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Graham Perrin

Vodafone 360 to debut on first LiMo handset - ZDNet.co.uk - 1 views

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LiMo Vodafone social network service

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  • Vodafone has jumped into social-networking
  • aggregation service
  • handsets from Samsung
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  • the first LiMo phones in the UK
  • Vodafone 360
  • contacts and content from social networks and internet services
  • a suite of internet services
  • the move fits the open-platform strategy
  • it may also be about control
  • enormous activity around building social connectivity into mobile phones
  • Android mobile operating system is an alternative open-source platform
  • using Android encourages people to use the Google login
  • Vodafone has focused on a platform that they have a fair degree of control over
  • Twitter and other services to come soon
  • Motorola's MotoBlur and HTC's Sense user interfaces both build social networking into Android
  • Palm uses it as a key feature of its WebOS
  • The Joint Innovation Lab, JIL, is a collaborative effort between Vodafone, China Mobile, Softbank and Verizon
  • the potential market is huge
  • JIL aims to be a 'write once, run anywhere' platform
  • Vodafone's 360 platform
  • opening up elements of its core network
  • an iPhone version is planned
Graham Perrin

Zemanta API companion - 0 views

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Zemanta Common Tag API

shared by Graham Perrin on 12 Aug 09 - Cached
  • Zemanta API companion
  • Zemanta service Everything you need to know about Zemanta API beside the specification
  • by Andraž Tori
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  • 07/14/08
    • Graham Perrin
      Graham Perrin on 12 Aug 09
       
      July 2008
  • Illustration 1: Authoring process with Zemanta
  • Illustration 2: Four basic types of Zemanta suggestions shown in blog writing application
  • Illustration 3: Roles in "classical" Zemanta ecosystem
y 9216

UK Government Writes Twitter Guide...in 20 Pages - 0 views

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twitter it WebCommunity

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  • y 9216 on 28 Jul 09
     
    A tweet can have a maximum of 140 characters. A guide on how to use Twitter, well, that's another matter. The UK government has one, and it took its author, Neil Williams, 20 pages and 36,215 characters to create it.
Tamura Jones

Google Wave Jargon - 1 views

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Google Wave Jargon beta

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  • David Corking on 11 Aug 09
     
    Thanks for writing this: it is a simple and straightforward aide-memoire.
Brad Belbas

update on Warner Music (UPDATED) (AGAIN) (Lessig Blog) - 0 views

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fair use dmca copyright creativity read-only culture read-write creativity

shared by Brad Belbas on 06 May 09 - Cached
  • Brad Belbas on 06 May 09
     
    This is a video of a talk that Lawrence Lessig (Professor, Stanford Law School) gave for an unnamed organization. In his talk, Lessig provides a powerful and piercing analysis on the impact that legal restrictions on the re/use of media resources has on creativity and cultural production. During his talk, Lessig shows some remarkably creative mash-up videos on YouTube to exemplify the kind of creativity/cultural production that is possible through ubiquitous digital media, yet is considered copyright violation, for example, in the eyes of Warner Brothers Music Group. Ironically, the organization that hosted the talk received a notice from Warner Bros Music after posting a video of the Lessig's talk on YouTube, which, according to Lessig's blog, "objected to its being posted on copyright grounds." Warner Brother Music Group has implemented content-id algorithms (i.e., technology that detects the digital "fingerprint" of corporate-"owned" copyrighted works) through media hosting services, including YouTube, FaceBook, and others. When the video of Lessig's talk was posted, it was 'dusted' for fingerprints of WBMG copyrighted works. The detection system identified the soundtracks in the YouTube videos Lessig showed, as materials to which they held copyright. Both the video of Lessig's talk and the blog conversation regarding WBMG's objection are must-see resources.
Graham Perrin

Mobile Opportunity: A quick history of software platforms: How we got here, and where ... - 0 views

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metaplatform platform software OS API computing mobile cloud network compatibility problem system creativity backlog disaggregation free FLOSS open source

shared by Graham Perrin on 30 May 09 - Cached
  • where we're going
  • software with APIs that third party developers can write apps on top of
  • grow a tech business more quickly if you get third party developers
  • ...38 more annotations...
  • lessons about where the industry might go
  • Fair warning: this is a long post.
  • In 1969, the Justice Department, ADR, and several others filed antitrust suits
  • IBM agreed to stop bundling free software
  • disaggregation is a natural outcome
  • multiple companies can move faster
  • backlog of potential creativity
  • The OS is dissolving into a soup of resources distributed across both the network and the local device, with the application in the middle calling on both
  • what it lacks in beauty it more than makes up for in rate of change and versatility
  • hybrids of local and network resources
  • gradual evolution of a super-OS that includes both the network and the device
  • we don't have a name for this new thing
  • trouble talking about it
  • I'm calling it the "metaplatform"
  • Although the metaplatform isn't necessarily elegant
  • compatibility
  • technological advances always lead to value chain fragmentation
  • what happens if that company goes out of business or just decides to stop maintaining the product?
  • If you've incorporated external web services into your site, the site will break if any of those services stops working
  • We don't have any systematic ways to deal with problems like these
  • a business opportunity for the next crop of software entrepreneurs
  • What the metaplatform means
  • Much of the discussion in this post is pretty theoretical
  • practical implications
  • iPhone today gives (in my opinion) the best overall mobile browsing and app discovery experience
  • APIs that will enable other developers to extend
  • implementation is often off-target
  • trying to make their APIs into the business equivalent of an operating system
  • private ecosystem
  • opening the application outward
  • mixed and matched with other functionality in the metaplatform
  • export data isn’t enough... what springs to mind is open source
  • Lots to think about
  • Clayton Christensen
  • The most effective mobile application are
  • a framework to predict where most profits will be made
  • HTML5
  • changes that are brewing in the mobile industry
Graham Perrin

Google Wave - 0 views

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Google FLOSS open source HTML 5 API extend thread protocol IM email message communicate share collaborate workspace Google Wave Wave

shared by Graham Perrin on 29 May 09 - Cached
  • Google Wave is a new communication service
  • formatted text, photos, videos, maps, and more
  • free-form workspace
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  • write documents collaboratively
  • plan events
  • discuss
  • create a wave and add people
  • formatted text, photos, gadgets, and even feeds from other sources on the web
  • reply
  • or edit the wave
  • concurrent rich-text editing
  • "playback" to rewind the wave to see how it evolved
  • API that could be used to extend the service
  • Wave protocol that allows anyone to run a "wave" server
  • available later this year
  • Graham Perrin on 29 May 09
     
    Google Wave on the unofficial Google Operating System blog.
Mike Chelen

What Socrates Can Teach You About Social Media - 0 views

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social media socrates

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  • get involved
  • Interact with people. Make mistakes. Learn. 
  • always room for improvement
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  • Which relationships need more nurturing
  • How can you better serve your community
  • Ask somebody
  • Be the person you’ve always wanted to be.  Practice what you preach.
  • This balancing act is one of the trickiest you’ll ever have to walk, but if you make your best efforts to stay true to yourself and others it will be noticed, appreciated and respected.
  • Employ your time in improving yourself by other’s writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.
  • follow it through
  • Do your best
  • effective word of mouth
  • reward you with deeper connections
  • it’s ok to unplug for a while and take a break
  • Don’t worry
  • Flesh out the details
  • One who is injured ought not to return the injury, for on no account can it be right to do an injustice;
  • it is not right to return an injury, or to do evil to any man, however much we have suffered from him. 
  • it is easy for a message to be misconstrued
  • When most messages transmitted are text
  • The only true wisdom consists in knowing that you know nothing.
  • Keep your mind in a constant state of openness.
  • Be willing to truly listen to what others have to say and don’t hold on to your ideas so strongly that you are unable to see a new and greater truth.
  • Earnest debate helps the truth to rise to the top for all to see.
  • debate respectfully while keeping an open mind
  • you and the person with whom you are debating will be the better for it in the end
  • Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs; therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity, or undue depression in adversity.
  • Remain constantly moving towards your goals, ever evolving.
  • The important thing is that you have taken the initiative and and are moving forward.
  • constructive criticism
  • don’t be afraid to try something new
  • the harder you work and the better informed you strive to be, the more your intuition seems to pay off
Valentina Dodge

Penzu : Free Private Journal and Diary - 0 views

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writing journal web2.0 diary blog penzu

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  • Valentina Dodge on 15 Sep 09
     
    Your Life. Your Journal.
jdr santos

OpenZine - Create an online magazine - Collaboration with friends - 0 views

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free online magazine collaboration writing publishing

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  • jdr santos on 29 Aug 09
     
    Quickly create an online magazine and collaborate with friends.
Diego Morelli

I'm ordinary - 6 views

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  • Diego Morelli on 28 Jan 10
     
    "I'm ordinary and only reason from the city (....)"
Thomas Ho

You Are Not a Gadget: The Continuing Case Against Web 2.0 - 16 views

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web2.0

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  • Lanier's main issue with web 2.0 is that, in his view, it promotes the 'hive mind' over individual expression. He writes that web 2.0 presents the current generation of kids with a "reduced expectation of what a person can be."
  • anonymous on 12 Apr 10
     
    "You Are Not a Gadget" i am not sure about that, but Jaron Lanier is certainly a Yogi.
yc c

Does the Brain Like E-Books? - Room for Debate Blog - NYTimes.com - 3 views

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ebooks reading psychology article

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  • They should be like the historical coffeehouses, taverns and pubs where one shifts flexibly between focused and collective reading — much like opening a newspaper and debating it in a more socially networked version of the current New York Times Room for Debate.
    • Bakari Chavanu
      Bakari Chavanu on 16 Oct 09
       
      Many websites like NewsVine seem to offer this kind of experience.
  • Still, people read more slowly on screen, by as much as 20-30 percent. Fifteen or 20 years ago, electronic reading also impaired comprehension compared to paper, but those differences have faded in recent studies.
  • Reading on screen requires slightly more effort and thus is more tiring, but the differences are small and probably matter only for difficult tasks.
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  • In one study, workers switched tasks about every three minutes and took over 23 minutes on average to return to a task. Frequent task switching costs time and interferes with the concentration needed to think deeply about what you read.
  • After many years of research on how the human brain learns to read, I came to an unsettlingly simple conclusion: We humans were never born to read. We learn to do so by an extraordinarily ingenuous ability to rearrange our “original parts” — like language and vision, both of which have genetic programs that unfold in fairly orderly fashion within any nurturant environment. Reading isn’t like that.
  • And that, of course, is the problem at hand. No one really knows the ultimate effects of an immersion in a digital medium on the young developing brain. We do know a great deal, however, about the formation of what we know as the expert reading brain that most of us possess to this point in history
  • Hypertext offers loads of advantages. If while reading online you come across the name “Antaeus” and forget your Greek mythology, a hyperlink will take you directly to an online source where you are reminded that he was the Libyan giant who fought Hercules. And if you’re prone to distraction, you can follow another link to find out his lineage, and on and on. That is the duality of hyperlinks. A hyperlink brings you to information faster but is also more of a distraction.
  • floor. I once counted my books among my most prized possesions, now I wish I could somehow convert them all to digital files.
  • My book shelves are full, and books are stacked on the
  • Textbooks also require big double pages with margins for notes. Writing and reading are communication between writer and reader, the audience and genre (and thus expectations) are important, and the format and technology can be used for bad or good. One is not better than the other, they are different, and the more we know of the needs of writers and readers the better technology will become.
  • All of the commentators and responses miss a crucial question here: reading for what purpose?
  • To further complicate this, most of what I read for pleasure is about art or photography, and the kind of history that comes with cool pictures. If paper suddenly disappeared I'd be lost. Most of what I read for work has to be verified, cross referenced, fact-checked, etc. on a tight deadline. If the Internet suddenly disappeared, I'd be more than lost--I'd be paralyzed.
  • I also completely disagree that the web has killed editing. It has just changed the process to include the reader. It would be more accurate to say that it is killing the sanctity of Editors. 'Bout time, that.
  • The missing component in E-Reading seems to be the ability to critically grasp and evaluate the material. Learning is transmitted, but it is more linear than holistic. Now in my 70's, I find that reading from a monitor is a distancing experience. There is an intimacy to reading from a traditional book that is missing in the digital format.
  • Chinese reading circuits require more visual memory than alphabets.
  • I assume that technology will soon start moving in the natural direction: integrating chips into books, not vice versa.
  • important ongoing change to reading itself in today’s online environment is the cheapening of the word.
  • Hypertext offers loads of advantages.
  • When you read news, or blogs or fiction, you are reading one document in a networked maze
  • More and more, studies are showing how adept young people are at multitasking. But the extent to which they can deeply engage with the online material is a question for further research.
  • However, displays have vastly improved since then, and now with high resolution monitors reading speed is no different than reading from paper.
Donna Baumbach

100 Digital Storytelling Tools for Your Digital Selves + Natives (Part 1) | Ozge Karaog... - 4 views

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digitalstorytelling reading writing tools web2.0

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  • Donna Baumbach on 12 Nov 09
     
    "We are our stories, we compress years of experience, thought and emotion into a few compact narratives that we convey to others and tell to ourselves" Daniel Pink, a Whole New Wind
Donna Baumbach

100 Digital Storytelling Tools | Ozge Karaoglu's Blog - 6 views

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digitalstorytelling reading writing tools web2.0

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  • Donna Baumbach on 12 Nov 09
     
    "I know only one thing about the technologies that awaits us in the future:We will find ways to tell stories with them." Jason Ohlar
Donna Baumbach

Blog Resources for Teachers - 3 views

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blogging blogs web2.0 resources writing free

shared by Donna Baumbach on 10 Nov 09 - Cached
  • Donna Baumbach on 10 Nov 09
     
    sites that help teachers have access to materials online also mainly free of cost, or very minimum cost.
Donna Baumbach

ArtisanCam - Activities - Picture Book Maker - 3 views

www.artisancam.org.uk/...picturebookmaker.php

writing books web2.0 artisancam resources book digitalstorytelling images

shared by Donna Baumbach on 09 Nov 09 - Cached
  • Donna Baumbach on 09 Nov 09
     
    from NCS-Tech Picture Book Maker is a super-simple, super-flexible, super-easy tool for creating … picture books! The interface is intuitive, it loads fast, and there are many, many different story elements that can be brought into each book. It would probably help for a teacher (and students!) to go through the tool in advance to see what elements they want to include, to make sure they have what they need. From there, simple storyboarding in advance should be all that's needed to develop a high quality, PRINTABLE, finished book!
Donna Baumbach

100 Great Google Docs Tips for Students & Educators | AccreditedOnlineColleges.org - 2 views

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googledocs writing collaboration tips howto

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  • Donna Baumbach on 12 Nov 09
     
    But besides the basic features, there are lots of little tricks and hacks you can use to make your Google Docs experience even more productive. Here are 100 great tips for using the documents, presentations and spreadsheets in Google Docs.
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