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This story explains how Pinterest is being used by municipalities to apprehend criminals.

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This is about how china has made a new search engine, making the market share a lot bigger and more competitive. 

New technology at the Vail Mountain skiing lodge allows for people to share almost everything they do onto the Internet. Equipped with Wi-Fi access, Vail photographers ready to take pictures, and a tiny camera attached to helmets, people skiing or snowboarding at Vail can upload nearly all the activities they do during the day.

This week the Copyright Alert System is being put into effect on the Internet. The system is used as an alert to companies about copyright infringement on their websites. Now when people on the Internet attempt to copy and paste a company's work onto their own work, they will receive a series of warnings. Media companies will observe online traffic and report to Internet providers if they think work has been downloaded illegally. The person who did this will receive up to six warnings and after that service providers can stop their Internet flow or give them up to a $35 fine. This relates to the sharing of information through Web 2.0 because people's work that they upload can be stolen or plagiarized, and this is helping to prevent that by discouraging the stealing of work.

New technology has allowed students to take MOOCs, which are massive open online courses, for college credit. However, colleges have to make sure that students taking the course away from campus and laptops are not cheating on the final exam. To do this they developed software that colleges can use to monitor students through webcams, screen sharing, and high-speed Internet connections. They can also check out their photo IDs, signatures, and typing styles.

Commotion Wireless offers a new interface for wireless connectivity that does not require and Internet Service Provider(ISP). This is useful to circumnavigate Internet restrictions and to enable mobile phones a greater degree of freedom. To work this technology only requires to WiFi capable devices. Thus, this technology can be readily used by a population that does not possess access to the Internet to share files, media, and other documents to collaborate.

Here is an article about how it is socially important to stay updated on popular videos and topics.

If you wanted to examine the dead sea scrolls in the past, it would have been a challenge. These scrolls are being shared online now and allow scholars around the world to have access only afforded to exclusive scholars on a limited basis in the past.

Black Friday? There is an app for that. TGI Black Friday. It gives you the ads. You can download them on your iphone and Android. (OK, yes, I'm researching for shopping and sharing the good things with you.)

Instagram is a common way people use the world wide web. With this website or app you can share pictures and videos with anyone from anywhere in the world. This could be a way to share art and you can use the website for entertainment.

This article explains the differences between Web 1.0 (push), Web 2.0 (sharing), and Web 3.0 (live). Matthew Hodgson does a good job of illustrating this with pictures and examples.

"The internet has changed the lives of people around the world. It has never before been easier to acquire various types of information and to reach people around the world by entering social online networks, such as Facebook. However, the infinity of the internet also leads to information overflow. Likewise, the majority of social online networks address private people, oftentimes leaving the opportunities from which the professional world could benefit unused. Thus, modern web tools which filter information and social networks that enable people to easily communicate, network and share knowledge with each other in the professional context are a tremendous help. "

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.

License for open-source software sharing

Would teachers use a tool that they can draw on a website?

Read this if you're covering politics and take a look at the fivethrigtyeight.com blog.

Tom HOffman shares some of the background story of fivethirtyeight.com - a great story of collaboration and work and how "no names" become somebody with hard work, intelligence, persistence, and a commitment to "do it right" sans an agenda.

This group may be an interesting group to interview for Flat Classroom project - from Houston.

Got a link to this wiki from Estie Cuellar, amazing teacher who has joined in Flat Classroom this year. She says: "I would like to share something with you guys. I teach a Sports Marketing Class. I'm always looking for new and fun ways to reach the kids. Yesterday, I started my class on a comprehensive project that I'm calling, "Rock On." The goal of the project is for the students teams (all of my classes work in teams) to synthesize what they've learned in class so far (they've learned the marketing mix, target marketing, positioning, segmenting, and the 7-key functions of marketing) and plan a 20 city tour for their band. I found the project from a "Best Practices" book that Jeff McCauley of The Marketing Teacher compiled from marketing teachers and sent out as a PDF a couple of years ago. I have modified the original project to utilize Web2.0 technologies." Interesting ideas - wish I could teach marketing!

At the core of FreshBrain is an open and free web site freshbrain.org that provides teens with the opportunity to explore, engage, and create through activities and projects. FreshBrain takes advantage of the latest technologies, such as web conferencing and social networking, to provide a very progressive environment where teens can complete activities and work together on projects. This experience is enhanced with Advisors, available to support and mentor teens who are working on projects, with the intention of increasing the likelihood of success. In addition, FreshBrain provides teens with tools and training in the latest technologies to complete these projects. Providing the latest tools in technology, and a social interactive networking environment, has enabled teens to explore, create, and share with others. A result of pulling these two key online arenas together into one solution has enabled FreshBrain to attract teens comfortable with technology and communicating online. Creations from FreshBrain users range from music videos to logo designs.