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Miller S.

Open Content Alliance - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

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opencontent

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  • The Open Content Alliance (OCA) is a consortium of organizations contributing to a permanent, publicly accessible archive of digitized texts. Its creation was announced in October 2005 by Yahoo!, the Internet Archive, the University of California, the University of Toronto and others [1]. Scanning for the Open Content Alliance is administered by the Internet Archive, which also provides permanent storage and access through its website.
  • OCA's approach to seeking permission from copyright holders differs significantly from that of Google Book Search. OCA digitizes copyrighted works only after asking and receiving permission from the copyright holder ("opt-in"). By contrast, Google Book Search digitizes copyrighted works unless explicitly told not to do so ("opt-out"), and contends that digitizing for the purposes of indexing is fair use.
  • The OCA is, in part, a response to Google Book Search, which was announced in October 2004.
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  • Microsoft had a special relationship with the Open Content Alliance until May 2008. Microsoft joined the Open Content Alliance in October 2005 as part of its Live Book Search project [2]. However, in May 2008 Microsoft announced it would be ending the Live Book Search project and no longer funding the scanning of books through the Internet Archive.[3] Microsoft removed any contractual restrictions on the content they had scanned and they relinquished the scanning equipment to their digitization partners and libraries to continue digitization programs.[3] Between about 2006 and 2008 Microsoft sponsored the scanning of over 750,000 books, 300,000 of which are now part of the Internet Archive's on-line collections.
  • Miller S. on 30 Mar 10
     
    This wikipedia page talks about the OCA(Open Content Alliance). This website tells how this alliance is contributing to the growth of Open Content and how it is helping the idea of Open Content to become more widely used throughout the world.
Vicki Davis

Google SketchUp - 1 views

sketchup.google.com/...education.html

education learning google tool augmentedreality

shared by Vicki Davis on 18 Mar 10 - Cached
  • Vicki Davis on 18 Mar 10
     
    So, I'm finally testing Google sketchup! They have some cool competitions for modeling your town and some examples on this website and also a link for educators to download the pro version of sketchup.
Austin M

The BOOT at adtech: three trends for any social content strategy : Tips from the T-List - 0 views

www.tipsfromthetlist.com/23564.html

opencontent

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  • Austin M on 31 Mar 10
     
    New website for information.
Miller S.

Open Content Online - 0 views

aisantos.wordpress.com

opencontent

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  • Miller S. on 30 Mar 10
     
    This page helps people add open content to the Internet. This website offers videos about conferences, support center information, as well as broadcasting information.
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.
Tyler R

Augmented Reality and mobile means there's no such thing as "normal" barcodes any more - 0 views

www.gomonews.com/ng-as-normal-barcodes-any-more

augmentedreality

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  • Tyler R on 30 Mar 10
     
    One of the most common uses for them is on mobile devices. 2d barcodes like QR Code or Datamatrix can activate phone functions - they can create an SMS for you to send, or send your mobile browser to a particular website. The entire URL can be stored in a 2d code thanks to it's greater data storage.
Ben C

Parkinson's Patients Go to Wii-hab | LiveScience - 3 views

www.livescience.com/...090611-wii-parkinsons.html

gesturebased website wii parkinson's

shared by Ben C on 22 Mar 10 - Cached
  • Ben C on 24 Mar 10
     
    Using the Wii's technology can help improve the condition of patients with Parkinson's.
Vicki Davis

Blaise Aguera y Arcas demos Photosynth | Video on TED.com - 1 views

www.ted.com/..._y_arcas_demos_photosynth.html

education microsoft bing augmentedreality

shared by Vicki Davis on 26 Mar 10 - Cached
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  • Blaise Agüera y Arcas
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      Nicholas B on 26 Mar 10
       
      I looked this up sometime around last November and immediately explored the website. It's incredible how far it has come since '07.
  • Vicki Davis on 26 Mar 10
     
    This tedtalk discusses how Microsoft is building augmented reality into searchable maps and is from Blaise Agüera y Arcas with Microsoft. This software is supposed to transform how we look at digital images. This is fascinating and also a topic that the students of NetGenEd will be reviewing as part of their research into augmented reality.
Lara Moeller

EDTECH: Focus On Higher Education - Swapping Textbooks for E-books - 0 views

www.edtechmag.com/...ing-textbooks-for-e-books.html

ebooks

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  • Demi A on 24 Mar 10
     
    A website that compares having textbooks electronically verse the standard way, it lists some pros and cons as well
  • Lara Moeller on 24 Mar 10
     
    Northwest Missouri State University makes an abitious effort to replace its hefty print textbooks with electronic courseware.
Ben C

Microsoft's Project Natal Could Out-Wii the Wii - Techtonic Shifts Blog - Newsweek.com - 2 views

blog.newsweek.com/...rosoft-s-finally-got-game.aspx

gesturebased microsoft competitive website

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  • Ben C on 24 Mar 10
     
    This site talks about the console wars between Nintendo, Sony, and Microsoft. Microsoft and Sony are planning on making devices for Playstation 3 and X-Box 360 respectively that are similar to the ones Nintendo has for their Wii.
Mia M

Gapminder: Unveiling the beauty of statistics for a fact based world view. - Gapminder.org - 0 views

www.gapminder.org

visualdata video

shared by Mia M on 22 Mar 10 - Cached
  • Mia M on 22 Mar 10
     
    Statistics for a fact based world view. This website is a great tool for research on visual data analysis
Miller S.

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

creativecommons.org/...21361

opencontent ebooks

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  • 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.
Braeden Broschuk

Open Conent - 1 views

www.joomla.org

open content opencontent

shared by Braeden Broschuk on 05 Apr 10 - Cached
  • Braeden Broschuk on 05 Apr 10
     
    This is a website that can help you manahe your content and also helps build powerful online applications. This is a open source solution that is freely available to everyone.
Isaiah Toews

e-books - 0 views

portableebookreader.com

ebooks technology

shared by Isaiah Toews on 05 Apr 10 - Cached
  • Isaiah Toews on 05 Apr 10
     
    this website has some information about what e-books are
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