Category Archives: OpenSource

OLPC – The mission

March 11th, 2010

If you're visiting my blog for the first time, you can subscribe to my RSS feed. This allows you to read the latest updates about Globalization, Internet2 and Education via feeds. Thank you for visiting.The Principles and Child Empowerment of the One Laptop Per Child program and the Laptop’s design for learning. Tags: OLPC, Sugar [...]

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Tagged child empowerment, laptop, laptop per child, OLPC, one laptop per child

Transforming how we experience imaging

February 19th, 2010

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, [...]

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Tagged architect, blaise aguera y arcas, imaging, microsoft, monumental piece, photos, photosynth, seadragon, synergy, TED

Visualization changes everything

January 12th, 2010

Tags: Visualization, information, Chart Wars, politics, trends

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Tagged change, information, politics, visual, visualization

Google Web Toolkit 2.0

December 20th, 2009

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

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My latest read – The Post-American World

November 12th, 2009

Fareed Zakaria’s The Post-American World is an enjoyable read. Most would recognize his CNN show Fareed Zakaria GPS. He has also participated in the World Economic Forum in Davos. The bottom line: The US is not falling behind, but rather quite simply the world is catching up. Some amazing technologies are lifting the citizens of [...]

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Tagged africa, american soil, china, citizens, cnn, Education, educational system, energy, fareed zakaria, flat, free tools, future, global economy, global students, green revolution, india, information, Innovation, innovation technology, mark steyn, population, population growth, poverty, religious groups, Technology, terrorist group, terrorist organization, the world is flat, third world countries, tom friedman, war in iraq, warlords, water pumps, world economic forum

OLPC XO-2: Dead on arrival

November 4th, 2009

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 were looking forward to the 2.0 release. Tags: OLPC, XO-2, laptop, XO, Negroponte, globalization, trends

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Tagged arm processor, laptop, nicholas negroponte, OLPC, olpc xo, prototypes

Google’s AWESOME offer to K12 Schools

October 24th, 2009

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 add more tools to their suite specifically tuned for schools. Known as Google Apps for Education (GAE) this collection provides an excellent solution for schools [...]

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Tagged anti virus protection, college, computing solution, docs, Education, educational cooperatives, firstclass, Google, google apps, information, k12, k12 school districts, message security, northwestern university, precious money, publishing web, school district, school technology, storage integration, storage space, Technology, technology budgets, university case study, video storage, virus solution

My latest read – Groundswell

October 11th, 2009

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 more than five years this book is a bit too elementary but a great quick [...]

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Tagged blogs, buzz, collaborative team, great primer, groundswell, insights, Network, networked society, person to person, relationships, social, social networks, society, technologies, Technology, wikis

Social media by the numbers

August 14th, 2009

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Tagged change, community, crowd, Design, Education, future, Globalization, globalized, group, Interactive, leadership, Network, reform, Rich media, social, Technology, Web2.0, youtube

My latest read – Free: The future of a radical price

July 18th, 2009

I just finished Free: The Future of a Radical Price by Chris Anderson. Enjoyed his book The Long Tail (review here) and learning about this radical idea in his 2008 Wired article, but I was skeptical. This book invites you to learn about “radical” sales techniques that have been around for some time but have [...]

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