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The Journalist’s Guide to Twitter
Journalists are using Twitter to engage with their audience, connect with sources and continue building their personal brands.
The 140-character format forces writers to focus their attention and get to the point quickly. But this isn’t just sound-bite s
Open Cloud Manifesto.org
The Open Cloud Manifesto establishes a core set of principles to
ensure that organizations will have freedom of choice, flexibility, and
openness as they take advantage of cloud computing. While cloud
computing has the potential to have a positive impact
MUVEs in Education | A JISC U&I Stream funded project
This space is intended to introduce you to the work that we did from January 2008 to March 2009. At its heart, the Open Habitat project set out to explore how Multi User Virtual Environments (MUVEs) can be used in Higher Education. We collected an enormou
HowTo: EC2 for Poets
The goal is to make cloud computing less mysterious by helping people through the process of setting up a server on Amazon EC2. The title derives from a class that was offered at the University of Wisconsin, when I was a grad student there, called Compute
Smoothboard 1.0 Release | Smoothboard.net - The Wiimote Whiteboard
Smoothboard 1.0 developed by Goh Boon Jin, easily transforms your flat screen display (projected screen or flat panel) into a interactive whiteboard with just a Wii Remote and IR Pen. This software provides an intuitive interface that will enable users to
Confessions of an Aca/Fan: Mapping Maps
This weekend, Project New Media Literacies will host an event which brings together educators and new media specialists to brainstorm about ways we can integrate new media technologies -- especially Google Earth, Google Maps, mobile phones and handhelds -
» Can I live in the Cloud for a week? | Education IT | ZDNet.com
As we talk more about thin clients, netbooks, social networking and other devices in Ed Tech that really lend themselves to cloud-based computing, I have to ask myself, could I live in the Cloud? In the ideal little technically-savvy, netbook-driven world
» Google Gears = no more Office/OpenOffice for students | Education IT | ZDNet.com
Google gears provides synchronization of online content such that it can be edited even if there is no Internet connection. Our blogging interface was updated this weekend and now supports Google Gears, meaning that all of my drafts get saved inconspicuou
WideNoise · Ever heard of sound pollution?
WideNoise is the iPhone and iPod Touch application that samples decibel noise levels, and displays them on a worldwide interactive map.
With WideNoise you can monitor the noise levels around you, everywhere you go.
You can also check the online map to se
I Am Here: One Man's Experiment With the Location-Aware Lifestyle
The location-aware future—good, bad, and sleazy—is here. Thanks to the iPhone 3G and, to a lesser extent, Google's Android phone, millions of people are now walking around with a gizmo in their pocket that not only knows where they are but also plugs into
Inside the GPS Revolution: 10 Applications That Make the Most of Location
Inside the GPS revolution it's more than maps and driving directions: location-aware phones and apps now deliver the hidden information that lets users make connections and interact with the world in ways they never imagined. The future is here and it's i
The Shifted Librarian » We’re Not All Ready for the Cloud Yet
I agree with Michael’s points, but I think we have a critical role in helping users with those third and fourth implications. One of the keys to cloud computing right now is synchronization. Very few people I know completely trust their data to the cloud,
Does Mobile TV Have a Future? - ReadWriteWeb
According to a new report from Nielsen Mobile, only 5% of all U.S. cell phone owners subscribe to a mobile TV service. Yet that number is the highest out of of all the other worldwide markets tracked by the company. Only France and Italy came close, each
Video: coder whips up working multitouch demonstration on T-Mobile G1
Put simply (or as simply as possible), he has figured out a way to demonstrate full working multitouch on a stock T-Mobile G1, and he even provides the video to prove it and a list of instructions for developers to follow suit.
Cellphones' Growth Does a Number on Health Research - washingtonpost.com
Cellular telephones are perhaps the biggest threat to survey data that epidemiologists have confronted in years.
The National Center for Health Statistics reported that in the first half of last year, 16 percent of American adults lived in households tha
Microsoft Betting Big on 'Touch' - WSJ.com
While Apple Inc.'s iPhone kicked off the craze for touch-sensing screens on mobile phones, Microsoft Corp. is pushing a similar technology for personal-computer screens that could eventually replace the computer mouse.
Augmented Reality Devices: See the Online World While Walking the Real One
That sounds pretty far fetched, but we’re not that far off from such a world. Take, for example, the announcement by Vuzix of their new Wrap 920AV pair of sunglasses with both Virtual Reality and AR capabilities. The device comes with a 60 inch virtual sc
Rough Type: Nicholas Carr's Blog: The Cloud 20
The paperback edition of The Big Switch is making its way into bookstores and, for early adopters, is available now from Amazon.com and BN.com. The paperback includes a new section, "The Cloud 20," in which I profile 20 leading cloud computing businesses.
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