Posted on September 26th, 2007 by dhirender
Eight years before the physical doors are scheduled to open, the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of African American History and Culture launched online.
The centerpiece of the NMAAHC Museum on the Web are the collected reminiscences of ordinary Americans. These stories, called “memories” are collected as text, images, and audio uploads in the virtual Memory Book [...]
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Posted on September 25th, 2007 by dhirender
Don’t like that glass partition … or the couch in that corner?
Now with FloorPlanner, you can make your floor plan using drag and drop tools online, and rearrange it as often as you want, so that when you finally translate it into real life, you can be sure it is exactly how you would want [...]
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Posted on September 24th, 2007 by dhirender
Looking for ways to increase traffic to your blog? BlogRush claims to have an answer. Styled as a ‘Cooperative Syndication Network’ that matches user contributions with their rewards – contributions in this case being the impressions they provide of the BlogRush Widget (like the one alongside) to the referral of other users through 10 ‘generations’ [...]
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Posted on September 24th, 2007 by dhirender
Blyk, a pan-European free mobile operator, funded by advertising is due to start by launching in the UK soon. This service will offer subscribers free calls and text messages in return for their acceptance to receiving advertising on their phone. Given that a recent study by Ball State University had shown that college students are [...]
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Posted on September 23rd, 2007 by dhirender
As Indian companies continually discover the potential of technologies in marketing and promotional activities, Bluetooth is coming into its own. As this article states, malls across the country — like Forum and Total in Bangalore — are using Bluetooth to inform customers of products and services, not to mention offering of discounts.
Given that the range [...]
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Posted on September 23rd, 2007 by dhirender
According to an August 2007 report, “Humanizing the Digital Travel Experience,” by Forrester Research, 2007 online leisure travel sales in the US and Europe are expected to reach $142.2 billion and grow to $213.8 billion by 2010.
The report went on to state about 90% of American business travelers first turn to the web to [...]
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Posted on September 22nd, 2007 by dhirender
“This is one of the best ideas of the century, probably the most open minded vision of the world ever.” so goes one of the testimonials for The Couchsurfing Project.
The way to Couchsurf is quite simple – you pledge to offer your couch free to other surfers, and promise to give them a true cultural [...]
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Posted on September 22nd, 2007 by dhirender
The Internet after all is a reflection of our society, so should we be surprised to see social networking websites cropping up which thrive on exclusivity? Just one more way for the trend towards niche social networking websites.
Take ASmallWorld.net for instance – launched in 2004 and only for the rich and well-connected who don’t want [...]
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Posted on September 22nd, 2007 by dhirender
Further to my earlier post, a recent survey by ComScore talked about the stupendous success of GodTube – that’s YouTube for the religious inclined, nominating it the fastest growng US website. Launched unofficially in January, GodTube.com showed 973% month-on-month growth in August – the month of its officially launch, with an estimated 1.7 million unique [...]
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Posted on September 17th, 2007 by dhirender
Imagine typing a question to a computer and getting an answer – somewhat like HAL in 2001:A Space Oddessy, but that is what Powerset has set out to do. Its technology, licensed from PARC and developed further, would read a sentence to extract its meaning and build a semantic index of facts based on the [...]
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