Will the next generation of the web’s top search engines be human-created, social networks, like del.icio.us; mathematical algorithm-based, like Google, or a combination of both? This recent CNET News article discusses the search possibilities and the future of search engine results. From the article — In an acknowledgement that some questions may be better answered […]
Here is an interesting audio clip of NPR’s Steve Inskeep interviewing Stephen Viscusi, CEO of the Viscusi Group, about the practice of employers using social network sites like MySpace, Friendster and Facebook to do background research on employees and potential employees. You can listen to the interview @ Employers Tap Web for Employee Information. […]
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Thanks to SmartMobs for drawing attention to a Wikipedia entry that lists some of the interesting ways that mass SMS text messaging has been involved in current political and social situations: * In January 2001, Joseph Estrada was forced to resign from the post of president of the Philippines. The popular campaign against him was […]
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Politicians are finding themselves and their words at the mercy of video sharing site YouTube. With the proliferation of cheap digital cameras and video sites like YouTube, it appears that all the “Little Brothers” have started to turn the cameras on “Big Brother”. This article in the New York Times illustrates how politicians are getting […]
Wired.com is reporting on a group of volunteer researchers in the San Francisco Bay area, who are getting a headstart on the Department of Homeland Security’s plans to patrol US ports with radiation scanners by building their own do-it-yourself, portable nuke detector that will patrol San Francisco Bay. From the article — The Department of […]
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