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The Cosmic Machine - EventBox
A revolutionary social application. It seamlessly integrates many social websites, including Twitter, Facebook, Flickr, Digg, Reddit, Identica, RSS and Google Reader. It allows you to interact with them and receive notifications, all from a stunning user interface.
The Best Tools for Visualization - ReadWriteWeb
Visualization is a technique to graphically represent sets of data. When data is large or abstract, visualization can help make the data easier to read or understandVisualization is a technique to graphically represent sets of data. When data is large or abstract, visualization can help make the data easier to read or understand.
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Visualization is a technique to graphically represent sets of data. When data is large or abstract, visualization can help make the data easier to read or understand.
Moshi Monsters - Adopt Your Own Pet Monster!
Our intention when creating Moshi Monsters was to a produce a ground breaking new entertainment experience that would be fun, safe and educational for kids of all ages.
Visitors to the site can adopt their very own pet Monster, give it a name and design its color scheme. Each Monster has a lively personality that develops the more it is played with. Monster owners can nuture their pet by solving daily puzzle games to earn Rox, the in-game currency. Rox can be used to buy weird and wonderful things in the virtual shop to keep Monsters healthy and happy. Monster owners can make new friends and connect with existing friends through a wide variety of safe social networking features such as Monster blogs, Newsfeeds, pinboards and buddy lists.
Stanford's Entrepreneurship Corner: Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook - Jim Breyer, Accel Partners - From Harvard to the Facebook
Mark Zuckerberg, founder of TheFacebook, is interviewed by VC, Jim Breyer, Managing Partner of Accel. Mark describes what it was like to leave Harvard to venture into a business to build a social utility tool for college students around the world.
Ecto - Personal Learning Environment
Ecto is a hosted, open networked Personal Learning Environment. Use Ecto to transform learning into an interactive, collaborative, and student centered activity.
Wikinomics » Blog Archive » Net Generation and Technology at Work
Perhaps troubling to employers is the extent to which the Net Generation says they use work technologies to complete non-work tasks . Half (50%) say they do so for two hours a day or more.
Online "predators" and their victims: Myths, realities, and implications for prevention and treatment.
The publicity about online "predators" who prey on naive children using trickery and violence is largely inaccurate.
Nutwork Web Design
Web Design, Online Marketing, Social Networking - Perth, Western Australia - creators of Loconut
Personal Data Visualization | FlowingData
Personal data visualization projects. These guys took manual personal data collection to another level.
Laptop U: Where No One Looks at the Professor
Forget about students passing notes. Today, lecturing to a classroom of college students means competing with Facebook, YouTube, and Instant Messenger.
Six Degrees of Separation Is Now Three
According to the study, the average person is now connected by just three degrees within a shared “interest” or social group instead of six. In fact, it found that people are usually a part of three main networks: family, friendship, and work.
Facebook a valid educational tool, teachers told | Education | Education Guardian
Young people are more likely to have learned their social networking skills from their friends or classmates than from any formal instruction or support from adults. But as social networking spills over into the classroom, with students using sites to col
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Teachers and lecturers are getting the lowdown on how to use social networking sites such as Facebook and Bebo in an educational way.
Most schools and colleges in the UK block access to the websites but they are missing out on their potential for education, a government-funded guide says.
The report for Childnet International and funded by Becta, the government body for technology in learning, says while teachers and lecturers may be using social networking services they may not recognise the educational potential for their students.
Schools could help students develop "e-portfolios" where learners can record their achievements and collect examples of their work, the guide suggests. Or teachers could use social networking services to set up groups that "semi-formalise" students' online communications and "document discussions and milestones as they go".
Young people are more likely to have learned their social networking skills from their friends or classmates than from any formal instruction or support from adults.
Social Media: Get Productive with Social Media (and Stay Sane)
Social media is the equivalent of digital food. It's nourishing, tasty and, for many of us, necessary. However, consume too much and you can get sidetracked and create larger consequences.
35+ examples of businesses enbracing social software
A list of more than 35 companies who are experimenting with social media in a host of different ways. This list is by no means exhaustive, and it represents a wide variety of businesses, industries and social media tools.
Calgoo Hub - Calendar Sharing Service
Calgoo Hub is a calendar sharing service that connects people with calendars of family, friends and colleagues. We believe that calendar sharing should be simple, and just works!
I Freed Myself From E-Mail’s Grip
E-mail can become extinct, if not repurposed altogether, even at big companies like I.B.M. An e-mail in-box no longer needs to be like Pandora’s box.
An Invitation to Produce, Consume, Analyze: Social Media and Action Research
It seems the potential to organise, act, and solve problems has never been greater given new social media applications. And given the relative trajectory of social media adoption across the globe, things appear to be potentially getting brighter.
Semantic Web Patterns: A Guide to Semantic Technologies - ReadWriteWeb
The trends and technologies that power the Semantic Web. We'll identify patterns that are beginning to emerge, classify the different trends, and peak into what the future holds.
Not the Edublog Award Winners
This is a list of sites that should be recognized but which, for one reason or another, were overlooked by the Edublog Awards.
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