I found the web site of the Personal Genome Project (PGP) while I was looking for genome research that could be applied to cancer prevention and treatment someday. I tried to look deeper into who sponsors the site and why, and discovered that the Harvard Molecular Technology Group & Lipper Center for Computational Genetics is promoting this effort. The Harvard ...
Read More »Free Candy for You and Yours
Daily Candy, a daily email service of nifty new products and services, mainly entrepreneurial in nature, offers this gem. Good Search, a new search engine partnered with Yahoo, allows searchers to donate to the cause of their choice every time they go hunting for information. Per the bio, Good Search is founded by a brother and sister team who lost ...
Read More »Listen to our own Lisa "M" Brown on IT Conversations
Here’s a link to a podcast on IT Conversations from BlogHer 2005 of a panel on blogging in business with Lisa Meyers Brown of Eastern Division. Lisa contributes to FISpace and is a member of the Futuring and Innovation Center team. Her own blog, The Rhetoric of Me, is blogrolled on the right. The announcement says: At the 2005 BlogHer ...
Read More »Google angst
A Wired article reviews whole categories of services and programs that Google has launched that are threatening long established software companies and conventional intenet services. It’s a good companion piece to an earlier post about the scope of Google services (out of date in just one week). For my money, Google is the paradigm-setter of the decade the way Microsoft ...
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