Tag: RESEARCH

Communiversity is a new site which allows students of various colleges to post pictures and comments on their own school. Though opinions on the site can vary greatly and maybe leave visitors more confused than informed, this new service is an interesting and creative way to find out a little more about your next potential college. College.SparkNotes and Collegeboard are two other sites to ...

Every now and again a study comes around that's so stunning it makes us wonder, "wait, somebody took the time to study this?" And now, for the findings from the Department of Obvious Research Pew Internet & American Life Project: girls who post photos online are more likely to be contacted by strangers than boys or girls without pictures. Shocking, but true. We suppose it's important for ...

It's so easy to enter your search term in Google and see what shakes out. It's also a serious time waster and when you want results without culling though the spam links, it's better to go hunting with a rifle and get exactly what you want. Here are some reference sites Scholastici.us put together to help you be a sharpshooter and get the job done, hopefully a lot faster. Bartleby - find ...

You know those 15,274 friends you have on Facebook, MySpace and other social networks? We know you're going to find this hard to believe. But they're not actually your friends. Well, not close friends anyway. We know, it's shocking, but it turns out that if you asked 15,268 of them if you could borrow a car, odds are they'd say no. Well, while that may have seemed obvious to most of us, that ...

Internet research firm comScore says the average U.S. computer had an average of 3GB worth of MP3 files, and over 300MB worth of WMV (Windows Media Video) files. The study looked at computer hardware and software configurations in April. Here are a few other interesting findings: Hard drive capacity is on the rise. Over the first four months of the year, the number of computers with hard ...

WikiMindMap takes a pleasant visual approach to the text heavy Wikipedia, showcasing additional relevant content that you may have never searched for. If you've been getting tired of entering a search term in for Wikipedia and feel like there might be additional information that you are missing out on, WikiMindMap will change that. This tool can help users browse Wiki content quickly and ...

Zurfer is straight out of the Yahoo! Research Berkeley facility. This handheld application is a location based photo browser. What it is in basic terms is Flickr for your mobile device. The Zurfer application is currently being developed in the Yahoo research labs, and will -- when loaded on mobile phones -- showcase photos taken around you based on current gps co-ordinates. You can also pull ...

If you're looking to move your family to a new abode, an important consideration is often the quality of the schools in the areas you are looking for. To help with the decision, Yahoo! Real Estate has added a nationwide school search feature to it's service. The schools are displayed on the embedded Y! Map, so you get all the zoom \ pan \ images that you'd expect. Each school is linked to more ...

From the Yahoo! Cool Thing of the Day blog: Yahoo! Research continues working to merge several of it's social properties in interesting ways - this time with the upcoming release of Tagmaps. Tagmaps aim to integrate tags with Yahoo! Maps - with the tags overlaid on top of the map. As you Zoom/Pan the map, relevent tags get place on the display. Yahoo! has created 3 demo apps: World Explorer - ...

Google and Nasa officially announced their special Space Act Agreement Monday. Through this new relationship, both companyies and government agency will work on technical problems that face large scale data management and human-computer interfaces. Google and NASA's Ames Research Center's first focus will be to make NASA's information readably available on the internet, namely real time weather ...

Microsoft is pumping up its research and development next year according to Steve Ballmer. A step up to $7.5 billion--$1.3 billion more than the previous budget announced in May--comes in a move straight from investors who are worried about Google's lead in the marketplace. This R&D budget will most likely be used to steal recruit talented staff that can help support innovation in research ...

What is SLAM, you ask? As with many Microsoft product names and government programs as well, SLAM is an acronym that stands for Social Location Application Mobile. Why that makes any sense, I don't know, but the idea is a mass-mobile messaging application out of Microsoft Research Labs. It endeavors to take SMS to the next level on mobile devices. There are many such services within the Web 2.0 ...

Pathway is a cool-looking Mac-only app that aims to be an alternative to a standard web browser for using Wikipedia. It aims to "help you discover Wikipedia without having to worry whether you'll have enough time to read everything you want, or if you'll get lost." That sounds simplistic, but the execution looks great. Pathway draws a map of every Wikipedia page you hit connected to the page you ...

I've been waiting for this announcement for a while: Thomson ResearchSoft has finally announced the availability of EndNote X for Mac. The upgrade brings the new compressed library format to the mac, as well as PDF integration, and customizable library views. I say it's about time; I can finally stop keeping my libraries on the PC, which has had v.X since Spring. In addition, They've added some ...

Zimbio is a collaborative media portal site. Users create portal channels about key information they are interested in. These portals provide significant meaningful information on topics that people are knowledgeable and passionate about. Zimbio, like Wikipedia, is a form of a social information network that actually works to provide meaningful and useful information that people are passionate ...