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Don’t Judge a (Face)Book by its Cover: A critical review of the implications of social networking sites Social networking sites (SNS) are increasingly popular, and as their popularity continues to grow, the integration of these sites within the workplace is vitally important. Although these sites may provide a number of advantages, such as improved knowledge […]
From PC World: Google has acquired Pittsburgh Pattern Recognition, known as PittPatt, a company that develops technology for recognizing faces in images and video, according to PittPatt’s website. Its founders began developing the technology at Carnegie Mellon University’s Robotics Institute in the 1990s and formed PittPatt in 2004 as a spin-off from the university, the […]
Direct to African Statistical Yearbook 2011 (3rd Ed.) 343 pages; PDF From the Introductory Material: The 2011 African Statistical Yearbook was prepared under the overall umbrella of the African Statistical Coordination Committee set up by major continental organizations dealing with statistical development namely the African Development Bank (AfDB), the African Capacity Building Foundation (ACBF), the […]
They are busy in Chambana (Champaign-Urbana, IL) where Wolfram|Alpha is based. 1. New Search Feature: Direct Actions For example: goto:[url] entered into any Wolfram|Alpha search box will take you directly to that site. Try: goto:whitehouse.gov Try: bing: or google:[search terms] to run search using those engines. If you like the concept it’s one of the […]
From a comScore Blog Post: To get a better understanding of how Google+ is performing to date and who is using it, comScore pulled together some figures based on the first 21 days of its public existence (June 29, 2011 – July 19, 2011). Importantly, these data are based on unique visitors (which is different […]
From a SemanticWeb.com Article: [The] Bing webmaster help site indicates Microsoft wants to play nice with whatever markup approach webmasters want to implement – microdata, microformats, or RDFa. The site mark-up overview on the page referenced says that Bing’s “crawlers do not prefer one specification over another. It’s entirely up to you to decide which […]
Last week we compiled a Google and Google Plus news update that contained a curated collection of sixteen stories.This week there was no summer slowdown at Google (there is never a slowdown at Googleplex) and this week we’re passing along 21 entries (23 stories). We hope you find this week’s roundup useful. Google Plus 1. […]
Google Scholar "Citations" Launches & A Look at What Microsoft Is Up To With Academic Search
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|It’s good to see Google Scholar introducing a new service. We’ve been wondering where they’ve been as Microsoft continues to develop the robust and very useful Microsoft Academic Search* that has now been around (and expanding) for more than 18 months. The most recent news–until now–out of the Google Scholar camp about a new feature […]
From BioMed Central: The European Commission (EC) has announced a consultation on ‘scientific information in the digital age.The consultation is running until 9th September 2011 so if you’re as interested in open access and open data as we are then the EC wants to hear your opinion on the following issues: – how scientific articles […]
A superb “not to technical intro” that is absolutely worthy or your time and also worth sharing. Direct to Full Text Column: “Linked Data: A Way Out of the Information Chaos and Toward the Semantic Web” by: Michael A. Keller Source: EDUCAUSE Review (42.4; July/August 2011) A new approach to reducing the chaos of the […]