 The Day the World Changed July 01, 2008 | User rating: 4.5 / 5 after 10 vote(s)
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Twenty years ago, a network engineer named Hans-Werner Braun started an e-mail message to the users of the National Science Foundation's (NSF) fledgling NSFNET project with that sentence to announce that the ... | |
MySpace looks to USC to help servers keep up with users June 27, 2008 | User rating: not rated yet | No comments yet
How do you keep a potential half-billion social networkers current? A Viterbi School of Engineering expert tackles the growth problems of one of the world's largest computing systems.
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Study Finds Men More Than Women Share Creative Work Online June 23, 2008 | User rating: 3.8 / 5 after 5 vote(s)
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A Northwestern University study finds that men are more likely to share their creative work online than women despite the fact that women and men engage in creative activities at essentially equal rates. | |
iTunes Store Tops Over Five Billion Songs Sold June 23, 2008 | User rating: not rated yet | No comments yet
Apple announced that music fans have purchased and downloaded over five billion songs from the iTunes Store. iTunes is the number one music retailer in the US and features the largest music catalog with over eight million ... | |
University of Minnesota study uncovers the educational benefits of social networking sites June 20, 2008 | User rating: 2.7 / 5 after 6 vote(s)
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Low-income students are in many ways just as technologically savvy as their counterparts
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Experimental phone network uses virtual sticky notes June 19, 2008 | User rating: 4.7 / 5 after 6 vote(s)
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The rapid convergence of social networks, mobile phones and global positioning technology has given Duke University engineers the ability to create something they call "virtual sticky notes," site-specific messages that people ... | |
 Rice U study finds that consumers may fare better with peer-to-peer online lending Web sites June 19, 2008 | User rating: 4.1 / 5 after 7 vote(s)
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A new study conducted by Associate Professor of Management Paul Dholakia at Rice University's Jones Graduate School of Management shows that online peer-to-peer lending Web sites may be more attractive to Americans ... | |
 How Did That Chain Letter Get To My Inbox? May 16, 2008 | User rating: 3.4 / 5 after 12 vote(s)
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Everyone who has an e-mail account has probably received a forwarded chain letter promising good luck if the message is forwarded on to others--or terrible misfortune if it isn't. The sheer volume of forwarded ... | |
 Probing Question: What is Net neutrality? May 01, 2008 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 9 vote(s)
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"Internet Freedom, under attack. What do we do? Stand up, talk back," shouted a group calling themselves the Raging Grannies, outside the Dinkelspiel Auditorium at Stanford University. Inside, the Federal ... | |
Users of Yahoo Answers seek advice, opinion, expertise April 22, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 1 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
One of the first large-scale analyses of how people share knowledge on Yahoo Answers has found that participants use the site to exchange advice and opinions, in addition to technical expertise. | |
Law professor warns the FCC about ceding too much control to large Internet providers April 21, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 1 vote(s) ) | User comments: 1
Net neutrality—the notion that everyone has a right to equal access to the Internet—should be a bedrock principle of life on the web, Larry Lessig, law professor and Internet advocate, told the Federal Communications Commission ... | |
UCI study sheds new light on habits, roles of blog readers April 09, 2008 | User rating: not shown ( 3 vote(s) ) | No comments yet
In a first-of-its-kind study, UC Irvine researchers have provided new insight into blog readers' online habits and experiences, as well as how they perceive their roles in blog-based communities. | |
Web 2.0: Opening up, or dumbing down? April 03, 2008 | User rating: 4.4 / 5 after 20 vote(s)
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Are Google, Wikipedia, YouTube, and other Web 2.0 giants the scourge of American culture, laying waste to its 20th-century institutions and dumbing down society? | |
Stock exchange for 'grid' computing? February 25, 2008 | User rating: 4.8 / 5 after 21 vote(s)
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You might soon be selling your spare computer power over the internet, or perhaps buying in extra resources to solve a tricky problem. In either case, network administration used to be a stumbling block – until European researchers ... | |
 SDSC Image of the Internet Universe on Display at New York’s Museum of Modern Art February 21, 2008 | User rating: not rated yet | No comments yet
A visualization depicting a frozen moment of activity in the Internet universe using computer tools at the San Diego Supercomputer Center at the University of California, San Diego, will be part of a special ... | |
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