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Wednesday, 29th July 2009

Wikipedia's Inkblots: Normality in Tech and Medicine

Wikipedia is aflutter with angry psychologists demanding that the community take down reproductions of 10 original Rorschach inkblot plates and their statistically common responses. The Rorschach tests have been used since the 1920's to determine psychological disorders through the analysis of images. Twenty-five percent of all forensic cases…

Dana Oshiro comments

For Ask.com, Becoming #3 In Search Must Be Bittersweet

When the Microsoft/Yahoo search deal goes through, if Microsoft's Bing takes all of Yahoo's US search engine market share then it will be at 26% to Google's 70%, according to traffic analysts Hitwise. Such consolidation would put the venerable Ask.com in third place, with a mere 2.46%. That would mean that the next spot on the ladder will have…

Marshall Kirkpatrick comments

Socialcast: CEO's Status Should Be Louder Than Yours

Socialcast, the enterprise microblogging platform, thinks that HR and C-level executives deserve extra recognition in the corporate status stream. Its new Broadcast Message feature gives announcements by higher-ups priority if they want it, effectively creating the Reply All of the micro-messaging world. For a startup whose entire value…

Enterprise Steven Walling comments

Shark Week Scores LOLs with Facebook Connect Promo

In 2007, Discovery Channel impressed us by embracing the social web in their attempts to promote perennial favorite Shark Week. Back in the day, a five-track DIY video mixer was enough to tickle our fancy. But we have gone the way of all users and have grown lazier over the ensuing two years. We now require our personalized videos to be mixed…

Social Jolie O'Dell comments

Collaboration Suite WizeHive Gets Ready to Leave Beta

"It was a nightmare." That's how CEO Mike Levinson described trying to organize his work with DreamIt Ventures before he set out to create the collaboration tool WizeHive. To date, WizeHive has stood out from the crowd in two ways: it's workspaces are more customizable than many collaborative suites, and it connects better to the public Web with…

Enterprise Steven Walling comments

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