Flat Classroom Project

A list of Google competitors.

This discusses about what voIP is and the history about voIP.

The milestones of google

QR Codes are an important new technology that use something called hardlinking.

It is like internet telephony, which is voice messaging over the internet rather than an actual telephone

In Friedman's book (p 191) he talks about how Napster was perhaps "the most popular website ever created. In less than a year, it went from zero to 60 million visitors a month." This article has a great picture and says that Napster, "redefine the Internet, the music industry and the way we all think about intellectual property. "

Background on Napster - important for virtual communications group.

This is a great Time line of the history of IBM

This describes Fiber Optics and how they work.

This man is one of the leaders in the globalization of uploading.

This helps define outsourcing better.

This will tells about the Core Characteristics of Web 2.0 Services

This video explains RFID tags and QR Codes very well and is from the NetGenEd project and will help someone envision the kind of video made for this topic.

Second Life in Education users are up at arms over the fact that Linden Lab has now decided that http://sleducation.wikispaces.com infringes on their SL trademark (which has been registered for 9 days.) In my opinion this will push more people to options like Open Sim (we love Reaction Grid for ours.) You would think that they would have read the case studies on the mistakes of Microsoft when they "gave up" their monopoly when they got greedy and cornered the market. In this environment, people WILL make alternatives and this is not a group of people (the educators in SL) you want to be mad at you. These are the people who teach others how to do things, for goodness sakes - every company should wish for an army of free volunteers like Linden has. Big mistake, Linden. Big mistake, but one that perhaps it will take years to see. I have seen educators who I have NEVER, I mean NEVER been angry at Linden angry.

Important happening on October 1st about Second LIfe and education

Excellent resource for all things about copyright

Rodney Joffe, the director of US communications company Neustar, says the virus is nearly impossible to remove from infected computers.

Almost a year after it was first detected, the Conficker computer virus is still baffling security experts who say it poses the largest threat of cyber crime.

Australian airline operator Virgin Blue Group said that it has selected Verizon Business to remotely manage the airline's core business applications.

In addition to rapid growth over the past several years, the international expansion through V Australia prompted Virgin Blue to seek a reliable outsourcing partner. With the help of its partner, the group was seeking to free up its internal IT resources to focus on its evolving strategic IT needs, rather than day-to-day business operations.

Excellent overview of the flattners with Thomas Friedman.

This video from Thomas Friedman gives an excellent overview of the topics he is discussing in his landmark book. Am showing this to my class this week.

Google Maps allows Australian commuters to view up-to-date traffic flow information.

Colours overlaid on the Google Maps roads correspond to the speed of traffic, with green meaning "free sailing", yellow "medium congestion", red "heavy congestion" and black refers to "a parking lot".