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Withings is a company that has wi-fi enabled devices. These devices include apps and all kinds of smart-enabled tools (including ifttt.com integration.) Scales can automatically log your weight to evernote or a google doc to track, a blood pressure monitor and perhaps my favorite, a baby monitor that lets you dial in on junior using your iphone or ipad. (I needed that when my children were younger.) I am thinking about getting the baby monitor to use to monitor my classroom. So many different applications.

This article describes how many greenhouse gases are emitted into the atmosphere whenever someone uses a computer or makes a Google search.

Interesting news story about Google's attempt to map and photograph the earth.  The story describes the first "off-road" mapping expedition into the South Rim of the Grand Canyon.

This article is about how google has advantages in mobile advertisement from Android as opposed to facebook and yahoo which are struggling.

This article is about how the digital and physical worlds are attempting to be integrated into one world.

Massively Open Online Courses are the discussion in Open Education -- I think the important thing is that students want to CONNECT around content - it is the relationships and connections that are so amazing more than just the content. People with a common passion are connecting through the content. The content becomes a conduit.  "Consider Stanford's experience: Last fall, 160,000 students in 190 countries enrolled in an Artificial Intelligence course taught by Mr. Thrun and Peter Norvig, a Google colleague. An additional 200 registered for the course on campus, but a few weeks into the semester, attendance at Stanford dwindled to about 30, as those who had the option of seeing their professors in person decided they preferred the online videos, with their simple views of a hand holding a pen, working through the problems. Mr. Thrun was enraptured by the scale of the course, and how it spawned its own culture, including a Facebook group, online discussions and an army of volunteer translators who made it available in 44 languages. "Having done this, I can't teach at Stanford again," he said at a digital conference in Germany in January. "I feel like there's a red pill and a blue pill, and you can take the blue pill and go back to your classroom and lecture your 20 students. But I've taken the red pill, and I've seen Wonderland."

Diagrams are node-link displays that help users understand how elements in a system are connected to one another. Diagrams are used in process and workflow applications, business organization charts, network management displays and UML modelers, to name just a few. Graph layout algorithms are used help automatically rearrange the nodes and links in these display for maximum readability.

I used this image in my project.

Google's new service, being tested in Jakarta, Indonesia, allows users to go on the Internet at Wi-Fi hotspots for very cheap rates in an effort to receive Internet access for all.

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