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difinition of Mosaic "Mosaic is the web browser credited with popularizing the World Wide Web. It was also a client for earlier protocols such as FTP, NNTP, and gopher. Its clean, easily understood user interface, reliability, Windows port and simple installation all contributed to making it the application that opened up the Web to the general public.[2] Mosaic was also the first browser to display images inline with text instead of displaying images in a separate window.[3] While often described as the first graphical web browser, Mosaic was preceded by the lesser-known Erwise[4] and ViolaWWW."

wikis are web sites that allow users to direct edit and web page on a computer.

Home > VPN VPN(pronounced as separate letters) Short for virtual private network, a network that is constructed by using public wires to connect nodes. For example, there are a number of systems that enable you to create networks using the Internet as the medium for transporting data. These systems use encryption and other security mechanisms to ensure that only authorized users can access the network and that the data cannot be intercepted.

"The Internet is a global system of interconnected computer networks that use the standard Internet Protocol Suite (TCP/IP) to serve billions of users worldwide. It is a network of networks that consists of millions of private, public, academic, business, and government networks, of local to global scope, that are linked by a broad array of electronic and optical networking technologies. The Internet carries a vast range of information resources and services, such as the inter-linked hypertext documents of the World Wide Web (WWW) and the infrastructure to support electronic mail."

Some great information on the internet and how it has evolved and connected the world.

Bulletin Board System (BBS) was the first social networking system.

Company that has chagned its basic telecom operator to a mobile virtual Brings up the idea of a mobile virtual network operator (MVNO). Look more into MVNO and MVN's.

TED talk by Jamais Cascio talking about the "better world" that is soon to come through the usage of collaboration and mobile technology. Cascio discusses the ability for the world to decrease environmental and social wrongdoings.

Important article to read about how a virtual avatar murder has consequences in the physical world.

This is last years page I think everyone in our group should read it.

Ford announces a car key will allow parents to set limits on their teenage drivers. If you want to require them to buckle up before the car cranks - you can do it. If you want them not to listen to loud music or not drive over a certain speed, you can do that too! Technology has brought freedom - it can also restrict teens as well, as many will begin to realize. They should behave responsibily or more devices such as this will emerge to elicit control at the source.

Computing devices are in cars and many other devices. This is an example of a device that will be used to restrict teenage drivers, from ford.

This freeware lets you figure out what a song is - just download, install and play the song into your computer.

OK, so you want to figure out what that song is? Download Tunatic and play the song and it will recognize it. This is so cool!!! Search engines aren't just for text any more. This is very useful.

Web 3 -- what is it? What will it look like?

Web 3.0 and how the web is evolving is a part of current discussion. Some say Web 3D is more likely with Second Life like environments merging with the Semantic web. This is a great site for those working on inventing and predicting what will happen.

Learn about Web 3.0 and what is coming.

"Layar is a free application on your mobile phone which shows what is around you by displaying real time digital information on top of reality through the camera of your mobile phone. "

Another example of what is being developed for mobile computing. I assume the software works for only specific countries but will expand in the near future. Some good ideas for a Flat Classroom Project video.

"this app is a great demonstration of where mobile shopping is heading. With the abilities that are shown in this app, more and more apps are going to start including features like this that will offer information on virtually anything we can think of."

A nice example of where mobile computing may be heading and perhaps a stimulus for a video scene.

Share this with your students who love video games. I love how Alfred shares his thoughts on the transition from gamer to game designer. This is a huge market especially as education moves to gaming platforms as well.

This blog post is from one of Microsoft's bloggers and helps students understand what is required to create video games versus just playing them. Fits in well with Flat Classroom.