ecoresearch

Dear all,
Welcome to the new issue of our newsletter. This issue covers a variety of areas from tourism research platforms for non English speakers to the alarming Living Planet Report from the WWF, the Global Footprint Network and the Zoological Society of London. The editor would like to thank Anja Hergesell and Sabine Sedlacek for their valuable inputs to this issue. Any comments or suggestions can be e-mailed to Xavier Matteucci (newsletter.contact@modul.ac.at). Thanks !

I. Living Planet Report

Tuesday, September 23, 2008
The US Election 2008 Web Monitor has been awarded the First Prize in the category 'Online Communities, Web 2.0 and Social Networks' of the Austrian National Award for Multimedia and e-Business. After tracking candidate performance during the primaries and continuously refining the analyses, the development team took this opportunity to re-launch the Web site at www.ecoresearch.net/election2008. The project now focuses on the presidential candidates and their running mates, supplements the analytical tools with semantic and geospatial interfaces, and includes two social media applications built upon the Facebook platform.