The Principles and Child Empowerment of the One Laptop Per Child program and the Laptop’s design for learning. Tags: OLPC, Sugar Labs, laptop per child, XO, open source, globalization, trends
March 11, 2010
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Category Archives: Network
February 19, 2010
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Transforming how we experience imaging
Blaise Aguera y Arcas is an architect at Microsoft Live Labs, architect of Seadragon and the co-creator of Photosynth, a monumental piece of software capable of assembling static photos into a synergy of zoomable, navigatable spaces. Check out how this … Continue reading
February 11, 2010
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Google: Think BIG with a gig
Google is planning to launch an experimental network that will make internet access better and faster for consumers. Link to website Tags: experimental network, Google, Network, internet access, Research, Internet2, Broadbandt, gigabit, high speed, trends,
January 19, 2010
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Large Hadron Collider’s big network
15 petabytes of data a year will be generated by the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) a particle physics project running at CERN and that requires a very robust network. Data generated by LHC is being distributed to over 7,000 scientists … Continue reading
December 20, 2009
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Google Web Toolkit 2.0
An overview of Google’s Web Toolkit (GWT) 2.0, a tool with new updates that empower developers to write highly optimized, browser-specific JavaScript for their apps. Pretty cool stuff. Tags: Web Toolkit, Google, Developers, datasets, innovation, technology, trends
November 4, 2009
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OLPC XO-2: Dead on arrival
No sooner did we expect to see prototypes when Nicholas Negroponte announced the XO-2 was being killed for a OLPC XO 1.75: It will be interesting to see the development of the next OLPC XO 3.0 unit, but overall many … Continue reading
October 24, 2009
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Google’s AWESOME offer to K12 Schools
Act Now – Deploy later. Google’s offer ends July 2010 Google has been helping K12 Schools and Colleges save money by giving free access to their powerful tools in an enterprise setting. Google began offering Gmail and have continued to … Continue reading
October 24, 2009
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My latest read – America Alone
Mark Steyn has written a clever book America Alone: The End of the World As We Know It. In a post 9/11 world America, according to Steyn must “go it alone” against the impact Muslims have in today’s world. A … Continue reading
October 11, 2009
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My latest read – Groundswell
Groundswell: Winning in a World Transformed by Social Technologies. This book is a great primer for social media. If your new to social media this book is for you. However if you have been working with blogs and wikis for … Continue reading
October 2, 2009
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How Al Gore started the internet
Marc Andreessen notes how funding led by then Senator Al Gore helped NCSA drive the development of the web.