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Information Technology RSS FeedsMovie Theaters in North Carolina 1896-1930: The Digital Archive - UNC Libraries had a blog post earlier this month about a new exhibit. “Going to the Show” covers information on moviegoing in over 1300 North Carolina venues from 1896 to about 1930. It’s available at http://docsouth.unc.edu/gtts/. You can do a keyword search, but I found browsing the maps to be more interesting. You can look [ ]...Feed Source: feedproxy.google.com Records of Children?s Hospital Treatment, 1883-1903 - There’s a new a Web site of records that chronicle the treatment of children at the Glasgow Hospital for Sick Children from 1883 to 1903. The site is part of the Historic Hospital Admission Records Project and is available at http://hharp.org/. The site now has about 120,000 records, of which the recently-added Glasgow Hospital records [ ]... Vimeo Launches Vimeo Video School - Video site Vimeo announced last week the launch of Vimeo Video School, which has both instructions on how to make better videos and a directory of video tutorials. It’s available at http://vimeo.com/videoschool. The front page is set up like a blog, with lessons at this writing including making a good holiday video and setting up [ ]... Blekko Leverages Like; I Embrace My Crabbiness - Blekko (available at http://blekko.com/) announced last week that it has added the ability to use Facebook “Likes” to leverage searching its Web index. Let me explain how that works and give you a couple of examples, and then let me complain a bit. Blekko’s search enhancement consists of “slashtags” that allow you to sort and/or [ ]... Morning Buzz ? December 20, 2010 - What a great idea! CU Database of Negative Results. Florida State Library and Archives: now on Flickr! Some very cute Santa pictures here. The Google Translate tool has upgraded its audio. “The German National Library, Oxford University and Europeana have signed an agreement to digitise family papers and memorabilia from the First World War to [ ]... Library of Congress Posts Civil War Portrait Collection to Flickr - The Library of Congress announced last week that it has made a huge collection of Civil War portraits available on its Flickr site. The portraits — almost 700 of them — are available at http://www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/sets/72157625520211184/. This collection is all from one place — the Liljenquist family — and includes the frames of the pictures as [ ]... Google Special Syntax: The Around Operator - I thought I knew about all the Google special syntax, but you learn something new every day, huh? Last week I read about the AROUND operator at Amit Agarwal’s blog, but I see that the operator has actually been documented since October. For years, the complaint I heard the most about Google was that there [ ]... Morning Buzz ? December 15, 2010 - A new collection of rural Vermont photos from the early 20th century is going online. Nebraska residents, a new resource covering your state’s public schools is now available. From Current.org: “Jazz lovers itching to know more about their favorite music could soon benefit from a digital encyclopedia of information far more extensive than a CD?s [ ]... Morning Buzz ? December 13, 2010 - There’s a new database to rate the energy efficiency of ships. A look at the Google Groups revamp. Yahoo’s got a new version of Yahoo Local… but it’s in limited beta. A bee vision database — and they called it FReD. Rwanda to unveil a genocide archive. Wow! Go CERN! “CERN, the European Organization for [ ]... Morning Buzz ? December 8, 2010 - IMF press release: The World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) today launched the online Quarterly Public Sector Debt Database, which offers access to public sector debt statistics for 30 emerging market and developing countries and will be updated every three months.. The National Archives are getting a redesign. You can check out the [ ]... Monty Hall, Movies, Ory-Gun & Willy Wonka - Hopefully you were able to catch Lux Research's Matthew Nordan on CNBC discussing nanotech and cancer. My venture firm Lux Capital has made a recent and exciting investment in the bulls-eye of this opportunity--but I can't publicly reveal who it ... Happiness & Choice - Click here to become a subscriber to Josh Wolfe's monthly premium report 'Forbes/Wolfe Nanotech Report' The benefit of non-intuitive reasoning was reinforced traveling with my Lux Capital partner Robert Paull last night. Late for a flight, he pulled me into ... Special Scoop - Two quick announcements and then a big scoop of breaking news you'll hear here first. For similar scoops, you'll need to be a subscriber to our monthly premium report. If you're just reading regular magazines and newspapers, you're at best ... Parsimony, Pens, Book Reports & Simple Solutions - Our June issue has been a big hit and our July issue is under way. If you're not already a subscriber, join the others now: Click here to become a subscriber to Josh Wolfe's monthly premium report 'Forbes/Wolfe Nanotech Report' ... Emergence, Artists & Firecrackers - Our June issue was just released to subscribers and it ranks up there as one of my favorites of all time. To keep up with what everyone else is plugged into, click below now: Click here to become a subscriber ... Cabbage Patch Dolls, Jerry Lewis & McCain - Our June issue is set to go to print. If you're not already a subscriber, click here now. Click here to become a subscriber to Josh Wolfe's monthly premium report 'Forbes/Wolfe Nanotech Report' Nanotech's development has often been compared to ... Russia, Rembrandts & Dancing Pigeons and Quantum Buddhists - Download the recent May premium issue now - subscribe today Click here to become a subscriber to Josh Wolfe's monthly premium report 'Forbes/Wolfe Nanotech Report' An eye opening week at sea with Steve Forbes, Rich Karlgaard, George Gilder, Elizabeth MacDonald ... Copenhagen, Garden of Eden & Black-Boxes - Download the recent May premium issue now - subscribe today Click here to become a subscriber to Josh Wolfe's monthly premium report 'Forbes/Wolfe Nanotech Report' I write this from Copenhagen, Denmark, where 80 years ago Nobel Prize winner Niels Bohr ... Memento, Culture and your Death - Click here to become a subscriber to Josh Wolfe's monthly premium report 'Forbes/Wolfe Nanotech Report' Here's something: Investor psychology and almost all culture is very much like the film "Memento". If you didn't see it, the protagonist suffers severe memory ... Forbes/Wolfe Nanotech Report - May Issue - The May issue of the Forbes/Wolfe Nanotech Report was just sent out to our premium subscribers. Here's a sneak preview: The Fight over Flamel[FLML]: Nervous tension now fills the air in France as Flamel Technologies' [FLML] board is under direct ... Conferences, Magnets & Fads - The May premium issue was just posted, subscribe now to download it immediately: Click here to become a subscriber to Josh Wolfe's monthly premium report 'Forbes/Wolfe Nanotech Report' A busy week of conference brain power. The week started off with ... Conformity, Conviction and the One in a Million - To get next week's May premium issue as soon as it's posted click here now: www.forbeswolfe.com/May Before we get to this week's column here's a very limited offer for readers and a good cause--the catch? There's only 100. You can ... Status, iPods and Hobbesian Traps - To get next week's May premium issue as soon as it's posted click here now: www.forbeswolfe.com/May My brilliant operating partner at Lux Capital--Robert Paull (who you find after his speech at IBF's Corporate VC conference in London this next week)--brought ... Smooth Transitions, Rickets & Self-Deception - Our April issue is already in subscribers' hands and our May issue will go to press soon. Click here to get it as soon as it drops: Click here to become a subscriber to Josh Wolfe's monthly premium report 'Forbes/Wolfe ... Forbes/Wolfe Nanotech Report - April Issue - The April issue of the Forbes/Wolfe Nanotech Report was just sent out to our premium subscribers. Here's a sneak preview on what's in this jam packed report: King of the Nanotech Message Boards: Looks at the fundamentals behind 6 "nanotech" ... PAMI Develops Anaerobic Biodigester - REGINA - Oct 2/06 - SNS -- The Prairie Agricultural Machinery Institute (PAMI) has developed an anaerobic biodigester system at its facilities in Humboldt, which has the potential to turn common waste into heat and electricity. ... SWP Expands Wireless Network - SASKATOON - Sep 7/06 - SNS -- The Saskatchewan Wheat Pool Inc. (SWP) will off wireless high speed access points at 100 of its facilities under a seven year agreement with VCom Inc.' YourLink Inc. subsidiary. ... PDA For Dairy Operations - VANCOUVER - Jun 16/06 - SNS -- North American dairy producers now have available a rugged PDA for instantly entering data about individual cows in their herds. ... USDA Approves Plant-Made Vaccine - NEW YORK - Jan 31/06 - SNS -- Dow AgroSciences LLC received regulatory approval for a plant-made vaccine from the USDA's Center for Veterinary Biologics, the first time a plant-made product has been approved. ... USDA Proposes EDI Rules - WASHINGTON - Jan 27/06 - SNS -- The USDA's Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) has issued an advance notice of proposed rulemaking in response to concerns raised by the industry regarding electronic invoicing. The concern is that sellers may lose their status as trust creditors when using electronic data interchange or electronic invoicing.... Heads Up Display for Farmers - NEW YORK - Dec 16/05 - SNS -- Smucker Manufacturing is teaming with Motion Research Corporation to create the first Heads Up Display (HUD) guidance systems for agricultural applications. ... Alberta Invests in Food Residue Analysis - EDMONTON - Sep 29/05 - SNS -- Alberta Agriculture has invested in a new tandem mass spectrometer (LC-MS/MS) system so that it can rapidly test for chemical residue in food products. ... NIR Feed Grain Segregation Project - DES MOINES - Sep 8/05 - SNS -- Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Inc. and CHS Inc. are working on a pilot project to evaluate the feed quality of incoming grain to develop more efficient channeling of defined grain to specific end-use customers. The projec t will be conducted over two years at a minimum of four CHS grain-handling locations, beginning in 2005.... Hand-Held IRS Device for Forage - WASHINGTON - Sep 8/05 - SNS -- USDA researchers are working with two private companies in Oklahoma to develop hand-held devices which can measure the nutrient quality of forage. ... CBOT Upgrades Trading Platform - CHICAGO - Aug 29/05 - SNS -- The Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT) will upgrade its electronic trading platform on October 9, 2005. ... Biodegradeable Polymers Possible - WASHINGTON - Aug 24/05 - SNS -- Glycerol and citric acid can be chemically combined to produce biodegradable polymers that could be used in produce packaging and other products, according to Agricultural Research Service scientists. ... Beware of Charity Scams - SYDNEY - Jul 15/05 - SNS -- People should never respond to anonymous requests for charitable contributions and never click on submission links contained in email messages, warns the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC). ... Chicken Manure Cleans Up Polluted Water - WASHINGTON - Jul 7/05 - SNS -- USDA researchers have found a way to convert chicken manure into a product capable of cleaning polluted waters. ... USDA Invents Artificial Bugs - WASHINGTON - Jun 22/05 - SNS -- Plant breeders will soon have a new tool available to simulate attacks by insects on plants to help breeders screen for resistance to insect-borne viral diseases of corn and soybean. ... Rapid Herbicide Resistance Tests - WASHINGTON - Jun 20/05 - SNS -- USDA researchers have developed two tests for rapidly screenings horseweed plants for resistance to the herbicide glyphosate. ... Copyright © 2012, Snapfinger Enterprises. All Rights Reserved. |