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Robin Cicchetti

It's official: Google wants to own your online identity - Tech News and Analysis - 7 views

gigaom.com/...ts-to-own-your-online-identity

identity privacy identity service real name google digital footprint

shared by Robin Cicchetti on 30 Aug 11 - No Cached
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      Robin Cicchetti on 30 Aug 11
       
      Users forfeit the ownership of their user data to Google.
  • Google’s purpose was clearly to “provide identity in a commerce-ready way. And to give them information about what you do on the Internet, without obfuscation of pseudonyms.
  • obvious search-related rationale for launching a social network like Google+, since indexing and mining that kind of activity can help the company provide better “social search” results. But the real-name issue has more to do with Google’s other business: namely, advertising.
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  • The growth of Google+ provides a reason for people to create Google profiles, and that data — along with their activity on the network and through +1 buttons — goes into the vast Google cyberplex where it can be crunched and indexed and codified in a hundred different ways
  • excludes potentially valuable viewpoints that might be expressed by political dissidents and others who prefer to remain anonymous. In effect, Schmidt said Google isn’t interested in changing its policies to accommodate those kinds of users: if people want to remain anonymous, he said, then they shouldn’t use Google+.
  • the reason Google needs users with real names is that the company sees Google+ as the core of an identity platform it is building that can be used for other things:
  • n identity service, so fundamentally, it depends on people using their real names if they’re going to build future products that leverage that information
beth gourley

Best Buy and Verizon Jump Into E-Reader Fray, With iRex - NYTimes.com - 1 views

www.nytimes.com/...23ebooks.html

digitalgist mobile-devices

shared by beth gourley on 28 Sep 09 - Cached
  • iRex Technologies, a spinoff of Royal Philips Electronics that already makes one of Europe’s best-known e-readers, plans to announce that it is entering the United States market with a $399 touch-screen e-reader.
  • The iRex has an 8.1-inch touch screen and links to buy digital books in Barnes & Noble’s e-bookstore and periodicals from NewspaperDirect, a service that offers more than 1,100 papers and presents them onscreen largely as they appear in print form.
  • The iRex can also handle the ePub file format, a widely accepted industry standard, which means that owners can buy books from other online bookstores that use ePub and transfer texts onto the iRex.
  • beth gourley on 28 Sep 09
     
    Source for Tennant's article in LJ
kimberly Thomerson

Advice - 0 views

I am currently working on my Master's in LME and I have to create an advocacy toolkit as one of my projects. I have been to the ALA website and reviewed the advocacy toolkits online. Any other su...

started by kimberly Thomerson on 27 Oct 11 no follow-up yet
Katy Vance

Bibliotech: 6 concerns about trends in digital collection development - 1 views

mluhtala.blogspot.com/...-about-digital-collection.html

collection development ebooks trends luhtala

shared by Katy Vance on 19 Feb 13 - No Cached
  • Librarians feel compelled to acquire eContent from only one distributor because it is too confusing – for them, for students, for teachers, for business managers - to purchase eContent from a variety of distributors, thus materials selection is driven by who they buy from, not what a
  • igns with the curriculum. This is a classic example of the tail wagging the dog.
  • It is our job to develop our collections, aligning them with our school/district’s curriculum – not to buy ready-made packages from vendors.  It is our job to create, instructional materials, and to determine how to best assess our students’ learning.  This requires granular knowledge of our patron base, our curricula, and our collections. You can't fake this. It takes a long time to build that knowledge base. If we relinquish these responsibilities to commercial interests, we literally sell out our own profession.
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  • eContent requires meticulous, patron-aware (rather than traditional) cataloging.  It is virtually (no pun intended) impossible to “display” eContent. There is no way to physically put it in the hands of students, if students are using their own technology. This is not happening for a few reasons: Since vendors and library management systems have made it possible to import MARC records, librarians, as a whole, have been falling out of the cataloging practice. Cataloging is time consuming, and tedious work. Cataloging, as we learned it, doesn’t work for our students. We have to reinvent it. For example, at New Canaan High School, we add the project name as a subject heading to each title in the eCollection that supports it. 
  • In BYOD programs, library programs should be undergoing significant instructional transformations that evolve as students’ facility with mobile technology increases. The ratio of print to digital content should be contingent upon students’ ability to access eContent. Developing a system to calculate this would help school librarians make sound decisions about format choices."
Cathy Oxley

Robots at your service - 6 views

business.nab.com.au/robots-at-your-service-6168

robots robotics future_trends

shared by Cathy Oxley on 26 Aug 14 - No Cached
  • Cathy Oxley on 26 Aug 14
     
    'Robots are spreading beyond the factory, a trend that will accelerate in 2014. The situation is akin to the transition from mainframe computers to PCs.'
Jennifer Dimmick

PowToon, free business presentation software animated video maker and PowerPoint altern... - 16 views

www.powtoon.com

animation presentation tools web2.0

shared by Jennifer Dimmick on 10 Feb 14 - No Cached
  • Jennifer Dimmick on 10 Feb 14
     
    Free animated video creator. Includes the cool handwriting/whiteboard technique that's popular today (like the Sir Ken Robinson Educational Paradigm video). Can connect to the app via Google Docs, which means students don't have to create their own accounts.
susana cruz

Research blog: Current trends in children's digital books - 0 views

www.booktrust.org.uk/...701

Traditional books _ digital

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  • susana cruz on 16 Oct 14
     
    One thing was certain at the London Book Fair this year: books and e-books are attracting and competing for children's and publishers' attention. While digital publishers are translating thousands of classical stories to a digital format, book publishers are experimenting with the use of new digital tools to expand their business reach.
futuristspeaker

10 Unanswerable Questions that Neither Science nor Religion can Answer - Futurist Speaker - 2 views

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questions that cannot be answered unanswerable questions my future self future of technology future of education future of business questions without answers impossible questions to answer

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  • futuristspeaker on 21 Nov 18
     
    A few years ago I was taking a tour of a dome shaped house, and the architect explained to me that domes are an optical illusion. Whenever someone enters a room, their eyes inadvertently glance up at the corners of the room to give them the contextual dimensions of the space they're in.
Javier Mejia Torrenegra

Bibliotecas digitales: reflexiones desde la práctica Qué le pedimos a los edi... - 4 views

www.exagonobibliotecario.blogspot.com/...-genero-de-dudas-se-puede.html

Bibliotecas Business model ebooks editores Editoriales Exagono Libraries Libros electrónicos Modelos de negocio Plataformas

shared by Javier Mejia Torrenegra on 17 Jan 13 - No Cached
  • Javier Mejia Torrenegra on 17 Jan 13
     
    Sin ningún género de dudas se puede afirmar que las bibliotecas están siendo uno de los motores fundamentales de impulso del libro electrónico en aquellos países que antes han iniciado la carrera digital del libro electrónico, y han sido muchas las bibliotecas que han respondido positiva y rápidamente a este cambio de expectativas. Uno de los factores clave es la evidencia de un crecimiento exponencial en los hábitos y actitudes de lectura en dispositivos electrónicos móviles, convirtiéndose de este modo las pantallas en interfaces privilegiadas de lectura y aprendizaje [Shen 2011]; junto a nuevos entornos de aprendizaje apoyados en la tecnología, a través de sistemas de e-learning en los que las nuevas tecnologías convierten a la biblioteca en uno de los ejes de consulta de los usuarios, en los que cobra cada vez más importancia la disponibilidad, flexibilidad y movilidad de la información a través de conexiones, redes e intercambios como elementos esenciales del sistema de aprendizaje.
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