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The Internet is the platform - a tool for harnessing collective intelligence. Data has become the "Intel Inside" and software is above being written for just a single device, meaning desktops, laptops and mobile devices.

Some good trends identified, some sites listed where they are working for 'a higher purpose'; the value grows based on the number of participants. Could have some ideas for a mulit-media artifact.

The complete works of edgar allen poe are available for the ipod for free here at mogopop. I hope more books will be added.

Microsoft continues to attempt to negotiate with Yahoo -- this is an important piece of information to take a look at for the horizon project students -- Microsoft + Yahoo = A viable competitor for google? Is Google hurting Microsoft that much? These are things to look at as you review emerging trends.

The Microsoft + Yahoo collaborations and their competition with Google are important trends for the government_business groups to understand and review.

Open source now has a new meaning -- the traditional term has meant "open source software" but now, increasingly it is meaning "open source information" -- as US spy agencies are talking about the use of more open source information, or information taken from openly available and free sources on the Internet. As we teach new terminology and how to understand the words that make our world meaningful, it is increasingly important to teach students to watch and understand the evolution of language. This is an excellent case study. This is also an important term and article to be reviewed by students involved in the Horizon project that are analyzing government trends and our changing world.

This new term of open source information is a very important emerging trend that should be included in the subgroup of those analyzing government information and trends.

This is a very honest, open discussion between educators about why diigo or delicious -- I think the fact we can have this conversation within diigo at all says a lot for the usefulness of the tool. Diigo is an emerging tool for social bookmarking and collective intelligence.

Look at the conversations betwen educators occuring on diigo about this tool.

I wrote this post to outline the progression I take my classes through to get them to the state where they may collaborate directly with students in another country. I put a lot of time and thought into the progression of collaborative skills.

This talks about from an educational standpoint how I take students towards a flat classroom project.

Users of XO -- this is a srver that allows people to share anything on their XO laptop with others -- there is a link with discussions and information on this server -- so if you have an XO laptop-- take a look. This is sharing knowledge.

The XO laptop is an important trend to take a look at as one discusses how people are connecting.

This incredible chart says it all about the importance of wiki collaboration. This should also be a message to bloated bureaucracies looking to squeeze that last bit of efficiency out of already overworked staff. This is an important chart for horizon project students to include, I believe.

this is a very important graphic for including in the Horizon Project material.

An example of Literature teachers sharing links about Shakespeare.

A diigo list that Kristin Hokanson is creating for teachers of shakespeare. Many of us are experimenting with diigo because of several useful features. It imports and exports from delicious and posts to twitter automatically too.

Collaborative writing project between two classroom teachers -- it will be done on a Google Doc and it is between elementary classrooms -- you may sign up now! Lisa Parisi and Brian Crosby have set it up.

This youtube video explains the "deal" with Diigo and how it can be used. This is excellent for researchers and educators. (You could even use this for grading!)