Stanford University

Just three days after Google launched its answer to Facebook and Twitter, the search giant announced changes in Google Buzz to address some privacy concerns.

The option to share Gmail information with other users is still the default setting, but the box to uncheck for more privacy has now been added more prominently to the Google profile that users must have to use the service. If they don't uncheck, anyone who searches a user's name or e-mail can have access to the user's most frequent contacts.

Easier Blocking

If you've been together for decades, chances are you met your valentine through family, work or in other traditional ways.

But if your relationship is newer, it's more likely you met online.

According to a new nationally representative survey of 3,009 adults with a romantic partner, the Internet has now overtaken all the ways people meet, save one: meeting through friends.

Yahoo Inc. believes a lot of its good work has been overlooked by investors and the media so it's spending more than $100 million to get the word out to consumers directly.

The money is going toward the Internet company's most expensive marketing campaign since Stanford University graduate students Jerry Yang and David Filo started Yahoo's Web site 15 years ago. Yahoo provided a peek at the 15-month blitz Tuesday in New York.

Not to go against Elvis Costello, but it turns out that digital music, not radio, is a sound salvation, at least when it comes to fighting climate change.
A new study conducted by researchers from Carnegie Mellon University, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and Stanford University confirms what we already assumed:  downloading music cuts energy consumption and CO2 emissions compared to shopping at your local record store.  Digitizing wins again.

I'd meant to post this a while ago; I think Chris Schoen mentioned it a few weeks ago a

I'd meant to post this a while ago; I think Chris Schoen mentioned it a few weeks ago a

Michael Slackman and Nazila Fathi in the New York Times:

Lera Boroditsky in Edge:

Lera Boroditsky in Edge:

A prestigious Japanese university is giving away hundreds of iPhones, in part to use its Global Positioning System to nab students that skip class.

Truants in Japan often fake attendance by getting friends to answer roll-call or hand in signed attendance cards. That's verging on cheating since attendance is a key requirement for graduation here.

Aoyama Gakuin University in Tokyo is giving Apple Inc.'s iPhone 3G to 550 students in its School of Social Informatics, which studies the use of Internet and computer technology in society.