Category «Internet»

Study: Self-Selected or Mandated, Open Access Increases Citation Impact for Higher Quality Research

Self-Selected or Mandated, Open Access Increases Citation Impact for Higher Quality Research. Gargouri Y, Hajjem C, Larivière V, Gingras Y, Carr L, Brody T, Harnad S. PLoS ONE. 2010;5(10):e13636+. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0013636. “Articles whose authors have supplemented subscription-based access to the publisher’s version by self-archiving their own final draft to make it accessible free for all on …

Subjects: Internet, Knowledge Management

Pew Internet: Mobile Health 2010

Mobile Health 2010, by Susannah Fox, October 19, 2010: “The online health-information environment is going mobile, particularly among younger adults. The Pew Internet Projects latest survey of American adults, conducted in association with the California HealthCare Foundation, finds that 85% use a cell phone. Of those: 17% of cell owners have used their phone to …

Subjects: Internet, Knowledge Management, Search Engines

Pew Survey: Survey: 96% of Young Adults Own Cell Phones

Americans and their gadgets, by Aaron Smith, Senior Research Specialist, October 14, 2010 “In recent years the digital world has expanded far beyond the desktop1, and consumers can now choose from an array of devices capable of satisfying their need for anytime, anywhere access to news, information, friends and entertainment. This report examines the latest …

Subjects: Internet, Knowledge Management

The Blackbaud Index of Charitable Giving

“The Blackbaud Index of Charitable Giving reports that overall revenue increased by 1.4% for the three months ending August 2010, as compared to the same period in 2009. This was a move back into positive territory from Julys -4.5% trend. This trend is based on $2.2 billion in 12 months revenue from 1,364 organizations…The Blackbaud …

Subjects: Internet, Knowledge Management

Google: Automatic Generation of Research Trails in Web History

Automatic Generation of Research Trails in Web History, Elin Rønby Pedersen, Shengyin Gu, Peter Jin Hong, Karl Gyllstrom, Proc. IUI 2010. “The web is large and complex, and in the process of navigating it, we often lose our way. Research trailing is a method to organize web contents that we have spent some effort on …

Subjects: Internet, Knowledge Management, Search Engines

WSJ spotlights people-search sites and commercial data brokers

Escaping the Scrapers: “The Internet has given rise to a dizzying array of people-search sites and data brokers that gather and compile public information and social-networking profiles. The sites gather information from public sources such as property records and telephone listings, and other information is harvested by scraping or copying websites where people …

Subjects: Internet, Privacy, Search Engines

Global 'Digital Life' research project reveals major changes in online behaviour

News release: “The largest ever global research project into peoples online activities and behaviour – Digital Life – was launched today, digital day by TNS, the worlds biggest custom research company. Covering nearly 90 per cent of the worlds online population through 50,000 interviews with consumers in 46 countries, the study reveals major changes in …

Subjects: Blogs, E-Commerce, E-Mail, Internet, Knowledge Management

Pew Survey – Online Product Research

Report: Shopping, Search, Decision Making Online Product Research, by Jim Jansen, September 29, 2010 “The commercial use of the internet by American adults has grown since the mid-2000s, with 58% of Americans now reporting that they perform online research concerning the products and services that they are considering purchasing. That is an increase from 49% …

Subjects: E-Commerce, Internet

CNNMoney – Google's next giant revenue stream is Android

CNNMoney: “Google has made its famous search algorithm into a $20 billion business, but for years, investors have asked, “What’s next?” Google finally has an answer: Android…By 2013, Android [mobile operating system] will be a $4 billion-a-year business for the company and “a blockbuster success,” Caris & Co. analyst Sandeep Aggarwal forecasts. That’s a nice …

Subjects: Internet, Marketing

WSJ: Former FTC Employee Files Complaint Over Google Privacy

WSJ: “A former Federal Trade Commission employee has filed a complaint with the agency accusing Google Inc. of not adequately protecting the privacy of consumers search queries. The complaint was filed September 6 by Christopher Soghoian, who worked until August as a technologist with the FTCs Division of Privacy and Identity Protection. It calls on …

Subjects: E-Commerce, Government Documents, Internet, Privacy

Can We Create a National Digital Library?

New York Review of Books: Can We Create a National Digital Library? Robert Darnton – “The following talk was given at the opening of a conference at Harvard on October 1 to discuss the possibility of creating a National Digital Library.” “Despite the complexities, the fundamental idea of a National Digital Library (or NDL) is, …

Subjects: Internet, Knowledge Management, Libraries

Google 2010 U.S. Election Ratings

“How will the balance of power between Democrats and Republicans shake out after the elections on November 2? Many political experts and news sources track and revise predictions, but until now its been hard to compare perspectives. Weve worked with some of the top names in politics Sabato, Cook, Rothenberg, CQ-Roll Call, and RealClearPolitics …

Subjects: Government Documents, Internet, Search Engines

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