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“Is there a formula—some mix of love, work, and psychological adaptation—for a good life? For 72 years, researchers at Harvard have been examining this question, following 268 men who entered college in the late 1930s through war, career, marriage and divorce, parenthood and grandparenthood, and old age. ”
About 1400 people bookmarked this story in del.icio.us so far… I’m not the only one who thinks this is a fascinating story… -
So far they believed in (statistical) analysis of human-produced content: computers should be able to understand how humans write, humans should not adapt their writing to computers.
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An analyst’s job is to translate new developments into metaphors decision makers can understand.
This is how Jeremiah Owyang describes the evolution (a.o. to user-centric identity) in social software:
“The Five Eras of the Social Web:
1) Era of Social Relationships: People connect to others and share
2) Era of Social Functionality: Social networks become like operating system
3) Era of Social Colonization: Every experience can now be social
4) Era of Social Context: Personalized and accurate content
5) Era of Social Commerce: Communities define future products and services”
His own post is at http://www.web-strategist.com/blog/2009/04/27/future-of-the-social-web/ -
On any Amazon product page, click “Link to this Page” in the Amazon Affiliates Toolbar on the top of the page, then click the “bitlyAmazonAffiliateLink” bookmarklet and you will be redirected to bit.ly with a short, trackable link waiting for you.
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Create a searchable archive of all of your paper library!
“Using a simple USB-powered barcode scanner, you can easily add your books from off your bookshelf at home to the My Library feature in Google Books” -
“search engine taste test.
Type in a search query above, hit search then vote for the column which you believe best matches your query. The columns are randomised with every query.
The goal of this site is simple, we want to see what happens when you remove the branding from search engines. How differently will you perceive the results?”
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“Like the Bing service itself, the API is a re-branded and enhanced version of the Microsoft’s Live Search API:
* Developers can now request data in JSON and XML formats. The SOAP interface that the Live Search API required has also been retained.
* Requested data can be narrowed to one of the following source types: web, news, images, phonebook, spell-checker, related queries, and Encarta instant answer.
* It is now possible to send requests in OpenSearch-compliant RSS format for web, news, image and phonebook queries.
* Client applications will be able to combine any number of different data source types into a single request with a single query string.”