Sentences with phrase «early web community»

More than perhaps anyone else, Fred Wilson has been ahead of the curve when it comes to the potential of social media such as Twitter as a disruptive force both for the web and for traditional media as a whole — a track record that arguably began many years ago with his investment in GeoCities, an early web community that was acquired by Yahoo in 1999 for $ 3.57 billion.

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«Child Find» can be contacted through the local school system in all communities or through your State's early intervention coordinators, who can be located on the Web at http://www.nectac.org/contact/ptccoord.asp.

And earlier this month, she unveiled a $ 6 million plan to help rehabilitate female inmates at the Rikers Island jail complex; Sisters Thrive, a national volunteer effort to promote mental health literacy in the black community; and NYCHOPE, a web - based portal for domestic violence survivors.

A vibrant community of early adopters has agreed on standards that have steadily made the Semantic Web practical to use.

«Local media is the bedrock of internet surveillance — the kind of work that we do in terms of scouring the web looking for early signs of something taking place in a community,» explained Brownstein, chief innovation officer at Boston Children's and a pioneer in the field of using sources other than public health data to do this type of work.

Linkbait is a related term, one that originated in the SEO community to describe the strategy of producing relevant, highly «linkable» content in hopes of drawing traffic, and therefore advertising revenue, from «link - savvy bloggers and web content creators» and the «hundreds of sheep - like content creators» who follow them (to quote one of the earliest appearances of the term in the fall of 2005).

This early community of artists and curators created the first wave of software applications, web - based projects and digital approaches to art making, which continue to expand in new directions every year.

For an analysis that, in contrast, reflects an understanding of the scientific evidence that is generally shared in the climate science community, see MacCracken's recent journal article, «Prospects for Future Climate Change and the Reasons for Early Action,» which is posted on the Climate Institute Web site here (3.2 MB).

Two of the e-mails I received warrant mention, because they are both from people who have been active in publishing online for the legal community since the earliest days of the Web and who are both highly regarded for their work.

Closed communities, in my view, play an important role on today's web; and the end product becomes far more valuable when quality controls are put in place early.

The concept of community, although well entrenched in the early web and the market at the time, did not figure prominently in the architecture; whereas, today, driven by our understanding and the success of Web 2.0 applications, this is a crucial component for any good portweb and the market at the time, did not figure prominently in the architecture; whereas, today, driven by our understanding and the success of Web 2.0 applications, this is a crucial component for any good portWeb 2.0 applications, this is a crucial component for any good portal.

Today's topics include operating system vendors» efforts to issue a fix for an Intel chip flaw; Microsoft's acquisition of Avere Systems for its cloud data management technology; Google's new Community Connectors that link Data Studio to web data resources; and the potential benefits of T - Mobile's early tests of commercial - grade 5G wireless systems.

Recognizing the connective social power of the Internet from his time spent on BBSs in the 1980s and Usenet in the early 1990s, he started the first large - scale online mental health self - help support community on the web in 1996.

This finding replicates earlier trials where web - based depression literacy materials supported by weekly telephone tracking calls reduced depressive symptoms1 in community samples.