This week in the United States there was a new President inaugurated – Mr. Barack Obama. This presidency will be striking for many, many things. One of those is the use of Web 2.0 technology not only by Obama’s White House, but also by political activists and political pundits. Already the White House web page [...]
Were you in Washington D.C for the Presidential inauguration? Did you upload your photographs to CNN.com? If you did, you may have contributed to the breathtaking 3D photograph of President Obama taking the oath of office. CNN created this image by using PhotoSynth to combine thousands of photographs that were uploaded by the [...]
A recent report by CMS Watch (http://www.cmswatch.com/About/Press/ESSCR0109/) shows
enterprise use cases (e.g. LinkedIn) maturing faster than social computing platforms (e.g. Facebook). While Facebook and other social networking sites have a higher fun factor, professional networking sites are increasingly in popularity among enterprise users. “LinkedIn outperformed Facebook in CMS Watch’s “Professional Networking” and “Community of Practice” [...]
On January 8th 2009 the University of Pennsylvania and Tsinghua University announced an agreement to increase their current academic and research collaborations. Part of the proposals announced in Beijing include developing a conference on undergraduate education to discuss best practices and skills development and identifying a major research collaboration spearheaded by Penn’s School of Engineering [...]
As I read about the many collaborative research efforts announced daily, I wonder how the projects actually work after the announcement. For example, “The first joint institution for research and research training in areas of mutual importance to India and Australia has been established between the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, or IITB, and Monash [...]
