The Economist (dec 2006). Arizona State University switches students to gmail. lower cost. less training. more service. "using these services is like receiving technology from an advanced civilisation."
Note on this list the stubborn persistence of Yahoo’s Geocities at No. 6, the rise of Yahoo’s Flickr at No. 7, Six Apart at No. 10, and the presences of Chinese sites like Baidu Space and 56.com. The real surprise, though, is document-sharing site Scribd at No. 16, with nearly 24 million worldwide uniques. 1. Blogger (222 million) 2. Facebook (200 million) 3. MySpace (126 million) 4. Wordpress (114 million) 5. Windows Live Spaces (87 million) 6. Yahoo Geocities (69 million) 7. Flickr (64 million) 8. hi5 (58 million) 9. Orkut (46 million) 10. Six Apart (46 million) 11. Baidu Space (40 million) 12. Friendster (31 million) 13. 56.com (29 million) 14. Webs.com (24 million) 15. Bebo (24 million) 16. Scribd (23 million)
# You decide what's important for Google products: Tell us what you think about your favorite Google products. Big ideas or small thoughts, we want to know! # Everyone's voice is heard The voting box at the top of page focuses attention on submissions recently added and on the rise, making it simple and easy to participate. # See what others are saying Look at the "What's Hot" and "Recent Ideas" at the top of each topic to see what other users are saying and voting on right now. Agree with these ideas? Vote them up. Disagree? Vote them down.
Because Today’s Great Ideas start with Yesterday’s Foolish Thinking * Home * Design Portfolio Twittering the Moon: Anyone know what that star is next to the moon? Last night (February 27th 2009) I saw a really bright "star" next to the moon and wondered what it was. I wondered if twitter would tell me, so I did a twitter search for "star next to the moon." Of course, not only did twitter have an answer verified by hundreds of people, but it beautifully illustrated the thoughts of people around the world looking up in wonder at that same bright star in the sky - an age-old philosophical musing suddenly and poignantly jolted into the realm of the tangible. For those of us who still think Twitter is a pointless waste of time, I hope this example provokes some curiosity. Browse Thumbnails “Google Wave” coming soon: It will supercharge your email, then shake the web’s very foundation
ecurring outages on major networking sites such as Twitter and LinkedIn, along with incidents where Twitter members were mysteriously dropped for days at a time, have led many people to challenge the centralized control exerted by companies running social networks. Whether you're a street demonstrator or a business analyst, you may well have come to depend on Twitter. We may have been willing to build our virtual houses on shaky foundations might when they were temporary beach huts
The New York Times has announced that its increasingly popular Congress API has been upgraded to include additional features and data (more at our Congress API Profile). The latest version of the Congress API includes two new features that give developers access to more information: Retrieval of bills cosponsored by an individual member and all of the cosponsors for a particular bill Compare the voting records of two members of the House or Senate to see how often they agree and disagree
The essential benefit of hNews is that by identifying content more clearly and making more of its key information machine-readable it therefore becomes easier to search for. It also could lead to the development of different ways to search via different applications. Kasi was enthusiastic about the advantages of this for the AP. "AP clearly believes that being able to better identify each piece of content for better search discovery, better linking, better aggregation allows ultimately for the customer to see more content, more trusted content, from editorial sources," he said. "Microformats are a very simple, elegant way to do that on a pretty large scale basis," he added, allowing the AP to "prime the content better for search purposes even before it gets to the publisher."
RSS (Really Simple Syndication) is a technology that allows organizations to deliver news to a desktop computer or other Internet device. By subscribing to RSS feeds, users can easily stay up-to-date with areas of the Library's site that are of interest. The Law Library of Congress now offers RSS feeds for use in an RSS reader or RSS-enabled Web browser. Library feeds consist of headline, brief summary, and a link that leads back to the Library's Web site for more information. Available feeds cover: THOMAS: Daily Digest, Law Library News and Events, Law Library Webcasts, Current Legal Topics, and the Global Legal Monitor.
When the banking crisis tore through Wall Street and the City of London there wasn’t much Devin Wenig could do, apart from sit and watch the trading screens in his office turn red. As for any supplier to investment banks, a string of collapses including Bear Stearns was not good news for Thomson Reuters, even though the financial news and data provider claims to thrive on volatility.