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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
Tag Archives: Innovation
Hot, Flat, and Crowded 2.0
Sometimes a 2.0 release is viewed as a fix for shortcomings in the initial release of just about any product….except this update from Tom Friedman: Hot, Flat, and Crowded 2.0: Why We Need a Green Revolution–and How It Can Renew America.
I read version 1.0 as soon as it hit bookshelves and was just amazed at [...]
Posted in Design • Education • Globalization • Green • Innovation • OpenSource • 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
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 [...]
Posted in Design • Education • Innovation • Network • OpenSource • Technology
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 [...]
Posted in Audio • BMW • Design • Education • Globalization • Innovation • Interactive • Media Players • Rich media • Smartphone • Technology
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,
Posted in Education • Globalization • Google • Innovation • Milwaukee • Network • Technology • cyberinfrastructure
Tagged access, america, bandwidth, broadband, change, culture, cyberinfrastructure, economy, Education, fibre, flat, future, Globalization, Google, Innovation, Milwaukee, Network, tipping point, trends, US
Sports Illustrated on the iPad ?
In January Time Inc., the publisher of Sports Illustrated showed off their own tablet highlighting a future issue of SI for tablet users. I immediately questioned their “announcement” to produce their own tablet.
Clearly the business model for ANY publisher to develop a tablet is a mistake with the marketplace is its infancy. The internet forced [...]
Posted in Design • Education • Globalization • HighRes • Innovation • Interactive • Media Players • Network • Reading • Rich media • Tablet
Tagged apple, business model, change, content, content providers, ebook, future, Innovation, ipad, itunes, marketplace, publishing, sports illustrated, time inc, trends, wireless
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 [...]
Posted in Design • Education • Google • Innovation • Network • OpenSource • 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
HP’s Slate tablet
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Tags: HP, design, Slate, Tablet, eBook, education, trends
Posted in Design • Education • Innovation • Interactive • Media Players • Tablet • Technology
Tagged adobe, change, culture, Design, digital content, hp, Innovation, media consumption, mobile, mobile experience, slate tablet, Tablet, trends
State of the Internet
A fun, visual-rich view of the overwhelming numbers being produced on the internet today:
Posted in Education
Tagged analytics, bandwidth, change, culture, Design, Education, future, information, Innovation, internet today, knowledge, overwhelming numbers, tipping point, trends
Shipping today: Hot, Flat, and Crowded 2.0
Today Tom Friedman’s Hot, Flat, and Crowded 2.0: Why We Need a Green Revolution–and How It Can Renew America is available.
The 1.0 release was a very interesting read (my review here) and I’m looking forward to the update.
Check out Chapter 1 and Chapter 2 online in PDF format.
Tags: Tom Friedman, Hot, Flat and Crowded, environment, [...]
Posted in Design • Education • Globalization • Reading • Technology
Tagged america, bandwidth, china, crowd, flat, Green, green revolution, india, Innovation, k12, knowledge, the world is flat, toledo, tom friedman, trends
Freakonomics the movie
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Posted in Design • Education • Globalization • Innovation • Reading • TED
Tagged economics, Innovation, population, poverty, stephen dubner, steven levitt, superfreakonomics, trends