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: OpenSource
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, Network, Technology
Tagged aza raskin, candy, firefox, Innovation, jef raskin, macintosh, Smartphone, ux
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, Network, 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
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, Network, 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
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 a real opportunity surrounding Wave acceptance due to limited access to Wave in [...]
Also posted in Design, Education, Google, Innovation, Interactive, Network, Technology, Wave, Web2.0
Tagged communication infrastructure, communication opportunities, Education, Google, google wave, non profits, organization, small groups, training session, video training, wave fans, waves
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 Google:
A better document editor
We’ve brought the responsive, real-time editing experience you’ve come to expect [...]
Also posted in Design, Education, Globalization, Google, Innovation, Interactive, Network, Technology
Tagged business, change, cloud computing, collaborators, Design, document editor, drag and drop, Google, google docs, performance improvements, speed and performance, spreadsheet editor, time collaboration
OLPC – The mission
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
Also posted in Design, Education, Globalization, Green, Innovation, Network, OLPC, Technology
Tagged child empowerment, laptop, laptop per child, OLPC, one laptop per child
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 technology will change our approach to imaging.
Tags: Blaise Aguera y Arcas, Seadragon, Photosynth, design, TED, [...]
Also posted in Design, Education, Globalization, HighRes, Innovation, Interactive, Media Players, Network, Rich media, Streaming, TED, Technology, Virtual Reality
Tagged architect, blaise aguera y arcas, imaging, microsoft, monumental piece, photos, photosynth, seadragon, synergy, TED
Visualization changes everything
Tags: Visualization, information, Chart Wars, politics, trends
Also posted in Design, Education, Innovation, Interactive, Media Players, Reading, Rich media, TED
Tagged change, information, politics, visual, visualization
Hot, Flat, and Crowded 2.0
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Also posted in Design, Education, Globalization, Green, Innovation, Technology, cyberinfrastructure
Tagged america, business, change, culture, economy, Education, energy, environment, first solar, flat, global warming, Globalization, Green, green revolution, Innovation, leadership, offshoring, outsourcing, planet earth, Reading, recession, research, revolution, solar, Technology, toledo, tom friedman, trends, wall street