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"Until now most self-published authors wanting to create a visually rich ebook had to hire a software developer to produce it, costing hundreds if not thousands of dollars and taking many weeks. With Blurb's new ebook offering, the file conversion happens automatically in moments, and costs just $1.99 per download, saving Blurb authors considerable time, money and frustration. "

This shows how authors that wanted to create a self enriched book would have to hire somebody to do it but now with the changes in their workflow software they can now do it for just a cost of $1.99.

This article has information that I need for my portion of the flatclassroomproject.

Improving the government from the outside, increasing government transparency

Today the parts of the world that never used internet are now becoming connected to the world today.

We were just discussing this in our FCP class today. What do you think of the new FaceBook timeline? Some students felt it was a privacy concern and that it gives people the ability to "stalk" others easily. What do you think? This is a great current events topic for Topic 8, subtopic B in Social Networking/PLE's.

On Tuesday morning, January 21, the world awoke to nine new words on the home page of Google Inc., purveyor of the most popular search engine on the Web: "New! Take your search further. Take a Google Tour." The pitch, linked to a demo of the site's often overlooked tools and services, stayed up for 14 days and then disappeared. To most reasonable people, the fleeting house ad seemed inconsequential. But imagine that you're unreasonable. For a moment, try to think like a Google engineer -- which pretty much requires being both insanely passionate about delivering the best search results and obsessive about how you do that. If you're a Google engineer, you know that those nine words comprised about 120 bytes of data, enough to slow download time for users with modems by 20 to 50 milliseconds. You can estimate the stress that 120 bytes, times millions of searches per minute, put on Google's 10,000 servers. On the other hand, you can also measure precisely how many visitors took the tour, how many of those downloaded the Google Toolbar, and how many clicked through for the first time to Google News. This is what it's like inside Google. It is a joint founded by geeks and run by geeks. It is a collection of 650 really smart people who are almost frighteningly single-minded. "These are people who think they are creating something that's the best in the world," says Peter Norvig, a Google engineering director. "And that product is changing people's lives." Geeks are different from the rest of us, so it's no surprise that they've created a different sort of company. Google is, in fact, their dream house. It also happens to be among the best-run

Info on the expansion of google company

"It's November 2009 and we're nearing the end of a decade. It's been a tumultuous time of change for many industries, much of it driven by the Internet. The newspaper industry has been particularly affected by the Web. Over the past 10 years, news media has undergone a seachange akin to the invention of the printing press in 1440. Just as Johannes Gutenberg's printing press brought books to the mainstream public in the 15th century, Tim Berners-Lee's World Wide Web brought commercial publishing to the people."

" The importance of Effective Virtual Working & Communication: The last ten years have seen a rapid rise in the adoption of virtual and remote working among organisations of all types and sizes. In addition to increased productivity and reduced business costs, organisations also benefit from a more motivated workforce seeking a better work/life balance. With technological advances such as access to broadband, VoIP and changes in organisational culture facilitating this move, seemless remote working and communication with colleagues, suppliers and clients across the globe has never been easier."

"Like many industries, the print production workflow software market was affected by the recent economic decline. Many segments of the print production workflow market came near to a standstill during the first six months of 2009. Vendors were faced with lower demand due to market consolidation; high exit rates and bankruptcies of print service providers; as well as the postponement of investments due to the economic uncertainty, credit scarcity, and customers being in survival mode. However, the good news is the situation stabilized after the summer and sales picked up again in the third quarter, with the U.S. leading and Western Europe following according to InfoTrends' Global & North American Print Production Workflow Market Forecast: 2009-2014 and Global & Western Europe Print Production Workflow Market Forecast: 2009-2014."

This is an article with peoples opinions from all around the world on how sharing information ha evolved on the internet.

This is a good article Marcelle.

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current news on outsourcing

This article explains how the World Wide Web is an information super-highway. It allows information to be shared around the world.

quick summary/analysis of this topic

"A huge difference for many is that we find it much more difficult to maintain barriers between work and play"