Microspaces represent a new method of nesting content. The concept utilizes Microsoft’s Nested GUI technology to create nested content wells that expand into full (or at least larger) windows on hover. The technique is smooth, easy to grasp and reduces clicks drastically. It also puts an enormous amount of content into a single space. Here’s […]
Read the rest…“The big surprise is that Google still uses the manually-crafted formula for its search results. They haven’t cut over to the machine learned model yet. Peter suggests two reasons for this. The first is hubris: the human experts who created the algorithm believe they can do better than a machine-learned model. The second reason is […]
Read the rest…This story from the Economist is interesting and points to the real world value that web 2.0 tools can offer – in this case within the scientific community.
As technology helps speed scientific discovery it seems appropriate that the web should speed the publishing and peer-review of those discoveries. Although as in so many other areas […]
Listen to Admiral Akbar! (apologies to those who don’t frequent Digg):
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