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Eurekster Launches Personalized Social Search – (old story)
Personalized search? The concept has been that by knowing some things about you, a search engine might refine your results to make them more relevant. A teenager searching for music might get different matches than a senior citizen. A man looking [...]
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History of the Internet
“History of the Internet” is an animated documentary explaining the inventions from time-sharing to filesharing, from Arpanet to Internet.
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How the Lowly Text Message May Save Languages That Could Otherwise Fade – WSJ.com
Can predictive text in SMS help save languages from going extinct?
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Social Computing in 2020: Bluesky Innovation Competition
The Bluesky Innovation Competition on “Social Computing in 2020” seeks to promote new research directions for social-computing technologies of the future. We encourage participants to think broadly and freely about how society and technology will interact 10 to 20 years from now [...]
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Internet as a Social Ally
How do people use the Internet to solve problems? We find that a significant portion of online Americans turn to the Internet at times because it seems to fulfill their needs more readily and thoroughly than the people in their community network do. We [...]
