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Rhys Daunic

The Ultimate Guide To Apple's New Education Initiative | Edudemic - 1 views

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shared by Rhys Daunic on 20 Jan 12 - No Cached
  • Rhys Daunic on 20 Jan 12
     
    Apple has also announced iBooks Author (more details below) which lets you create your own textbooks. Users can even insert custom Javascript or HTML5 code into eBooks using iBooks Author.
Rhys Daunic

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

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shared by Rhys Daunic on 12 Sep 10 - Cached
  • This is the natural path of industrialization: invention, propagation, adoption, control.
    • Rhys Daunic
      Rhys Daunic on 12 Sep 10
       
      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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      Rhys Daunic on 12 Sep 10
       
      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.
smondrone

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

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shared by smondrone on 19 Nov 10 - No Cached
  • Sheila Tebbano on 19 Nov 10
     
    Check out this online book about Google. You'll be able to share from the last page.
  • smondrone on 09 Mar 11
     
    An easy read that can serve to introduce people to some of the technical aspects of the web and the foundations of cloud computing
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