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" Assessment, Badges, Gadget and Google Apps Script"

Some useful links and instructions on web gadgets, many of which can be used in Google Sites.

List of Wave add-ons

A starter on creating gadgets to manipulate data in Googlr spreadsheets.

Library gadget for iGoogle. Should have a look at what's been developed through the API.

"It was great to see New Zealand start-up Swiftpoint honoured at the CES show here in Vegas for the novel design of its pint-sized finger-controlled computer mouse."

A huge danger in linking your accounts together over multiple services - and in not backing up your data. It's the cloud - be afraid, be very afraid.

New technology.

"Meta-data contains a great deal of information, and when gathered together it forms a startlingly clear picture of the person it comes from. A point that Professor César Hidalgo and graduate students Daniel Smilkov and Deepak Jagdish of MIT are trying to get across. They have created a new program called Immersion. It works by signing you into your Gmail account and collecting only the meta-data from your account usage history. From there you can get a picture of your emailing habits from that single account, and you will be shocked at what you see."

Want one :)

Some backstory to new copyright law in NZ, the file-sharing amendment.

Scott Wilso at Uni of Bolton has created some Google Wave widget for Moodle. "I've created a Moodle course that uses some widgets, all of which make use of the Wave Gadget API. Some of these are Google examples (converted to W3C format) and some are ones we've created."

The Pulse smartpen records and links audio to what you write, so you never miss a word.

We can get one of these for Derek!!