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"Analysis and real-word examples of Web 2.0 used in the classroom covering blogging, photo sharing, podcasting, wikis, video sharing, and more."
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Saturday, October 28, 2006
Web 2.0 and Higher Ed
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"There has been a lot of talk about Web 2.0 over the last year. I stated in a previous blog post that the University of Arizona is going to be offering courses in conjunction with IBM about web 2.0 and the integration therein with the business world."
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"There has been a lot of talk about Web 2.0 over the last year. I stated in a previous blog post that the University of Arizona is going to be offering courses in conjunction with IBM about web 2.0 and the integration therein with the business world."
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Maya’s Mom Raises Angel Round, Launches
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"The heart of Maya?s Mom is their ?Talk? section. Rather than following the article format of Minti, Maya?s Mom allows you to post about any questions you have publicly, anonymously, or to specific friends. Users can subscribe to the most recent questions via RSS."
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"The heart of Maya?s Mom is their ?Talk? section. Rather than following the article format of Minti, Maya?s Mom allows you to post about any questions you have publicly, anonymously, or to specific friends. Users can subscribe to the most recent questions via RSS."
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Friday, October 27, 2006
Dell recommends 2 GB of memory for Vista
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"After Samsung, Dell is the second major company that tells its customers that Vista may need more system memory than what Microsoft is listing in its system requirements. According to a report in the Seattle Post Intelligencer (SPI), chief executive officer Kevin Rollins promoted an upgrade to 2 GB."
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"After Samsung, Dell is the second major company that tells its customers that Vista may need more system memory than what Microsoft is listing in its system requirements. According to a report in the Seattle Post Intelligencer (SPI), chief executive officer Kevin Rollins promoted an upgrade to 2 GB."
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Japanese Wiis Are Unsurprisingly Small (w/ Pictures)
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"The Wii Kiosks are going up all over Japan, allowing Nintendo faithfuls, a.k.a. the entire population between 2 and 80, to have a go at the Wii before launch. And by "have a go", we mean look but don't touch."
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"The Wii Kiosks are going up all over Japan, allowing Nintendo faithfuls, a.k.a. the entire population between 2 and 80, to have a go at the Wii before launch. And by "have a go", we mean look but don't touch."
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Google Re-Org Rumors: Streamlining Ad Business
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"Google is planning to make it easier to utilize different types of ads (CPC, CPM, CPA, etc) over all media channels - search, mobile, video, audio, etc. This puts the likes of Feedburner, Meebo, edgeio and Commission Junction squarely in Google's sights as potential acquisitions."
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"Google is planning to make it easier to utilize different types of ads (CPC, CPM, CPA, etc) over all media channels - search, mobile, video, audio, etc. This puts the likes of Feedburner, Meebo, edgeio and Commission Junction squarely in Google's sights as potential acquisitions."
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DRM, Your Rights, and the Future
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"One of the guys over at Bit-tech.net has written an article to talk about DVD Jon's move to making DRM instead of breaking it. In the article, he takes a trip through some of the history of DRM, the issues it's raised, and what our rights are in the US and EU."
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"One of the guys over at Bit-tech.net has written an article to talk about DVD Jon's move to making DRM instead of breaking it. In the article, he takes a trip through some of the history of DRM, the issues it's raised, and what our rights are in the US and EU."
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Is Microsoft Office Doomed?
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"Browser-based productivity tools may be the way of the future. But today, they're a promising, intriguing, sometimes infuriating mixed bag."
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"Browser-based productivity tools may be the way of the future. But today, they're a promising, intriguing, sometimes infuriating mixed bag."
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Facebook Officially Launches
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"Regardless of what it is you want to share, starting today you can do it efficiently and easily on Facebook. Now when you find something on the Internet that you think is cool?articles, photos, videos, and so on?you can paste the link into a field on the My Shares page and then choose to send a preview of the page directly to friends or post it up."
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"Regardless of what it is you want to share, starting today you can do it efficiently and easily on Facebook. Now when you find something on the Internet that you think is cool?articles, photos, videos, and so on?you can paste the link into a field on the My Shares page and then choose to send a preview of the page directly to friends or post it up."
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MySpace Founder Acquires Majority Stake in Flurl.com
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"Brad Greenspan, the founder of MySpace, has acquired a majority stake in Flurl.com, the largest independent video search website which indexes over 1000 online video sites... With this acquisition, LiveUniverse intends to begin discussions with potential strategic, financial, and content partners focused in the online video space."
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"Brad Greenspan, the founder of MySpace, has acquired a majority stake in Flurl.com, the largest independent video search website which indexes over 1000 online video sites... With this acquisition, LiveUniverse intends to begin discussions with potential strategic, financial, and content partners focused in the online video space."
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Acer: Vista Home Basic is a lemon
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"Microsoft is effectively smuggling through a price hike for Windows Vista - by making the entry-level version so poor that no-one will want to use it.So says Jim Wong, senior veep at Acer, the world's number four PC maker, who told UK hack Jon Honeyball: "The new [Vista] experience you hear of, if you get Basic, you won't feel it at all. There's no"
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"Microsoft is effectively smuggling through a price hike for Windows Vista - by making the entry-level version so poor that no-one will want to use it.So says Jim Wong, senior veep at Acer, the world's number four PC maker, who told UK hack Jon Honeyball: "The new [Vista] experience you hear of, if you get Basic, you won't feel it at all. There's no"
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RIAA on the ropes in (another) Oklahoma filesharing case
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"The RIAA is fighting hard to prevent yet another dismissal with prejudice of a filesharing lawsuit. In the end, suing individual citizens in effort to stop worldwide piracy makes as much sense as trying to hold back the Mississippi River with an umbrella."
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"The RIAA is fighting hard to prevent yet another dismissal with prejudice of a filesharing lawsuit. In the end, suing individual citizens in effort to stop worldwide piracy makes as much sense as trying to hold back the Mississippi River with an umbrella."
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Core 2 Quad Launches November 2nd
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"Intel Core 2 Extreme Quad Core Processor QX6700 will hit the wires on November 2nd 6AM time in continental Europe. These CPUs will be available on the November 14th and this includes retail and etail for systems based on it."
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"Intel Core 2 Extreme Quad Core Processor QX6700 will hit the wires on November 2nd 6AM time in continental Europe. These CPUs will be available on the November 14th and this includes retail and etail for systems based on it."
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Wednesday, October 25, 2006
Dell to launch sub-$500 AMD laptop next month
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"Digitimes is reporting that contract manufacturers in Asia have confirmed that 500,000 notebooks with AMD Turion processors will be available through Dell beginning next month. Dell, always known for low prices, will try to win over the value crowd with a sub-$500, 15-inch laptop. A 17-inch model will follow next year."
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"Digitimes is reporting that contract manufacturers in Asia have confirmed that 500,000 notebooks with AMD Turion processors will be available through Dell beginning next month. Dell, always known for low prices, will try to win over the value crowd with a sub-$500, 15-inch laptop. A 17-inch model will follow next year."
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Big broadcasters want to control more media outlets
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"Major broadcasters let the FCC know this week that they want the agency to relax or remove most of its media ownership rules. They claim that this would be good for customers, but four academic studies and one FCC Commissioner aren't so sure."
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"Major broadcasters let the FCC know this week that they want the agency to relax or remove most of its media ownership rules. They claim that this would be good for customers, but four academic studies and one FCC Commissioner aren't so sure."
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File search (free music)
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""Pop in a search term - like "death cab" - and a file type - like "audio" - and Briefli searches open directories all over the web as well as Amazon for links to download or buy music, all Ajaxy-like..." - via lifehacker"
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""Pop in a search term - like "death cab" - and a file type - like "audio" - and Briefli searches open directories all over the web as well as Amazon for links to download or buy music, all Ajaxy-like..." - via lifehacker"
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