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Rustic eco chic in the Facebook cafeteria

December 28, 2012 by timbatchelder, posted in Cognitive Science, Digital health, Knowledge Management, Metadata Masterdata, Regenerative Economy

Facebook’s Cafeteria, By The Masters Of Rustic Chic
By Mark Wilson, fastcodesign.com

Roman & Williams has created nostalgic interiors that most others can only emulate. Here’s the lunchroom they created with Facebook.

Google ruined everything. Microsoft gave out free soft drinks, but Google let employees eat gourmet food for…

RT @FastCoDesign: Facebook’s Cafeteria, By The Masters Behind The Ace Hotel http://flip.it/lEqgK http://flip.it/Htd4b

Facebook’s Cafeteria, By The Masters Behind The Ace Hotel (fastcodesign.com)
The Design Team Roman & Williams Gets Around (nytimes.com)

Get a good Gmail Username

December 28, 2012 by timbatchelder, posted in Digital health, Knowledge Management, Metadata Masterdata

How to Get the Gmail Address You Want
Chelsea Stark, mashable.com

1. Display Density

2. Button Labels

3. No Markers

4. Stars

5. Move Icons

6. Labels

7. Circles

8. High Contrast

9. Google Docs Gadget

10. Right-Side Chat

11. Undo Send

http://flip.it/MSOYV

Infographic: The Evolution of Google’s Gmail (moneymakingblog101.wordpress.com)
Latest Google service outage hits Gmail, Google Docs, and Google Drive, (venturebeat.com)

Copyright law on the digital frontier

December 16, 2012 by timbatchelder, posted in Data Governance, Knowledge Management, Security & Privacy

Google search now gets 2.5 million copyright removal requests a week, up from 250,000 in May
By Adi Robertson, theverge.com

Use of Google’s takedown tool for search results has grown tenfold in the past six months, the company reports. When it started publicly posting takedown notices in late May, around 250,000 requests a week went through the system — which…

RT @verge: Google search now gets 2.5 million copyright removal requests a week, up from 250,000 in May http://flip.it/op5xB http://flip.it/F12Dx

Copyright holders target their takedown notices with takedown notices (wired.co.uk)
Using Google Images? Think about copyright permissions (slablogger.typepad.com)
The National Digital Public Library is launched (wired.com)

Google knowledge graph on drugs

December 13, 2012 by timbatchelder, posted in Cognitive Science, Design UX, Ethnographic Methods, Health Informatics, Knowledge Management, Linguistic Search

Google: This is your Knowledge Graph on drugs
by Casey Newton, cnet.com

Google’s evolving database of the relationships between people, places and things gets a new dose of medicine.

Searching for information about medicine on Google? You’ll soon find drugs injected into your search…

http://flip.it/tRy2u

Google Adds Non-Profit Details To Knowledge Graph (searchengineland.com)
LoveFlutter Finds Your Match Using Google’s Knowledge Graph (mashable.com)
Google Harnesses Knowledge Graph, Facial Recognition to Give Movie Insight (mashable.com)
Your Brand Needs a Google Knowledge Graph. Here’s How to Get It. (lorirtaylor.com)

Interactive Fractal Tree of Life

October 20, 2012 by timbatchelder, posted in Design UX, Health Informatics, Knowledge Management, Metadata Masterdata

Interactive Fractal Tree of Life Zooms In On Earth’s Entire Evolutionary History
By Rebecca Boyle, popsci.com

A new interactive website shows a phylogenetic tree of everything, as zoomable as Google Earth.

From protozoans to people, there is a lot of life on this planet, and it’s all connected to a common ancestor from which everything descends…

http://flpbd.it/4RwQh

Fractal mystery (blogs.discovermagazine.com)
Wire Wrapped Tree of Life Tutorial (instructables.com)

How Google Drive Makes It Easier To Teach Writing

October 7, 2012 by timbatchelder, posted in Knowledge Management, Regenerative Economy

Dave Copeland, readwriteweb.com

Making my students switch from MS Word to Google Drive not only eliminated the headache of incompatible versions and big email attachments. It’s made them better writers.

When I started teaching college writing and journalism…

http://flpbd.it/uFfgR

How Google Drive Makes It Easier To Teach Writing

Google Drive – Student ePortfolios (mguhlin.org)
How journalists are using Google+, by @johnpaul (nextlevelofnews.com)
Google Drive now has previews for videos, images, and files (thedroidguy.com)
Tips for a Succesful Google Apps Training Session (freetech4teachers.com)
The Best Ways to Share Information throughout Your Agency (InsuranceFiles.com)
Google Drive gets file previews, Android app now outfitted with video streaming (engadget.com)
Foursquare dumps Google and goes open-source for maps (nextlevelofnews.com)
Five Essential Google Drive Skills For Teachers (freetech4teachers.com)
Horses for courses: Is Google Drive really the best bet for businesses? (intechnology.co.uk)
Editorially: Building a writing tool that embraces the Web (pandodaily.com)

It’s Time For Your Drive-By Energy Audit

October 1, 2012 by timbatchelder, posted in Design UX, Knowledge Management, Systems Science

It’s Time For Your Drive-By Energy Audit
BY MICHAEL J. COREN, fastcoexist.com

An ambitious company is attempting to use thermal cameras attached to cars to capture images of how every building in America is wasting energy.

It’s the Google Maps for home efficiency. At the rate of two to three million buildings per mont…

http://flpbd.it/LDbMq

IDB supports energy efficiency program for Bahamian hotels (antiguaobserver.com)
Thousands Of Ohio Businesses To Reap Free Energy Audits (earthtechling.com)
Conducting a Home Energy Audit (sprayfoamdirect.com)
One Clean Planet Offers New Innovative All Natural, Healthy Carpeting that’s Unlike Any Other Product in North America (prweb.com)
Conducting a Home Energy Audit – Insulation (sprayfoamdirect.com)
Online Tool Helps Your Home Save Energy (earthtechling.com)
Two Wonderful Tools Integrating Twitter in Google Maps (teacherlingo.com)
Give your house an energy audit with your smartphone (smartplanet.com)
New Technology Makes Home Heat Loss Visible (wbur.org)

Food Makers, Today on Google Hangout

September 20, 2012 by timbatchelder, posted in Health Informatics, Knowledge Management, Metadata Masterdata

Food Makers, Today on Google Hangout On Air, 2pm Pacific (5pm Eastern)
By Stett Holbrook, makezine.com

All things food and beverage is the subject of today’s Google Hangout at 2pm PDT (5pm EDT), as MAKE debuts a new bimonthly Hangout on Air. Look for these hangouts to cover the wide world of food and drink from a maker’s point of view.

For…

http://flpbd.it/vx0Rh

SHOWTIME! Watch Ladyada with the President of the USA today at 4:50pm EST #FiresideHangout #SOTU (adafruit.com)
Mumbrella to hold Google Hangout with Nova’s Fitzy & Wippa this afternoon (mumbrella.com.au)
Hangouts in Gmail now available in India (googleindia.blogspot.com)
In a Fireside Hangout on Google+, Obama says we need more patent reform and computer education (adafruit.com)
NASA Schedules Google+ Hangout With Space Station (themoderatevoice.com)
Food Makers Hangout Today: The Underground Food Scene (makezine.com)
State of the union fireside google+ hangout with President Obama on thursday! (google-plus.com)

How to Migrate All Your Data to iCloud from Google without going mad

October 10, 2011 by timbatchelder, posted in Knowledge Management, Linguistic Search, Regenerative Economy

How to Migrate All Your Data to iCloud from Google with Minimal Fuss.

Apple extends iCloud storage following downgrade glitch (reviews.cnet.com)
How to share documents with iCloud (macworld.com)
Apple Gives Previous MobileMe Users An Extra Year Of iCloud Storage (geeky-gadgets.com)
Apple extends iCloud storage upgrade for MobileMe users another year (engadget.com)
iCloud.com Still Needs Google Maps To Find Your iPhone (AAPL, GOOG) (businessinsider.com)
Do I Need iCloud and iTunes iMatch? (discussions.apple.com)

Fat-wallet and other hot deals sites compared

April 19, 2011 by timbatchelder, posted in Information Visualization, Knowledge Management

Google Wallet Logo (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

One thing I learned when working in e-commerce is that before buying anything online or off you should Google it and see what deals are available at hot deals sites like Fat-wallet. Here is a review of the top deals sites:

http://hot-deals-review.toptenreviews.com

Mobile wallet changes won’t come until incentives do as well (lexingtonlaw.com)
How to find the biggest cashback bonus for anything you buy (reviews.cnet.com)
NewsWatch Highlights Top Deals Website, FatWallet, from the Floor of the Consumer Electronics Show 2013 (prweb.com)
A Simple Tip That Will Save Money With FatWallet & SlickDeals (makeuseof.com)
Mobile credit card options a major focal point for developers (lexingtonlaw.com)
NewsWatch Recently Featured FatWallet.com and Idolian Studio Tablet,… (prweb.com)
Bigger Screens Trending as Best HDTV Deals on FatWallet for Last Minute Big Game Upgrades (virtual-strategy.com)
PayPal destroys Google Wallet, MasterCard, Square, and VISA in digital wallet study (venturebeat.com)
Tech and Clothing Trending as Popular as Traditional Valentine’s Day Gifts at FatWallet (virtual-strategy.com)

Culturomics: hard + soft science using the Ngram viewer

April 13, 2011 by timbatchelder, posted in Digital health

Google ?????Google Refrigerator? (Photo credit: Aray Chen)

I’ve been playing around with the new Google N Gram viewer and the emerging field of culturomics, the application of high-throughput data collection and analysis to the study of human culture. It’s interesting to see that Timothy was more common in 1920 and that information has grown faster than knowledge In 500 Billion Words, a New Window on Culture – NYTimes.com.

Culturomics looks at the birth and death of words (nextlevelofnews.com)
Semantics: Ecohydrology vs. Hydroecology (snowhydro1.wordpress.com)
Digital Signage in the Workplace Trends (themarlincompany.com)

Google Ngram Viewer: Sciences vs. Religion

May 23, 2010 by timbatchelder, posted in Design UX, Health Informatics, Linguistic Search

Usage statistics from English books, according... — Usage statistics from English books, according to Google Ngram Viewer. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Google Ngram Viewer.

Google Labs’ NGram Viewer: what we learned from 5 million books (nextlevelofnews.com)
Colossal is shrinking, but massive continues to grow (diginsider.com)
Optimal algorithm for finding all ngrams from a pre-defined set in a text (cs.stackexchange.com)
Semantics: Ecohydrology vs. Hydroecology (snowhydro1.wordpress.com)
Digital Signage in the Workplace Trends (themarlincompany.com)
The Rise of Bounding Asterisks in Lieu of Italicization for Emphasizing Text (daringfireball.net)

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