INFORMAVORE's SUNDAY No 464

Dear Readers,

464- a number I like, an issue I like. A bit dominated by the development of Google Plus but also a small orgy of diversity so necessary to meet the criterium of real interestingness…

Enjoy, if you can, but please read and help other people to read it.

Thank you!

Peter

SEARCH

INTERNET

SEARCH & FIND: What, where, how.  

A great opportunity for everybody! Wendy is a great  Websearch guru:

Web Search 101 - Learn to Search the Web

http://websearch.about.com/c/ec/27.htm?nl=1

The future of search. Serendipituous search:

http://econsultancy.com/us/blog/7763-the-future-of-search-serendipitous-search

  

Wendy Boswell- 101 Free Online Alternatives to Popular Desktop Software: http://websearch.about.com/od/web20officealternatives/tp/101-Free-Online-Alternatives-To-Popular-Desktop-Software.htm?nl=1

The best free online storage sites on the Web:

http://websearch.about.com/od/web20/a/online-storage.htm?nl=1

The Most Useful Web Tools-Get Something Done with Web Tools: http://websearch.about.com/od/usefulsite1/qt/useful_tools.htm?nl=1

17 best Web applications:

http://savedelete.com/17-best-web-applications.html

10 useful and productive keyboard shortcuts-keys in Windows:

http://savedelete.com/10-useful-and-productive-keyboard-shortcuts-keys-in-windows.html                                  

Bob Rankin- free photo storage and backup:

http://askbobrankin.com/free_online_photo_storage_and_backup.html?awt_l=4jAx_&awt_m=Inu_pTkLc8P6SL

BLOGS and SOCIAL SITES

The periodic Table of the Social Web (Infographic): http://blog.favo.rs/periodic-table-social-web/

The Four Fundamentals of Social Media: http://thenextweb.com/socialmedia/2011/07/13/the-four-fundamentals-of-social-media/

Facebook May Have the Numbers but Google+ May Get the Ads

http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/72850.html

Can Facebook and Google+ coexist?: http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9218360/Can_Facebook_and_Google_coexist_?source=CTWNLE_nlt_dailyam_2011-07-13

Google+ Marks The End of Blogging As a Means of Personal Expression:

http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/mimssbits/26986/?nlid=nlweb&nld=2011-07-13

GOOGLE

 

Google Kills The Quarter: $9 Billion In Revenue:

http://searchengineland.com/google-kills-the-quarter-9-billion-in-revenue-85716?utm_source=sel&utm_medium=scap&utm_campaign=email

Google Advanced Search Techniques:

http://websearch.about.com/c/ec/55.htm?nl=1

Google: Rethink Your Mission! Part 2: Google+: http://blogs.forbes.com/stevedenning/2011/07/06/google-rethink-your-mission-part-2-google/?partner=technology_newsletterGoogle: Rethink Your Mission! Part 2: Google+

Google: Rethink Your Mission! Part 2: Google+

 

 

How Google+ Will Balkanize Your Social Life:

http://www.technologyreview.com/web/38006/?mod=chfeatured

What have we learned in 10 days of Google +:  http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/editors/26981/?nlid=nldly&nld=2011-07-11

 

Wth ‘Millions’ Of Users & Growing, Google+ Set To Power All Google Products:

http://searchengineland.com/with-millions-of-users-growing-google-set-to-power-all-google-products-85032?utm_source=sel&utm_medium=scap&utm_campaign=email

Google + vs. Facebook (Infographic): http://holykaw.alltop.com/google-vs-facebook-infographic

http://holykaw.alltop.com/google-vs-facebook-infographic

Google+ vs. Twitter- a personal view:

http://searchengineland.com/google-vs-twitter-a-personal-view-85197?utm_source=sel&utm_medium=scap&utm_campaign=email

Dave Pollard about Google +:

http://howtosavetheworld.ca/2011/07/11/google-plus-on-communities-circles-friendship-and-love/

How Google-plus is built?

http://gigaom.com/2011/07/12/how-google-plus-is-built/

 

Google races to create business version of Google+:

http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9218422/Google_races_to_create_business_version_of_Google_?source=CTWNLE_nlt_pm_2011-07-14

An unofficial Google + source:

http://www.googleplussed.com/

What Google’s quiet failure says about its innovation health:

http://blogs.hbr.org/schrage/2011/07/what-googles-quiet-failure-say.html

Google+ Reference: “Complete Video Guide to G+” & News Sources on Google Plus:                            http://infodocket.com/2011/07/13/google-reference-complete-video-guide-to-g-news-sources-on-google-plus/

The Google+ Cheatsheet Is a Quick Reference To Using Google+

http://lifehacker.com/5820794/the-google%252B-cheatsheet-is-a-quick-reference-to-using-google%252B

Google +: It’s a man thing:

http://news.cnet.com/8301-17852_3-20079285-71/google-its-a-man-thing/?utm_source=sel&utm_medium=scap&utm_campaign=email

! I can read only the abstract of this:

Searching for the Google Effect on People's Memory

http://www.sciencemag.org/content/333/6040/277.summary?elq=760891c831b74020b4f466c5819b8d36

But this seems to be relevant:

http://www.technologyreview.com/web/38032/?nlid=nldly&nld=2011-07-15&a=f  and this too: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/15/health/15memory.html?_r=1&nl=todaysheadlines&emc=tha26

WORDS, BOOKS, LIBRARIES

 

The Top 24 Sites for Free Books on the Web

Find, share, and download free books online

http://websearch.about.com/od/booksandprintedmaterials/tp/read-books-online.htm?nl=1

The first Google eBooks-integrated e-reader: iriver Story HD:

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/07/first-google-ebooks-integrated-e-reader.html

Is a bookless library still a library?

http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,2079800,00.html

SCIENCE

 

Introducing the brain, the inside story:

http://www.amnh.org/exhibitions/brain/

Scientists Discover How Best to Excite Brain Cells:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/07/110708124538.htm

 

Cracking the Code of the Mind:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/07/110712094203.htm

Teaching the Neurons to Meditate:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/07/110707173321.htm

 

The Neurobiology of Bliss--Sacred and Profane

Sex in the brain, and what it reveals about the neuroscience of deep pleasure:

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=the-neurobiology-of-bliss-sacred-and-profane

Salamanders Spell out Evolution in Action:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/07/110705211022.htm

 

Editing the Genome: Scientists Unveil New Tools for Rewriting the Code of Life: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/07/110714142130.htm

This Is How Big Our Galaxy Is Compared to the Biggest Galaxy of Them All:

http://gizmodo.com/5820399/this-is-how-big-our-galaxy-is-compared-to-the-biggest-galaxy-of-them-all

Ant Colonies: Behavioral Variability Wins:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/07/110710204242.htm

Spread of Fungus-Farming Beetles Is Bad News for Trees:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/07/110713101948.htm

TECHNOLOGY

Thnking quantitatively about technological progress:

http://www.kurzweilai.net/thinking-quantitatively-about-technological-progress

Renewable Energy –What it is and Who is Using it (INFOGRAPHIC):

http://www.treehugger.com/files/2011/07/renewable-energy-what-it-is-and-who-is-using-it-infographic.php

 

Light Propagation Controlled in Photonic Chips: Major Breakthrough in Telecommunications Field:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/07/110710132825.htm

 

Intelligent Street Lighting Saves Up to 80% On Energy:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/07/110712093623.htm

Modified carbon nanotubes can store solar energy indefinitely:

http://www.nanowerk.com/news/newsid=22098.php

 

Wind turbine placement to optimize wind power generation for a given area:                                          http://www.gizmag.com/optimizing-wind-turbine-placement/19217/picture/137835/

 

A Novel Enzymatic Catalyst for Biodiesel Production:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/07/110711104534.htm

Top 10 gadgets of 2011:

http://savedelete.com/top-10-gadgets-of-2011.html

CEO Guide to Technology: http://www.businessweek.com/technology/ceo_guide/

 

4 Amazing Technology Waves That Will Change Your Life:

http://www.technewsworld.com/story/72831.html

Tomorrow’s Transistor Built Atom by Atom: http://www.technologyreview.com/energy/38031/?nlid=nlmat&nld=2011-07-14

25 Tesla, World-Record 'Split Magnet' Makes Its Debut:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/07/110713131646.htm

EDUCATION, CULTURE, ART

The educational value of creative disobedience::

http://www.scientificamerican.com/blog/post.cfm?id=the-educational-value-of-creative-d-2011-07-07

Thirst for Fairness May Have Helped Us Survive:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/05/science/05angier.html?_r=1&ref=science

Scientific Illiteracy After the Shuttle: Are America's Smartest Days Behind Her?;
 http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,2082213,00.html#ixzz1SCHdbwUk

 

Professors Consider Classroom Uses for Google Plus:

http://chronicle.com/blogs/wiredcampus/professors-consider-classroom-uses-for-google-plus/32131

Review: How to Live Forever Probes Aging Science, New Age Hokum:

http://www.wired.com/underwire/2011/07/how-to-live-forever/

Escaping your online mistakes: should there be a law?

http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/internet-mistakes-forgotten/story?id=13995752

 

Humans 'Predisposed' to Believe in Gods and the Afterlife:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/07/110714103828.htm

Why people avoid the truth of themselves:

http://www.spring.org.uk/2011/07/why-people-avoid-the-truth-about-themselves.php?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+PsychologyBlog+%28PsyBlog%29

New music websearch engine: http://www.mp3-2000.com/

Sing a Song- your Brain on Music: http://positivepsychologynews.com/news/aren-cohen/2011071318521

Religion in Harry Potter  Do J. K. Rowling’s novels 
promote religion or undermine it?:

http://www.skeptic.com/eskeptic/11-07-13/

BUSINESS

Competitive Intelligence - A Selective Resource Guide - Updated and Revised July 2011: http://www.llrx.com/features/ciguide.htm

Great Leadership: timely guidance from 25,000 years ago:

http://www.greatleadershipbydan.com/2011/07/timely-guidance-from-25000-years-ago.html

Keeping innovation strong when economy is weak:

http://blogs.hbr.org/cs/2011/06/keeping_innovation_strong_when.html

Gerry McGovern he power of the written word:  https://mail.google.com/mail/?hl=en&shva=1#inbox/1311511283f73bba

 

Think like an innovator- video:

http://blogs.hbr.org/video/2011/07/think-like-an-innovator.html

The most important question a manager can ask:

http://blogs.hbr.org/hill-lineback/2011/04/the-most-important-question-a.html 

Best Business Quotes from the Silver Scren: http://blogs.forbes.com/seaneichenberger/2011/07/08/best-business-quotes-from-the-silver-screen/?partner=forbeslife_newsletterBest Business Quotes From The Silver Screen

Best Business Quotes From The Silver Screen

 

 

Gerry McGovern- Measure negative behviour, not just positive behaviour

http://www.gerrymcgovern.com/nt/2011/nt-2011-07-18-Measure-negative.htm

Eat Your Peas: A Recipe for Culture Change::

 http://www.strategy-business.com/article/11205?gko=ac42d&cid=20110712enews

Best Business Quotes From The Silver Screen

Best Business Quotes From The Silver Screen

The Most Important Social Business Metrics;
http://www.bretlsimmons.com/2011-07/the-most-important-social-business-metrics/

The Manager’s Role in Self-Motivation

http://www.recognizethisblog.com/2011/07/the-manager%E2%80%99s-role-in-self-motivation/

HEALTH & MEDICINE

Body Weight:

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/bodyweight.html

Blood Thinners

Also called: Anti-platelet drugs, Anticoagulants:

 http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/bloodthinners.html

Blood pressure medicines:

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/bloodpressuremedicines.html

Injecting Stem Cells into the Heart Could Stop Chronic Chest Pain:

http://www.technologyreview.com/biomedicine/38004/?nlid=nlbio&nld=2011-07-12

 

Infographic: The Successes and Failures of the Fight Against AIDS:

http://www.good.is/post/infographic-public-attitudes-about-aids/

 

Biologists Identify New Strategy Used by Bacteria During Infection:\

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/07/110712152206.htm

Genetic Basis of Rare Human Diseases Described:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/07/110708160339.htm

And you thought it was just fluff? New bacteria found in belly-buttons

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/and-you-thought-it-was-just-fluff-new-bacteria-found-in-bellybuttons-2308796.html

 

Advice to Drink Eight Glasses of Water a Day 'Nonsense,' Argues Doctor:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/07/110712190822.htm

Secret to Successful Aging: How 'Positivity Effect' Works in Brain:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/07/110714072903.htm

Salt Diet Dangers May Be Influenced by Potassium:

http://www.sci-tech-today.com/story.xhtml?story_id=031000NMGTRK

FOOD & COOKING

 

Criminality- anti-GM attacks  destroy German test plots:

http://news.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2011/07/anti-gm-attacks-destroy-german-t.html?etoc&elq=8fc26e8d800848429b0b3aa9764ea072

Vandals Attack Transgenic Wheat Test Plot:

http://news.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2011/07/vandals-attack-transgenic-wheat-.html?etoc&elq=8fc26e8d800848429b0b3aa9764ea072

Food in every country: http://www.foodbycountry.com/

Molecular Gastronomy: Science Behind the Art of Cooking:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/07/110706122618.htm

Perfecting the meat of the potato:

http://news.msu.edu/story/9562/

Frankenfish: Is GM Salmon a Vital Part of Our Future?
http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,2082630,00.html#ixzz1Rxtof5h

Evidence for 'Food Addiction' in Humans:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/07/110712094046.htm

 

Size Matters: Why Do People Eat Less When They Have Big Forks?:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/07/110714150949.htm

Cool no cook recipes:

http://busycooks.about.com/od/toohottocook/tp/Cool-No-Cook-Recipes.htm?nl=1

7 great salad dressing:

http://cookingfortwo.about.com/od/Collections/tp/7-Favorite-Salad-Dressing.htm?nl=1

MISCELLANEA

 

Dressing taller – tips for short man:

http://artofmanliness.com/2011/06/07/dressing-taller-short-men/

SELECTED NEWS

SPAM & SPYWARE   

Google + hit with spam bug:

http://www.infoworld.com/d/security/google-hit-spam-bug-631

Americans Use Spam for Cheaper Prescription Drugs:

http://www.technologyreview.com/web/38023/?nlid=nldly&nld=2011-07-12

Global Spam Filtering:

http://googlevoiceblog.blogspot.com/2011/07/global-spam-filtering.html

VIRUSES & e-CROOKS

How To Properly Scan Your Computer for Viruses, Trojans, and Other Malware:  http://pcsupport.about.com/od/fixtheproblem/ht/virus-scan-malware-scan.htm?nl=1

Should you be afraid of scareware?:

http://netsecurity.about.com/od/antivirusandmalware/a/Scareware.htm?nl=1

9 Best Free Antivirus Programs: http://freebies.about.com/od/computerfreebies/tp/best-free-antivirus.htm?nl=1

Bob Rankin: why did my computer get a virus?:

http://askbobrankin.com/why_did_my_computer_get_a_virus.html?awt_l=4jAx_&awt_m=JglAqmuYs8P6SL

How to Guard Against Phishing & Social Engineering Attacks:

http://antivirus.about.com/od/securitytips/a/How-To-Guard-Against-Phishing-And-Social-Engineering-Attacks.htm?nl=1

US, Romanian authorities target Internet fraud scheme:

http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/235825/us_romanian_authorities_target_internet_fraud_scheme.html

WiFi

1/4 of smartphone users rely on their device for Internet access:

http://gigaom.com/2011/07/11/14-of-smartphone-users-rely-on-their-device-for-internet-access/

Cell phone safety infographic:

http://www.accuconference.com/blog/Cell-Phone-Safety-Infographic.aspx

Smart phone the first step to escape PC dependency:

http://blogs.forbes.com/fredcavazza/2011/07/11/smartphone-is-the-first-step-to-escape-pc-dependency/?partner=technology_newsletter