Last month, both Google and Yahoo! came out and said they (all but) completely ignore the venerable <meta name="keywords"/> tag in determining suitability of a page for a search on a given keyword.
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GORP's Trailfinder wiki contains a comprehensive database of hiking trails in the US and Canada. Trails are published wiki style - contribute your own photos and trail descriptions online.
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Litman Law conducts patent searches at the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office (USPTO), prepares U.S. and international (PCT) applications, and handles trademarks, copyrights and licensing for inventors, entrepreneurs and companies throughout the U.S. and the world.
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hmm.. not very good at this sharing business yet. I realise I should have posted this to life scientists and my own feed at the same time, not shared it later. I'll learn eventually ;-)
- Jo Badge
Took me a while to get the hang of that, too.
- Bill Hooker
Anecdotally I get the impression that (private) wikis are becoming commonly used as lab notebooks - there must be a survey somewhere out there with numbers
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Agreed, Jean-Claude. I have many customers using EditMe for class notes. And not just private. The only thing better than having your notes in a wiki is having other students put in anything you may have missed.
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Looks great, Jo! I haven't chance to read it yet, but am looking forward to it, given all the student usage and other data you present. As Mickey noted on your other thread, I've been leading an undergraduate physics course at U. New Mexico where we do everything as "open notebook science" (ONS; term coined by J-C Bradley) using a wiki (OpenWetWare). I gather that your work was not open...
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- Steve Koch
Thanks Steve - yes, see discussion on other thread about privacy etc.The supervisor (and also my husband :-) http://friendfeed.com/richard... ) used a campus objects wiki within Blackboard. Access is only via Blackboard and therefore only accessible to those with passwords to the system. It was a first experiment, and started because this is the way that he keeps his own lab notes now.
- Jo Badge
As I said in the post, it's not of much use with so few people using it. Will be very nice once it ramps up a bit. Bit of a ghost town now.
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Yep, totally understood. I think once people use it for either a specific project with a group of people or planning a social event with a group of friends, then it becomes more clear how it's cool and useful :)
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Sea Breeze Villa is on one of the highest hilltop locations of Water Island. You will enjoy a breathtaking 360 degree, unobstructed, panoramic view of the Caribbean Sea, Water Island, and the surrounding islands.
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The Global Academic Innovation Network (GAIN) is an international technology transfer group. The goal is to make connections for universities and businesses from around the world for collaboration, commercialization and economic development.
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RuleArts brings a rule- and vocabulary-centric approach to business analysis and operations. Define business practices for your workers as unambiguous guidance statements. Manage, define and explain the terminology specific to your business. RuleXpress helps non-technical users manage and document the vocabulary their rules use, and their rules, while avoiding anything that looks like programming or IT design.
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We're a community of writers, artists, publishers, reviewers and readers ... with a difference. We're a GLBT Community, where the emphasis is on gay books. If you enjoy a great gay read, this is the place for you!
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The Liberal Arts at Work is an effort by Skidmore College's First-Year Experience to help first-year students tap the experience of alumni in embarking on their studies at Skidmore.
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This site was made available by the Wisconsin Office of Rural Health to encourage pre-summit input and information sharing to make attendees more productive during the breakout sessions.
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This collaborative Wiki website supports participants in the Association of Legal Administrators Essential Competencies for Legal Administrators (ECLA) program.
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A joint undertaking by the University of East Anglia (UK), Center for International Forestry Research (Indonesia) and University of Vermont (USA) to coordinate the production of scientific information about the intersection of climate change, forests and communities.
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