The Top 30 Innovations of the Last 30 Years

The Internet is the biggest innovation of the last three decades according to a survey conducted by Wharton and PBS. Healthcare and technological advances dominate. Laptops, mobile phones, e-mail, wind turbines, DNA testing and robotic surgery made the list.

Here’s a look at the top 30 winners, in order of importance:

1. Internet, broadband, WWW (browser and html)
2. PC/laptop computers
3. Mobile phones
4. E-mail
5. DNA testing and sequencing/Human genome mapping
6. Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI)
7. Microprocessors
8. Fiber optics
9. Office software (spreadsheets, word processors)
10. Non-invasive laser/robotic surgery (laparoscopy)

links for 2009-02-08

• Logic+Emotion: Thoughts on Bought + Earned “Media”
  (tags: socialmedia media pr marketing)
• DEBKAfile – Likud maintains lead two days before Tuesday vote
  (tags: israel)
• Dell’s Mini 9 selling for just $249 — who needs a subsidy? – Engadget
  (tags: netbooks)
• Acer Aspire One D150 with N270 previewed, now available for US pre-order – Engadget
  (tags: netbooks)
• Special Edition Samsung NC10 gets 6-cell battery, larger touchpad – Engadget
  (tags: netbooks)
• Beth’s Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media: Riffing on David Armano’s Listen, Learn, and Adapt: Need Your Organization’s Adaption Stories!
  (tags: socialmedia)
• Quick App: Touch Dial Enables Emoji for the iPhone | The iPhone Blog
  (tags: iPhone)
• Most Popular Twitter Clients Revealed
  (tags: twitter apps)
• Newswise Medical News | Growth Factor Reverses Alzheimer’s-Like Signs in Animals
  (tags: alzheimer’s neuroscience dementia)
• The Health Care Blog: Why Clinical Groupware May Be the Next Big Thing in Health IT
  (tags: healthcare health2.0)
• innovation playground Idris Mootee: Will Singularity Results In Integration Of The Human Nervous System And The Mobile Networks And Interfaces? So You Are Your IPhone.
  (tags: AI singularity)
• Google Next Victim Of Creative Destruction? (GOOG)
  (tags: media google trends)
• Lunarr’s Elements is a Twitter-like image-sharing tool to stoke the imagination » VentureBeat
  (tags: socialmedia twitter photography)
• FT.com / Companies / Technology – Sales of PCs to fall for first time in eight years
  (tags: technology trends)

links for 2009-02-06

• ADL head decries ‘pandemic of anti-Semitism’ following Gaza offensive – Haaretz – Israel News
  (tags: anti-semitism israel gaza)
• DEBKAfile – Why is Netanyahu’s Likud losing ground before Israel’s election?
  (tags: Israel gaza)
• POLITICO 44 | Obama on Stem Cells
  (tags: obama stemcells)
• Pain Beam to Get Tougher, Smaller, More Powerful | Danger Room from Wired.com
  (tags: military)
• Michelle Malkin » Trojan Horse watch: Obama quietly takes next universal health care step
  (tags: obama healthcare)
• Power Line – Peres at Davos
  (tags: israel gaza)
• Technology Review: Predicting Cancer Drugs’ Impact
  (tags: cancer personalizedmedicine)
• Personal Branding 101: How to Discover and Create Your Brand
  (tags: web2.0 marketing)
• Presenting: 10 of the Smartest Big Brands in Social Media
  (tags: socialmedia)
• Genetic roots of synaesthesia unearthed – health – 05 February 2009 – New Scientist
  (tags: neuroesthetics synaesthesia)
• Seedmagazine.com | Revolutionary Minds | The Game Changers | John Wilbanks
  (tags: video science)
• Backup And Share Your iPhone Contacts For Free With IDrive Lite
  (tags: iphone apps mobile)
• Where Do Mobile Ads Work Best? On the iPhone! – ReadWriteWeb
  (tags: iphone mobile advertising marketing)
• Acer shipping 10.1-inch Aspire one netbooks
  (tags: netbooks gadgets)
• Gmail Labs: Ten Gmail Labs Features You Should Enable
  (tags: google apps)

The New Twhirl-Seesmic: Preview Release Invite

Twhirl is a desktop client for social software such as Twitter and  Friendfeed. Just this weekend, Loic Le Meur introduced a new preview version of Twhirl which includes Ping.fm and Seesmic video integration.It’s very cool. To get your beta invitation to this special preview, click here.

The following are a few of the new features of this new preview release:

Catch more tweets from people talking about you and then engage them:  your @username timeline displays all of the tweets that mention your username.

Post your messages from Twhirl to Facebook, MySpace, LinkedIn, WordPress and a other services: this is all done with Ping.fm integration; in addition you can now also send a video via Seesmic to all the social media nets you setup.

Record a video and reply to your friends straight from Twhirl: reply to any of your friends straight from Twhirl and follow the conversation–in real time.

Follow in near-real time any topic, brand or username with the new saved searches showing up in your main timeline: your friends tweets and saved searches appear in the same stream to make it all easy to follow.

Check out Robert Scoble’s interview with Loic — it’s an informative walk-through of Twhirl’s new features:

Sources: Loic Le Meur, Robert Scoble

links for 2009-01-11

• What is the future of the phone in a social world?
  (tags: socialmedia mobile predictions)
• Work on Stuff that Matters: First Principles – O’Reilly Radar
  (tags: web2.0)
• BBC NEWS | Technology | Texting a signal of wider trends
  (tags: mobile trends netbooks)
• Scobleizer netbook smackdown
  (tags: netbooks)

links for 2009-01-08

• Photos of Kidnapping Tunnels Discovered in Gaza, 8 Jan 2009, 23:41 IST « IDF Spokesperson
  (tags: IDF Israel)
• BBC NEWS | Health | Appeal for research brain donors
  (tags: neuroscience)
• Bulls Cloned From Decade-Old Frozen Testicles | Wired Science from Wired.com
  (tags: cloning genomics)
• Puny, Trendy Netbooks Are Growing Up to Suit Business Users | Gadget Lab from Wired.com
  (tags: netbooks)
• Boxee Opens Alpha Version to the Public and Adds BBC iPlayer & Joost Content Access | eHomeUpgrade
  (tags: multimedia video)
• ASUS Eee PC T91 and T101H touchscreen tablet hands-on – Engadget
  (tags: netbooks)
• The NEFA Foundation – TerrorWatch Videos
  (tags: terrorism)
• Beth’s Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media: Unpacking Engagement Metrics for the Nonprofit Blog
  (tags: socialmedia webmarketing web2.0 blogging)
• Stony Brook study supports claims of undying love — Newsday.com
  (tags: neuroscience)
• Intelligence Briefing #003: Israel Attacked from the North
  (tags: terrorism Israel)
• Vizio takes connected TV to the max « OmniVideo: The Future of Video Blog with James McQuivey
  (tags: video multimedia)
• Four core iPhones and firmware 3.0 | The Apple Core | ZDNet.com
  (tags: iPhone)
• Google Maps: 100+ Best Tools and Mashups
  (tags: google technology mashups)
• Cognitive Daily: Music, art, and the perception of pain
  (tags: neuroesthetics neuroscience music)
• Inside the Savant Mind: Tips for Thinking from an Extraordinary Thinker: Scientific American
  (tags: neuroesthetics neuroscience)
• Growth of new brain cells requires ‘epigenetic’ switch
  (tags: Brain genomics neuroscience)
• @BreakingNewsOn: From Twitter Account To Public News Wire Service
  (tags: twitter)
• Palm Pre in-depth impressions, video, and huge hands-on gallery – Engadget
  (tags: gadgets mobile)
• Gentlemen, start your drooling; OQO unveils model 2+ : Boy Genius Report
  (tags: gadgets mobile)
• Social networks link terrorists
  (tags: terrorism socialnetworking socialmedia Israel)
• Some Interesting Styles of Blogging
  (tags: blogging web2.0 media)
• » Edelman Health Barometer sixtysecondview: Sixty second interviews from pr, media and politics
  (tags: health2.0)
• World Cartoonists Look At Gaza, Israel And Hamas
  (tags: Israel media)
• Palm Phone Aims for Comeback – WSJ.com
  (tags: gadgets mobile)
• Marvin Hier: The Jews Face a Double Standard – WSJ.com
  (tags: Israel media antisemitism)
• WordPress Publisher Blog
  (tags: wordpress)
• WordPress Bits
  (tags: wordpress)
• Weblog Tools Collection
  (tags: wordpress)
• Lorelle on WordPress
  (tags: wordpress)
• Blogging Pro News, plugins and themes for blogging applications
  (tags: wordpress)

Beyond RSS & Twitter: New Social Media Tools to Track the Israel-Gaza Campaign

Jennifer Van Grove of Mashable just published a short list new social media tools you can use for real-time news tracking of the Gaza military Campaign. The list goes beyond RSS and Twitter and  includes quick tips and tactics on how to use these resources.

Here’s the quick list:

1. Get an “aggregate view” from CrisisWire.

2. Receive real time social news from WhosTalkin and Social Mention.

3. Take RSS feeds with you with Notify.me (in addition to Twitter Search, Digg, Friendfeed).

Hat Tip: Mashable

links for 2009-01-01

• Bloggingheads: What’s Israel Thinking? – The New York Times – Video Library
  (tags: Israel terrorism)
• Top Social Media Sites of 2008 (Facebook Still Rising)
  (tags: web2.0 socialmedia)
• Toxicity mechanism identified for Parkinson’s disease
  (tags: neuroscience)
• Religion May Have Evolved Because Of Its Ability To Help People Exercise Self-control
  (tags: mindfulness)
• HOW TO: Give Back With Social MicroFunding in 2009
  (tags: web2.0 socialmedia philanthropy)
• Linkbait Your Blog – Wired How-To Wiki
  (tags: web2.0 socialmedia)
• Pajamas Media » Israel Shakes Up the Information War
  (tags: Israel)
• Works and Days » Surreal Gaza
  (tags: Israel)
• Ron Radosh » The Disgrace of “The Nation”
  (tags: Israel)
• Logic+Emotion: The Social Media Conversion Scale
  (tags: socialmedia)
• Livni defends Gaza operation
  (tags: terrorism Israel)
• Livni: Israel has ‘no alternative’to the military campaign against Hamas.
  (tags: Israel terrorism)

Top Social Media Sites of 2008

The top social media sites of 2008  included a mix of social networks and blogging platforms, according to TechCrunch.

Here’s the list (ranked by unique worldwide visitors Nov., 2008; comScore)

1.  Blogger (222 million)
2.  Facebook (200 million)
3.  MySpace (126 million)
4.  WordPress (114 million)
5.  Windows Live Spaces (87 million)
6.  Yahoo Geocities (69 million)
7.  Flickr (64 million)
8.  hi5 (58 million)
9.  Orkut (46 million)
10. Six Apart (46 million)
11.Baidu Space (40 million)
12.Friendster (31 million)
13. 56.com (29 million)
14. Webs.com (24 million)
15. Bebo (24 million)
16. Scribd (23 million)
17. Lycos Tripod (23 million)
18. Tagged (22 million)
19. imeem (22 million)
20. Netlog (21 million)

links for 2008-12-31

• Edge: CHANGING LIFESTYLE CHANGES GENE EXPRESSION: A Talk with Dean Ornish
  (tags: health genomics mindfulness)
• Dynamic spread of happiness in a large social network: longitudinal analysis over 20 years in the Framingham Heart Study — Fowler and Christakis 337: a2338 — BMJ
  (tags: mindfulness)
• Edge: SOCIAL NETWORKS AND HAPPINESS By By Nicholas A. Christakis & James Fowler
  (tags: web2.0 socialmedia socialnetworking mindfulness)
• DIGERATI: The Scribe [John Markoff to Science Columnist]
  (tags: media)
• Blood Sugar Control Linked to Memory Decline, Study Says – NYTimes.com
  (tags: neuroscience dementia aging)
• Micro Persuasion: Reading Tea Leaves for 2009 in Google Search Data
  (tags: predictions web2.0)
• 5 Trends That Will Separate the Strong From the Weak in 2009
  (tags: predictions)
• Audiolizer Puts Your iTunes Library In The Cloud, But Lala Does It Better
  (tags: multimedia)
• Top 30 iPhone Apps for Organization and Productivity
  (tags: iPhone)
• The Frontal Cortex : Kandel on Psychotherapy
  (tags: neuroscience Brain)
• Pajamas Media » The Gaza War: Is It Really So Hard to Understand?
  (tags: Israel terrorism)
• Pajamas Media » Spain’s ‘Jewish Problem’
  (tags: anti-semitism)
• The IDF’s new weapons of war: Twitter and You Tube : Global Dashboard
  (tags: terrorism Israel)
• Dec 31: What lies ahead in 2009? FT
  What does 2009 hold?
  FT journalists make their predictions, from Israel to equities
  (tags: predictions)
• Ten foreign policy predictions for 2009* : Global Dashboard
  (tags: predictions)
• The FASTForward Blog » War 2.0 – The IDF are using YouTube and Twitter: Enterprise 2.0 Blog: News, Coverage, and Commentary
  (tags: Israel terrorism)
• A jab of hope : Malaria & Alzheimer's Disease The Economist
  Vaccines may help defeat both a scourge of the poor and a rich-world affliction
  (tags: alzheimer's genomics)
• University of Michigan Spending $2.5 Billion to Grow – NYTimes.com
  (tags: philanthropy)
• Human evolution and music | Why music? | The Economist
  (tags: music neuroesthetics)
• Israeli Air Force Strikes Hamas Government Complex in Gaza 30 Dec. 2008
  (tags: Israel terrorism)
• How To Speed Up Your Mac Without Spending Any Cash | MakeUseOf.com
  (tags: mac)
• The Evidence Gap – Genetic Tests Offer Promise of Personalized Medicine – Series – NYTimes.com
  (tags: genomics)
• The great promise of personalized medicine – The Boston Globe
  (tags: genomics)
• 'Personalized medicine' poised for progress in 2009 – San Jose Mercury News
  (tags: genomics)