The Grid evolved from the early desire to connect supercomputers into "metacomputers" that could be remotely controlled. The word "grid" was borrowed from the electricity grid, to imply that any compatible device could be plugged in anywhere on the Grid and be guaranteed a certain level of resources, regardless of where those resources might come from.
The Social Map Is All About Me - GigaOM - 0 views
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The Grid: The Next-Gen Internet? - 0 views
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As with the Web, the initial impetus for a grid came from the scientific community, specifically high-energy physics, which needed extra resources to manage and analyze the huge amounts of data being collected.
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The Matrix may be the future of virtual reality, but researchers say the Grid is the future of collaborative problem-solving. More than 400 scientists gathered at the Global Grid Forum this week to discuss what may be the Internet's next evolutionary step.
Open Reasoning: Some data points on social media - 0 views
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It is based on an online research study conducted in September 2007 and illustrates the way in which use of social media varies within the IT professional community. Please don't take the absolute percentages literally as this was a self-selecting sample which would have been biased towards those with an interests in social media
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You should also bear in mind that research over 6 months old (as this is) will not necessarily reflect the position today in such a fast moving area like social media. We'll repeat this study at some point and do some proper trending, but in the meantime, here are the raw charts - deliberately without commentary:
U.S. Lags in Social Media Creation, per Survey - 0 views
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A new global study of social media use reveals that the U.S. severely lags behind Asian and South American countries in participation rates.
Inside Facebook » Facebook Lexicon visualizes conversation trends on Facebook - 0 views
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Facebook today announced the launch of Facebook Lexicon, a visualization tool reminiscent of Google Trends. Just as Google Trends measures and compares search query volume across multiple terms, Facebook Lexicon shows how frequently your search terms appear in Facebook Wall conversations over time.
YouTube - YOUTUBE Feature SONG - 0 views
U.C. Berkeley student's Twitter messages alerted world to his arrest in Egypt - San Jos... - 0 views
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When Egyptian police scooped up UC Berkeley graduate journalism student James Karl Buck, who was photographing a noisy demonstration, and dumped him in a jail cell last week, they didn't count on Twitter.
Shyftr is Shifting the Attention - 0 views
Drop.io: Simple Private Exchange - 0 views
Cable - News - Virgin Media CEO attacks net neutrality - Digital Spy - 0 views
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Virgin Media CEO Neil Berkett has attacked the principle of net neutrality, whereby internet service providers do not interfere with or degrade the speed at which content is delivered from websites to consumers, branding it as "b****cks".
louisgray.com: Should Fractured Feed Reader Comments Raise Blog Owners' Ire?: Silicon V... - 0 views
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One of the more frequently mentioned suggestions for avid Google Reader users is the addition of comments to the service, so RSS readers could respond to blog posts, either directly from the reader and back to the originating blog, or within the Google Reader community itself, in effect, becoming a social network. But while Google Reader has not yet enabled comments, other services are, and it seems the excitement of adding this capability is hardly universal - and its opponents have gone so far as to call it "outrageous" or "theft".
YouTube - BLACK AND MEXICAN FIGHTING - 0 views
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"YouTube.com, YouTube.com!"
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