Central to the Chicago group’s effort will be the creation of a distributed data warehouse known as the SID Grid (Social Informatics Data Grid), which will encourage data sharing and accelerate the development of standards for collecting and coding physiological and behavioral data. The SID Grid will be deployed as part of the larger TeraGrid, a suite of grid- computing resources available to the scientific community at large. The Chicago group will develop, test, and refine their data collection and analysis tools through research in three areas of inquiry: multimodal communication, neurobiology of social behavior, and cognitive and social neuroscienceNSF grant to fund project on behavioral psychology

Eventually, the rumour about  aka  has an answer from . It turns out that Google has just released  last night. What is Google Pack? Actually, it is a collection of desktop software developed by Google and companions. For Google itself, they produces 5 softwares listed below.

In addition, Mozilla, Symantec, Lavasoft, and Adobe also joined this campaign.

Actually, I have installed most softwares listed above except only Norton, Ad-Aware, and Google Pack Screensaver. The great advantage of Google Pack is . Actually, it seems to clearly show that Google plays on Desktop War in different way comparing to . Instead of Konfabulator-like APIs, Google offers low-level APIs. I guess that  could be able to run on Google Sidebar someday.

I am trying to claim this site at Technorati. The first try is to embed JavaScript into my site. Unfortunately, it turned out that I got "xmlhttp is undefined" in IE and the same one for FireFox. Then I have to skip to next step by this post to include a link to my profile at Technorati Profile.

Technorati Tags: Blog, Claim, Technorati

Darren Rowse wrote 7 techniques to get to the top of the del.icio.us popular page. One advantage of being at the top popular page is the increasing traffic to your site. These techniques are listed below.

1. Make a List
2. Number your List
3. Write a ’How to ...’

If you use WordPress 2.00 then please be aware of the following problem with new WordPress and Post2Blog that caused by error in WordPress: 

WordPress extended text entry tag not working in posts if you add new post using external application such as Post2Blog. This is can be fixed

Bytescout Software Blog » Blog Archive » WordPress 2.00 bug-fix

EMC is acquiring Acxiom’s grid-computing software for $30 million and will combine it with its own products for storage, information, and resource management. EMC and Acxiom, which will retain rights to continue using the software under the deal announced Thursday, also will jointly develop grid-based information and data analysis packages for Acxiom customers.
InformationWeek | Grid Computing | EMC and Acxiom Ink Grid Computing Deal

EMC has Documentum in its own basket so Documentum should be improved significantly.