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How Cell Phones and Tablets Enable Telework

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As an example, the National Science Foundation (NSF) found that by not commuting, each NSF teleworker reclaims an average of 62 hours of their lives back and saves $1,201 a year. It tracks a teleworkers’ activities including duration and applications used. Please log in and tell us.

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Game Friday: Tagging For Fun

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Whether on Flickr with photos, on del.icio.us These games were developed by Carnegie Mellon with funding from the NSF, with the goal of harnessing collective intelligence (and interest in playing games) to tag all of the images on the internet. activities or to increase functionality, visibility, and accessibility of content (or both).

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Scratch: An Educational, Multi-Generational Online Community that Works

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But you can also join galleries (like Flickr pools) for specific affinities. The ScratchR team intentionally wanted to avoid a massive popularity contest, so they promote activity on the site, not aggregate growth of views, loves, or downloads. And ScratchR provides tools to support these interests. most views) but in recency.