Though it once seemed that the Web was the last place where status didn’t matter, the elite are now looking for a comfortable place to mingle with like-minded people. They’re leaving Facebook and LinkedIn to the riffraff. In Depth: Social Networking Sites for High Society.
What makes for an appealing workspace? The envelopes they leave in your mailbox every two weeks. But after that, it comes down to design and amenities. Also, we like windows and brick. Lots and lots of brick. After spending some time on Office Snapshots, we present the ten best-looking offices in tech…
ReadWriteWeb: “Think of Your Submission Like a Mini-Article. A good title and summary in your submission is a make-or-break matter. An indecipherable title or a summary that doesn’t really summarize the article means very few people are gonig to click through or vote for a story. Sometimes the title of the original blog post may be more suitable for the blog’s regular readers than it is for Digg - you might want to consider coming up with a new title for your submission. There’s room for some artistic license.”
A new glove lets soldiers operate wearable computers while still holding their weapons.
“…If you’re a Firefox user then you can try Update Scanner. It’s an extension that lets you monitor webpages for changes. You have an option to choose how often the website should be checked for changes, and whether it should ignore the minor ones, such as the changes to numbers….”
Google researchers say they have a software technology intended to do for digital images on the Web what the company’s original PageRank software did for searches of Web pages. On Thursday at the International World Wide Web Conference in Beijing, two Google scientists presented a paper describing what the researchers call VisualRank, an algorithm for blending image-recognition software methods with techniques for weighting and ranking images that look most similar…
J.O.B.: “There are news and weather channels all over the U.S., and about 16 abroad. This is a news junkie
’s dream. Check it out. The only thing that could make this better is a way to embed this on a blog.”
With only 17% of its population online, China now has more users online than any other country, including the U.S.. We know these Chinese internet users aren’t watching YouTube, right? So what are they doing? The USA Today report cites internet communications and gaming. That’s not the only thing that’s going on online, however…
Wendy Wallace: A digital treasure trove of information is out there for the taking, but only if students have a means of discovering the way to find it - a search engine that is both academic and user-friendly.
Scores of academic search engines provide a heavyweight alternative to the commercial ones and work against what Brighton University’s professor of media- Tara Brabazon has termed “the Google effect” - a tendency towards mediocrity.
The challenge they face is to make themselves sufficiently user-friendly to attract and retain a generation of students reared on commercial search engines…
ReadWriteWeb: Is it time to accept that Digg is no longer an equivalent to Slashdot, and that it is as much a mainstream news site as say BusinessWeek or People magazine? I’m sure that’s what Digg management want us (and their potential buyers!) to think. Judging by these stats, they make a good case. But at what cost? Is Digg’s audience growing, or stagnating as its core techie audience goes elsewhere to sites like Mixx, Reddit, Hacker News and maybe even back to Slashdot?
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