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| | National Geographic - UN Rates Best, Worst Countries. Find out which countries took top honors in the UN’s new list of the most desirable countries to live in, see how the U.S. fared, and learn which places need the most improvement. |
| Het Innovatieplatform
Het kabinet wil dat Nederland tot de internationale top 5 gaat behoren op het gebied van hoger onderwijs, onderzoek en innovatie. Om dit te bereiken heeft het kabinet in 2003 het Innovatieplatform opgericht. | Futurescape is the London-based independent new media research and development company which focuses on emerging opportunities and innovation in the digital entertainment and social media markets:
Research: Publishing multi-client reports on emerging opportunities in digital media. The most recent titles are 2008: The Birth of Online TV and Marketing Success via Video Social Nets. For further research, read our case studies of social media marketing campaigns. | Study Finds Luxury Consumers Use Social Networking Sites
Friday, November 16, 2007 - By: Furniture World Magazine
Think social networking sites are just for teens and tweens who post party photos and lists of favorite bands? Think again. A new generation is flocking to Internet-based social networking sites and they may well be the adult consumers most likely to make a luxury purchase.
Over 40 percent of luxury consumers visited a social networking site, such as Facebook, YouTube, MySpace, etc. in the past three months. This is the most surprising finding of a new survey by Unity Marketing about how luxury consumers are using the Internet. It is based upon a survey conducted in October among 1,074 affluent consumers who made at least one luxury purchase in the past three months (average income $150,200 and age 43.6 years). | Amazon Mechanical Turk provides a web services API for computers to integrate "artificial artificial intelligence" directly into their processing by making requests of humans. Developers use the Amazon Mechanical Turk web service to submit tasks to the Amazon Mechanical Turk web site, approve completed tasks, and incorporate the answers into their software applications. To the application, the transaction looks very much like any remote procedure call: the application sends the request, and the service returns the results. Behind the scenes, a network of humans fuels this artificial artificial intelligence by coming to the web site, searching for and completing tasks, and receiving payment for their work. | The Great Divide: Rural Areas Continue To Face Limited Access To Broadband Services 28% of Internet users are still using slow dialup connections. Rural areas have limited access to high-speed broadband services. New technology and government initiatives could change that--though probably not anytime soon. | 
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