Snip!t channels - Alan Dix

The Internet's impact on global growth is rising rapidly... accounted for 21 percent of GDP growth over the last fiv... developed countries MGI studied, a sharp acceleration fr... contribution over 15 years. Most of the economic value c... Internet fa

The introduction of iOS 6 also introduced "smart app ban... let users know that your site has an associated app. The... adds a META tag and mobile safari handles the rest.
<meta name="apple-itunes-app" content="app-id=999">

The iPhone that was introduced in 2007 looked nothing li... prototypes designed behind the scenes at Apple HQ.
In fact, we were straight-up shocked by some of the desi ...
All these designs have entered the public domain because ...

The issue of co-author relationships on medical sciences... publications has become more pronounced as advances in t... enabled collaboration across countries and institutions ... efficiently. These relationships often have underlying p... motivations

The JDesktop Integration Components (JDIC) project aims ... technology-based applications ("Java applications") firs... of current desktop platforms without sacrificing platfor... Its mission is to enable seamless desktop/Java integration.

The Journal of Creative Behavior is our quarterly academ... the most current research in creative thinking. For near... has been the benchmark scientific periodical in the fiel... to date cutting-edge ideas about creativity in education... business, a

The Journal of Writing in Creative Practice is the offic... Writing Purposefully in Art and Design (Writing PAD) net... art and design institutions an arena in which to explore... notion of thinking through writing as a parallel to visu... art and des

the Landfill Harmonic Orchestra

The latest data from the Office for National Statistics ... borrowing up to October 2010. The figures go all the way... 1940s. It seems that all the political parties have face... of debt through the years - as if the economic climate h... independent

The launch of the clinicaltrials.gov registry in 2000 se... striking impact on reported trial results, according to ... that many researchers have been talking about online in ...
A 1997 US law mandated the registry’s creation, requir ...

The law of entropy, or the second law of thermodynamics,... first law of thermodynamics comprise the most fundamenta... Entropy (the subject of the second law) and energy (the ... first law) and their relationship are fundamental to an ... just of phy

The Learning Resource Metadata Initiative (LRMI) is a pr... common vocabulary for describing educational content. Wh... benefits to such a project, the main goal of the initiat... end-user search and discovery of learning resources.

The lesson for management teams at other unicorns is cle... Forget worrying about whether you're going to be around ... refocus on making products that people want that will ma...

The main emphasis of the project was to bring together a... historical mapping into a publicly accessible web map en...

The majority of British children will soon be growing up... are struggling “below the breadline” because of welf... and wage freezes, the Government is warned today.
Within two years, almost 7.1m of the nation’s 13m youn ...

The maker of the smartphone software that triggered a sn... called to account by a US Senator.
Senator Al Franken has written to Carrier IQ asking it t ...
Mr Eckhart claimed Carrier IQ software could log everyth ...
Carrier IQ said its software helped d

The map–territory relation—the relationship between ... object—is one of the lasting philosophical quandaries.
Coined by Alfred Korzybski, The map is not the territory ...

The memory model assumed for this discussion is a paged ...
The heapsort algorithms seen so far are not very well su ...
NOTE: Be aware that the words 'page access' does not nec ...
One may wonder if the d-heaps described in chapter 5 can ...
The drawbac

The microformats community has revisited it’s standard... “microformats version 2”. At first, I thought why! I...
The authoring patterns have been simplified even mor ...
microformats 2 addresses one of the biggest problems ...
Like mi

The microODRL specification descrbes a profile of the co... language for use as microformats in marking up standard ...

The Million Song Dataset is a freely-available collectio...
Its purposes are:
To encourage research on algorithms that scale to co ...
To provide a reference dataset for evaluating research
... To help new researchers get started in the MIR f

The mission of the Emotion Incubator Group, part of the ... is to investigate the prospects of defining a general-pu... annotation and representation language, which should be ... variety of technological contexts where emotions need to...

The more our media channels are flooded with deep fakes ... various kinds, the more we have the feeling of sinking i... quicksand.

The most important issue that came to light was that dat... readily available in on-line API formats and are current... masses of spreadsheets that need to be downloaded and ho... worked into a usable and highly available format. If thi... process is

The most impressive neon districts in the world include ... Shibuya, Osaka’s Dotonburi which was the inspiration f...
Most dramatic of all, however is Hong Kong where the ent ...
Vegas and Times square deserve double mentions as they a ...
Although th

The mouse and keyboard were invented before the Internet... Since then, countless technological advancements have al... more efficient human computer interaction. Why then do w... outdated technology? Introducing Gmail Motion -- now you... with your b

The Movable Type Open Source Project is a community effo...
* MTOS is an entire community of people devoted to m ...
* MTOS is a set of projects, including a full versio ...
* MTOS is a distribution of the core publishing plat ...
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The Nakajima Laboratory at the University of Electro-Com... Japan has developed a prototype pair of GPS-enabled glas... lights built into the frame to keep you moving in the ri...
The glasses house a microcomputer used to input your fin ...

The National Public Toilet Map (the Toilet Map) shows th... than 16,000 public and private public toilet facilities ... Details of toilet facilities can also be found along maj... and for shorter journeys as well. Useful information is ... toilet, suc

The network takeover
Albert-László Barabási
Nature Physics
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... pidly developing into a new discipline: network science.