Only 25% Of Viewers See Web Ads Below The Fold

Talk about pricey CPMs: Internet users don’t even see most of the ads on a Web page, particularly if they’re below the fold–whether the site is a highly trafficked media property or a niche blog. That’s according to new research from MarketingSherpa.
The Warren, R.I.-based marketing research and consulting firm commissioned Eyetools to run an eye-tracking [...]

Computer Game Could Benefit World Health

A new game, named Foldit, turns protein folding into a competitive sport. Introductory levels teach the rules, which are the same laws of physics by which protein strands curl and twist into three-dimensional shapes – key for biological mysteries ranging from Alzheimer’s to vaccines.
After about 20 minutes of training, people feel like they’re playing a [...]

A video explaining what Twitter is

This probably has two things to do. One is explaining what twitter is. Two is how to write an effective instruction that is simple, visible, interesting, and understandable. Here is the video linked from Youtube.

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Six Rural Maryland Hospitals Will Use Electronic System To Remotely Monitor ICU Patients From Delaware

01 May 2008
Six rural Maryland hospitals facing shortages of emergency department physicians will use an electronic monitoring system provided by Christiana Care Health System in Wilmington, Del., to remotely monitor intensive care patients, the Washington Post reports. Under the Maryland eCare program — the “first of its kind in the nation,” according [...]

CDC, Verizon, University Of Georgia Launch Cell Phone Initiative That Aims To Increase HIV Testing Among Youth

30 Apr 2008
In an effort to increase HIV testing among young people, Verizon Wireless, CDC and University of Georgia’s New Media Institute are collaborating on a project that transmits videos featuring college couples talking about getting tested for the virus via students’ cell phones, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports.
According to the Journal-Constitution, the project is the [...]