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Phil Taylor

Jeff Bezos Owns the Web in More Ways Than You Think | Magazine - 1 views

  • It is a third gadget, the long-awaited Amazon tablet called the Kindle Fire, that represents his company’s most ambitious leap into the hearts, minds, and wallets of millions of consumers.
  • the Fire is an emblem of a post-web world, in which our devices are simply a means for us to directly connect with the goodies in someone’s data center.
  • Amazon, on the other hand, is a content-focused company—almost half of its revenue comes from sales of media like books, music, TV shows
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  • This keeps iPads tethered to the paradigm of local storage, putting a premium on machines with more memory (which cost hundreds of dollars more). Amazon, by contrast, emphasizes streaming.
Phil Taylor

Disrupting Education: 8 Ideas That Will Break It Once And For All - 0 views

  • Ideally this would free teachers for more human and emotionally complex interactions, provided strategic adjustments are made.
  • Microsoft, Apple, Google, Honda, Amazon, and well just about every other forward thinking company on earth are scrambling to adjust for a mobile culture that is cloud-based and social. This should affect everything in education, from how learning models and curriculum are designed, to how students interact with one another and their local communities.
  • Universities are decaying. At least in their current form.
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