I’ve not had much faith that TV on mobile phones would appeal to many. The screen is too small and network operators are stuggling to sell short video clips. But MobiTV apparently has 500,000 US subscribers on Cingular paying $10 a month. And as MobiTV’s COO says:
I would never bet against the American love affair with television
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Having just received an email about people leaving aids-infected hypodermics poking out of cinema seats, it was timely to come across Resource Shelf’s round-up of sites where suspect warnings can be checked out. They are US-focussed but there can’t be any emailers on the planet who’ve not been asked to forward a message in order to receive 000’s of $$$s from Bill Gates.
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A couple of interesting reports on the BBC site (thanks Bas!).
Skype has found that just over half of over 55s prefer to use the net to stay in touch with friends and family, beating the proportion that prefer to use the phone or text messaging. That sounds a little high.
MIT has outlined plans for a laptop that will come in at under $100 and is designed for kids in developing nations. These kinds of tech solutions undoubtedly help bridge the digital divide but where people lack safety, shelter, sanitation and food security, as billions do, we still need political solutions.
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Watch or read the transcript of an interview with the founder of wikipedia.
Alexa rates wikipedia the 49th busiest site in the world, serves 2 billion pages a month and they do this with one paid employee and a budget of around $1million a yesr.
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Bit of light entertainment. Pit 2 words or phrases against each other at Googlefight and see who’s the winner. Don’t stay for long though: ‘working’ beats ‘playing’ by 4:1.
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With tepid interest from consumers in having advertising delivered to their device, it seems unlikely that ads can be used to bring down the costs of premium services.
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Computer Aid International has now transferred over 50,000 PCs from UK businesses to developing countries. As they say, this large number is dwarfed by the 3 million PCs that get decommissioned every year in the UK but the new WEEE directive about disposal and recycling of electronic equipment is likely to change that.
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The acquisition of Reuters by Google is a fascinating idea. Gary Stein looks at why it makes business sense. I would wonder how the culture of one of the oldest content companies would gel with one that puts
chumminess and beauty as the main reasons to work there.
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Citation analysis, measuring how many times and where an academic article is cited, is useful for helping to establish how successful (influential) that article is. Traditionally academics relied on Web of Science but the introduction of Google Scholar and Scopus have challenged that. Scopus indexes more academic journals while Google is indexing other sources such as pre-prints and conference proceedings.
Here, 2 Yale librarians analyse how all 3 perform. While the unstoppable Google Scholar produces a higher count, they strike a note of caution about its role as a true scholarly resource.
Scopus and Web of Science do equally well, though it isn’t clear why the researchers did not include the Scirus findings in Scopus.
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This analysis compares the recall (comprehensiveness) and precision (relevance) of 5 search engines to retrieve Biotechnology scholarly information. The scientific-specific Scirus came out on top but Google appears to be overcoming concerns about its ability and came a close second together with HotBot.
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