Hello World its Maxwell
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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
Category Archives: Network
FireFox’s Tab Candy
FireFox is set (soon I hope) to launch an innovation called Tab Candy. This will permit Firefox to act more like a OS. Kinda Chrome like if Google has their way. The focus of Tab Candy is multitasking and sharing. Tab Candy is managed by Aza Raskin, the Head of UX at Mozilla Labs. Raskin [...]
Also posted in Design, Education, Innovation, OpenSource, Technology
Tagged aza raskin, candy, firefox, Innovation, jef raskin, macintosh, Smartphone, ux
Google to build multiple fiber cities ?
Google may launch more than one “fiber city” in America. This cyberinfrastructure project could will be a tipping point for a few lucky cities.
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Tags: experimental network, Google, Network, internet access, Research, Internet2, Broadbandt, gigabit, high speed, trends,
Also posted in Education, Globalization, Google, Innovation, Milwaukee, Technology, cyberinfrastructure
Tagged access, america, bandwidth, broadband, change, culture, cyberinfrastructure, economy, Education, fibre, flat, future, Globalization, Google, Innovation, Milwaukee, Network, tipping point, trends, US
A small school’s BIG cost
Small schools (K12 and Colleges with less than 1,000 students) are accustomed like all of us to accessing email around the clock. We know email is habit forming at best and compulsive at worst. The new economy proves funding 24/7 in-house email services can be staggering as budgets are slashed. Many schools have embraced [...]
Also posted in Design, Education, Globalization, Google, Green, Innovation, OpenSource, Technology, Wave, WiscNet
Tagged annual technology, anti virus, apps for education, bandwidth, budget line, carbon footprint, change, cipa, client software, college, crt monitors, economy, Education, email solutions, energy, filtering, financial managers, firstclass, Google, google apps, Green, green energy, k12, k12 district, k12 school districts, microsoft, Network, organization, school district, smaller schools, software licensing, student enrollment, tax payer, Technology, technology budgets, tipping point, trends
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 to develop a tablet is a mistake with the marketplace is its infancy. The internet forced [...]
Also posted in Design, Education, Globalization, HighRes, Innovation, Interactive, Media Players, Reading, Rich media, Tablet
Tagged apple, business model, change, content, content providers, ebook, future, Innovation, ipad, itunes, marketplace, publishing, sports illustrated, time inc, trends, wireless
New eReader price wars
So what happens when Apple’s $500 iPad sells like mad? Well a price war of course between the Nook and Amazon’s Kindle.
It appears that Apple has produced a product that consumers have been wanting and are willing to pay quite a premium. But at the same time Apple has cut into Amazon’s ownership of eBook [...]
Also posted in Design, Globalization, Reading, Rich media, Tablet, Technology
Tagged amazon, apple, ebook sales, ereader, ipad, kindle, kindle DX, nook, price war
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 new, in depth re-birth of magazines for the digital world. By exploiting the iPad’s technologies the [...]
Also posted in Design, Education, HighRes, Innovation, Interactive, Media Players, Reading, Rich media, Tablet, Technology
Tagged business, content, Design, initial reports, Interactive, ipad, itunes, magazine, print, Tablet, technologies
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 surprise CloudCourse is fully integrated with Google Calendar. Google has also made [...]
Also posted in Design, Education, Google, Innovation, OpenSource, Technology, Web2.0
Tagged change, college, content, django, Education, Google, Innovation, k12, learning, learning management, learning management system, learning platform, LMS, open source, open source license, python, scheduling system, school profiles, site google, web application framework
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 – who had the time?
Tags: Google Wave, beta software, Collaboration, real-time, communication, test audience, limited [...]
Also posted in Design, Education, Globalization, Google, Innovation, Interactive, Rich media, Technology, Wave
Tagged collaboration, communication, communication infrastructure, communication opportunities, Education, Google, google wave, non profits, organization, real-time, realtime, small groups, training session, video training, wave fans, waves
Internet Retail
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Also posted in Design, Education, Globalization, Innovation, Interactive
Tagged decisions, digital marketplace, information, retail internet, shoppers, shopping