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Smarter Healthcare: How Social Media is Revolutionizing Your Doctor Visits

Monday, October 5th, 2009

The Smarter Cities series is supported by IBM. Read more about building a smarter planet on the IBM A Smarter Planet Blog

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5 Ways to Attract and Empower Your Crowd

Wednesday, September 2nd, 2009

Brandon Mendelson is the coordinator for A Million High Fives . Follow @BJMendelson on Twitter or add him as a friend on Facebook .

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Wikipedia Will Use Colors to Add Layers of Trust to its Articles

Monday, August 31st, 2009

Back in 2007., we wrote about a plan to add different colors to various Wikipedia edits, signifying the level of their trustworthiness. It’s easier to trust editors with a high number of entries and revisions than those who are new to the site, and now registered users will be able to easily discern between the two by looking at the color of the text’s background. If an untrusted source adds text to Wikipedia, it will have a bright orange background; text from trusted editors will be lighter.

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Back to School: Top 10 iPhone Apps for Students

Tuesday, August 25th, 2009

Ah, the smell of erasers and chalk dust is in the air, which can mean only one thing: it’s back to school time in many parts of the world. While I’d be lying if I didn’t say I was happy my school days are behind me, I am a bit jealous that students heading back to school now have a plethora of great web and mobile applications to help them tackle the tasks involved with obtaining an education. I would have killed for some of the great applications available to students today — almost all of which are cooler (and more useful) than the Tetris app I used to play on my graphing calculator

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Wikipedia to Add New Level of Editorial Oversight

Monday, August 24th, 2009

Wikipedia is one of the most prominent cases for world collaboration and social media in action. Unlike the standard encyclopedia, often written by experts and sourced from the same, Wikipedia articles are entirely community-built, often without restrictions

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English Wikipedia Reaches 3 Million Articles

Monday, August 17th, 2009

Beate Marie Eriksen (born 19 October 1960) is a Norwegian actress and film director.

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Wikipedia Gets Beta Redesign: See The Before and After

Friday, August 7th, 2009

The Wikipedia Usability Initiative just rolled out some design changes to the popular free encyclopedia Wikipedia that you can opt in to see with a user account. Changes to the navigation system make getting around the site more intuitive, and give the horizontal set of tabs at the top a slicker gradient look and feel. The search box has been relocated to the upper right instead of in the lefthand sidebar, bringing the site more in line with user expectation about where to find the search function.

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Top 15 Social Media Resources for Foodies

Thursday, July 30th, 2009

Ah, food… who doesn’t love food? It’s essential to our survival, of course, but more importantly, it acts as a universal language. Every culture has their own cuisine and we can communicate a lot about ourselves in how we assemble raw ingredients into delicious meals

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Fotopedia: An Online Encyclopedia for Photos

Tuesday, June 9th, 2009

When we think of online photo sharing, we typically think of sites like Flickr and Picasa where photos are hosted and organized by users.

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Fotopedia: An Online Encyclopedia for Photos