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April 06, 2008 Breaking News
Diet Fads as Information Cascades
Sun, 06 Apr 2008 15:47:09 PDT
Diet Fads as Information Cascades Sunday, April 6th, 2008 5:47 pm Contributed by: ceg86 Over the years, diet fads have continued to fill our lives with false hope of losing weight the easy way. Diets including Atkins, the Zone, South Beach, the Low-fat, the Baby Food, the Japanese Food, and the Tabasco Diet have all come and gone, each of them having their time in the limelight as The Diet that works. However, most of these diets are fads and do not give people the results they had hoped
Platform as a Service Enables Cloud-Based Development While Accelerating Role of SaaS
Sun, 06 Apr 2008 15:47:34 PDT
Transcript of BriefingsDirect podcast on platform as a service and on-demand applications deployment trends. Listen to the podcast here. Sponsor: Bungee Labs. Dana Gardner: Hi, this is Dana Gardner, principal analyst at Interarbor Solutions, and you’re listening to BriefingsDirect. Today, a sponsored podcast discussion about platform-as-a-service (PaaS). We're looking at an entire lifecycle approach to services on the Web for development, integration, and deployment. We are going to be ta
TREND: HIPPIE HIPPIE SHAKE
Sun, 06 Apr 2008 15:50:02 PDT
Fashion, fashion, fashion!
When school isn’t cool
Sun, 06 Apr 2008 16:22:33 PDT
Smart is not cool for many Latino students in Silicon Valley, reports the San Jose Mercury News. Sandra Romero and Bibiana Vega do their best to shrug off taunts from fellow Latino classmates at Del Mar High School in San Jose. The 17-year-old seniors are called “whitewashed.” Mataditas - dorks. Cerebritas - brainiacs. They’re told they’re “losing their culture” - just because Sandra has a 4.0 grade-point average and Bibiana has a 3.5. The put-downs are clear: Smart is not cool. And too ma
Farouk CHI GF1538 Turbo Regular 1 Inch Ceramic Flat Iron Hair Straightener
Sun, 06 Apr 2008 16:34:41 PDT
The one inch flat iron is the one that I use to flat iron my bangs. The wider version is the one I use to quickly flat iron the rest of it. The narrower version simply lets me flat iron narrow pieces so that they can be done bit by bit. I can’t believe I went all through university without a flat iron of any sort. Why didn’t someone come up with one back then. They would have made a fortune and then there were the sixties/early seventies when EVERYONE wanted stick straight hair. And I had wave
To combine glenplaid?
Sun, 06 Apr 2008 17:00:16 PDT
Howdy, y'all. Name's Drew, I'm a Seattle native but am currently living in Knoxville, TN while going to law school (yep another one). I have an odd body (long torso, extremely short/large legs and big hips, combined with a pretty large neck and shoulders when compared with my relatively* small waist) part of what draws me to the formal-ish style of the forum is my inability to find clothes off the rack (more causual clothes in general, which one wouldn't tailor) that are flattering... Also th
Spring & Summer Style Forecast: Michaela Jedinak's Fashion Guide!!
Sun, 06 Apr 2008 17:02:47 PDT
Michaela Jedinak returns to give you some fashion advice. While the "Celebrity Style Slam" and " Red Carpet Reviews" are great when celebrities are out and about, we don't always get the assistance... This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Investment Trends: Placing bets on the long term (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel)
Sun, 06 Apr 2008 17:06:42 PDT
Obstacles to growth are everywhere.A slowing U.S. economy, the struggling housing market, the credit crisis and the uncertainty it's bred, record oil prices and flailing consumer confidence all make it extremely difficult for many compan...
Weekly Economic Calendar
Sun, 06 Apr 2008 17:14:44 PDT
Monday: Consumer Credit (3 p.m.) The dollar value of consumer installment credit outstanding. Changes in consumer credit indicate the state of consumer finances and portend future spending patterns.Tuesday: Chain Store Sales (7:45 a.m.), Retail Sales (8:55 a.m.), Pending Home Sales (10 a.m.), FOMC Minutes (2 p.m.), Consumer Confidence (5 p.m.) This weekly measure of comparable store sales at major retail chains, published by the International Council of Shopping Centers, is related to the genera
OffshoreSource: www.offshorethemovie.comOffshore Magazine: Oil and Gas News Covering
Sun, 06 Apr 2008 17:18:21 PDT
OffshoreSource: www.offshorethemovie.comOffshore Magazine: Oil and offshore incorporation Gas News Covering Oil Exploration, Offshore Offshore Magazine covering key issues & trends relative to offshore technology, oil and offshore incorporation gas E&P operations. Oil and offshore incorporation gas news for oil exploration, oil sands, oil drilling, offshore Source: www.offshore-mag.comOffshore Custom Software Development Outsourcing Company from India Provides, consults on, and offsh
Rotational Portfolio Is Overweight Commodities
Sun, 06 Apr 2008 17:29:20 PDT
The current trends are consistent with the theme of a U.S.-led "economic slowdown" with high inflation, and the "recession trade" has been in effect for a few months so far. The changes in momentum are suggestive, to me, that the "recession trade" has ...
Technology is destroying traditional media: Murdoch
Sun, 06 Apr 2008 17:30:00 PDT
Rupert Murdoch is continuing on with the crusade he launched back in April 2005, when he proclaimed that technology was sparking a revolution in way news is accessed that threatened the future of the news industry. Continuing the theme when he spoke last week at Georgetown University, Murdoch said that technology is destroying “all the old ways and old assumptions… in the media”. Rather than the media companies responding effectively to technology, Murdoch said it’s the users who are leading
Greetings from the Desert
Sun, 06 Apr 2008 17:49:03 PDT
Shop.org is at the Camelback Inn in Scottsdale, Arizona, April 7-9, for our spring Online Marketing Workshop. It’s beautiful here - 85 degrees and sunny - certainly a nice change from the 47 degrees and rain that I left in Washington, DC (sorry to rub it in). I’m looking forward to the next few days not just for the excellent weather. Larry Joseloff has put together a great agenda of topics and speakers. And, attendees will have an opportunity to rub elbows and share best practices
The Ravaging Effects of Capitalism on My Hometowns
Sun, 06 Apr 2008 17:50:45 PDT
Homeless boys in San Jose, Costa Rica An expatriate reflects on the cost of "free trade" for his adopted country of Costa Rica -- and his former home in the States. By Mark Klempner AlterNet What will become of Costa Rica? That's the question on my mind, now that my adopted country has narrowly accepted CAFTA. Our national slogan is "Pura vida!" meaning "pure life," and it's commonly used as an affirmation that life is good. It's easy to understand how such an expression could catch on here:
Q&A: RMIS vendor trends (Business Insurance)
Sun, 06 Apr 2008 17:55:52 PDT
David A. Tweedy, a managing consultant with Albert Risk Management Consultants Inc. in Needham, Mass., conducts an annual review of risk management information systems in partnership with the Dallas-based International Risk Management Institute.
iPhone Impact Study
Sun, 06 Apr 2008 18:19:24 PDT
Rubicon Consulting has released a survey of iPhone users, detailing the impact the device has had on their usage and the market in general. Included in the survey are some unexpected patterns that could change your perceptions of this revolutionary mobile device. Here’s the good news: Users report high satisfaction with the device iPhone users report increased mobile web browsing One quarter report it displacing notebook computer usage Here’s the unexpected news: Email is the #1 function…
Thanks Sponsors
Sun, 06 Apr 2008 18:24:17 PDT
Thank you to our sponsors, for supporting ReadWriteWeb's mission to provide in-depth coverage of Web Apps, Web Technology Trends, Social Networking & Social Media. To enquire about sponsor slots on ReadWriteWeb, please email us for a Media Kit. We also have opportunities on our network blogs last100, AltSearchEngines and ReadWriteTalk. Here are our current sponsors: Wild Apricot offers Membership Database Management Software for non-profits and associations. Compete Search Analytics is a way
Citizen journalism and social change
Sun, 06 Apr 2008 18:26:13 PDT
During the last week of March participants at the Convergence, Citizen Journalism & Social Change conference held in Brisbane heard about citizen journalism projects throughout Asia, involving among others primary school students, individual bloggers and local communities. I haven’t yet had a chance to look in detail at all the papers presented at the conference, which was organised by QUT, University of Qld. and the Singapore-based Asian Media Information and Communication Centre (AMIC), but
Sun, 06 Apr 2008 15:47:09 PDT
Diet Fads as Information Cascades Sunday, April 6th, 2008 5:47 pm Contributed by: ceg86 Over the years, diet fads have continued to fill our lives with false hope of losing weight the easy way. Diets including Atkins, the Zone, South Beach, the Low-fat, the Baby Food, the Japanese Food, and the Tabasco Diet have all come and gone, each of them having their time in the limelight as The Diet that works. However, most of these diets are fads and do not give people the results they had hoped
Platform as a Service Enables Cloud-Based Development While Accelerating Role of SaaS
Sun, 06 Apr 2008 15:47:34 PDT
Transcript of BriefingsDirect podcast on platform as a service and on-demand applications deployment trends. Listen to the podcast here. Sponsor: Bungee Labs. Dana Gardner: Hi, this is Dana Gardner, principal analyst at Interarbor Solutions, and you’re listening to BriefingsDirect. Today, a sponsored podcast discussion about platform-as-a-service (PaaS). We're looking at an entire lifecycle approach to services on the Web for development, integration, and deployment. We are going to be ta
TREND: HIPPIE HIPPIE SHAKE
Sun, 06 Apr 2008 15:50:02 PDT
Fashion, fashion, fashion!
When school isn’t cool
Sun, 06 Apr 2008 16:22:33 PDT
Smart is not cool for many Latino students in Silicon Valley, reports the San Jose Mercury News. Sandra Romero and Bibiana Vega do their best to shrug off taunts from fellow Latino classmates at Del Mar High School in San Jose. The 17-year-old seniors are called “whitewashed.” Mataditas - dorks. Cerebritas - brainiacs. They’re told they’re “losing their culture” - just because Sandra has a 4.0 grade-point average and Bibiana has a 3.5. The put-downs are clear: Smart is not cool. And too ma
Farouk CHI GF1538 Turbo Regular 1 Inch Ceramic Flat Iron Hair Straightener
Sun, 06 Apr 2008 16:34:41 PDT
The one inch flat iron is the one that I use to flat iron my bangs. The wider version is the one I use to quickly flat iron the rest of it. The narrower version simply lets me flat iron narrow pieces so that they can be done bit by bit. I can’t believe I went all through university without a flat iron of any sort. Why didn’t someone come up with one back then. They would have made a fortune and then there were the sixties/early seventies when EVERYONE wanted stick straight hair. And I had wave
To combine glenplaid?
Sun, 06 Apr 2008 17:00:16 PDT
Howdy, y'all. Name's Drew, I'm a Seattle native but am currently living in Knoxville, TN while going to law school (yep another one). I have an odd body (long torso, extremely short/large legs and big hips, combined with a pretty large neck and shoulders when compared with my relatively* small waist) part of what draws me to the formal-ish style of the forum is my inability to find clothes off the rack (more causual clothes in general, which one wouldn't tailor) that are flattering... Also th
Spring & Summer Style Forecast: Michaela Jedinak's Fashion Guide!!
Sun, 06 Apr 2008 17:02:47 PDT
Michaela Jedinak returns to give you some fashion advice. While the "Celebrity Style Slam" and " Red Carpet Reviews" are great when celebrities are out and about, we don't always get the assistance... This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
Investment Trends: Placing bets on the long term (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel)
Sun, 06 Apr 2008 17:06:42 PDT
Obstacles to growth are everywhere.A slowing U.S. economy, the struggling housing market, the credit crisis and the uncertainty it's bred, record oil prices and flailing consumer confidence all make it extremely difficult for many compan...
Weekly Economic Calendar
Sun, 06 Apr 2008 17:14:44 PDT
Monday: Consumer Credit (3 p.m.) The dollar value of consumer installment credit outstanding. Changes in consumer credit indicate the state of consumer finances and portend future spending patterns.Tuesday: Chain Store Sales (7:45 a.m.), Retail Sales (8:55 a.m.), Pending Home Sales (10 a.m.), FOMC Minutes (2 p.m.), Consumer Confidence (5 p.m.) This weekly measure of comparable store sales at major retail chains, published by the International Council of Shopping Centers, is related to the genera
OffshoreSource: www.offshorethemovie.comOffshore Magazine: Oil and Gas News Covering
Sun, 06 Apr 2008 17:18:21 PDT
OffshoreSource: www.offshorethemovie.comOffshore Magazine: Oil and offshore incorporation Gas News Covering Oil Exploration, Offshore Offshore Magazine covering key issues & trends relative to offshore technology, oil and offshore incorporation gas E&P operations. Oil and offshore incorporation gas news for oil exploration, oil sands, oil drilling, offshore Source: www.offshore-mag.comOffshore Custom Software Development Outsourcing Company from India Provides, consults on, and offsh
Rotational Portfolio Is Overweight Commodities
Sun, 06 Apr 2008 17:29:20 PDT
The current trends are consistent with the theme of a U.S.-led "economic slowdown" with high inflation, and the "recession trade" has been in effect for a few months so far. The changes in momentum are suggestive, to me, that the "recession trade" has ...
Technology is destroying traditional media: Murdoch
Sun, 06 Apr 2008 17:30:00 PDT
Rupert Murdoch is continuing on with the crusade he launched back in April 2005, when he proclaimed that technology was sparking a revolution in way news is accessed that threatened the future of the news industry. Continuing the theme when he spoke last week at Georgetown University, Murdoch said that technology is destroying “all the old ways and old assumptions… in the media”. Rather than the media companies responding effectively to technology, Murdoch said it’s the users who are leading
Greetings from the Desert
Sun, 06 Apr 2008 17:49:03 PDT
Shop.org is at the Camelback Inn in Scottsdale, Arizona, April 7-9, for our spring Online Marketing Workshop. It’s beautiful here - 85 degrees and sunny - certainly a nice change from the 47 degrees and rain that I left in Washington, DC (sorry to rub it in). I’m looking forward to the next few days not just for the excellent weather. Larry Joseloff has put together a great agenda of topics and speakers. And, attendees will have an opportunity to rub elbows and share best practices
The Ravaging Effects of Capitalism on My Hometowns
Sun, 06 Apr 2008 17:50:45 PDT
Homeless boys in San Jose, Costa Rica An expatriate reflects on the cost of "free trade" for his adopted country of Costa Rica -- and his former home in the States. By Mark Klempner AlterNet What will become of Costa Rica? That's the question on my mind, now that my adopted country has narrowly accepted CAFTA. Our national slogan is "Pura vida!" meaning "pure life," and it's commonly used as an affirmation that life is good. It's easy to understand how such an expression could catch on here:
Q&A: RMIS vendor trends (Business Insurance)
Sun, 06 Apr 2008 17:55:52 PDT
David A. Tweedy, a managing consultant with Albert Risk Management Consultants Inc. in Needham, Mass., conducts an annual review of risk management information systems in partnership with the Dallas-based International Risk Management Institute.
iPhone Impact Study
Sun, 06 Apr 2008 18:19:24 PDT
Rubicon Consulting has released a survey of iPhone users, detailing the impact the device has had on their usage and the market in general. Included in the survey are some unexpected patterns that could change your perceptions of this revolutionary mobile device. Here’s the good news: Users report high satisfaction with the device iPhone users report increased mobile web browsing One quarter report it displacing notebook computer usage Here’s the unexpected news: Email is the #1 function…
Thanks Sponsors
Sun, 06 Apr 2008 18:24:17 PDT
Thank you to our sponsors, for supporting ReadWriteWeb's mission to provide in-depth coverage of Web Apps, Web Technology Trends, Social Networking & Social Media. To enquire about sponsor slots on ReadWriteWeb, please email us for a Media Kit. We also have opportunities on our network blogs last100, AltSearchEngines and ReadWriteTalk. Here are our current sponsors: Wild Apricot offers Membership Database Management Software for non-profits and associations. Compete Search Analytics is a way
Citizen journalism and social change
Sun, 06 Apr 2008 18:26:13 PDT
During the last week of March participants at the Convergence, Citizen Journalism & Social Change conference held in Brisbane heard about citizen journalism projects throughout Asia, involving among others primary school students, individual bloggers and local communities. I haven’t yet had a chance to look in detail at all the papers presented at the conference, which was organised by QUT, University of Qld. and the Singapore-based Asian Media Information and Communication Centre (AMIC), but
