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What Google's U.K. Ruling Says About Its Power in Europe

Why did Google get away with slapped wrists and no fine for their data harvesting in the U.K.?READ»

Tweetbeat Filters Spam From World Cup Tweets

Twitter's growing very, very fast. The number of ways of using tweets is rising fast, too, and with the explosion of messages, a new problem: Tweet spam. Kosmix's Tweetbeat may be the answer, and it's being tested with World Cup ...READ»

BURGESS   |  Comment

Stuart Country Day School of the Sacred Heart

I am involved with the Stuart Country Day School of the Sacred Heart, a Roman Catholic school for girls located on a 55-acre campus in Princeton, New Jersey. Founded in 1963, the Stuart Country Day School now educates over 500 ...READ»

NONSENSE   |  Comment

Nonsense At Work

Perceptual errors create nonsense at work:Socially, our consensus about how we interpret our environment seems to work well enough.  But at work, well enough is often not good enough.Because we rely so much on our agreement of ...READ»

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Finding Useful Info Is Easy On Loud3r

Information overload is a continuing problem, but one way out of it is to visit sites that bucket information and streams into topics for you so you can find what you need quickly. Loud3r is such an aggregator and here Lowell Goss, ...READ»

Web Based Software Helps Marketing Coordinator Career Development

A marketing coordinator that develops and follows through with a plan to track their own career development between employee performance based reviews, is much more likely to get a promotion or other employee perks, than are ...READ»

Top Benefits of a Virtual Project Management Office

A virtual project management office is an online location where professionals and business associates can meet to have private discussions, coordinate project details, and otherwise share and collaborate without having to be in the ...READ»

CRANBERRY   |  Comment

Note to Digital Pack Rats: DiamonDisc Archive DVDs May Outlast Man

Most DVDs have a pitiful lifespan of 2 to 5 years--certainly not enough time to make sure those family memories are stored for future generations. Start-up CranBerry LLC thinks it has a solution in its DiamonDisc, a DVD that last ...READ»

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Nonsense At Work

Information is job power:In this era of frantic job hunting, many people make one of two choices about job information - to share it or to hog it.I have been a guest speaker at a number of job hunting networking groups.  I ...READ»

History of Information

Thomas Baekdal's view of the history of information and where it is all going.READ»

Privacy and Security Issues in Social Networking

Given the rising popularity of social networks, it’s little surprise that there have been several high-profile breaches of security on sites as huge as MySpace and Facebook. With over 350 million members combined, all it takes is one single person to cause a major damage. Learn how the networks are dealing with the breaches -- and how to protect yourself.READ»

Worker, Interrupted: The Cost of Task Switching

Fast Interview: When is interruption is helpful? Why can't most of us stay on task for more than three minutes? Is the best way to achieve flow to just unplug? Gloria Mark, Professor in the Department of Informatics at the University of California, Irvine, has some answers.READ»

Guide to Marketing Information Online: The best online sources even marketers don't know about

Marketing gets the word out about your company – hopefully in a fun and exciting way. But, as is the case with most important things, you’ll have better luck if you go into it with some background information. Marketing should be ...READ»

It's time for a mindset change for educators

Not too long ago, educators are expected to teach students about what they know. Students, on the other hand, are expected to listen, absorb the information and transform them into knowledge. This style of teaching or rather, ...READ»