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  • Social network analysis science detects Medicare fraud, terrorisms plots

    Fascinating article which shows how social network analysis (SNA)science is being used in the business world including everything from finding Saddam Hussein (by mapping his chauffeurs’ habits online) to identifying healthcare fraud. Mining social networks: Untangling the social web | The Economist. Related articles Big Data To Become Powerful Driver Of IT Spending – Gartner (misco.co.uk)…

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  • Crowd-sourcing your basement: peer to peer renting

    Most of us have an unusual assembly of tools, knick knacks, and appliances lying fallow in our basements in many cases used just often enough to prevent us from selling them on E-Bay but not enough to justify the hefty purchase price we paid. Fortunately the Internet is now finding new users for these items…

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  • Hunch: Crowdsourcing our Tastes and Preferences

    The founder of Flickr has now moved on to create a new web service that will map tastes and recommendations. What You Want: Flickr Creator Spins Addictive New Web Service | Wired Magazine | Wired.com. Related articles Women In Tech: Up & Coming Female Entrepreneurs (grasshopper.com) CrowdSource CEO, Stephanie Leffler, Earns ’40 Under 40′ Nod…

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  • The doctor will tweet you now

    via www.computerworld.com Good overview of SAAS, social computing and e-health Related articles easyJet: IT shouldn’t block business users from buying SaaS apps (computerworld.co.nz) Fujitsu Introduces Cloud Service for Senior Care (sys-con.com) Newest release of SaaS Maker™ ‘Cloud Toolkit’ Helps Entrepreneurs Build Big Software Without Venture Capital Dollars (prweb.com) How Doctors Use Social Media (medmeme.com) Online Dos…

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  • LinkedIn maps career success paths

    A fundamental discovery of social sciences is that in organizations it is often individuals who communicate across organizational boundaries that hold true organizational power rather than individuals who may hold power institutionally. Well, Linkedin has just developed an app for that. There are now some neat ways to see how the power of one’s network…

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  • Pixel Qi’s Transflective LCD: Best of both worlds?

    I’ve been a big fan of e-Ink because it allows a very low energy cost, low EMF design for reading. However this comes with drawback for people who need monitors with higher resolutions or brightness. Now there appears to be a type of display that does both… E-Ink Is Dead, Pixel Qi’s Amazing Transflective LCD…

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  • Restoring Information’s Body: ASIS 2010 Annual Meeting with Luch Suchman

    Clearly one of the better thinkers out there on the human-machine interface. ASIS&T 2010 Annual Meeting | Keynote Speaker. Related articles Identify Your Military Skills: ASI List (military.answers.com) Keynote Speaker, Dr. Alan Hirsch, M.D., F.A.C.P., to Present at ScentWorld 2013 (prweb.com) VideoPropulsion Ships Cost-Effective Intelligent DVB ASI to IP Gateway for Cable Headends (prweb.com) Latest…

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  • Lucy Suchman: the relations of ethnographies of everyday practice to new technology design

    A clever anthropologist who is studying the machine-human interface to help design better products and experiences, and prevent disastrous mistakes. Lucy Suchman, Sociology, Lancaster University. Related articles 5 Easy Ways to Bring Ethnography into Your Market Research (questionpro.com) Crowdsourced Ethnography. (makemarketinghistory.blogspot.com) CREATe: Creativity, Regulation, Enterprise and Technology (bluesyemre.com) Have A Problem? Sleep On It. (time4sleep.com)

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  • Crowd-sourcing science: Sergey Brin’s Search for a Parkinson’s Cure

    This guy has the money and the brains to turn the  hypothesis testing scientific method on its head and speed up our currently extremely expensive and slow drug discovery process using the power of the Internet to analyze massive data sets and look for patterns. Sergey Brin’s Search for a Parkinson’s Cure | Wired Magazine…

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  • Gel 2010 conference: art, design, science, technology, experience

    Gel 2010 conference. Related articles From Joint Aches to Back Pain: Volatren Gel (arthritis.answers.com) TriMix Laboratories Announces New TriMix-gel Partnership with US Compounding (prweb.com) Researchers look at our ageing society (mdx.ac.uk) Bayer CropScience Announces Special Savings on Maxforce FC Select Roach Killer Bait Gel for Pest Management Professionals (prweb.com)

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  • Mobile photos reveal movements of tourists and natives in Boston

    Their Boston, Our Boston – The Boston Globe. Related articles You know you’re from Boston when … (boston.com) Boston’s Award Winning Interior Design Firm Wilson Kelsey Design is Featured in Boston Globe Magazine’s “Your Home / Find Your Style” (prweb.com) Demand for Boston Bruins Seats Has Sent Ticket Prices Through the Roof – AniceTicket.com Announces…

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  • Global Knowledge Exchange: privacy in the age of information

    Global Knowledge Exchange. Related articles 7X24 Exchange Spring Conference (datacenterknowledge.com) Ocean Exchange Launches 2013 Call for Solutions. Register to Compete for the $100,000 Gulfstream Navigator Award and the $100,000 WWL Orcelle Award (prweb.com) Lenovo Expands U.S. Global Headquarters, NC Footprint (news.lenovo.com) MCSE Exchange Server 2013 Training Offered by NetCom Learning, Gold Microsoft Training Partner (prweb.com)…

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