy […]
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Digital Humanities: UNC’s Innovate@Carolina Opens Virtual Lab
From the Daily Tar Heel: UNC’s Digital Innovation Lab, a part of UNC’s $125 million effort to spur innovation, launched Monday, aimed at sparking collaboration in the digital humanities. The virtual lab features projects and resources that can be easily used and accessed by large audiences. It will encourage the creation of public projects that […]
Bing Begins Roll Out "Adaptive Search"
Rolling out over the next few days in the U.S. From a Search Engine Land Post by Barry Schwartz: Bing has announced at SMX East today a new personalization feature named adaptive search. It seems a lot like Google’s previous query feature but supposedly, it goes well beyond just the previous query. Bing said the […]
