Wikis, blogs and podcasts: a new generation of Web-based tools for virtual collaborative clinical practice and education BMC Medical Education 2006, 6:41
Microsoft has paid $240m (£117m) for a 1.6% stake in Facebook that values the site at $15bn (£7.3bn). Facebook spurned an offer from Google which was also keen to invest the site.
Students who regularly use laptops are putting themselves in danger of persistent neck, back, shoulder and wrist pain, and they are often unaware of the risks they are taking until it is too late
A few years ago I wrote to Microsoft’s leadership and asked them why they weren’t involved in the new Web 2.0 space. I got an answer back that was about 2,000 words long and included the words “business value” 13 times.
Microsoft plans to launch a health service later this year that will involve some a way for patients to store health information online, on their computers, and cellphones. There will also be an online search component. Google is expected to launch Google
The sleeping giant stirs. Vivendi's Universal Music has said it is to test the digital sale of songs from artists without the customary copy-protection technology.
A mechanism for publishing comments from people or organizations who were participants in the story in question. The long-term vision is that any participant will be able to send in their comments, and we'll show them next to the articles about the story.
"What we care about is what makes information inadequate." David Weinberger's keynote about the value of the implicit @ Defrag Con. He's describing the route to web 3.0: http://tinyurl.com/yw4ffj
Flesh is a cross-platform, open source Java application which produces two scores: the Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level and the Flesch Reading Ease Score. Using those numbers, the Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level and Flesch Reading Ease Score can then be calculated.
While early use could be described as mainly for fun, IM today is a serious communication medium. Remarkably, it seems that educational institutions have been doing very little with it, while several studies indicate that it could indeed be a valuable too
TiddlyWiki is written in HTML, CSS and JavaScript to run on any modern web browser. It allows anyone to create personal SelfContained hypertext documents in a single HTML file that can be posted to a WebServer, sent by email or kept on a USB thumb drive t
Britons travelling abroad to exotic destinations are now able to receive immediate and free travel health information regarding malaria thanks to a new text messaging service funded by GlaxoSmithKline Travel Health as part of the Malaria Awareness Campaig
We recommend that users do not install the versions of RealPlayer software that we tested, as distributed through channels such as Mozilla Firefox's 'Missing Plug-in' feature and the BBC Radio website.
Computer experts (?) believe supermodel Kate Moss is one of dozens of celebrities who have paid thousands to play down references to their troubled pasts on the world wide web.
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