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My TED favorites- The world’s oldest living things: Rachel Sussman on TED.com
- Fellows Friday with Bristol Baughan
- Keep your goals to yourself: Derek Sivers on TED.com
- The technology of the heart: His Holiness the Karmapa on TED.com
- Let the environment guide our development: Johan Rockstrom on TED.com
- Super foods superheroes
- The Happy Planet Index: Nic Marks on TED.com
- New Best of the Web talk: Jeremy Rifkin
- Animal instincts: Saturday TEDTalks playlist
- What physics taught me about marketing: Dan Cobley on TED.com
Sugar Labs is cool
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Walter Bender, former President of OLPC has launched Sugar Labs to promote the use of Sugar on more devices. Sugar is open source and I’m running it on my Powerbook via VMware’s Fusion. Sugar Lab’s approach: children should not be forced to learning a legacy operating system designed for adult computer programmers.
Lets face facts. XP is not designed for the world’s children living in poverty. The design is simple and perfect for children:
Sugar was designed to be used by children with no previous access (or understanding) of computers, but rather a fresh, new focused approached designed to intelligently and easily bring advanced tools to their attention:
Sugar will have a difficult time but I believe in their work and I’m sure many agree that Sugar is an OS designed for children. Think about that.
Tags: OLPC, Sugar Labs, Walter Bender, XO, open source, globalization, trends
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