Day archives: May 8th, 2010

Study – Measuring User Influence in Twitter: The Million Follower Fallacy

Measuring User Influence in Twitter: The Million Follower Fallacy, Meeyoung Cha, Hamed Haddadiy, Fabrıcio Benevenutoz, Krishna P. Gummadi – Max Planck Institute for Software Systems (MPI-SWS), Germany; Royal Veterinary College, University of London, United Kingdom; CS Dept., Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG), Brazil. Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence. “Directed links in social …

Subjects: Blogs, Knowledge Management

FCC – The Third Way: A Narrowly Tailored Broadband Framework

The Third Way: A Narrowly Tailored Broadband Framework, Julius Genachowski. Chairman, Federal Communications Commission, May 6, 2010 “This statement describes a framework to support policies that advance our global competitiveness and preserve the Internet as a powerful platform for innovation, free speech, and job creation. I remain open to all ideas on the best approach …

Subjects: E-Government, Internet, Legal Research

Google Launches New Design to Highlight Features and Navigations

Official Google Blog: “We’ve added contextually relevant, left-hand navigation to the page. This new side panel highlights the most relevant search tools and refinements for your query. Over the past three years, we’ve launched Universal Search, the Search Options panel and Google Squared, and it’s those three technologies that power the left-hand panel. Universal Search …

Subjects: Search Engines

Text4baby – educational program of National Healthy Mothers, Healthy Babies Coalition

“Text4baby is a free mobile information service designed to promote maternal and child health. An educational program of the National Healthy Mothers, Healthy Babies Coalition (HMHB), text4baby provides pregnant women and new moms with information they need to take care of their health and give their babies the best possible start in life. Women who …

Subjects: Government Documents

Fed Chair Bernake's Speech on the Economics of Happiness

Chairman Ben S. Bernanke At the University of South Carolina, Commencement Ceremony, Columbia, South Carolina, May 8, 2010: The Economics of Happiness “..Another area of this research bears directly on…the relationship between income and happiness. Some years ago the economist Richard Easterlin showed that, just as would be expected, wealthier people in any given country …

Subjects: Government Documents