Online gaming through open source software like Shaspa is designed to allow players to monitor their energy use through a virtual world. (shaspa.com)
BY HANNAH KOKJOHN – MEDILL NEWS SERVICE
Starting this week, the traditionally geeky realm of online gaming and virtual simulations are colliding with the trendy world of energy saving.
Jumping on [...]
BY SIDDHARTHA VAIDYANATHAN – MEDILL NEWS SERVICE
Few diseases have been so prevalent in the social media world as the ongoing swine flu crisis. Facebook and Twitter are flooded with messages and both sites even offer maps to show the spread of the virus. You can check out the interactive map [...]
BY SIDDHARTHA VAIDYANATHAN- MEDILL NEWS SERVICE
Been to Google’s homepage and seen the quirky doodle? It’s dedicated to Samuel Morse, the inventor of the single wire telegraph, who was born on April 27, 1791. The code on the page is below:
…. .- .–. .–. -.– / -… .. .-. – [...]
(A screenshot of the offensive video)
BY MING ZHUANG – MEDILL NEWS SERVICE
It’s a hard lesson, not only for Domino’s Pizza Inc., which has been struggling through a tough crisis this week. The alarm should be going off for all companies.
Everything started on YouTube. When two [...]
A screenshot of IE8 ads on YouTube
BY MING ZHUANG/MEDILL NEWS SERVICE
According to a recent tracking record from Net Applications, a market search firm, Microsoft Internet Explorer 8 “has quietly yet quickly” ascended its usage market share to over 3 percent.
“We say ‘quietly’ because Microsoft curiously [...]
Photo courtesy of BusinessWeek
BY HOLLIS TEMPLETON – MEDILL NEWS SERVICE
While everyone—and I mean everyone—is wired to social networking sites, marketers are tapping into mainstream use of LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, etc.
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