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: Web2.0
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, OpenSource, Technology
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 [...]
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Tagged communication infrastructure, communication opportunities, Education, Google, google wave, non profits, organization, small groups, training session, video training, wave fans, waves
Is Google Wave a “failure” ?
I cannot help but share my thoughts about all those who are predicting the stillbirth of Google Wave. Since this topic frequently hits the popular list at del.icio.us more than I care to see, its worth reminding everyone that beta or “limited preview” as Google refers to Wave is just that – a preview [...]
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Tagged analytics, beta software, bleeding edge, Google, organization, Technology, technology product, test audience, tweets
My latest read – Remix
Regrettably the Vancouver Olympics interrupted my reading pattern and its been a slow recovery. I blogged about this book as soon as I learned it was in production back in August. Yikes!
I have been following Larry Lessig’s work on copyright and our digital culture for some time, reading his positions online, previous books and keynote [...]
Also posted in Audio, Design, Education, Globalization, Google, Innovation, Reading, Rich media, TED, Technology
Tagged art and commerce, control content, copy, copyright, creative commons, digital culture, economy, Education, education business, larry lessig, media content, media empires, monetary gain, multimedia content, Network, old money, riaa, society, technology leaders, TED, universal music, unprecedented growth, youtube
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
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Tagged cool stuff, developers, Google, web toolkit, www youtube
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 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
Aperture project size limits
Needless to say with Maxwell and now Zofia I am pushing the limits of family photo management. Max’s “project” is only 2.5 years old. Zofia will now be helping me quickly wear down the trigger button on my Nikon….
Also posted in Design, Kasprzak, Media Players, Rich media
Tagged 10k, aperture, apple, Kasprzak, photo size
Social media by the numbers
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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 – Cognitive Surplus
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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