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Forbes recognizes UW Research Park

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Published May 10, 2010 at 4:16 p.m.

Forbes Magazine has named the University Research Park & MGE Innovation Center at the University of Wisconsin—Madison as one of the top 10 technology innovation and development parks that’s changing the world ...

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Marquette adds sports leadership to degree program

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Published May 10, 2010 at 2:24 p.m.

Marquette University will begin offering a sports leadership specialization for its master’s in leadership studies degree ...

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Reuters Dips Its Toe Into On-Demand Video News Services

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Published May 10, 2010 at 1:49 p.m.

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Reuters is about to release its Insider service to its subscribers this week, ready to deliver on-demand video content from the news organization and its media partners. It's a gentle, but potent, tweak to position Reuters for 21st century news-breaking ... Insider has been in the works for two years, ever since Reuters took a strategic decision to try to incorporate more video technology into its news reporting. The new service is customizable, and will incorporate 3,000 new clips per week from

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Infographic of the Day: Privacy on Facebook Is Vanishing

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Published May 10, 2010 at 1:43 p.m.

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Privacy has become an "opt-in" feature on Facebook--and that has massively changed the service ... Facebook privacy settings are eroding. But the scope and speed of that transformation has happened fairly quietly--maybe because we've never before had an infographic that lays all the changes out ... The chart was a personal project created by Matt McKeon, who by day is a researcher at IBM's Visual Communication Lab (where Fernanda Viegas used to work) ... It's concentric rings show the groups who

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Scrantonicity ~ “The Cover-Up”

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Published May 10, 2010 at 12:19 p.m.

As a native of Scranton, I was glued to “The Office” for 5 seasons, marveling at ALL of the local references to my hometown. (Dunmore, my high school!) Imagine my excitement when I got the opportunity here at LITO to chronicle these local references for Season 6! This “golden ticket” just happened [ ... ] ...

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Threadsy Smooshes Gmail, Facebook, Twitter, and More Into a Surprisingly Clean Stream

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Published May 5, 2010 at 12:21 a.m.

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Threadsy has been available in a private beta for a little while now, but today opened the service to the public. I hadn't used the beta, so this public release is my first exposure to Threadsy, and honestly, I'm a lot more impressed than I expected. That doesn't mean I'm going to use it, though ... There've been social networking aggregators before--FriendFeed comes to mind--but Threadsy is the best one I've seen yet. Instead of one Twitter-like stream a la FriendFeed, Threadsy smartly

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Ning Will Remain Free for Public Schoolteachers

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Published May 4, 2010 at 10:03 p.m.

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Brain Trust: Ning chairman Marc Andreessen (he built Netscape back in the day), with Bianchini, at the company's HQ in Palo Alto ... Photograph by Art Streiber ... Back on April 15th, Ning announced that they'd be moving from both paid and free offerings for their social network building service to paid-only. Ning was and is mostly used by those to whom the word "free" is most important--nonprofits. It's tricky and expensive to build a private social network, and even large-ish organizations

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Sustainability Faceoff: Walmart vs. Target

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Published May 4, 2010 at 6:25 p.m.

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There can be only one winner in the battle of the big box retailers. In the new book The HIP Investor, author R. Paul Herman compares Walmart and Target in terms of profit, management, and human impact (health, wealth, earth, equality, trust). So which retailer is more sustainable? In our opinion, Walmart is the winner ... It's hard to argue with Walmart's superior profitability, but sustainability is always subjective. We've detailed Walmart's sustainability initiatives extensively on

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Bumped Passengers, Fines Aside, "It's All About Relationships" for Southwest Airlines

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Published May 4, 2010 at 5:41 p.m.

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Southwest has pissed off its fair share of customers, bumping more of them from oversold flights than any other carrier last year. You don't have to look to far to find disgruntled flyers saying things such as, "I have always flown Southwest in the past, but doubt I ever will again. Saying you care about your customers is not the same as actually caring." Even the Department of Transportation has taken a swing, citing last week Southwest’s failure to reimburse bumped passengers promptly or

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Google's Editions E-Bookstore To Chase Apple, Amazon, in June

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Published May 4, 2010 at 5:35 p.m.

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With what may be seen as curious timing, Google's just revealed that soon it'll be selling digital books through its own Google Editions store. The search giant is obviously keen to not let Apple and Amazon dominate an industry it hasn't also wrapped a tentacle around ... Google's been mulling this sort of move for over a year, and it ties in with its Google Books effort to try to reinvent publishing as a cloud-based marketplace. Speaking at the Book Industry Study Group (which explains the

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