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in title, tags, annotations or urlTrue believer keen on spreading the social media word - 2 views
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''Trying to take all of what is happening on Twitter in is like drinking from a fire hydrant,'' he says. ''So you end up thinking of it as a stream that's flowing past you; you throw your hook in and pull out an idea and if it's good then you let it go and let other people share in it.''
Google Maps Indoor Technology | Map Indoors | Photos - 2 views
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technology instead used the inertial sensors built into smartphones such as accelerometers and gyroscopes to calculate the user's location by measuring their acceleration and orientation from a starting point. This data is then crunched by complex algorithms
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Location based services are part of the next revolution of smartphone and tablet applications
Watch Motherboard, Free the Network Online | theage.tv - 0 views
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"Some believe the internet is losing its direction as an enabler for a more connected society and falling into the hands of corporations. Isaac Wilder, founder of the Free Network Foundation, is fighting back because he believes companies like Facebook and Twitter are now corporations and far from the original ideology of an open web. "A lot of people put a lot of faith in those platforms and don't realize that the medium is the message," he said. This is how he and his supporters plan to take back the web for the people..."
Man's Arm Saved By IPad In Garbage Truck Crash| Phillip Island - 1 views
Thousands of Australians still facing web blackout - 1 views
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The ACMA, together with other Australian government agencies, has developed a site (dns-ok.gov.au) for users to check if they are infected. People whose computers are still infected come July 9 will lose their ability to go online, and they will have to call their service providers for help deleting the malware and reconnecting to the internet.
Australian behind futuristic Iron Man-style Meta SpaceGlasses says they're the future of the PC - 1 views
Not every blog has its day - 2 views
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Companies that have gleaned the most from the technology have managed it actively through training, monitoring user behaviour and constant adjustment
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it's important to go where users want to go
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Collaboration tools also need sponsors - people entrusted with advancing their cause.
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"Still trying to get your employees to embrace the company wiki and other recent collaboration tools? Sorry, the world has moved on. Four years since the birth of "Enterprise 2.0", many wikis have been abandoned, as companies find it takes more to enthuse staff to share than just building a platform and expecting them to come."
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Intesting refection about enterprise applications of web2.0 tools that could be applied to the Ultranet.
Japan to pilot digital textbooks in classrooms - 4 views
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"Japan will soon start trialling electronic textbooks in primary schools, enhancing the role of IT in the classroom for a generation of "digital natives" born in the wired age. Under the "future school" project, 10 elementary schools will give all their under-12 pupils tablet PCs and fit their classrooms with interactive electronic blackboards starting as early as next month."
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Interesting development in Japan with a pilot Tablet computer project.
Rollout of ultranet postponed - 8 views
Australian teen triggers global Twitter scare - 2 views
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"An Australian teen has caused havoc on Twitter by discovering an "exploit" that hit thousands of users, including US President Barack Obama's press secretary, and resulted in the tweets of a former British PM's wife linking to hardcore porn."
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Interesting to consider how this student reacted when he found the exploit and what he then did (and didnt do). Great discussion for the IT classroom.
Shuttered: are the camera's days numbered? - 0 views
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"Research group Gartner says many vendors have been left battling for survival as the compact digital camera market reaches maturation point in most developed countries .. Driving its downfall is the rise of the mighty smartphone with its inbuilt megapixel camera, hogging space in our pockets and snatching market share."
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Interesting shift from compact digital cameras to iPhones and digital SLR cameras.