Tag Archives: Technology
Text Messaging: A New Direction in AIDS Awareness
Media consultants in Africa are adding one more element to the awareness campaign about AIDS…text messaging. In a recent Newsweek article titled “R U Positive?” it’s noted that “the country has the highest incidence of HIV-positive citizens of anywhere in … Continue reading
Amazondeals on Twitter
Likely a sign of things to come, Amazon has started using Twitter to send out information on “deals”. There are about 2500 followers to AmazonDeals as of today. This will certainly be noticed by many other retailers. It’s interesting to … Continue reading
Ready, Steady, Sticker
MoveOn.org teams up with Shepard Fairey in a brilliant marketing move to vitalize their organization, gain exposure, and a free large clean mailing list. Continue reading
Google Vote
Google, in collaboration with the Voting Information Project, has a voting service up for the elections season at http://maps.google.com/vote. Enter your home address and get the name and directions to your voting station. You also get information on voting by … Continue reading
LinkedIn Releases InApps
My level of engagement with my linkedin profile and network is marked by long periods of inactivity punctuated by sharp spikes of updates over very short periods of time. This is not an uncommon pattern. I see this behaviour of … Continue reading
The Netflix Challenge
The Advertising Age article that was required reading for this week’s COM 529 class talked about the Cinematch application in Netflix. Netflix tracks your rental history and allows you to rate movies, then Cinematch analyzes your data and the data of … Continue reading
How do you determine your star ranking on MCDM?
I looked into several sites; Slashdot and Apache for their contribution rules and resulting rank and reputation process. I then considered potential application to MCDM site. SlashDot Moderation. I like the idea of Slash Dot’s moderator process for filtering out … Continue reading
Cloud computing
Illustration by Matthew Hodson The Economist (October 25th – 31st) published an interesting report on corporate IT and global cloud computing (look at “In this special report “on the right of the page for more). According to Ludwig Siegele, The … Continue reading
