the dailywebthing archives

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Category: research

online resource since 1996

copyright / education / research / resources / rights
October 19, 2013

Stanford Copyright and Fair Use Center

without ‘information overload’

education / research / search
October 18, 2013

RefSeek – Academic Search Engine

enter the ‘smart home’

futuretech / ideas / research
June 6, 2013

Wi-Fi signals enable gesture recognition throughout entire home

Forget to turn off the lights before leaving the apartment? No problem. Just raise your hand, finger-swipe the air, and your lights will power down. Want to change the song playing on your music system in the other room? Move your hand to the right and flip through the songs…

‘state of the Web’

initiatives / places / research / web
September 11, 2012

The Web Index

…the Web Index is the world’s first multi-dimensional measure of the Web’s growth, utility and impact on people and nations…

‘focus inward’

creativity / ideas / research
July 15, 2012

Rest is not idleness: Reflection is critical for development and well-being

clarifying the issues

issues / privacy / research
February 27, 2012

Setting the Record Straight on Google’s Safari Tracking

‘movement variety’ works best

miscellany / research
November 29, 2011

CUergo: Sitting and Standing

‘opening new avenues’

education / environment / explore / research
August 31, 2011

Interactive Oceans

‘protecting against tracking’

firefox / privacy / research
July 31, 2011

ShareMeNot

a Firefox add-on designed to prevent third-party buttons (such as the Facebook “Like” button or the Twitter “tweet” button) embedded by sites across the Internet from tracking you until you actually click on them

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