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Your first reaction to the idea some North Carolina parents agreed to let their 16 year-old drop out of school to pursue…
There’s a new Viewpoint column about Twitter, over at BusinessWeek. Before I go on, it’s important to note that Viewpoint’s are guest columns, not written by normal BusinessWeek staffers.
Google has stepped up its efforts to lobby the FCC to free up broadcast white spaces for unlicensed wireless broadband use by launching FreeTheAirwaves.com. The site provides information about uses for white spaces and invites supporters to sign an online petition to the FCC.
This week, Facebook announced that it is changing the timing of application measurement from daily to monthly. This means that instead of daily activity reports, Facebook developers can now look at how their widgets perform over course of a month.
Moveable Type from Six Apart has a new incarnation out that aims to take blogging in a more social direction. As Om malik points out, blogging has always been a social form of media. On the flipside, sites like MySpace incorporate blogs into their profile pages. But where platforms like Wordpress miss the boat, this new Movable Type incorporates the ability to set-up networks into…
Some video games can have beneficial effects, improving gamer's dexterity and their ability to problem solve according to research from the Annual Convention of the American Psychological Association.Fordham University psychologist Fran C. Blumberg, PhD, and Sabrina S. Ismailer, MSED, looked at 122 fifth, sixth and seventh-graders problem solving behavior while playing a video game they had not been previously exposed to. They found that playing…
