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Xayn is privacy-safe, personalized mobile web search powered by on-device AIs

TechCrunch

Mass surveillance of what Internet users are looking at underpins Google’s dominant search engine and Facebook’s social empire, to name two of the highest profile ad-funded business models. Berlin-based Xayn wants to change this dynamic — starting with personalized but privacy-safe web search on smartphones.

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Great reads from around the web on February 23rd

Amy Sample Ward

To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). The Collaboration Prize – Search Database – Wow! Check it out! Check out this great resource – a database of collaborations! "The

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A Reflection on Networked Professional Learning

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Key skills and tools may include search on Google, social media channels, and bookmarks. I scan through my listening post (blog feeds and keyword searches) and daily email subscriptions looking for patterns. Too much serendipity and I don’t feel like I accomplish anything. This is the listening and scanning I do.

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Beam is building a web browser that gathers knowledge from your web activity

TechCrunch

Everybody complains that Instagram and Facebook fry your brain and make you waste time,” Leca told me. Sure, you can bookmark pages or take notes in another app — but it’s a cumbersome process. Most passion projects start with meaningless search queries. Every time you search for something, it creates a new note card.

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9 Secretly Awesome Websites to Boost Productivity and Nonprofit Work Life

NonProfit Hub

In fact, according to Scientific American, maintaining unbroken focus for several hours drains your energy levels and leaves your brain feeling drainedso maybe those baby videos that surface daily offer just the break we need to boost productivity. Im not here to preach about needing to block the internet or outlaw cat memes at work.

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RSS Readers and the Search for Content

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I love ( and hate ) how blogs, rss, tags, and these other tools are so right-brained and being able to indulge in some non-linear thinking. I looking at it like my browser bookmark and I like to organize things into folders. If this leads to me wanting to return to the blog on a regular basis, I add to my bloglines account.

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Reflection on Action Learning at CP2 Workshop: Tagging and Delicious

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Go to del.icio.us , a social bookmarking or tagging tool, and create an account (if you don't already have one). Come back later, give the system time to update, and spend a brief time exploring the search aspects of your tags, others linked tags and the common tags. Do a search on our prescribed tag CoP+maven or use this URL [link].