PayPal founder's $3.5 million support goes for life extension purposes

Mon Sep 18, 2006 7:19 AM EDT

From SFGate: "Peter A.

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technology, grant, research, it, paypal, bt, anti-aging, biotechnology, bayarea, lifeextension

Stem cell infusion in Eastern Europe: the brute force method

Mon Aug 28, 2006 1:17 PM EDT

Stem cell transplantation therapy somewhere in Eastern Europe: tens of millions cells into the blood and local, damaged tissue. The elderly man was diagnosed with a motor neuron disease previous year which presently turned out to be amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) or Lou Ge …

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science, medicine, therapy, biotechnology, stemcells

Mitochondria, the not so hidden superstars of current life sciences

Fri Jul 28, 2006 5:06 AM EDT

If one thing is for sure, it is mitochondrion's ascending career in late biology. Mitochondria are the power centers of the eukariotic cell and eventually tell the nucleus what to do next: die or live.

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science, cell, medicine, biology, energetics, mitochondria

Look, who's smallblogging

Thu May 11, 2006 2:43 PM EDT

Small talk, chitchat, gossip, light conversation: the recipe for popular blogging. What can concentrated infobloggers do, if they want more audience? Get small. It's big.

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web2-0, media, technology, blogs, blogging, blog, content, philosophy, engadget, dailykos

Lifestyle of the immortalized future: the Kurzweil case

Mon May 8, 2006 6:11 PM EDT

The number of people who believe and desire the technological possibility of radical life extension is continuously growing. What kind of life should they prepare for? Well, the lifestyle of a partially immortalized individual won't be easy.

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health, medical, medicine, grossman, anti-aging, immortality, kurzweil, longevity, lifeextension, immortalization

Federated Media Ad Planning Tool For High-End Blogs

Seeded on Thu May 4, 2006 3:25 AM EDT (Google)

If you are a U.S. or Canadian citizen then go ahead and start a campaign with the new online ad toolkit, which offers categorized and demographically relevant search and instant purchasing. Hey, and what about E.U. citizens? And the other parts of the world?

media, business, blogs, advertising, journalism, ads, blogging, blog, new-media, blogosphere

Ideal Job for a NewsViner, seriously interested in citizen journalism

Seeded on Wed May 3, 2006 5:35 AM EDT (http://www.buzzmachine.com)

Journalism Expert Sought Wanted: A guide to journalism at About.com... and video guides, too .

media, business, job, blogs, blogging, newsvine, blog, citizen-journalism

102 Movies You Must See Before...

Seeded on Fri Apr 28, 2006 9:19 AM EDT (kottke.org)

These movies are the abstract and brief chronicles of our time. The minimum criteria to identify yourself as a"movie-literate" according to film critic Jim Emerson. How many items of them did you see?

entertainment, culture, movies, cinema

Biotech DIYers, do not hesitate

Wed Apr 26, 2006 2:57 AM EDT

Would you like to sequence your genome in your garage? To grow your stem cells in the kitchen-lab? To hunt for point mutations just for your own sake? Welcome to the coming world of personal biotech.

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technology, DIY, biotech, make, biology, biotechnology, molecular, homelab

Lego's consumer products company, brick them all!

Seeded on Fri Apr 21, 2006 1:13 PM EDT (The Long Tail)

How to extend Web 2.0 techniques to a traditional consumer products company? Open source software, huge online-only inventory, passionate users,custom-tailored bots.

web2-0, business, software, factory, consumers, lego, opensource, mindstorm, business2-0-tech, roborts

Technorati Says Blogosphere Doubles Every 6 Months

Seeded on Wed Apr 19, 2006 11:15 AM EDT (Search Engine Journal)

Busy bloggers could make blogbusinesses. "Blogs will be a valuable source of ad inventory over time (as people like John Battelle already have established).

technology, blogs, ads, blog, web, statistics, blogstatistics

How to climb the Google mountain with your blog

Seeded on Tue Apr 11, 2006 7:01 AM EDT (ProBlogger Blog Tips)

"Gaining a Top Google Ranking in Two Weeks - Blog Case Study" that is what ProBlogger tries to teach you. Metablogging, simple algorithm, no surprise. He also runs a Blog Consulting service.

google, media, technology, blogs, journalism, writing, metablogging, googlerank

The MySpace Economy

Seeded on Tue Apr 11, 2006 6:33 AM EDT (Wired News)

How to do money with MySpace. Small businesses win.

technology, money, blogs, advertising, community, ads, web, myspace, traffic, networking

Fortune 500 Business Blogging Wiki

Seeded on Mon Apr 10, 2006 3:37 PM EDT ()

This is a directory of Fortune 500 companies that have business blogs, defined as: active public blogs by company employees about the company and/or its products. 27 (5.4%) of the Fortune 500 are blogging as of 4/4/06. What are your blognostizations by the end of this year?

media, business, blogs, blogging, fortune, corporation, socialmedia

Google's Marissa Mayer Interviewed

Seeded on Tue Apr 4, 2006 3:54 AM EDT (Google)

Gossips about Google, how the Google Books scanning project started, and why Marissa thinks that narrowing a search by clustered topics as Ask.com does, is interesting but not useful.

ask, google, business, search, interview, pagerank

CUH2A Continues Expansion with Opening of San Francisco Office

Seeded on Mon Apr 3, 2006 2:56 PM EDT (Business Wire)

CUH2A turns into biotech and biowest.

business, san-francisco, bay-area, biotech

Stem cell density highest in Israel

Seeded on Fri Mar 31, 2006 5:04 AM EST (News from The Scientist)

Stem cell publication data from an interesting point of view, measuring per capita basis of articles published in scientific journals related to stem cell research, not In terms of total number of stem cell publishing.

stem-cells, science, scientific-publications, stem-cell-publishing

Instructions on how to Install Windows on a Mac

Seeded on Sun Mar 26, 2006 7:55 AM EST ()

You can also find a Video Guide, but I am not sure about its sense at all, although it sounds good at the first.

microsoft, apple, mac, os, windows, intel-core-duo, intel-mac, install-windows-xp

How an iPod transformed one man

Sat Mar 25, 2006 10:09 AM EST

My Pod is a fourth generation one, one and a half years old, twenty gig, old school gadget. Next are the main steps how it has transformed the very cognitive processes and the routines of a human being. First I just used it as a normal mp3 player, like all the others.

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technology, apple, ipod, wikipedia

Restoring vision, regenerating nerves with nanofiber scaffold

Fri Mar 24, 2006 10:15 AM EST

Usage of fabricated materials at the nanoscale and molecular self assembly to repair and regenerate brain structures is a promising field of nanobiomedical technology. Scientists from the M.I.T.

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science, brain-injury, nanobiomedicine, nanobiotechnology, protein-scaffold

iPodDisk, or how copy to your own music from your iPod...the easiest way

Seeded on Thu Mar 23, 2006 6:45 PM EST ()

Though quite oldie code, more than 5 months since the first version, it really works and it is natural, believe me. Sorry Vesper, It is for Mac Users only, but all iPods are supported, including Windows-formatted ones.

technology, ipod