Internet Happenings, Events and Sources
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| Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. Author/Speaker/Consultant Internet Happenings, Events and Sources |
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Tuesday, May 31, 2011  Pikimal - Best Buying Decisions http://pikimal.com/ Picture this: you know it's time to buy that Gonkulator you've been thinking about. It will save you time, increase your productivity, and help you build better relationships. But there are new Gonkulators on the market every day- which one do you choose? You've seen a variety of advertisments on billboards and TV, Steve Jobs insists that the iGonk is revolutionizing the market, and your techie friend says to just buy the one with the most megawombats. All you want is the one that best suits your needs, so what do you do? The internet certainly has the information you're looking for, if you spend the time. However, as often happens, by the time you've researched your product enough to figure out that you can't get a clear picture and large memory space for less than $300, you've sunk in two days' worth of time that you'll never get back, and now you're not even sure anymore if the Gonkulator was worth all the trouble. Making informed shopping decisions is time-consuming and difficult to do well. Pikimal’s mission is to help consumers make the best buying decisions. From data that is scattered, vast, and technocratic, Pikimal gathers it all in one place behind an intuitive interface aimed for use by everyday shoppers. Pikimal helps users choose amongst brands and types of products, allowing users find the product that best suits individual needs and preferences. Through Pikimal’s website, consumers interact with product pikis, or web applications that convey each product’s qualities, specifications, and features. The piki allows the user to select how important each feature and specification is to the user, and, upon adjustment, the piki determines the products that best match the user’s preferences. Behind each piki is a current, comprehensive database of products generated from available information. Pikimal features a collection of product pikis, and seeks to build accurate, up-to-date pikis that address a wide range of products. Pikimal aims to suit the needs of various demographics of consumers and looks to grow and change to best address users’ needs. This has been added to ShoppingBots and Online Shopping 2011. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:56 AM Knowledge Management & E-Learning: An International Journal (KM& EL) http://www.kmel-journal.org/ojs/index.php/online-publication Knowledge Management & E-Learning: An International Journal (KM&EL) aims to publish latest and qualityresearch articles in the multidisciplinary area of knowledge management and electronic learning. We hope to foster a platform for leading research in the emerging new landscape of knowledge intensive economy, which requires the integration of knowledge and learning. Possible topics include (but are not limited to): * Knowledge management and learning strategies * Knowledge management and action research * Knowledge construction in e-learning * Knowledge modeling and visualization * Knowledge-based learning systems * Learning and knowledge portals * Web-based learning and teaching * Strategies for e-learning development * E-learning design, usability, and evaluation * E-learning in the workplace * Web-based training * Electronic performance support systems * Web-based learning and knowledge communities * Computer supported collaborative learning * Human-Computer interaction * IT security and privacy issues * Business process and workflow management * Clinical decision support design and development * Medical informatics * E-healthcare All articles are published in English. Knowledge Management & E-Learning is available free of charge as an Open Access journal on the Internet. Abstracts available online. Articles available in PDF format. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:33 AM  WiZiQ - Virtual Classroom for Live Online Teaching http://www.wiziq.com/ WizIQ is a web-based platform for anyone and everyone who wants to teach and learn live, online. Teachers and students use WizIQ for its state-of-the-art virtual classroom, to create and share online educational content and tests, and to connect with persons having similar subject interests. WizIQ is FREE for everyone and takes just few seconds. Whether you are a teacher or a learner, signing up for a WizIQ account is free and simple. Enter your log in essentials (email address, password) and name to get started with an account on WizIQ. In the virtual classroom with all the digital benefits at your fingertips, you can interact online using: a) Images, PowerPoint presentations and documents; b) Full way audio and video sharing; c) Live chat enhances the interaction amongst the participants; and d) Control Privileges with you having full control over the class like in real-world classroom. All classes on WizIQ are automatically recorded so that you can revisit and even search for a certain topic anytime at your convenience. On WizIQ, you can enter your subject interests and discover who else on WizIQ shares similar interests with you. Initiate contact with members around you to exchange knowledge, content and to help each other work towards common goals such as preparing for an exam or assignment. WizIQ lets you produce your content online and convert it in a sharable format, with minimal effort. You can make your content semi-permanent, easy to put on blogs, and embeddable as objects and links. WizIQ is very serious about members’ safety and privacy. Everyday we monitor all activities on WizIQ making sure the safety of our members. Further, no part of your private information is misused or given to any person or business for any commercial purposes. You have a complete control on your privacy through your contact settings. This has been added to the tools section of Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:14 AM  Social Media Guide http://www.cyberjournalist.net/sree-social-media-guide/ One of the better collection of social media links and tips online is this page from Columbia Journalism School professor and Dean of Student Affairs Sree Sreenivasan. The page includes everything from tipsheets to videos. And part of what makes it so useful is that he is continually updating it, so that while many online guides quickly become out-of-date, this one’s usefulness continues to evolve along with the social media world. This has been added to the tools section of Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This will be added to Social Informatics Subject Tracer™. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:01 AM Monday, May 30, 2011  TextChannels - Social News Aggregator http://www.textchannels.com/ TextChannels is a social news aggregator. Instead of having subsections for different subjects, users create, customize and moderate news channels. Members can follow news channels, give stars to posts and comment. Channel moderators can remove posts and comments, or block abusive users. Voting for comments is more complex than in most news aggregators. Instead of having a simple up/down button, readers can vote for multiple parameters (e.g. funny, useful etc). News channels have different presentation needs. Channel administrators can fine tune their sorting algorithms for both posts and comments to fit their preferences. This has been added to the tools section of Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This has been added to Business Intelligence Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This will be added to Social Informatics Subject Tracer™. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:55 AM  Engineering http://www.scirp.org/journal/eng/ Engineering is an international journal dedicated to the latest advancement of engineering. The goal of this journal is to provide a platform for engineers and academicians all over the world to promote, share, and discuss various new issues and developments in different areas of engineering. All manuscripts must be prepared in English. Engineering is available free of charge as an Open Access journal on the Internet. Abstracts available online. Articles available in PDF format. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:32 AM  FreePint® http://www.freepint.com/ FreePint publishes reports, magazines and resources to support professionals who work with information. FreePint Research examines trends in the information industry. This has been added to Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:14 AM  Banckle - Simple and Secure Collaboration Apps http://banckle.com/ Launched in August 2010, Banckle.com is a collaboration website dedicated to delivering cloud-computing solutions to enterprises on a global scale. Their mission is to provide easy-to-use applications that enable teams to work together regardless of location. In essence, they have created a suite of powerful collaboration tools -- file sharing, web conferencing, live and group chat, email server, remote access, site search, enterprise-level instant messaging -- and made all of them accessible online via an intuitive dashboard interface... just logon, point-and-click, and you're good to go. All of their work is powered by a singular vision: to bring people together. That may sound corny, but they are stimulated by the idea of bringing real collaboration to the masses. They feel that collaboration is the vehicle by which people can become more innovative and productive. Their solutions are designed to be used by any enterprise, regardless of size and location. They are secure, accessible, scalable, flexible, customizable and, well, a lot of fun to use! The price isn't bad either (hint: free for one year!). As the newest division of Aspose Pty Ltd, the world's leading .NET and Java component vendor, Banckle has a worldwide footprint -- they have a corporate presence in both the U.S. and Australia and their distributed teams are located throughout the world. Their working model reflects the global nature of collaboration and is a real-life manifestation of their vision to bring people together through collaboration. This has been added to the tools section of Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This will be added to Entrepreneurial Resources Subject Tracer™. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:00 AM Saturday, May 28, 2011  Centius - A Smarter Approach to Business Intelligence http://centiusnet.com/ At Centius we’ve strived to make our products as intuitive and user friendly as possible. This all emerged from our strong belief that other BI products on the market today are too burdensome for the user and required a steep learning curve. THeir application is designed by the business user for the business user. In designing the Qi™ platform, they took into account all the struggles they ran into as users of the traditional BI solutions. They focused especially on narrowing the gap between the user and viewer (of report, charts and dashboards) and the technical staff. The end result is a very intuitive easy to learn solution with a very low implementation risk. The next generation of Centius QiTM will include more features towards user customization. Their goal is to make the system work for you and make you as a user more efficient at your core job. This has been added to Business Intelligence Resources Subject Tracer™. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:56 AM  Journal of Agricultural Science (JAS) (Canada) http://www.ccsenet.org/journal/index.php/jas/index Journal of Agricultural Science (JAS) is a peer-reviewed, open access journal, published by Canadian Center of Science and Education. It publishes original research, applied, and educational articles in all areas of agricultural science. The scopes of the journal include, but not limited to, the following topic areas: agricultural science, agronomy, crop physiology, crop science, horticulture, plant protection, breeding genetics and pathology, soil and environmental Sciences, animal science, forestry, marine lives and utilization science of agricultural resources. Journal of Agricultural Science is available free of charge as an Open Access journal on the Internet. Abstracts available online. Articles available in PDF format. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:36 AM  VerticalSearch - Targeted Search, Relevant Results http://www.verticalsearch.com/ VerticalSearch.com's mission is to provide users with the best "meta" vertical search experience on the web. As the amount of information available on the web increases exponentially, we believe that vertical search engines have an increasingly important role to play in providing users the most relevant content available in any given vertical information category. VerticalSearch.com has identified the leading vertical search engines in various important categories and allows, in one convenient place, the ability to search multiple vertical search engines at once. This has been added to the tools section of Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:12 AM  Weather Sparks - Interactive Weather Charts http://weatherspark.com/ WeatherSpark is a new type of weather website, with interactive weather graphs that allow you to pan and zoom through the entire history of any weather station on earth. Get multiple forecasts for the current location, overlaid on records and averages to put it all in context. We're still in beta, so please pardon any rough edges on the site or glitches in the data - weather stations sometimes report bogus values, and we're working to sort those out. We currently have more than 4,000 weather stations, but are working to add more. It's primarily METAR right now, but we want to add Mesonet/PWS as well. This has been added to the tools section of Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:04 AM Friday, May 27, 2011  Protocol.by - Your Broadcast of Preferred Mode of Contact http://www.protocol.by/ Protocol.by is: a) A valuable email signature, a 21st century digital phonebook, and a broadcast of your preferred mode of contact; b) An experimental side-project by Greg Elliott and Hugo Van Vuuren to explore the evolution of communication protocols; and c) Protocol helps you, and those you communicate with, understand and share personal preferences - permission. This has been added to the tools section of Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:56 AM  Journal of Signal and Information Processing http://www.scirp.org/journal/jsip/ Journal of Signal and Information Processing is an international refereed journal dedicated to the latest advancement of signal and information processing. The goal of this journal is to keep a record of the state-of-the-art research and promote the research work in the areas. This journal invites original research and review papers that address the following issues in signal and information processing. Topics of interest are (but not limited to): * Chaos Theory in EEG Brain Signals * Chaos Theory in MEG Brain Signals * Compressive Signal Processing and Sensing * Fuzzy System (including Fuzzy Control) * Information Fusion and Its Application * MEG Signals Processing in Biomedical Research * Non-stationary Signal Analysis and Time-frequency Analysis * Optical Signal Processing, Pattern Recognition * Signal Processing for Cognitive Radio * Sparse Transform and Compressd Sensing * Statistical Analysis of Brain Signals After Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation * Adaptive Filtering and Signal Processing * Artificial Intelligence and Neural Networks * Array Signal Processing * Biometrics and Authentification * Communication Signal Processing * Computer Vision and Virtual Reality * Digital Signal Processing (DSP) * Hardware Implementation for Signal Processing * Higher Order Spectral Analysis * Image Processing and Understanding * Multimedia and Human-computer Interaction * PDE for Image Processing * Radar Signal Processing * Signal Application and Others * Signal Processing for Security * Sonar Signal Processing and Localization * Signal Processing for Bio-informatics * Signal Processing for Bio-medical and Cognitive Science * Signal Processing for Internet, Wireless and Communications * Signal Processing for Sensor Networks * Spectrum Estimation and Modeling * Speech and Audio Coding * Speech Synthesis and Recognition * Statistic Learning,Machine Learning and Pattern Recognition * TF Spectrum Analysis and Wavelet * Video Compression and Streaming Journal of Signal and Information Processing is available free of charge as an Open Access journal on the Internet. Abstracts available online. Articles available in PDF format. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:36 AM  All Results Journals: Phys http://www.arjournals.com/ojs/index.php?journal=Phys&page=index At present, within the research community, more than 60% of the experiments fail to produce results or expected discoveries. Even though, as in many cases this would be frustrating from an objective point of view, this high percentage of research generates high level knowledge. But generally, all these experiments have not been published anywhere as they have been considered useless for our resarch target. The objective of The All Results Journals: Phys focuses on recovering and publishing these valuable pieces of information in Physics. These experiments should be taken into account as a vital key for the development of science. These physical negative results are the catalyst for a real science-based empirical knowledge. The journal will cover those original experiments with negative (or secondary) results coming from all disciplines of Physics (Acoustics, Astronomy, Biophysics, Cosmology, Electromagnetism, Mechanics, Nuclear physics, etc). An article in The All Results Journals should be created to show the failed experiments tuning methods or reactions. Articles should present experimental discoveries, interpret their significance and establish perspective with respect to earlier work of the author. It is also advisable to cite the work where the experiments has already been tuned and published. All Results Journals: Phys is available free of charge as an Open Access journal on the Internet. Abstracts available online. Articles available in HTML and PDF format. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:34 AM  StockTwits - Real Investors, Real Ideas, Real Time http://stocktwits.com/ Share ideas and learn from passionate investors and traders. Join a global community of investors and traders. Get info and ideas on your favorite stocks. Find investors and traders that match your style. Follow them to find the next great trade and expand your knowledge. Share ideas, trades, links and charts with a wide community. Get feedback. This will be added to Financial Sources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:12 AM  National Jukebox Via Library of Congress http://www.loc.gov/jukebox/ The Library of Congress presents the National Jukebox, which makes historical sound recordings available to the public free of charge. The Jukebox includes recordings from the extraordinary collections of the Library of Congress Packard Campus for Audio Visual Conservation and other contributing libraries and archives. Recordings in the Jukebox were issued on record labels now owned by Sony Music Entertainment, which has granted the Library of Congress a gratis license to stream acoustical recordings. At launch, the Jukebox includes more than 10,000 recordings made by the Victor Talking Machine Company between 1901 and 1925. Jukebox content will be increased regularly, with additional Victor recordings and acoustically recorded titles made by other Sony-owned U.S. labels, including Columbia, OKeh, and others. This has been added to the tools section of Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This has been added to the World Wide Web Reference Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:03 AM  Zapaday - The Open News Agenda and Global Public Calendar http://www.zapaday.com/ Zapaday is an open news agenda and a global public calendar. Zapaday lets you see the future with day-by-day events, news stories, facts and trivia. Whether you're a journalist, blogger, traveler, political analyst, event organizer or art lover, our goal is to help you get insights, plan ahead and save time. Editors and bots at Zapaday monitor 4.000 news sites and calendars for future events and news stories. You can create and publish your own events and calendars, re-using events and calendars of others. Together, they create the world's most comprehensive source of information about the future. This has been added to the tools section of Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This has been added to Business Intelligence Resources Subject Tracer™. This will be added to Entrepreneurial Resources Subject Tracer™. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:00 AM Thursday, May 26, 2011  FigShare - Publish All Your Research Data http://figshare.com/ Scientific publishing as it stands is an inefficient way to do science on a global scale. A lot of time and money is being wasted by groups around the world duplicating research that has already been carried out. FigShare allows you to share all of your data, negative results and unpublished figures. In doing this, other researchers will not duplicate the work, but instead may publish with your previously wasted figures, or offer collaboration opportunities and feedback on preprint figures. Upload all of your unpublished data, including negative data, provided that you believe it to be real data. ie. The experiment did not go wrong. Unless we as scientists publish all of our data, we will never achieve access to the sum of all scientific knowledge. All data is searchable, citable with persistent identifiers and taggable with all tags linked. This has been added to the tools section of Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:53 AM  Journal Title: Reviews in Health Care http://ojs-seed.neagen.it/index.php/rhc Reviews in Health Care publishes systematic and narrative reviews in all the fields of medicine. We are primarily interested in reviews concerning drugs, devices and diseases, but submission of reviews about surgical procedures or laboratory or epidemiological methodologies and techniques is of great interest to the journal. After registration, Reviews in Health Care is available free of charge as an Open Access journal on the Internet. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:36 AM  CourtListener - Use the Power of Search To Follow the Federal Courts of Appeal http://courtlistener.com/ This site was created by Michael Lissner as part of a masters thesis at the University of California, Berkeley School of Information. Michael was advised by Assistant Professor, Brian Carver. The goal of the site is to create a free and competitive real time alert tool for the U.S. judicial system. At present, the site has daily information regarding all precedential opinions issued by the 13 federal circuit courts and the Supreme Court of the United States. Each day, they also have the non-precedential opinions from all of the Circuit courts except the D.C. Circuit. This means that by 5:10pm PST, the database will be updated with the opinions of the day, with custom alerts going out shortly thereafter. The coverage of their corpus for a given court varies, but it is growing on a daily basis. They are working to integrate the documents from other online sites that provide free public access to court documents. To see a detailed overview of our corpus (updated daily), visit our coverage page. This has been added to the tools section of Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:14 AM  BodyMaps - Visualize Better Health http://www.healthline.com/human-body-maps/ BodyMaps is an interactive visual search tool that allows users to explore the human body in 3-D. With easy-to-use navigation, users can search multiple layers of the human anatomy, view systems and organs down to their smallest parts, and understand in detail how the human body works. Using detailed 3-D models of body parts-including muscles, veins, bones, and organs-Body Maps offers a new way to visualize and manage your health. See how the coronary artery delivers blood to the heart, and learn how plaque build-up on artery walls leads to heart disease. Locate the exact location of a pulled muscle or broken bone, and find information on how to prevent injuries. View a cross-section of the human brain, and learn which areas control certain emotions and body functions. By offering rich, detailed anatomical images alongside links to relevant and useful health information, BodyMaps allows you to learn about your body and your health in a personalized and revolutionary new way. This will be added to Healthcare Resources Subject Tracer™. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:01 AM Wednesday, May 25, 2011  Decio - Make Your Decision http://www.decico.com/ Decico is an easy to use online decision making tool. It uses a decision matrix technique to capture the individual decision context and calculates a list of favorable decision alternatives. Decision results can be downloaded as Excel file and further be modified offline. The Decico decision helper is completely free of charge. The necessary steps to compute decision solutions for any context are: a) Select the Alternatives to be compared; b) Choose the criteria for comparison; and c) Generate Scores. The total score for each alternative will then be calculated automatically. The decision option with the highest score should be your favorite. This has been added to the tools section of Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This has been added to Entrepreneurial Resources Subject Tracer™. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:54 AM  New Waves: Educational Research and Development http://www.caerda.org/journal/index.php/newwaves/index New Waves: Educational Research and Development publishes educational research, focussing on education issues related to Asian and Chinese Americans. New Waves is available free of charge as an Open Access journal on the Internet. Abstracts available online. Articles available in PDF format. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:31 AM  TypeWith.me - Synchronized Document Text http://typewith.me/ This document text is synchronized as you type, so that everyone viewing this page sees the same text. This allows you to collaborate seamlessly on documents in your Web browser. Go ahead - send the link to this page to a friend, colleague, or co-worker and watch the magic unfold! This has been added to the tools section of Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:16 AM  2010 Top Tools: Best in Breed List http://www.c4lpt.co.uk/recommended/2010binb.html The Top 100 Tools for Leaning 2010 has been compiled from the contributions of 545 learning professionals (from education and workplace learning) worldwide. Here they are shown in a number of tool categories. This has been added to the tools section of Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:02 AM Tuesday, May 24, 2011  SyncDocs - Sync Your Documents with the Google Cloud http://www.syncdocs.com/ Do you want to move your business to the cloud, but all your data is stuck on your PC? Syncdocs lets you “Go Google” by migrating all your files to Google’s cloud. Simply select a folder on your PC, like “My Documents”, and Syncdocs copies it online and across all your computers, automatically. This folder is then kept in sync. Syncdocs integrates right into your desktop opening your files in Google Docs. This has been added to the tools section of Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This has been added to Grid, Distributed and Cloud Computing Resources Subject Tracer™. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:54 AM  Caribbean Journal of Philosophy http://ojs.mona.uwi.edu/index.php/cjp/index The journal publishes original contributions – articles, discussions of articles previously published in this journal or elsewhere, review articles and book reviews – within any field of Philosophy or application of Philosophical method to any areas of intellectual and practical life, both local and global. As an outlet for philosophical reflection on critical issues of intellectual interest to humanity, the main objective of the Journal is to facilitate the dissemination of philosophically creative and imaginative ideas on all aspects of human reflective experience. It is hoped that, through the opportunity provided by this journal, our contributors and readers will develop a stronger appreciation of the philosophical positions of others and their own, thereby creating avenues for collaborative application of the richness of different perspectives to the understanding of issues. We believe that by offering a forum for the dialectic of philosophy to continue, we will enhance and develop an experience of an examined life for philosophers, the students of philosophy and critical thinkers, thereby building a bridge for reflective thinking for all humans! Given the regional affiliation of the Caribbean Journal of Philosophy, in terms of institutional genesis, geo-cultural location and socio-epistemic dimension of scholarship, authors are encouraged to philosophize the Caribbean experience writ large. It is from this kind of engagement by Caribbean philosophers and non-Caribbean philosophers that the Caribbean spaces of knowledge generation and understanding can meaningfully contribute to the human intellectual heritage. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:32 AM  World News (WN) http://wn.com/ The World News (WN) Network was founded in 1995 and launched online in 1998, with the primary objective of being the most comprehensive, one-stop news resource on the Internet. Today, World News has over 20,000 global thematic and regional news sites - enhanced by the web’s most comprehensive multilingual search engine. A global leader in online news, the World News Network has around 400 media partners, from mainstream providers ( BBC, CNN, Reuters, Washington Post, Al-Jazeera, etc) to more regional and localized sources ( The Independent, The New York Times, International Herald Tribune, New Zealand Herald, Khaleej Times, The Guardian), delivering unparalleled coverage on a vast range of subjects. This empowers our users by providing a wide variety of perspectives and different interpretations on breaking news events. This has been added to the tools section of Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This has been added to Reference Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:13 AM  News and Newspapers Online http://library.uncg.edu/news/ News and Newspapers Online lists hundreds of news resources from around the world in a variety of languages that offer free access to current, general-interest, full-text news. A free service of The University Libraries of The University of North Carolina at Greensboro. This has been added to the tools section of Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This has been added to Reference Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:01 AM Monday, May 23, 2011  World News Guide http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldnewsguide/ Welcome to the World News Guide, guardian.co.uk's country-by-country selection of the best news sources on the world wide web. The guide lists news and government websites for every country in the world. They include the major online news operations - not least guardian.co.uk - which offer up-to-the-minute breaking news and analysis. But they also link to smaller sites such as the Zimbabwe Independent, which brings analysis of life in Harare to a global audience, and Dawn in Pakistan, which carries daily news on the war in Afghanistan on one hand and tensions with India on the other. They also include web-exclusive operations such as the Institute for War and Peace Reporting, which offers some of the best reporting from the Balkans; and sites such as the Pacific Islands Report, which bring news from the world's smallest countries to its largest. The directory links to almost 1,000 sites in all, and is a guide to some of the very best news reporting in the world. The guide is selective. But while many countries have hundreds of news websites, others have only one or two: so the quality of site they include from, say, Cyprus doesn't match that of many we exclude from the US. This has been added to the tools section of Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This has been added to Reference Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:56 AM  Intellectual Property Brief http://www.ipbrief.net/ The American University Intellectual Property Brief (“IP Briefâ€) provides an opportunity for law students, professors, practitioners, and anyone interested in intellectual property law to discuss and learn about substantive IP issues. The IP Brief features daily blog posts from a team of student writers; frequent student-written columns about recent IP-related issues, case updates, and events; and IP law articles from student writers and outside submissions on a semesterly publication cycle. Intellectual Property Brief is available free of charge as an Open Access journal on the Internet. Abstracts available online. Articles available in PDF format. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:38 AM  AppTank - Find Professional App Developers and Premium App Projects https://apptank.com/ AppTank is the only premiere site to find professional app developers and premium app projects. It is where those who have app projects can hire professional app developers to develop their project. It also serves as a place for developers to find premium app projects to develop. However, AppTank is not a place to sell your app ideas. This has been added to the tools section of Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This will be added to Entrepreneurial Resources Subject Tracer™. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:13 AM  Microsoft Academic Search http://academic.research.microsoft.com/ Explore 15,751,493 publications and 11,144,236 authors, 193 updated last week. Microsoft Academic Search is a free academic search engine developed by Microsoft Research, which also serves as a test-bed for our object-level vertical search research. Microsoft Academic Search provides many innovative ways to explore scientific publications, authors, conferences, journals, organizations and keywords, connecting millions of scholars, students, librarians, and other users. In Microsoft Academic Search, objects in the search results are sorted based on two factors: their relevance to the query and their global importance. The relevance score of an object is computed by its attributes; and the importance score of an object is calculated by its relationships with other objects. This has been added to the tools section of Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This will be added to Academic and Scholar Search Engines and Sources white paper. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:02 AM Saturday, May 21, 2011  BackgroundChecksWiki™ - A Community Built Knowledgebase for International Background Checks http://backgroundcheckswiki.com/ BackgroundChecksWiki™ is an initiative of the Q2 Group and while it is a new name the team behind it have been involved in international background checks for the past decade. In fact BackgroundChecksWiki™ is the child of a few parents including Quest Research Ltd, IntegraScreen Ltd and Dataflow Ltd. Over the past decade that the management team has been involved in background checks it has become more and more apparent that the vast majority of companies (outside of the US) do not conduct thorough background checks. In fact many do none at all. The main reason they hear is that it is too expensive and too time consuming. Government departments are equally unaware of what can be done when it comes to effective checks on visa applicants and professional licensing checks on foreign nationals. The purpose of this Wiki is to make everyone aware of the resources that are available and that effective background checks can be done nearly anywhere in the world. This has been added to the tools section of Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This has been added to Business Intelligence Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:56 AM  Journal of Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Sciences (JPBMS) http://www.jpbms.info/ Journal of Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Sciences (JPBMS) is an peer reviewed, open access International journal devoted to the very rapid dissemination of timely and significant results in diverse fields of Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Sciences. Journal of Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Sciences (JPBMS) publishes original research work and reviews that contributes in the functional areas of Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Sciences: Pharmaceutics, Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Medicinal Chemistry, Applied and Industrial Chemistry, Toxicology, Pharmacology, Pharmaceutical analysis, Pharmacogenomics, Drug development, Industrial pharmacy, Hospital Pharmacy, Clinical pharmacy, Computational Chemistry & Molecular Drug Design, Medicine and Nuclear medicine. Other topics include:Biochemistry, Biotechnology, Bacteriology, Biomechanics, Hematology, Immunology, Microbiology, Molecular biology, Histology, Cytology, Genomics, Proteomics, Metabolomics,Bioinformatics, Systems biology, Cellular, Tissue, and Genetic Engineering, Clinical Engineering, Environmental Engineering. Manuscript submission via online system. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:36 AM  PhilPapers - Directory of Online Philosophical Articles and Books http://philpapers.org/ PhilPapers is a comprehensive directory of online philosophical articles and books by academic philosophers. THey monitor journals in many areas of philosophy, as well as archives and personal pages. THey also accept articles directly from users, who can provide links or upload copies. Some features require that you sign in first, but creating an account is easy and free. This has been added to Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:13 AM  Royal College of Art Record of Student Work http://www.vads.ac.uk/collections/RCAROSW The Royal College of Art Record of Student Work is a collection of images of work produced at the College from 1960 to 2002 in the fields of fine and applied art, design and communications. The majority of images are installation shots taken from final-year degree shows, representing the culmination of each student's time at the RCA. This initial selection (August 2010) of over 5,000 images is drawn from the College's collection of around 30,000 slides of student work. It features the work of hundreds of students across all departments, including: a) Animation, b) Architecture and Interiors, c) Ceramics & Glass, d) Communication Art & Design (inc Illustration, Graphic Design), e) Design Products (inc Furniture, Industrial Design), f) Fashion, g) Goldsmithing, Silversmithing, Metalwork & Jewelery, h) Industrial Design (Engineering), i) Painting, j) Photography, k) Printmaking, l) Sculpture, m) Stained Glass, n) Textiles, and o) Vehicle Design. This has been added to Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:00 AM Friday, May 20, 2011  HealthMash™ - Revolutionary Health Knowledge Base and Semantic Search Engine http://healthmash.com/ HealthMash™ mission is to promote health and well being in the world by providing personally relevant information from trusted health sites on the Web. HealthMash™ is powered by the world's most sophisticated Health Knowledge Base that captures the expertise of medical professionals and people everywhere practicing the art of living and healing and the Wisdom of the Ages. HealthMash™ combines sophisticated Web 2.0 universal search and discovery technology with Semantic Web Concepts in a simple yet highly informative user interface. This will be added to Healthcare Resources Subject Tracer™. This has been added to eHealthcareBot Search Engine Resource list. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:53 AM  International Journal of Molecular Imaging http://www.hindawi.com/journals/ijmi/ International Journal of Molecular Imaging is a peer-reviewed, open access journal that publishes original research articles, review articles, and clinical studies in all areas of molecular imaging. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:34 AM  Scrible - Transforms the Online Reading and Research Experience http://www.scrible.com/ Even though the world uses the Internet to research nearly everything for work, school and home (job postings, press releases, Wikipedia articles, medical info, etc.), most folks still use old-school ways of annotating, organizing and sharing online info (printing to mark by hand, copying/pasting into Word, etc.). It's archaic, laborious and a waste of time. They are changing that. They are bringing Web-based research into the Internet Era by empowering people to mark up web pages in the browser and manage and collaborate on them online. And that's just the start... They have much more planned in a variety of areas to help people manage the mounds of info they're pulling off the Web everyday. Features include: a) Save webpages for later & stop worrying about broken links; b) Richly annotate web pages right in the browser, c) Easily organize & find saved research with tags, legends & search; and d) Access research from anywhere because it's saved online in the cloud. This has been added to the tools section of Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:12 AM  Complementary and Alternative Medicine NIH Web Resource http://nccam.nih.gov/health/providers/ A new online resource, designed to give health care providers easy access to evidence-based information on complementary and alternative medicine (CAM), was unveiled today by the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM) of the National Institutes of Health. With this new resource, providers will have the tools necessary to learn about the various CAM practices and products and be better able to discuss the safety and effectiveness of complementary and alternative medicine with their patients. The portal on the NCCAM Web site at nccam.nih.gov is tailored to fit the needs of all health care providers, including physicians, nurses and nurse practitioners, physician assistants, and CAM providers. It includes information on the safety and efficacy of a range of common health practices that lie outside of mainstream medicine—natural products, such as dietary supplements, herbs, and probiotics, as well as mind-body practices such as meditation, chiropractic, acupuncture, and massage. This resource was developed based on a series of NCCAM-sponsored focus groups where health care providers identified the need for an evidence-based, one-stop place to help answer their patients’ questions on CAM. With this need in mind, NCCAM developed a resource that provides reliable, objective, and evidenced-based information on CAM, including: 1) links to relevant clinical practice guidelines; 2) safety and effectiveness information; 3) links to systematic reviews; 4) summaries of research studies; 5) scientific literature searches; 6) programs for continuing education credit; 7) patient fact sheets; and 8) NCCAM’s Time to Talk tool kit on communicating about CAM. This will be added to Healthcare Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:01 AM Thursday, May 19, 2011  Wolty - Language Journal http://www.wolty.com/ wolty is a journal to save and share every new thing that you learn from a language. To learn a language we need to get thousands of concepts in our heads and remember them through the years. Leaving everything to our memory leads us to forget half of them, writing them down just leads to a larger pile of notes that we never look up. WOLTY lets you put your notes online. This has been added to the tools section of Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:54 AM  Journal of Materials and Environmental Science (JMES) http://www.jmaterenvironsci.com/ Journal of Materials and Environmental Science (JMES) publishes original papers, brief communications, reviews and letters related to every aspect of theory and practice of Material chemistry, Environment Science and Analytical Chemistry, as well as articles in which topics on history, science education etc .... The Language should be English except for some documents (papers, reviews...) may be accepted in French. Journal of Materials and Environmental Science is available free of charge as an Open Access journal on the Internet. Articles available in PDF format. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:31 AM  MAPMYself - Online Mindmapping Software http://www.mapmyself.com/ Would you like to create a mind maps in Web from anywhere at anytime with no complex software to install or maintain? With MAPMYself you can just do it because it is a free Web-based online mind mapping tool. MAPMYself is unique web based software allows you to create completely organic looking mind maps. They integrated their own and your ideas to help more when 2000 peoples to accelerate learning, improve your memory, increase your productivity and save your time. This has been added to the tools section of Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This will be added to Entrepreneurial Resources Subject Tracer™. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:14 AM  Mindomo - Online Mind Mapping http://www.mindomo.com/ Mind Mapping Made Easy ... Kick start your creative genius with Mind Maps. Every day, thousands of people are using Mindomo's mind maps to organize their work, solve their problems creatively, find the next big idea and learn more effectively. Get people involved in common tasks to achieve your goals. Work on mind maps with high efficiency having the possibility to chat. Understand how your team thinks in real-time. Organize your thoughts and ideas around a subject, keep your mind connected and in shape. Mind mapping is maybe the best way to obtain what you need from a plan. Spread your plan or idea by sharing mind maps with people who need them. What other visual way can you choose that will get you the most you need to present? Mindomo and Mind Mapping provide you the best way to capture your thoughts and refine them later. Human thought is characterized by expansion in multiple directions, rather than in one direction. Mindomo is a perfect match to work the way your brain does. This has been added to the tools section of Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This will be added to Entrepreneurial Resources Subject Tracer™. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:00 AM Wednesday, May 18, 2011  Grid, Distributed and Cloud Computing Resources Primer http://WhitePapers.VirtualPrivateLibrary.net/Cloud_Computing_Primer.pdf I am very pleased to announce that I have just created the Grid, Distributed and Cloud Computing Resources Primer. This primer is 31 pages and a .pdf document (252KB) and freely available from the above URL. The primer gives an excellent overview of Cloud Computing along with a comprehensive listing of cloud, grid and distributed computing resources! It will be permanently archived in my White Papers site. [Updated January 12, 2012] posted by Marcus Zillman | 8:08 AM  Awareness Watch Newsletter V9N6 June 2011 http://AwarenessWatch.VirtualPrivateLibrary.net/V9N6.pdf Awareness Watch™ Newsletter Blog and Archives http://www.AwarenessWatch.com/ The June 2011 V9N6 Awareness Watch Newsletter is a freely available 69 page .pdf document (463KB) from the above URL. This month’s featured report covers Knowledge Management Resources 2011. With the constant addition of new and pertinent information coming online every second it is very easy to go into information overload. The true key is to be able to find the important knowledge discovery resources and sites both in the visible and invisible World Wide Web. The following selected knowledge discovery resources and sites offer excellent sources to help you accomplish your research goals! The Awareness Watch Spotters cover many excellent and newly released annotated current awareness research sources and tools as well as the latest identified Internet happenings and resources including a number of neat and must-have tools! The Awareness Watch Article Review covers Vernacular Resistance to Data Collection and Analysis: A Political Theory of Obfuscation by Finn Brunton and Helen Nissenbaum. Subscribe to the monthly free Awarenes Watch Newsletter by clicking here. 2011 Awareness Watch Newsletter Archives Awareness Watch Newsletter V9N5 May 2011 Awareness Watch Newsletter V9N4 April 2011 Awareness Watch Newsletter V9N3 March 2011 Awareness Watch Newsletter V9N2 February 2011 Awareness Watch Newsletter V9N1 January 2011 2010 Awareness Watch Newsletter Archives Awareness Watch Newsletter V8N12 December 2010 Awareness Watch Newsletter V8N11 November 2010 Awareness Watch Newsletter V8N10 October 2010 Awareness Watch Newsletter V8N9 September 2010 Awareness Watch Newsletter V8N8 August 2010 Awareness Watch Newsletter V8N7 July 2010 Awareness Watch Newsletter V8N6 June 2010 Awareness Watch Newsletter V8N5 May 2010 Awareness Watch Newsletter V8N4 April 2010 Awareness Watch Newsletter V8N3 March 2010 Awareness Watch Newsletter V8N2 February 2010 Awareness Watch Newsletter V8N1 January 2010  posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:59 AM  Scadaplan - Better Way To Plan and Collaborate on Projects http://www.scadaplan.com/ Create, Track and Collaborate: It takes seconds to create, assign and name your task. Every task has built-in timer to log work time and plan your goals. Of course, you can add discussion in a way of comments to your work and make actions (small subtasks) to keep everything organized. Plan and Analyze: With Scadaplan calendar you'll see the whole picture of your team. Besides today's everyone`s tasks, you can see future work and analyze past projects. Every task is logged with statuses each day, so you can see how the real work is done, for how many days the project was paused or exceeded the deadline. Never Miss a Thing: Being used to Like-facebook notifications, you will be able to be aware of all updates and actions with necessary tasks. When obtaining or assigning a task you subscribe to receiving notifications regarding task updates. One can subscribe or unsubscribe for updates at any moment. This has been added to the tools section of Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This will be added to Entrepreneurial Resources Subject Tracer™. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:53 AM  International Journal of Computer Applications in Engineering Sciences (IJCAES) http://www.caesjournals.org/ International Journal of Computer Applications in Engineering Sciences (IJCAES) is an open access, international, peer-reviewed, scholarly journal, dedicated to serve the society by quality research work. The journal aims at promoting interdisciplinary research in engineering, technology and management. It mainly focuses on the application of computer science in these disciplines. The journal publishes original research works with practical significance and academic value. IJCAES prefers papers with practical background, clear description, effective physical and mathematical model, clear framework of algorithm and successful practical applications. posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:36 AM |
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