The Explore page is a good way to dive into the most recent content added to X2. Under each section, clicking on more will show you the most recent entries of that type.
Also look to the Signals Blog for the most recent signals and forecasts as full posts.
Recent signals
A signal is a data point about a discrete event, article, place, or development that is suggestive of a larger trend.
| The Browser Wars: 2009, a Tipping Point for Microsoft? | 3 days 18 hours ago | Jerry Sheehan Technologies | 2009 will likely continue to see major developments in the battle for market share. The Chrome browser from Google will move from being a Windows only technology to embracing Apple computers and other platforms, including perhaps mobile devices. Freely available on-line tools, or cloud computing services, may escalate their preference for particular browsers which could substantially alter the browser ecosystem. Perhaps the most interesting companies to watch in this regards will be corporations such as Amazon that don't have their own browsing platform but could make majo | |
| Understanding The Twitterverse | 1 week 19 hours ago | Jerry Sheehan Research | Academic research of Twitter will continue to grow within the next year as marketers, politicians, and individuals struggle with understanding the importance of the answer to the question, "What are you doing?" in the electronic age. | |
| Video On Demand Through Your Video Gaming Console | 1 week 2 days ago | Jerry Sheehan Technologies | As 2008 comes to a close there is an interesting resurgence of interest in video-on-demand but the platform is not a video set top box, nor a personal computer, but a video gaming console. | |
| Can Scientific Data be Free? | 2 weeks 20 hours ago | Jerry Sheehan Technologies | The death of Google Research Datasets and the rise of the Amazon Web Services for public scientific data is important because it yet another signal that Amazon, not Google, may be the major player in experimentation with cloud computing services and data storage for scientific research. | |
| Researchers Lay Out Vision for Lighting Revolution | 2 weeks 1 day ago | Sean Ness Research | ||
| Spear Phishing: The Rise in Personalized Spam For Identity Theft | 2 weeks 2 days ago | Jerry Sheehan Research |
Phishing is an attempt through targeted email to get a user to reveal confidential information ranging from account numbers to passwords. As opposed to classic spam, these messages appear to come from service providers where users have account. The counterfeit messages are very difficult to detect as fakes, with their creators copying official logos, phone numbers, etc. [1] | |
| Stimulated Raman Scattering could speed and increase accuracy of medical imaging | 2 weeks 4 days ago | Alex Soojung-Ki... Technologies | Scientists at Harvard University have developed a new technique, stimulated Raman scattering, for creating 3D images of cell and tissue samples that is faster and more accurate than traditional methods that require elaborate or time-consuming staining. | |
| Personal Analytics: The Hyper Examined Life | 2 weeks 5 days ago | Jerry Sheehan Research | Humans are a social species with a deep need to share experiences. From Neanderthal cave drawings to modern Web page, we have always exploited readily available technologies to share data. Today we see increasing changes in societal behavior regarding information sharing as social networking technologies are leading to the proliferation of deeply personal information being shared in online public environments. This trend is important to track because it opens opportunities for a more data driven view of our lives but at the same time may be redefining the modern conception | |
| Simulated Reality: Creating Synthetic Worlds for Problem Solving | 3 weeks 4 days ago | Jerry Sheehan Technologies | While computational models of human behavior are difficult to perfect the inclusion of real-world data and the power of modern high performance computers are beginning to create tools that can be used to help understand probabilistic behavior for given scenarios. This should provide decision-makers with tools that can help improve decisions made during actual crisis. | |
| uTP: The Next P2P Battle Ground | 4 weeks 1 day ago | Jerry Sheehan Research | The concern is that if P2P traffic generally embraced UDP for file downloads this traffic could become unmanageable and crowd out other TCP-IP network uses. Richard Bennett, an author for The Register, describes one potential UDP nightmare, "When this traffic is immune to congestion control, the remaining half will stumble along at roughly a quarter of the bandwidth it has available today: half the raw bandwidth, used with half efficiency, by 95% of Internet users. Oops." |
Recent hypotheses
A hypothesis is an proposed implication of a signal, within a specified time range.
| Might Chinese and Russian Space Cooperation Lead to Joint Missile Defense? | 14 weeks 2 days ago | Philip Cho | |
| Database platforms and W3C offer DNA to future | 15 weeks 6 days ago | Dave Abrahams | |
| The American Internet Suffers a Major Malicious Disruption | 19 weeks 2 days ago | Jerry Sheehan | |
| Genetic tests for "ruthlessess" gene is available | 24 weeks 1 day ago | Darwin | |
| Establish e-museums | 25 weeks 3 hours ago | Christopher Doll | |
| Need to understand how mindsets change | 25 weeks 4 hours ago | Christopher Doll | |
| Linking to online remittance transfers | 26 weeks 1 day ago | Christopher Doll | |
| Natural Language Processing Becomes the Standard for Web Search | 26 weeks 4 days ago | Jerry Sheehan | |
| climate change will drive new diseases | 27 weeks 48 min ago | Tahira Munir | |
| First a series of Floods and then Droughts in South Asia | 27 weeks 49 min ago | Syed Faisal Zaidi |
Recent forecasts
A forecast combines a set of signals to identify a key trend, disruption, opportunity, or shift in the competitive landscape.
Recent feeds
The X2 site aggregate feeds suggested by users. This is a list of the most recently added feeds.
| Chemical and Engineering News | 22 weeks 4 days ago | Marina Gorbis | |
| New Scientist Nanotechnology | 22 weeks 4 days ago | Cesar Castro | |
| test feed | 22 weeks 4 days ago | admin | |
| new scientist | 22 weeks 4 days ago | Marina Gorbis | |
| mashable | 22 weeks 4 days ago | Mathias Crawford | |
| Chemical and Engineering News | 22 weeks 4 days ago | Cesar Castro | |
| Engineering Science: Building Better Scientists and Engineers | 27 weeks 21 hours ago | Anthony Townsend | |
| OpenWetWare Community | 27 weeks 21 hours ago | Anthony Townsend | |
| Science Commons | 27 weeks 21 hours ago | Anthony Townsend | |
| Russian Science News | 27 weeks 5 days ago | Marina Gorbis |
Recent signals from feeds
This is a list of the most recent entries captured from feeds and saved by X2 users.