City!N Prepares To Launch in China On March 14th

So what makes it special? Dean Takahashi at Venture Beat explains that when users set up their profiles they will be listing things they like, such as movies, music, celebrities and so on and then will assign each thing a rating. City!N’s recommendation engine will then kick in and take your ratings and compare them [...]

Girls and young woman are now the most prolific web users

March 8, 2008
When 12-year-old Clover Reshad gets home from school, she will have something to eat and say hello to her dog Hector. She might shout at her annoying brother and watch some television, then she will head upstairs to her bedroom to do her homework. This is when the computer goes on.
“I use the [...]

Eastern And Western Cultures Perceive Emotions Very Differently

These findings are published in the upcoming issue of Journal of Personality and Social Psychology and the results are replicated in a collaborative study between Huaitang Wang and Takahiko Masuda (University of Alberta, Canada) and Keiko Ishii (Hokkaido University, Japan)

08 Mar 2008
A team of researchers from Canada and Japan have uncovered some remarkable [...]

Chatterous: Reach All of Your Friends on their Communications Weapon of Choice

Chatterous is a simple new communications tool that may be a time saver of sorts. It allows you setup a group of your friends and send them a message that they can receive on their phone (via sms), gchat, or email.Your friends can then reply via that medium (without registering for Chatterous) and you can [...]

Genebase: Social Networking Based On DNA Samplings

It’s one thing to give a social networking website the privilege to access to your personal purchase history (if you so choose), and for you to broadcast the minutiae of your daily activities across a wide circle of virtual busybodies that take the shape of friends and “friends.” It’s another to get into the process [...]