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daniel manny

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www.pocket-lint.com/...ill-augmented-reality-take-off

augmentedreality

shared by daniel manny on 31 Mar 10 - Cached
  • One of the biggest buzz words in technology at the moment is the idea of Augmented Reality or AR as it's become known to its friends. Smartphone users will know it through apps like Google Goggles or Street View on the G1, both of which involve waving your phone out in front of you and looking at the world on your 3-inch LCD display along with a few computerised annotations.
  • Without meaning any disrespect to Total Immersion and what they've done, they're essentially using AR as a marketing gimmick and none of it is particularly useful to the consumer sitting at home in front of their machine.
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  • The same is true in the class room. How much more informative and inspirational would be 3D graphic images or footage of the human body and its internal organs, muscles, bones and tissues in action on your device, rather than just flat and still on the page of a text book?
  • Of course, the other bonus of our new and improved pocket computers, rather than just their mobility and connectivity, is that they have more than just cameras to get a measure of their surroundings. There are microphones that can detect wind or sound, accelerometers for movement, digital compasses to tell which direction we're facing and proximity sensors as well. Now we're in a place where we can really experiment with AR on a personal level and explore our worlds in a whole new way.
  • In fact, as futurologist and mobile service specialist, Tim Haysom of the Open Mobile Terminal Platform (OMTP) points out, the car has probably the most powerful potential AR devices out there at the moment.
  • Once such devices are in place, then the possibilities start to become mind-blowing. Within five years there's no reason why we shouldn't be out there jogging in our Nike Sport glasses, which bring up information on our heart rates, pulled in from sensors against our temples, and running times in front of our eyes as well as even adding a visual warning for pollen information if that's important too.
  • daniel manny on 31 Mar 10
     
    Inventions
Austin M

BBC News - Climate science must be more open, say MPs - 0 views

news.bbc.co.uk/...8595483.stm

opencontent

shared by Austin M on 31 Mar 10 - Cached
  • Austin M on 31 Mar 10
     
    This is a report on how the climate change is affecting us.
Lisette Casey

Textbooks Are Finished - 2 views

www.districtadministration.com/viewarticle.aspx

open source electronic books mobile computing

shared by Lisette Casey on 20 Mar 10 - Cached
  • Lisette Casey on 20 Mar 10
     
    Includes additional articles by Cathleen Norris and Elliot Soloway that may be relevant to other teams.
virginia vereen

Cloud-based Mobile Apps Gain Popularity | Bharat Chronicle - 0 views

www.bharatchronicle.com/bile-apps-gain-popularity-5995

mobile

shared by virginia vereen on 30 Mar 10 - Cached
  • Mobile cloud applications move the computing power and data storage away from mobile phones and into the cloud, bringing apps and mobile computing not just to smartphone users but a wide spectrum of mobile subscribers.
  • “Mobile Cloud Computing.” Cloud technologies will also make mobile apps more sophisticated, allowing them to be offered to a broader audience of mobile subscribers
  • The research firm further forecasts that the number of mobile cloud computing subscribers worldwide will rise from 42.8 million in 2008, (approximately 1.1 percent of all mobile subscribers) to more than 998 million in 2014 (nearly 19 percent).
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  • cloud providers are increasingly opening up their application programming interfaces, making it easier for developers.
  • Nolan R on 30 Mar 10
     
    This bookmark is describing cloud computing and how it is becoming popular.
  • virginia vereen on 30 Mar 10
     
    This article is about mobile cloud computing and how it can change mobile computing. Mobile cloud computing moves the computing power and data storage away from cell phones and into the "cloud", taking apps and mobile computing not just to your smart phone, but a wide range of mobile subscribers.
Austin M

Obama signs final healthcare changes | Reuters - 0 views

www.reuters.com/...idUSN2017888120100330

open content

shared by Austin M on 30 Mar 10 - Cached
  • Austin M on 30 Mar 10
     
    President Obama signed the final healthcare changes thinking it will help something.
Miller S.

Submit open content to the Sunlight Foundation's "Design for America" contest - Creativ... - 1 views

creativecommons.org/...21361

opencontent ebooks

shared by Miller S. on 30 Mar 10 - Cached
  • The Design for America contest is the Sunlight Foundation’s latest effort to modernize the United State’s information architecture and presentation. Their goal is “to make government data more accessible and comprehensible to the American public” by encouraging designers, artists, and programmers to reimagine government websites and to visualize government data and processes.
  • Provided you meet eligibility requirements, you can submit work to categories in Data Visualization, Process Transparency, and Redesigning the Government.
  • Miller S. on 30 Mar 10
     
    This blog is an advertisement to people for a Design for America contest. The goal of this contest is to obtain information architecture that will help make information more accessible.
Miller S.

Sales Impact of Free eBooks Dissertation Published « iterating toward openness - 0 views

opencontent.org/...1313

opencontent ebooks

shared by Miller S. on 30 Mar 10 - Cached
  • Deseret Book placed eight books online for free download. All of these were “backlist” titles. This study tracked what happened as a result of those books being available.
  • The books were placed online September 9, 2009. This study compares sales of these books the ten weeks before they were available for free with the ten weeks after.
  • During the ten weeks of the study the books were downloaded 102,556 times. Collectively, the books sold 68 more copies in the ten weeks they were online for free versus the ten previous weeks. This was an increase in sales of 26%. Over the same period of time in 2008, sales of these same books decreased by 38%.
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  • 2009 26% -16% 2008 -38% -6%
  • Thus the increase in sales of the eight featured books in 2009 seems attributable to their being available for free.
  • Visits to the online product pages of the free books increased 1,085% during the study.
  • if more books had been available and downloaded the number of additional books sold would likely have increased.
  • Miller S. on 30 Mar 10
     
    This website tells of a survey that was given. Eight books were placed online, and were downloaded many times. The results say that the placing of the books online for free helped more people to be able to buy the books.
Austin M

Georgia H1N1 Cases Spike; Low Vaccination Rates Blamed - ABC News - 0 views

abcnews.go.com/...story

open content

shared by Austin M on 30 Mar 10 - Cached
  • Austin M on 30 Mar 10
     
    Georgia thinks they wont have enough H1N1 vaccine.
Austin M

Google Says Glitch Blocks China Service - NYTimes.com - 0 views

www.nytimes.com/...31google.html

open content

shared by Austin M on 30 Mar 10 - Cached
  • Austin M on 30 Mar 10
     
    China is blaming Google for there technical difficulties.
Austin M

Christie Offers More Aid to New Jersey Districts Who Freeze Pay - BusinessWeek - 0 views

www.businessweek.com/...-districts-who-freeze-pay.html

open content

shared by Austin M on 30 Mar 10 - Cached
  • Austin M on 30 Mar 10
     
    Chris Christie offers more pay to teachers who quit teaching because they thought they were not getting paid enough.
daniel manny

The Next Wave of AR: Exploring Social Augmented Experiences at Where 2.0 | Ug... - 0 views

www.ugotrade.com/...ented-experiences-at-where-2-0

augmentedreality

shared by daniel manny on 30 Mar 10 - Cached
  • 1) “Augmenting the map as interface: AR and Locative Narratives” - Jeremy Hight *Map augmentation of the historic route 66 can house an essay contest and publication globally but as embedded within that map augmentation instead of books or even web sites. * A place on a map can be a graphic index and database to save and collect the writing of that place with a graphic or textual search index. *One can pop immersive visualizations of abandoned or lost buildings from map location in shared software and collectively augment (imagine channels within the lost core of detroit where one is memories and accounts tagged within parts in the immersive visualization while another is of poems and stories written by people moved by the place and its semiotics and story). *The news stand is to be the map. *New forms of literature will be born of mapping, spaces,augmentation and new tools
  • “With the exotic mixed realities envisioned by futurists and science fiction writers seemingly around the corner, it is time to move beyond questions of technical feasibility to consider the value and impact of turning reality inside out for everyday social settings and experiences. Thanks to the inherently social nature of augmented reality, we can be sure the value and impact of many augmented experiences depends in large part on how effectively they integrate with the social dimensions of real-world settings, in real time.”
  • I will have the awesome privilege, on our Where 2.0 panel, of showcasing ARWave.   We will  premier the ARWave demo which shows how ARWave has accomplished the basics of geolocating data on Wave Federation Protocol (and real time collaboration on this geolocated data).  If you’re interested in the ARWave project join the Mailing list, FAQ are here, and have a peek at the current state of development at Google Code, and the specification for an AR Blip.  We also have Waves for the project hosted on Google Wave.  You can join the general discussion here, and the technical side here. The picture below is a screen shot from the demo video produced by core AR Wave developer and concept designer, Thomas Wrobel. Click on the image to enlarge, and note: “The pink thing is from Dennou Coil. Its an anti-virus program (that literally chase’s down bugs and glitches and removes them).” ARWave
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  • “The possibility exists to take a part of an area and overlay a dystopia, a utopia, multiples of each of these, or even recreations of previous incarnations in the past. Writing and publication thus cannot only be of place, and form(s), but of selected augmentations of icons, streets, buildings and related texts on top of the map. These spaces can be built in real time and can be turned on and off as channels of augmentation that over time illustrate many faces of place in its present, past, possible futures,etc. with texts within these alternate spaces as commentary, as fused aesthetic analysis, or simply creative writing relevant to these charged and hybrid spaces.”
  • “Layar has a killer browser already,  ARWave would add social features. They can keep their “walled garden” of data and still join the federation of open data too ” (Thomas Wrobel) Yup, that is the cool part of federation – you can have your cake and eat it too! Sophia Parafina and I will be organizing a discussion session on ARWave and Federation at WhereCamp, right after Where 2.0, April 3rd and 4th, and Dan Peterson who is in leading the federation effort for Google Wave will join us. The diagrams below illustrate how ARWave and federation can revolutionize the way we share our augmented realities.
  • daniel manny on 30 Mar 10
     
    The Reviews and Critics
Honor Moorman

Aggregating Research on Sustainability « iterating toward openness - 0 views

opencontent.org/...1334

opencontent

shared by Honor Moorman on 11 Apr 10 - Cached
  • Honor Moorman on 11 Apr 10
     
    Be sure to follow the links and read the full article described in this blog post
Vicki Davis

The safe use of new technologies / Thematic reports / Documents by type / Browse all by... - 1 views

www.ofsted.gov.uk/...e-safe-use-of-new-technologies

education digitalcitizenship safety opencontent opened

shared by Vicki Davis on 21 Apr 10 - Cached
  • Vicki Davis on 21 Apr 10
     
    This is is a very important study from the U.K. and Office of Standards in Education in 2009 entitled "The Safe use of new technologies" showed that where provision for e-safety was outstanding all used 'managed' systems to help pupils to become safe and responsible users of new technologies." This is being cited EVERYWHERE. Take a look.
Honor Moorman

The Future Newsroom: Lean, Open, and Social Media-Savvy - 0 views

mashable.com/...future-newsroom

opencontent

shared by Honor Moorman on 01 Apr 10 - Cached
  • Honor Moorman on 01 Apr 10
     
    On the campus of Penn State University, a rivalry between a rogue campus blog and the official newspaper has become a fascinating mirror of the strife between old and new media.
Vicki Davis

What are you doing for National Volunteer Week? - grownupdigital - 0 views

grownupdigital.ning.com/...what-are-you-doing-for

education learning volunteer opened socialenetrepreneurship

shared by Vicki Davis on 09 Apr 10 - Cached
  • Vicki Davis on 09 Apr 10
     
    Don Tapscott asks students and educators to share what they are doing for "national volunteer week" even if you are not in the USA- share what you're doing this month (Earth Day is coming up.) He's listening, let's talk and engage in conversation.
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