January 2012
109 posts
Makerbot Curriculum :: Learning efficacy powered...
Check out this website I found at curriculum.makerbot.com
Looking forward to attending Future of Education –...
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27,000 Google Chromebooks headed to U.S. schools |...
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Study: Robots Inspire New Learning & Creativity...
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5 Ways That Android Is Trying To Break The Mobile...
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The Atavist
The Atavist is produced using our Atavist custom publishing platform, which makes mobile publishing as easy as blogging. Available for licensing, the system seamlessly weaves together your text, video, audio, photos, and timelines, then exports your content to iPhone/iPad apps, ePub files, and other reading platforms. Learn more. via atavist.net
Evi arrives in town to go toe-to-toe with Siri
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Apple's E-textbooks should be free textbooks. -...
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Voice As Interface: Talking To Robots @PSFK
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beta620 | Exploring Stories With Deep Dive
Why Deep Dive? One of our central problems here at NYTimes.com is surfacing content. With hundreds of articles, blog posts, media features and apps published every day it is simply impossible for readers to see them all. This is a good problem to have, but a problem none the less. So how do we help readers find everything they would want to read given that they only have the time to scan...
ZeroBundle: A great bundle of freebies for...
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Apple and the Digital Textbook Counter-Revolution →
Springwise: QR Codes Replace Loyalty Cards To...
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Congress Should Use the Internet - Room for Debate...
It’s beyond baffling for the government to even consider a policy designed to lose the future. via nytimes.com
Apple didn’t make publishing easier… - The Domino...
via thedominoproject.com Printing is a commodity, a straightforward but important process that takes time and money. Clearly, digital ‘print’ in the form of an ebook is easier and cheaper than paper printing, which involves cutting down trees and paying for trucks and shipping, etc. But publishing is something else entirely. Publishing is the act of curation, of taking financial risk to do...
Is iBooks 2 really just Push Pop Press rebranded?...
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Pinterest for Brands: 5 Hot Tips
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Kraft Uses Facial Scan Technology to Keep Kids...
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What The Stop SOPA Blackout Accomplished In 24...
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A First Take on Apple’s New Education Tools « The...
The publishers’ dream of creating content once and having it run everywhere is just that, a dream. We will all be nostalgic for Microsoft soon, which for about a decade or two essentially developed and controlled a standard for all computing. Those days are gone. There will be some publishers who will develop products for all available platforms (at great expense) and others who will focus on one...
The iBooks 2.0 textbook format – Baldur Bjarnason
I don’t see an easy or straightforward way of converting this piece of CSS into anything understandable by other apps. via baldurbjarnason.com
Apple iBooks Author Tool Sets Stage for Showdown...
To limit the distribution of an EPUB file to only Apple’s channel would be the equivalent of Google saying that you can only use the HTML created with Google Docs on the [Google] Chrome browser,” said McCoy. via digitalbookworld.com
venomous porridge - The Unprecedented Audacity of...
Apple, in this EULA, is claiming a right not just to its software, but to its software’s output. It’s akin to Microsoft trying to restrict what people can do with Word documents, or Adobe declaring that if you use Photoshop to export a JPEG, you can’t freely sell it to Getty. via venomousporridge.com
The day the bookshelf shook: Four lessons for news...
Imagine if buying a book was less a purchase of a contained story and more a statement of desire — “I’m interested in this subject and I want to have all the important news and analysis about it delivered to me, in the place I’m used to reading. via niemanlab.org
Fragmentation Is Not The End of Android | cek.log
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Watch TV On The Go With See-Through Video Glasses...
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Amazon Recommendation Network on Vimeo
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Start Educating Entrepreneurs, Not Employees
For those who are building the next web, I challenge you to do the same. Dig in and be more than the sum of your parts. For those in the teaching systems, I beg you to stop teaching our kids to be employees. Teach them to be entrepreneurs. If you don’t feel qualified to do that, take up the reigns and drive your own path toward greatness so that you can teach others. It’s more than just the fate...
A Recipe for Growth: Adding Layers to the Cake |...
Businesses don’t grow themselves. One of the most important jobs of a CEO is to aggressively define and pursue a growth agenda for his or her business. Why is this important? Growth typically improves a company’s competitive position and provides increased scale and leverage, and investors clearly value growth. The pursuit of growth continues to be important regardless of the lifecycle...
4 Management Lessons From The Overhaul Of...
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Modai, A Smartphone Concept With Replaceable...
But Modai’s coolest idea is its modular design to encourage users to extend the device’s lifespan. Removing the “peelstand” also lets you access Modai’s “internal pack,” which you can swap out and attach a new, better CPU unit, RAM cache, or battery to, just like snapping Legos together. “From batteries to the camera, from the RAM to the CPU, most internals that...
Kit turns any netbook into a telepresence robot |...
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Facebook to Introduce Apps Based on Open Graph,...
via mashable.com http://mashable.com/2012/01/17/facebook-apps-open-graph-gestures/
The Secret To Pinterest's Astounding Success: A...
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Consumer Electronics Show / Tech Trends /...
via contagiousmagazine.com 1) Personal This year’s CES saw a boom in the number of systems allowing for PERSONALISATION after purchase. TV manufacturers like Samsung and LG are aiming to replicate the smorgasbord viewing experience of the web by integrating app layers, gesture control technology and cameras for in-TV video conferencing. Samsung also announced a range of TVs that would...
Visa Talks With Apple As Part Of Plan To Push...
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parislemon • A Rainbow At Its Peak
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Spot
Spot is an interactive real-time Twitter visualization that uses a particle metaphor to represent tweets. The tweet particles are called spots and get organized in various configurations to illustrate information about the topic of interest.
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http://neoformix.com/spot/#/Future%20Technologies
Goodbye remote control: PrimeSense shows off...
At the Consumer Electronics Show, the Israeli company showed off a next-generation TV interface that lets you control your TV experience with a wave of your hand. via venturebeat.com
The Surface 2.0 From Microsoft And Samsung Ships...
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UK Music Festivals to Use Microchipped Wristbands
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Socl, Microsoft’s New Social Network | Fresh Infos
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SOPA delayed amidst growing criticism | Games...
The approaching vote on America’s controversial SOPA proposals has been delayed until a greater “consensus” can be found regarding its implementation. Representatives from the Republican party admitted that the legislation was “flawed” and that further work would be put into SOPA to iron areas of contention before it was put to the vote. The announcement comes after the ruling Obama...
World according to San Francisco
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Can Technology Transform Education Before It’s Too...
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Can Technology Transform Education Before It’s Too...
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A VC: Scarcity Is A Shitty Business Model
The Gotham Gal has been under the weather this weekend. Last night we made soup for dinner and decided to sit on the couch and watch a movie and go to bed early. After dinner, we fired up Boxee and checked out Netflix. Nothing good there. Then we fired up the Mac Mini and checked out Amazon Instant Video. Nothing good there. Then we went to the Cable Set Top Box and checked out movies on...
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