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The secret to viral video success: a big ad budget

Online marketers are forever looking to perfect the recipe for foolproof viral videos. But those chasing that dream should take note of a new study from Harvard Business School.

Fold Proteins, Help Cure Diseases in Foldit Video Game

Gamers bring 'citizen science' to bear on complex scientific questions by solving protein-folding puzzles in a free online video game. Video game - Foldit - Protein folding - Games - Puzzle

Computer-Based Video Analysis Boosts Data Gathering In Behavioral Studies

Thomas Serre, assistant professor of cognitive, linguistic and psychological sciences at Brown, and colleagues at MIT and Caltech have developed a computer-based system that can learn how to identify behaviors of interest and then analyze many hours of video. The team describes the system in Nature Communications.For decades, carefully logging data about how mice go through the motions of their ...

New High-Tech Online Magazine Celebrates Vital Business Communication Skills

“The medium is the message,” said Marshall McLuhan, the late Canadian Professor of Literature who did so much to facilitate the rise of the internet but sadly died before its inception. Now a new online business magazine aims to takes up that mantle in realising that HOW we say something can be as significant as WHAT we say.

Online exclusive: Machete offers gore, conscience

It’s not often a movie with a sophisticated social conscience features the hero using a man’s intestine as a rope to rappel down a wall. So let’s say “Machete” is not a typical movie. Filmed in 70s-exploitation-movie style by director Robert Rodriguez, Machete blends hyper violence with political comedy targeted at the state of U.S.