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Social Media On The Farm: Crisis Management, Market Research, Education And APIs

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farms are turning to Twitter and other social media tools as a support group to share information, gain insights and keep customers informed about changing conditions. A group called Open Food is collaborating on an open source API to share data about food.

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Automated System Can Rewrite Outdated Sentences In Wikipedia

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For example, say there’s a required update to this sentence (in bold): “Fund A considers 28 of their 42 minority stakeholdings in operationally active companies to be of particular significance to the group.” The claim sentence with updated information may read: “Fund A considers 23 of 43 minority stakeholdings significant.”

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How To Organize A Brand Hackathon (And Why) – Interview With Betabrand’s Chris Lindland

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Betabrand’s first exposure to hackathons came earlier this year, when a group of Las Vegas-based developers invited Lindland to host a hackathon. Another group came up with an ad campaign that featured missing sock ads that they posted around town at foot level. If this is you, you’re not ready for a brand hackathon.

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A Social Network For Genetics Research: Can It Help Isolate Parkinson’s Genes?

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Researchers believe there may be many genes involved in Parkinson’s; but their effects are too small to be apparent in smaller study groups (hundreds or several thousand of participants).