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Apple grapples with the competition. Was Zittrain right or wrong? When Apple opened the App Store, it provided the building blocks so independent programmers could create software that worked on its phone. But the company said it would vet submissions to maintain…
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BowkerLINK™ tags: bowkerlink Electronic PCN: Cataloging in Publication Program (Library of Congress) A Library of Congress catalog card number is a unique identification number that the Library of Congress assigns to the catalog record created for each book in its cataloged collections.…
Over the past couple weeks there has been enormous amounts of buzz on Twitter. Just about every medium has an opinion about the service, how to use it, how to make money from it, and who will be using it, to name…
Why Skilled Immigrants Are Leaving the U.S. Despite the fact that they constitute only 12% of the U.S. population, immigrants have started 52% of Silicon Valley’s technology companies and contributed to more than 25% of our global patents. They make up 24%…
Teaching and Learning with Technology Conference 2009 tags: conferences, elearning Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.
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YouTube has added more social features to it’s API. Now users can tag favorite videos, make comments, and upload videos. Like some other sites out there like Amazon, YouTube hopes that there will now be an influx of applicaitons or sites that…
How much do search engines know about us? A lot… Read the page below and then take their browser privacy test… Over their relative short history, Internet search engines have emerged as the de facto gateway to the rest of the World…
This is what you get when you use a slick tool like Wordle (try it!) to run all the words used to make up the Terms of Service agreements of seven notable internet companies: cool visualizations that somewhat capture the essence of…
Comparing 3D-Earth Viewers – November 2007, Volume 21, Issue 11 – Archive – GIM International, the global magazine for Geomatics A 3D-Earth viewer enables navigating through the virtual environment and can be easily downloaded from the internet. How might this rapid development…
Slideshare presentation of Visible Past. Visible Past is a web-based knowledge creation and storage environment that is aware of a user's spatial location and which delivers information on the fly, to that location, based on the user needs connected to that location.…
Student Expectations Seen as Causing Grade Disputes – NYTimes.com – Annotated tags: student, expectation, grade inflation, entitlement “I tell my classes that if they just do what they are supposed to do and meet the standard requirements, that they will earn a…
Alterpode survey document This is a wiki page dedicated to building the survey for the Alterpode project tags: no_tag ViewletQuiz | Qarbon’s Flash Based Survey and Quiz Software tags: no_tag Smart Survey : Create unlimited Flash Surveys on a site which allows…
Twisten.fm….a new mashup between Twitter and music service Grooveshark is just one more way to “fall in love” with web 2.0. As if Twitter needed another way to show-off it’s coolness.
HowStuffWorks “What is an IP address?” – Annotated tags: ip, address Out of the almost 4.3 billion possible combinations 2 to the power of 32 – post by somatei HowStuffWorks “How Domain Name Servers Work” – Annotated tags: DNS If you are…
New World Notes: Rezzable Launches Virtual Worlds Directory My enterprising colleagues at NWN partner Rezzable just launched a Virtual Worlds Directory, a user-run/user-rated guide to interesting and worthwhile Second Life locations (though ultimately it will include other worlds.)
Will President Obama have a computer in the Oval Office? – By Nina Shen Rastogi – Slate Magazine Barack Obama completed his first full day as president on Wednesday. Pictures of the historic occasion showed Obama sitting at a gleaming Oval Office…
UCLA Digital Humanities & Media Studies tags: digital humanities, ucla, manifesto, education, web2.0, app, ideas, technology Queeky – Social drawing! – QUEEKY – Social drawing tags: web2.0, queeky, tools, community, draw, web, Graphics, design Personal Branding 102: How to Communicate & Maintain…
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Wouldn’t it be great to be able to login to any computer and be able to access all your music, pictures, documents, and passwords to all your social networking services? Well, soon (hopefully) you’ll be able to. This is the whole idea…
Just when you thought you that Google was everywhere, it shows up again someplace unexpected…or is it? Now you can get your “content specific” news from Google on your personal website. This is great for those who run news-based sites. It’s also…
This comedy blends the old-school talent of director Harold Ramis with the new millennium hit-making prowess of producer Judd Apatow. YEAR ONE stars Apatow collaborator Michael Cera and funnyman Jack Black as men who are banished from their ancient village, causing them…
Have you ever wanted to capture a webpage in it’s entirety? More than just the link, but what you actually see on the page? Well you can! Services like Google notebook, Evernote, ubernote, Diigo, and Zoho (to name a few) can…
The Obama administration will govern supported by a strong infrastructure of Web 2.0 applications. One of them will be the new Change.gov site. This is a mega blog, powered by the millions of supporters and one can imagine at times enemies of…
Submitted by Adrienne Hall on December 1, 2008 to the On-line Interaction and Facilitation Seminar, Fall 2008, Purdue University, Dr. Sorin A. Matei via the I Think Blog (http://www.matei.org/ithink) Abstract The purpose of this paper is to discuss some of the design…
Submitted by Christina Kalinowski on November 23rd, 2008 to the On-line Interaction and Facilitation Seminar, Fall 2008, Purdue University, Dr. Sorin A. Matei via the I Think Blog Designing and maintaining a functional and fruitful online community can be a difficult endeavor. …
Submitted by Christina Kalinowski on October 22nd, 2008 to the On-line Interaction and Facilitation Seminar, Fall 2008, Purdue University, Dr. Sorin A. Matei via the I Think Blog Abstract Individualism is highly valued in American culture, and its growing importance to American…
Submitted by "Adrienne Hall" on October 22, 2008 to the On-line Interaction and Facilitation Seminar, Fall 2008, Purdue University, Dr. Sorin A. Matei via the I Think Blog. Abstract This essay attempts to begin explaining how participation in online social interactions impacts…
Submitted by Brian Britt on October 22nd, 2008 to the On-line Interaction and Facilitation Seminar, Fall 2008, Purdue University, Dr. Sorin A. Matei via the I Think Blog (http://www.matei.org/ithink) Abstract The internet has grown into one of the largest media of the…
Springwise: HarperCollins hopes crowds will spot next bestseller Founded by HarperCollins, Authonomy is a new community that invites unpublished and self-published authors to post at least 10,000 words of a fiction or non-fiction manuscript for visitors to read online. Visitors can review…
A sophisticated browser, which straddles the desktop/server divide has been launched by Google. It aims to create a better platform for its webapplications, which need to be faster and more secure to compete with the local desktop, currently dominated by Microsoft. The…
A mashup utility good for everything. For now, only in command line. Mozilla Ubiquity, Microsoft IE8, and the fracturing of Web pages | Webware : Cool Web apps for everyone – CNET
[youtube]nLu-Yb4EIsQ[/youtube] Norman, the psychologist of POET fame (Psychology of Everyday Things) who gave the world the concept of device affordance, shot one of its last shells across the bow in his “Invisible: Why Good Products Can Fail, the Personal Computer Is So…
An excellent intro to creating mashups by Raymond Yee Mashup Guide :: Text of the Book (v 1.0a) Technorati Tags: mashup,guide,learn,tutorial
Have condisered Django for your SOA strategy? Developed and used over two years by a fast-moving online-news operation, Django was designed to handle two challenges: the intensive deadlines of a newsroom and the stringent requirements of the experienced Web developers who wrote…
Submitted by Colleen E. Brown on November 26 to the On-line Interaction and Facilitation Seminar, Fall 2007, Purdue University, Dr. Sorin A. Matei via the I Think Blog (http://www.matei.org/ithink) Introduction The need for group membership, social support, and information gathering are part…
Submitted by Colleen E. Brown on October 15, 2006 to the On-line Interaction and Facilitation Seminar, Fall 2007, Purdue University, Dr. Sorin A. Matei via the I Think Blog (http://www.matei.org/ithink) The growth of computer mediated communication (CMC) has sparked much debate across…
As you can see, I have set up a new Amazon.com Store for I Think. I selected a number of books I am using in my classes and I have linked them to the main page. The store is quite primitive, but…
A very handy tool for creating neat, round corner, smooth background gradient colored boxes for your webpages. It generates both the CSS and the picture files. RoundedCornr: Rounded Corner and Gradient Generator
Linguistic and Cultural Online Communication Issues in the Global Age Edited By: Kirk St.Amant, Texas Tech University, USA Chapter X: Cultural Cognitive Style and the Web: Toward a Theory and Practice of Web Design for International Users / Anthony Faiola and Sorin…
Image via Wikipedia The idea that cultures and societies stay the same is put again to rest by this little piece of news about the increase of the divorce rate in China. WP: Barriers to divorce fade in China – washingtonpost.com Highlights…
An educator’s perspective Students love Wikipedia. Convenience and deadlines remembered at the last minute conspire with immense success in making undergraduate students avid consumers of web content. Professors fight their pupils’ addiction with stern grading policies bolded, underlined or italicized in the…
Last Christmas when I returned home to Little Rock to celebrate the holidays I had the opportunity to meet Robert Steinbuch, a central figure in a minor Washington sex scandal that may have far reaching implications for how individuals can conduct themselves…
Larry Sanger, Wikipedia’s confounder, is at it again. He decided to “fork” Wikipedia, that is to create another flavor, which includes more editorial control, of the famous online encyclopedia. I am part of the project, called Citizendium, and I hope to be…
From Don Norman, the author of the famous POET (Psychology of everyday things) a word of wisdom about Human factors: I’m often asked for reading suggestions, especially for references to the literature on Human Factors and Ergonomics. In the past few months,…
Is the Internet, as we’ve seen it described in our readings, and perhaps also as we’ve experienced it, a liminal state itself? Namely is the Internet a component or vehicle by which the process of liminality is being accomplished. As Turner (1995)…
In his postlogue/added chapter to his book, Rheingold asks whether the use of the “phrase virtual community is a perversion of the notion of community?” (2001, p.325). He then goes on to talk about Clifford Stoll as an example of someone who…
When it comes to the “dilemma of modernityâ€, namely, the tension between individual expression and community spirit (Matei, 2001) all the authors have an opinion on how serious it is and whether it can be resolved. Rheingold in a lengthy postlogue remains…
Perhaps it is my return to a small town format – or perhaps my background in non-profits and volunteers – or a history of having suffered or thrived (sometimes both) at the hands of various communities, or simply wanting to be a…
This site is enabled to use MarkDown, a simplified syntax for representing web-friendly formatting. The syntax is very simple and if you do not feel comfortable with html it might come in quite handy. A description of the syntax can be found…
Moira Gunn, the NPR technology correspondent, will start her visit at Purdue’s “Perspectives on Communication and Technology” graduate seminar later today. In addition to giving two lectures in our seminar she will give a public talk tomorrow, at 3 PM, titled “The…