Tuesday, October 25, 2005

Google and Oregon Launch Open Source Initiative. [Slashdot] 11:44:36 PM      Google It!.

Remote Control for Humans?. [Slashdot] 11:43:31 PM      Google It!.

Microcontent and Google Base. Hmm... looks like Google is [about to start] letting people store/publish structured microcontent on their servers. This is quite an interesting development, as up until now, Google has been all about indexing data stored all over the web. Following that theme, one might have expected to see microcontent publishing appear in Blogger at some point... but now it seems that the intention is different; Google wants to *own* the database as well as index it. The counterpart to all this is what is going on with microformats and structured blogging, both of which allow you to publish structured content on your own site. (Blatant plug: Structured Blogging even provides a Wordpress plugin to do it for you; a bunch of us at BBM are working on putting a bunch more microcontent types in that plugin and building equivalent plugins for Movable Type and Drupal...) Comment [Second p0st] 11:42:28 PM      Google It!.

Promising new approach to treating Alzheimer's disease. New research shows a new class of drugs may hold promise in treating brain chemical problems such as Alzheimer's disease, says the principal investigator of research published in an early on-line version of Peptides. "We found that we can develop antisense -- which is a molecular compound -- to cross the blood brain barrier enough to alter brain function. This can have a profound effect on treating diseases that occur because there is too much or too little of a certain kind of protein in the brain," says William A. Banks, M.D., professor of geriatrics and pharmacological and physiological sciences at Saint Louis University and principal investigator. [Science Blog -] 4:16:59 PM      Google It!.

Behind the Fight to Control the Internet. [Slashdot] 12:17:21 PM      Google It!.

Corante Picks up on Podcasts in Education. In two recent posts, Corante’s blog covering podcasting highlights a company offering language learning products via podcast, as well as the University of Washington’s classroom podcasting initiative. The latter points to the role of screencasting in learning, a concept familiar to readers of this blog. [Syndication for Higher Ed] 11:42:02 AM      Google It!.

VoIP Security Threats Defined. [Slashdot] 8:56:00 AM      Google It!.

TinyDisk, A File System on Someone Else's Web App. [Slashdot] 8:54:05 AM      Google It!.

Get Ready For The 20-inch Laptop. [Slashdot] greater screen size increased productivity becasue there is less time spent finding what to do next after an interuption -- BL 8:49:34 AM      Google It!.

$20 billion in untapped generic drug savings. U.S. consumers could have saved $20 billion in 2004 and even more during this and future years by using more generic drugs, according to a new report by Express Scripts, Inc. Projectable to the U.S. commercially insured population, the study examined six major drug-therapy classes and was based on a random sample of approximately 3 million individuals. [Science Blog -] 8:20:39 AM      Google It!.