Posts Tagged with web

Universities Partner with Tech Startups to Create Targeted Student Social Networks

As a way of keeping up with the times and maintaining more efficient student administration, colleges and universities across the United States have decided to create their own tailored social networking sites, with the help of a couple of tech-savvy startups.
Having an official fan page on Facebook is great for creating a niche for students, [...]

Filed under: Community, News, education on September 5th, 2010 @ 7:00 am

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Much Anticipated Startup From the Creator of Yahoo! Groups and Bloglines

Mark Fletcher is the online startup genius who created and developed two major online products that have revolutionized the way that people use the internet. Bloggers and web journalists around the world are wondering whether he has done it again with the new startup company called SnapGroups.
Before Yahoo! Groups, there was no easy way for [...]

Filed under: Business, News, Technology on May 10th, 2010 @ 7:00 am

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Google Moves into Solar and Online Payments

Despite the recent moves to curtail the tech giant’s online dominance, prompting most companies to circle their wagons, Google appears to be taking the opposite approach, further diversifying its business model instead. I read this both as a sign of confidence in its current offerings and as a logical next step in order to leverage [...]

Browser as Gateway to Controlling the Web

The recent collaboration between Microsoft and Yahoo! along with predictions that the future of the search could be the addition of “social relevancy” have pointed the lens squarely at the search engine as the most important piece of real estate in the quest for dominance online, but if we zoom out a frame, I have [...]

Facebook Acquires Friendfeed, What Do They Get?

In a move that quickly swept across the media landscape, Facebook announced that it had acquired Friendfeed, a single platform for receiving updates from more than 60 Web sites, including Twitter, Flickr and YouTube, for an undisclosed sum. The deal comes at a time when Facebook wants to leverage its audience of 250 million active [...]

Filed under: Business, News, Technology on August 11th, 2009 @ 11:30 am

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Google, Apple to Shift From Allies to Competition

The resignation today of Erik Schmidt, CEO of Google, from Apple’s board of directors came as little surprise to many in the industry, considering the “potential conflicts of interest” between them. While the two tech giants have been seen as allies for the last handful of years, Google’s emerging product offerings – the G1 smartphone [...]

Reporting Plus Marketing Equals One Future of Journalism?

It’s nearly impossible these days to pick up a newspaper or read a blog and not find some discussion of the future of the media business and what it means for journalism. To say that it’s an experimental time in the way content is distributed and funded is a bit of an understatement perhaps, as [...]

Filed under: Arts & Culture, News on July 31st, 2009 @ 1:36 pm

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Mouli Cohen Video Series: The Importance of Art

I’ve been highlighting some of thoughts from around the web on topics ranging from business and philanthropy to art and society. I hope that by sharing these insights, I’m contributing to the pool of knowledge that is freely accessible to everyone online and creating an environment for discussion. To that end, I’ve recently participated in [...]

Wikipedia, Psychology Collide

In a piece for the New York Times titled “Has Wikipedia Created  Rorschach Chat Sheet,” author Noam Cohen exposes an interesting clash between the decades old practice of human medicine and the phenomenon of technology. The offense is not that Wikipedia purports to have the answers to nearly everything under the sun, it’s that a test [...]

Mobile Applications to be as Big as Web

As our culture shifts towards greater immediacy and connectivity enabled by faster mobile networks and loaded handsets, we’re witnessing a profound change in consumer expectations that is having an effect across multiple industries from finance and technology to media and entertainment. Much of this is being fueled by the development of applications that seek to [...]

Filed under: News, Technology on July 22nd, 2009 @ 4:31 pm

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As part of the European Project FP7 research called “Integrated System for Transport Infastructures Surveillance and Monitoring by Electromagnetic Sensing,” a team of researchers had been gathered from the countries of Israel, Italy, France, Sweden, Norway, Switzerland and Romania.