Wired 14.06: The Rise of Crowdsourcing - 0 views
New marketing for designers. - 0 views
Digital Civilization: Social Discovery - 3 views
Missionary Media: Prezis - 1 views
Web 2.0 for all? - 0 views
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a lot of work around standards for Web 2.0 work has yet to properly started, let alone finished.
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Some of this work has happened. Things like RSS feeds, XML etc have made it simpler for computers to share complicated bits of data. But it hasn't gone far enough and it's not just data.
Cellphones - Third World and Developing Nations - Poverty - Technology - NYTimes.com - 1 views
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The premise of the work is simple — get to know your potential customers as well as possible before you make a product for them. But when those customers live, say, in a mud hut in Zambia or in a tin-roofed hutong dwelling in China, when you are trying — as Nokia and just about every one of its competitors is — to design a cellphone that will sell to essentially the only people left on earth who don’t yet have one, which is to say people who are illiterate, making $4 per day or less and have no easy access to electricity, the challenges are considerable.
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Text messaging, or S.M.S. (short message service), turns out to be a particularly cost-effective way to connect with otherwise unreachable people privately and across great distances. Public health workers in South Africa now send text messages to tuberculosis patients with reminders to take their medication. In Kenya, people can use S.M.S. to ask anonymous questions about culturally taboo subjects like AIDS, breast cancer and sexually transmitted diseases, receiving prompt answers from health experts for no charge.
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A cellphone in the hands of an Indian fisherman who uses it to grow his business — which presumably gives him more resources to feed, clothe, educate and safeguard his family — represents a textbook case of bottom-up economic development, a way of empowering individuals by encouraging entrepreneurship
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allAfrica.com: Africa: Cell Phones Transform Continent's Development (Page 1 of 2) - 0 views
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Mobile penetration is expanding dramatically. The number given for 2007 is about 250 million subscribers in Africa and the numbers are continuing to rise very, very rapidly.
Virtual Chapel Tour (LDS) - 1 views
Overview Of Accessible Solutions From Google - 0 views
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Google provides a wide variety of services that are mostly accessed with a Web browser. Our users visit Google from a large number of browsers and platforms; in addition, we also understand that every user is special and may have special needs. Accessibility at Google is about making sure that our services work well for all our users, independent of the user's needs and abilities at any given time
Areas of Influence: Music Videos « Threeminds - 0 views
"The Kindle Swindle" - 1 views
A logic named Joe - 1 views
From Social Media to Social Strategy - 0 views
Blog post on "The Medium is the Message" - 0 views
Road Conditions - 1 views
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