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Colored Folders in Google Docs
via Google Operating System by Ionut Alex Chitu on March 26, 2008
Google Docs lets you select a color for each of your folders, a feature that has been previously available in Gmail. The color will be used to represent a folder in the sidebar and in the document list, so you can easily spot related documents.Another new feature, this time available only for documents and presentations, empowers you to change the owner of a document. Unlike simple collaborators,...
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Science fiction authors offer unusual Homeland Security Advice
via Weird blogs best of by (author unknown) on March 26, 2008
... in Spanish within the Latino community that emergency rooms are killing patients in order to harvest their organs for transplants. "The problem [of hospitals going broke] is hugely exaggerated by illegal aliens who aren’t going to pay for anything anyway," Niven said.” BB reader Margaret says: "From SF writer Larry Nivens’ magical, mystical fictional universe where hospitals don't ha...
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Good UI Design: Make It Easy, Show Me You Care
via ReadWriteWeb by Sarah Perez on March 26, 2008
When researching FuseCal this morning, one of the things that made it so appealing to try was the fact that you could just enter in a URL and see the service in action right away. No sign-up forms, no logins. This got us thinking about UI design as it applies to today's web services. Lately, it seems that less and less services are using sign-up forms...at least, they aren't requiring you...
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What you can ask of a researcher in an email
via Daniel Lemire's blog by Daniel Lemire on March 10, 2008
I routinely get emails from unknown graduate students who ask me to help them. Most of these emails are interesting. Unfortunately, some are unacceptably rude. What is ok:Can I get an electronic copy of your paper? Do you have the source code or the data for this paper?This new paper claims to do better than your algorithm, what do you think about their work?In Algorithm 1, isn’t there a...
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Ex-Googler Launches Search Engine Community, Topicle
via ReadWriteWeb by Sarah Perez on March 10, 2008
Former Google Product Manger, Steffen Mueller, has launched Topicle, a new search engine community. The service, which went live today, uses a model similar to that of Wikipedia, allowing anyone to contribute to the creation and enhancement of their own vertical search engines.To use Topicle, the process is simple. You first search for a search engine, using their current database of...
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Health 2.0 - Apps & Trends to Watch
via ReadWriteWeb by Guest Author on March 10, 2008
Editor's note: last week the Health 2.0 Conference was held in San Diego - see our review. Josh Rosenthal, founder of Sprigley, was also there and in this post he identifies some of the health web apps that caught his eye, plus trends that were discussed.ReliefInsite is a site that allows people to map, monitor and analyze their pain. It drew perhaps the most attention at the...
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