Fuel your fascination Serendipity 2.0 « Hans de Zwart: Technology as a Solution… Arjen Vrielink and I write a monthly series titled: Parallax. We both agree on a title for the post and on some other arbitrary restrictions to induce our creative process. This time we decided to try and find out whether it is possible to engineer serendipity on the web. The post should start with a short (max. 200 words) reflection on what the Internet has meant for serendipity followed by three serendipitous discoveries including a description of how they were discovered. You can read Arjen’s post with the same title here. There is an ongoing online argument over whether our increasing use of the Internet for information gathering and consumption has decreased our propensity for having serendipitous discoveries (see for example here, here or here). Serendipity algorithm 1: Wikipedia One way of finding serendipity in the Wikipedia is by looking at the categories of a particular article. Instructional theory was the first link. The second link was Learning theory (education).
Trunk.ly | Home twitrratr Cascaad - Connect your interests Serendipity meets discovery with Tumbl.in and FriendShuffle Tumbl.in, a project hatched in a weekend of coding, and FriendShuffle, a similarly scrappy website launch, have been making waves recently for their simple but compelling takes on content discovery on social networks. Both emulate the serendipity of StumbleUpon, a lesser-known content-sharing site that nonetheless generates big traffic for sites chosen by its users. Instead of drawing on their own user bases for links, however, the new sites trawl feeds from Twitter and Facebook Tumbl.in and FriendShuffle have you connect your Twitter account. iPad apps like Flipboard and Pulse let you sift through your Twitter stream in interesting ways, aiming for a more controlled magazine experience. It’s this spontaneity that has bought hard-earned success to StumbleUpon, which crossed 10 million users back in June. Tumbl.in was created by UCSC student Suchit Agarwal and Blippy engineer Rahul Thathoo. FriendShuffle’s developers are more secretive.
Accès à distance (EZ-Proxy) La plupart des ressources électroniques des bibliothèques peuvent être consultées à partir d'un poste situé hors des campus de l'Université (service EZ-proxy). Toutefois, les contrats imposés par les fournisseurs d’information scientifique limitent de manière très stricte les conditions d’accès à distance, hors campus, via un proxy, aux ressources électroniques. Le serveur EZ-Proxy donnant accès aux ressources documentaires électroniques achetées par l’ULB est donc configuré pour répondre aux exigences des éditeurs, conformément aux termes des licences d’accès. Seuls les étudiants et membres du personnel ayant un mandat actif à l’ULB (y compris les mandats honorifiques), ainsi que le personnel de l’hôpital académique Erasme, sont autorisés à avoir accès aux périodiques électroniques en dehors des campus de l’ULB. L’accès se fait par authentification en encodant, ci-dessous, les login et mot de passe de leur adresse e-mail de l'ULB (le login comporte au maximum 8 caractères ex. tpeeters). Les
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Soup - Publish, collect, share. Serendipity finds you Similar thing happened to me in 1999. I realized Google was way cooler than alta vista and better at finding unknown things rather than Yahoo's directory. Truly the future, I thought. I sent in a resume to do some kind of work not development related; data center & sys admin stuff. Whether or not ignoring Google's calls was the right decision for him, his reason for not taking the call (fear of rejection) isn't great. I don't have many positive memories from high school, but the one that has stayed with me more than any other comes from the first day of my 11th grade English class. It's not a very dramatic story, but I loved the serendipitous nature of it, both on the part of the couple having adventures biking across the country, and my teacher who saw people along the road and invited them into his home. My own story of how I ended up at Google in 1999 is rather boring. The two biggest blocks to serendipity seem to be ego-fear and "other plans".