Don Kasprzak

Conversations regarding Globalization, Internet2 and Education

June 24, 2010
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Sports Illustrated on the iPad ?

In January Time Inc., the publisher of Sports Illustrated showed off their own tablet highlighting a future issue of SI for tablet users.  I immediately questioned their “announcement” to produce their own tablet. Clearly the business model for ANY publisher … Continue reading

May 26, 2010
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Wired magazine for tablets

Wired Magazine has arrived for the iPad.  Initial reports indicate each issue is ~500MB and will be $4.99/episode app via iTunes.  Wired will be shipping additional tablet formats in the coming weeks. As initial reports are indicate this is a … Continue reading

May 24, 2010
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Google’s Learning Management System

Google has released their internal learning platform, CloudCourse under an open source license. Built entirely on Google’s own App Engine, CloudCourse is a new entry into a crowded LMS arena.  CloudCourse provides calendaring, waitlist management and approval features. To no … Continue reading

May 3, 2010
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Keep it simple Google

On top of introducing a new YouTube channel for Google’s Wave solution, Google is taking the “keep it simple stupid” approach to talking about Wave. Their first go-round was a two hour video….and in today’s short attention span economy – … Continue reading

April 28, 2010
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Google puts Wave tutorials on YouTube

Imagine that!  In the “what took so long” category Google has finally released a series of good video training session all about their real-time communication and collaboration tool Google Wave.  I posted last month (read it here) Google is missing … Continue reading

April 23, 2010
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Bursts by Albert-Laszlo Barabasi

I found Albert-Laszlo Barabasi‘s Book Linked: How Everything Is Connected to Everything Else and What It Means a wonderful read (review here) in March of 2008.  It was a wonderful read about the science of networks….both computing and non-computing networks. … Continue reading

April 21, 2010
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The Future Of Magazines ?

As long as magazine budgets can afford them, simply put…. most do not have these types of inflated budgets for regional/local monthly publications. Enjoy the ride – its the new era of print….as long as its done right. Tags: iPad, … Continue reading

April 13, 2010
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Impressive update to Google Docs

Google’s impressive tool just received a nice upgrade.  For most users the new updates further justify migrating away from Office.  When you consider Google gives this away for free (especially to schools)….well a good thing just got even better. From … Continue reading