Facebook and Twitter are hoping to change that, particularly when it comes to commerce (see: Facebook Graph Search and Twitter enabling instant commerce with American Express), but for now the data says that Taylor is right.
His research on social networks and collective dynamics has appeared in a wide range of journals, from Nature, Science, and Physical Review Letters to the American Journal of Sociology. Drawing on the latest scientific research, along with a wealth...
Governments--totalitarian and democratic alike--are monitoring people's online habits, endangering important human rights," he wrote in the latest edition of Scientific American. The issue of Scientific American celebrates the 20th anniversary of...
Christine Cassel, President and CEO of the American Board of Internal Medicine Shaw Research, LLC, fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and serves on the Computer Science and Telecommunications Board of the National Academies
Professor Lessig was also named one of Scientific American's Top 50 Visionaries, for arguing “against interpretations of copyright that could stifle innovation and discourse online. The title of his keynote is “Remix: Making Art and Commerce Thrive...
The American economy could be better. As the scientific axiom goes, correlation does not imply causation. Whether motivated by fear, or just a drive to create a better product, we've witnessed several interesting changes in the search world.
Google did produce two relevant results in positions 7/8, from The Pump Handle and Scientific American. The popcorn lung news has been water-cooler talk around here recently. In case you haven't heard, it can be unsafe to consume vast quantities of...
And 43% strongly agree that scientific research is essential to improving the quality of human lives; 27% of remaining online users say this.The full 42 page report is available for download from the Pew Internet & American Life Project web site.
Other examples of free, high-quality publications include the IBM Journal of Research and Development and JAMA, the journal of the American Medical Association. Scirus is an interesting hybrid; it includes both summaries of scientific/technical...
Finally, although this Scientific American article was written in 1999, I still think it's one of the best, especially for non-geeks, about web link analysis. It features an article by Karen Schneider, the director of the Librarians' Internet Index...
The World Digital Library is intended to go well beyond American material, however. Oddly, despite being dubbed a "World Digital Library," the project is currently an American-only effort. The plan will expand upon work already done for the...
Scientific American Frontiers Video Archive American Field Guide Before jumping into non-Google video search tools, I'll say that I'm somewhat "underwhelmed" (at this point) by Google Video. Many of Google's recent introductions and announcements...
The February issue of Scientific American is out and contains a lengthy article about web search and info retrieval. You can read the six page article titled: Seeking Better Web Searches online. For many of you the article will be a review of...
Scientific American Jan 24 2005 5:28AM GMT The majority are doing simple searches," said Deborah Fallows, Senior Research Fellow at the Pew Internet & American Life Project and author of the report.
Scientific American Frontiers Video Archive American Field Guide Several products are already around that allow you to search (via the closed-captioning) and view television content online. ShadowTV (fee-based)
Ever wanted to search for something that involved a range of numbers, like any pages mentioning the American Revolution and the dates 1776 through 1779? Less scientific, but no less interesting, Lee Watters tried to get a glimpse of search in the...
The Semantic Web is an extension of the current web in which information is given well-defined meaning, better enabling computers and people to work in cooperation," wrote Tim Berners-Lee, James Hendler and Ora Lassila in their Scientific American...
Scientific American Dec 24 2002 8:19AM GMT SearchDay is headlines only this week, as we celebrate the season. Happy holidays! NOTE: Article links often change. In case of a bad link, use the publication's search facility, which most have, and...
Scientific American Dec 24 2002 8:19AM GMT ======================== SearchDay is headlines only this week, as we celebrate the season. Happy holidays! NOTE: Article links often change. In case of a bad link, use the publication's search facility...
According to the American Library Association, the Department of Energy has removed 9,000 scientific research papers that contain keywords such as "nuclear" or "chemical" and "storage" from national laboratory web sites and is reviewing them to...
