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Rhys Daunic

Instant Screen Sharing | Screenleap - 1 views

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    Sends anyone a URL and a code that lets them see your screen in a browser.  Can also be done through a browser plug-in that connects to Gmail.  
anonymous

Google Docs - Viewer - 1 views

  • Use Google Docs to quickly view documents online without leaving your browser.
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    Use Google Docs Viewer to quickly view documents online without leaving your browser. Perfect for embedding .pdfs, etc. for a slick look and feel.
Pablo Zatz

Do Not Track Plus - 0 views

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    Great extension that blocks tracking software for the four most popular browser
Pablo Zatz

Do Not Track Plus - 0 views

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    Great little app to add on to your Google Chrome browser. A must check.
myfanwi

Google Docs Chrome Browser Extension: WatchDoc - 1 views

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    Post about using Google Docs and the need for a chrome browser extension called WatchDoc that allows for the most efficient, effective teaching with Google Docs...
Rhys Daunic

Mozilla Thimble App - 0 views

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    Mozilla Thimble App makes it ridiculously simple to create your own web pages. Write and edit HTML and CSS right in your browser. Instantly preview your work. Then host and share your finished pages with a single click. Easy, huh?
smondrone

20 Things I learned about Browsers and the Web - 3 views

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    Check out this online book about Google. You'll be able to share from the last page.
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    An easy read that can serve to introduce people to some of the technical aspects of the web and the foundations of cloud computing
Rhys Daunic

The Web Is Dead. Long Live the Internet | Magazine - 1 views

  • This is the natural path of industrialization: invention, propagation, adoption, control.
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      Makes me think of Lewis Mumford, Technics and Civilization
  • Artificial scarcity is the natural goal of the profit-seeking.
  • Faustian bargain
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      Neil Postman
  • ...18 more annotations...
  • lean forward
  • lean back
  • The defenders of the unfettered Web have their hopes set on HTML5 — the latest version of Web-building code that offers applike flexibility
  • This is seen by many as a battle for the soul of the digital frontier.
  • Since the dawn of the commercial Web, technology has eclipsed content.
  • this is a battle that seemed fought and won — not just toppling newspapers and music labels but also AOL and Prodigy and anyone who built a business on the idea that a curated experience would beat out the flexibility and freedom of the Web.
  • Chaos isn’t a business model. A new breed of media moguls is bringing order — and profits — to the digital world.
  • the top 10 Web sites accounted for 31 percent of US pageviews in 2001, 40 percent in 2006, and about 75 percent in 2010.
  • Within five years, Morgan Stanley projects, the number of users accessing the Net from mobile devices will surpass the number who access it from PCs.
  • For the sake of the optimized experience on mobile devices, users forgo the general-purpose browser.
  • But eventually our tolerance for the delirious chaos of infinite competition finds its limits.
  • Much as we love freedom and choice, we also love things that just work, reliably and seamlessly.
  • about 35 percent of all our media time is now spent on the Web
  • The dark side of network effects is that rich nodes get richer. Metcalfe’s law,
  • which states that the value of a network increases in proportion to the square of connections,
  • We get the Web. It’s part of our life. And we just want to use the services that make our life better.
  • Blame human nature. As much as we intellectually appreciate openness, at the end of the day we favor the easiest path.
  • But eventually our tolerance for the delirious chaos of infinite competition finds its limits.
Rob Manning

Lifehacker - The Google Wave Highlight Reel - Google Wave - 0 views

  • As-You-Type Live Updates Over the Internet Between Users Thanks to the new HTML 5 standard and some client-server magic Wave has going on, you can watch your recipient live-type a response in your browser across the internet, much like instant messaging. (If that gives you the creeps, you'll have the option to disable live as-you-type updating.)
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    Google has done it again. Scroll down to the "live collaboration on a single wave" and the "contextual spellchecking".
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