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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: Technology
My latest read – Cognitive Surplus
Remember the last time you read a great story that you caught yourself peaking at the remaining unread pages because you didn’t want the story to end? That’s how I can best describe Clay Shirky’s book Cognitive Surplus: Creativity and Generosity in a Connected Age. His stories were coming to a close before I was [...]
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Tagged 9/11, bandwidth, change, clay shirky, college, community, content, copy, copyright, culture, download, downloading, ebook, ipod, itunes, movies, mp3, music, music industry, napster, Network, networking, perfect storm, piracy, sharing, social, social networking, tipping point, trends, youtube
BMW 6 Series Exterior Design
BMW’s official video regarding design-futures of the 6 Series Gran Coupé concept.
Anders Warming, Head of Exterior Design BMW, provides the overview about the exterior design and the future of the 6 Series and BMW design directions.
Tags: BMW, BMW 6 series, innovation, design directions, concept, ideas, business, trends
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Tagged bmw 6 series, concept, design bmw, design directions, design futures
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 [...]
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Tagged aza raskin, candy, firefox, Innovation, jef raskin, macintosh, Smartphone, ux
BMW supporting Apple’s iOS4
Yesterday BMW announced it will support Apple’s iOS 4 in their BMW and Mini product lines. By integrating iPod Out in iOS4 users of iPhones 3G/3GS/4 & iPod Touch 2nd/3rd generations to output and display Apple’s iPod interface on the vehicle’s dashboard display and controlled by the vehicle’s controls.
To no surprise BMW’s controller is called [...]
Also posted in Audio, BMW, Design, Education, Globalization, Innovation, Interactive, Media Players, Rich media, Smartphone
Tagged apple, BMW, culture, Innovation, interface, ios, ipod, mobile, music, tipping point, trends
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, Network, 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, Network, OpenSource, 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
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 [...]
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Tagged amazon, apple, ebook sales, ereader, ipad, kindle, kindle DX, nook, price war
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