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Move over pinochle, Web surfing stimulates aging brains | News - Digital Media - CNET News
UCLA study finds Net searching triggers key centers in the brain that control decision making and complex reasoning in computer-savvy middle-aged and older adults. Read this blog post by ...
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http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-10069591-93.html
Medical Advertising, Senior Health, Medicine, Health care
MedicalAdvertise.com offers links to medical emergency, child health, conditions & diseases, dentistry, health care, mental health, pharmacy, alternative medicine, health care products, f...
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http://www.medicaladvertise.com
Health Directory, Nutrition, Fitness, Beauty, Dentistry
IndexHealth.com provides links to fitness, personal health, long term care, beauty and nutrition, animal health, mental health, diseases & conditions, weight loss, reproductive health, ph...
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http://www.indexhealth.com
Confessions of a MySpace Addict « Towards the Knowledge Society
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http://charlenecroft.wordpress.com/2007/03/31/confessions-of-a-myspace-addict
Health Directory - Mental Health, Health Insurance
DirectoryCare.com is a health care directory that offers various health information such as personal health, physical education, quality of life, medicine, hospital planning, fibromyalgia...
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http://www.directorycare.com
Health Directory - Mental Health, Alternative Medicine, Nursing
HealthYellowpage.com is a health care directory that offers various health information such as general health, beauty, dentistry, mental health, nursing, nutrition, pharmacy, education, w...
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http://www.healthyellowpage.com
Op-Ed Columnist - 9/11 and 4/11 - Op-Ed - NYTimes.com
President Bush is well on his way to being remembered as the leader who wasted not one but two crises: 9/11 and 4/11. The average price of gasoline in the U.S. last week, according to th...
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http://r0.sharedcopy.com/4km5q
Health Directory, Fitness, Beauty, Nutrition, Weight Loss
HeavyHealth.com provides health links & resources related to health insurance, animal health, beauty, dentistry, diseases & conditions, environmental health, fitness, long term care, medi...
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http://www.heavyhealth.com
Health Directory, Health Resources, Long Term Care, Weight Loss
HealthOnlineDirectory.com is a health directory offering a variety of health information & resources such as environmental health, equipments & supplies, fitness, health insurance, long t...
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http://www.healthonlinedirectory.com
Health Information, Senior Healthcare, Alternative Medicine, Fitness
HealthGolden.com is a health care directory that provides numerous links to browse for senior healthcare, beauty, dentistry, diseases & conditions, environmental health, fitness, health i...
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http://www.healthgolden.com
The Worst Addiction of Them All
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http://www.thenation.com/doc/19831231/vonnegut
Hey, Do You Think We're Just Playing Games Here?
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http://www.wired.com/culture/lifestyle/commentary/theluddite/2007/07/luddite_0705
Is Social Software Bad for the Dean Campaign?
Participation in online communities often provides a sense of satisfaction that actually dampens a willingness to interact with the real world.
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http://www.corante.com/many/archives/2004/01/26/is_social_software_bad_for_the_dean_campaign...
Open source: Are Microsoft and other holdouts about to crack?
As evidenced by the way Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has adjusted his open source rhetoric [...], commercial software companies are clearly being motivated by the market to adopt an increa...
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=1597&part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdblog
Learning to Pay Attention
We are surrounded by mediocrity and sameness and efficiency and noise that exhibit no integrity, dignity, subtlety [...]. And at the same time we are constantly barraged by assaults on ou...
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http://blogs.salon.com/0002007/2005/07/11.html#a1207
Data Should be the Intel Outside
Here is the problem: The more people that figure out that it's not about proprietary applications, but about proprietary data, then we merely move from one walled garden to another.
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http://paul.kedrosky.com/archives/001480.html
"Remote Attestation" and content access monopolies
Both Microsoft and Apple are now offering the ability to content providers to demand that users must use unmodified systems to view said content.
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http://itheresies.blogspot.com/2005_08_01_itheresies_archive.html#112299390504402562
Yahoo Rewrites Script for Web's Next Act
[With the technology of konfabulator, Yahoo gets] an easy way to pave a nice, smooth bike path to its own services-based destinations.
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http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1840473,00.asp
Yahoo Acquires Konfabulator
Konfabulator will provide a new outlet for Yahoo-delivered content as well as vaunted desktop presence, which is something that Web content, search, and community providers are targeting.
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http://www.line56.com/articles/default.asp?articleID=6745&TopicID=5
California-the-tragic
At every turn of the odometer, one wondered: what will become of this entropic socio-economic sink, especially as the supply of its chief nutrient declines. I conclude that it may no long...
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http://jameshowardkunstler.typepad.com/clusterfuck_nation/2005/06/californiathetr.html
Shining example of why patents and standards don't mix
When a proprietary technology earns the status of de facto standard, the licensor of that technology is basically afforded a legal monopoly and an unprecedented amount of market control.
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=1645&part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdblog
Pandemic of Brainlessness
Today's transient global economic relations are a product of very special transient circumstances, namely, relative world peace and absolutely reliable supplies of cheap energy.
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http://jameshowardkunstler.typepad.com/clusterfuck_nation/2005/07/pandemic_of_bra.html
Why Yahoo! buying Konfabulator is more than just about widgets
If Yahoo! can put the power of widget creation into the hands of end-users, it would give us end users the power to not only create custom content streams a la RSS and MyYahoo!, but also ...
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http://blogs.forrester.com/charleneli/2005/07/why_yahoo_buyin.html
Financial companies lead Linux charge
Most of the effort with porting it to Linux was convincing everyone that it would work," [says Willem Gorter, manager of a project for an electronic stock trading system]
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http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;443251353;fp;16;fpid;0
IBM Software's Mills: Time Has Come For Linux On The Desktop
Desktop Linux is lacking primarily in the area of third-party applications that companies use to perform functions specific to their business, as opposed to core desktop applications used...
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http://www.crn.com/sections/breakingnews/breakingnews.jhtml?articleId=168600696
Penguins Struggle to Reach the Desktop
While there’s still time for desktop Linux to repeat the pattern of its server brethren, I’m now inclined to think that Linux’ client evolution will be quite different and in some w...
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http://www.illuminata.com/perspectives/?p=65
The slow death of traditional software
The breakdown in trust between enterprise software companies and their customers signals the death of the traditional model.
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http://www.roughtype.com/archives/2005/07/the_slow_death.php
Do you really need both ends of the curve?
Successful community sites like LiveJournal, Flickr and MySpace [have] content on top of community. [...] Long Tail content creates a stickiness that can take a social site beyond the lif...
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http://longtail.typepad.com/the_long_tail/2005/07/do_you_really_n.html
Open Source, Ecosystems, The Second Law of Thermodynamics, and a Random Belgian Mathematician
[The vitally of an ecosystem is primarily determined by] the ability to encourage new infusions of energy from parties outside the system in question.
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http://www.redmonk.com/sogrady/archives/000861.html
SUSE opens to yawns
Given the fact that it's a community that drives better in the case of open source, first-mover advantage may actually be more important here than in the commercial world.
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=409&part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdblog
Cocaine use prevents adaptive behaviour
Cocaine may keep users from adapting to new situations by disrupting connections between key brain regions, suggests a new study in rats.
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http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn7698
Why Microsoft-only development is foolish business logic
By creating a product that only works on Microsoft, you solidify Microsoft more than you compete with them. You may be competing on a product level, but in the long run, you've done Micro...
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http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/archives/2005/08/23/why_microsofton.html
BI BlitzKrieg: Updated
The litmus tests for abusive monopoly power - charging nothing for products in an existing market(BI) knowing full well that the company can make up with sales in a complimentary market (...
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http://www.theopensourcery.com/wordp1/index.php?p=104
AntiTrust Conditions
Microsoft, IBM and Oracle are in a MAD contest to giveaway the biggest possible BI stack for free to sell their underlying databases.
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http://www.theopensourcery.com/wordp1/index.php?p=249
Beholden to the IE Browser
As long as major ISVs continue to be beholden to the IE Browser, the inevitable progress toward truly open and cross platform Web browsing will be a rocky road.
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http://www.theopensourcery.com/wordp1/index.php?p=297
Salesforce enters its eBay phase
Appexchange is following a Microsoft model, creating a software ecosystem of apps and developers based on proprietary software, but adding a marketplace infrastructure.
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=1840&part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdblog
An eBay For Business Software
The marketplace makes it possible for [Salesforce] to offer a large array of software that it could never afford to build by itself. At the same time, if customers adopt other application...
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http://yahoo.businessweek.com/magazine/content/05_38/b3951097.htm?chan=tc
iDevelopers! iDevelopers! iDevelopers!
The iPod's no longer a player, it's a platform. The others? Just players. In truth, they're nothing but accessories for Microsoft's Windows Media platform. That's why each one is an endpo...
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http://www.bynkii.com/generic_mac_stuff/archives/2005/09/idevelopers_ide.html
Can Microsoft Out-Google Google?
Microsoft recognizes its platforms will have more value if more applications are built upon them. And the only way to encourage the development of such applications is to open up the tech...
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http://www.betanews.com/article/Can_Microsoft_OutGoogle_Google/1126286132
In a world of proprietary boats, thanks but I'll take the life raft
If you want the cost, security, stability and whatever else of your IT to be out of your hands and in the hands of your suppliers, well, you're welcome to stay on that boat.
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=1803&part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdblog
Google aims for Web developers' hearts and minds
It wasn't just the OS that made Microsoft the most profitable company on the planet. Microsoft's vaunted developer-outreach network created a rich "ecosystem" of applications that run on ...
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http://news.com.com/Google%20aims%20for%20Web%20developers%20hearts%20and%20minds/2100-1007_...
It's not about OpenDocument vs MS. It's about open standards
If you're addicted to a proprietary technology and the vendor changes the price, you have little choice but to go along. If the product has security issues, you're beholden to the vendor...
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=2204&part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdblog
Taking Office 12 to Tasks
Change isn't often easy for big companies to embrace. Resistant employees (that don't want to change old habits), costly re-training and increased help-desk calls are among the many reaso...
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http://www.microsoftmonitor.com/archives/011974.html
Tackling "Oil Addiction"?
If the President really wished to reduce our "addiction" to imported oil, the most effective way of accomplishing this aim would be an energy tax.
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http://www.econbrowser.com/archives/2006/02/cognitive_disso_1.html
Web 3.0: Salesforce.com's 'Business Web'
By getting vendors to standardize on the Salesforce.com user interface, AppExchange is making an outright grab for the lucrative application-layer high ground of the Web 3.0 landscape.
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/SAAS/index.php?p=93
Wanting vs. Liking in Welfare Economics
[Without pre-established harmony between formal utility and hedonic utility,] it will be possible in many circumstance to make people better off hedonically by decreasing their budget–b...
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http://www.willwilkinson.net/flybottle/2006/03/31/wanting-vs-liking-in-welfare-economics
The Curious Economics of Credit Cards
Consumers suffer from some predictable behavioral biases that allow [credit card] issuers to exploit them. Specifically, consumers are overoptimistic about their abilities to pay down th...
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http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/law_econ/2006/03/the_curious_eco.html
The Persistence of Constraints
The fact that we all feel busy and that we feel the pressure of financial issues has nothing to do with our economy and everything to do with our nature. Religion is a much better place t...
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http://cafehayek.typepad.com/hayek/2006/03/the_persistence.html
What If They Gave a War...?
Britney Spears gets more ink -- and better play -- than global warming does. [...] The real voices of dissent and engagement are found on the internet these days, but the internet is simp...
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http://www.wired.com/news/columns/0,70980-0.html?tw=rss.index
Five Reasons to Stop Saying "Good Job!"
The bad news is that the use of positive reinforcement really isn’t so positive. The good news is that you don’t have to evaluate in order to encourage.
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http://www.alfiekohn.org/parenting/gj.htm