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  • Transmitting Our Thoughts Via Broadband

    New research from the University of Southampton has demonstrated that it is possible for communication from person to person through the power of thought — with the help of electrodes,…


  • What Is Twitter Now?

    Is Twitter a social network or blog? That’s how the conversation started here at Organic…and it blew up from there. A Social NetworkIf you consider the definition of a blog…


  • 6 Cheap or Free Web Usability Tools : MarketingProfs

    There are two general types of usability testing: Expert reviews—A trained professional in human-and-computer interaction reviews a website or application based on existing user-experience best-practices but takes into consideration variations…


  • How to use social media to change the story

    Social media can do more than just allow you to monitor the conversation — it can actually help you change what people are saying, argues AMD Senior Vice President and…


  • Shift in Search-Ad Tactics Seeks More for Less :: WSJ

    In search-engine advertising, marketers bid against each other on key words. When a consumer searches for any of those phrases, ads appear above or next to the search results. Where…


  • Smartphones + Mobile Social Networking = Next Big Thing

    Jeff Smith is a diligent social-networking user, but he doesn’t own a PC. “I prefer a cellphone and a service for a cellphone,” says Smith, 40, a postal worker in…


  • I Want An Apple Magic Mouse :: Gizmodo

    As a mouse The Magic Mouse is a very, very pretty mouse—something you wouldn’t feel like you had to hide when not in use—and looks different enough from other mice…


  • Getting Started with Disruptive Business Design

    Craig Newmark’s Craig’s List is estimated to have about $100,000,000 in revenue — with 30 employees. That’s $3.3 million per employee, and even if it costs $70,000,000 to run it…


  • A Day in the Life of a Power Mom

    I have two kids and run two businesses. My kids are a 7-month-old girl and a 3-year-old boy. My first business, a Web consultancy called Soapbxx, will gross $300,000 in…


  • Is Digital Publication Hurting Scientific Creativity::Science

    Online journals promise to serve more information to more dispersed audiences and are more efficiently searched and recalled. But because they are used differently than print—scientists and scholars tend to…


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