There doesn’t seem to be a day that goes by that we don’t hear something about the social networking world. Whether its the Myspace’s, Facebook’s, LinkedIn’s and others in this industry, there is no doubt that they are here to stay and their social reach and impact is immense. The great benefit of these networks [...]
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19Jun08
(No Ratings Yet)The web and its borders
03Apr08It is a popular belief that thanks to the Internet, the world is getting smaller and smaller. But is it really? Even though the web is world wide, language and cultural borders still matter a lot. A good example is the usage of social networking sites that varies greatly from region to region, as is [...]
(No Ratings Yet)Video Games for the Elderly
10Feb08I have been hearing more and more about Elderly getting involved in video and virtual gaming. Here is one example on Gizmodo of elderly playing bowling on Wii’s even going as far as creating Bowling Tournaments across the entire elderly home.
It makes a lot of sense, the elder tend to have: time and money [...]
(No Ratings Yet)trade your insight
03Jan08Situation: In the last years, there has been a lot of buzz around Prediction Markets. These virtual markets work exactly like stock markets, only that instead of real stocks, the probability of future events is traded. Prediction Markets are already a very common tool to forecast the outcome of elections (one of the first and [...]
(No Ratings Yet)Feeds in Everything
26Dec07Over at Read/Write Web, Marshall Kirkpatrick argues that 2007 was a big year for RSS (Real Simple Syndication). I completely agree - and I even think that RSS feeds will become a lot more important in the future.
Every blog already has a feed, and so does almost every news site. And there’s more: For example, [...]
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