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: OpenSource
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
January 12, 2010
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Visualization changes everything
Tags: Visualization, information, Chart Wars, politics, trends
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 12, 2009
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My latest read – The Post-American World
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 … Continue reading
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 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
August 14, 2009
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Social media by the numbers
July 18, 2009
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My latest read – Free: The future of a radical price
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 … Continue reading