Everybody enjoys things @ enjoysthin.gs
enjoythin.gs is a place where you can keep track of things you enjoy. You can enjoy a whole web page or you can even enjoy a specific photo on that page.
pinboarded
3 Models of Value in the Real Time Web
he Real Time Web is coming so fast we've hardly had any time to think about it yet. So let's do that, shall we? The two hottest technologies online, Twitter and Facebook, are fast integrating real-time delivery of activity streams to their users. Paul Buchheit, the man who built the first versions of both Gmail and Adsense, says the real time web is going to be the next big thing.
tweetnews
links tweets to the freshest Yahoo! News articles. The more related tweets an article has, the higher its rank. The tweet count and messages are presented underneath each result so that a user can read the social commentary inline with the article listing.
Delicious Reborn as Real-Time News Tracker
Yahoo's social bookmarking service Delicious launched a new home page this morning, combining recent tagging activity and cross-referenced links on Twitter to deliver what it calls the hottest news from around the web in real time. While the exact formula behind the front page remains unclear, its contents are clearly changing minute by minute.
The Real-Time Web: A Primer, Part 1
This is part 1 of a three-part series on the fundamental characteristics of the real-time Web.
Top 5 Web Trends of 2009: The Real-Time Web
In this article we look at probably the most hyped trend of 2009: the Real-Time Web. It has become a core part of many Internet products this year: Twitter, FriendFeed, Facebook, Google, Delicious, Wordpress, and many others.
Perpetually.com
Perpetually lets businesses and organizations keep the history of the web in a private archive.
AeroScout
AeroScout uses standard Wi-Fi networks as a core infrastructure, and also offers a variety of additional infrastructure options to meet advanced customer needs All wireless visibility solutions require infrastructure devices, or readers, in order to pass wireless signals from tags or sensors to the network. At the core of AeroScout’s infrastructure offering is the Wi-Fi network, which in most cases acts as this reader network. AeroScout has partnered with all of the leading WLAN equipment vendors to integrate their industry-leading Enterprise Networking products with our Wi-Fi-based Active RFID tags and software
Nokia - Indoor Positioning
The mobile uses the buildings’ WLAN infrastructure to triangulate your position and then indicates where you are on a building map. Nokia prototypes today can show your location - building section and floor level. They allow you to browse the building, find points of interest and you can even share your position with the people you choose, when you want. Today Nokia has Indoor Positioning trials ongoing within 40 buildings worldwide.
Apps.Gov
Cloud Computing is a source for cloud computing applications for US Government Organizations.
The US Government Is Going Google
It looks like The White House has copied a page from Google’sGoogleGoogle playbook and is now advocating that federal agencies move to the cloud. Google has long been a proponent of business in the cloud, most recently advocating their web-based Google Apps to enterprise prospects in the “Going Google” campaign. In an effort to reduce government operational costs and move agencies to the cloud, the White House is launching Apps.gov. The new initiative was announced by Vivek Kundra, Federal Chief Information Officer, on The White House Blog. Apps.gov makes cloud-based IT services (which includes Google Apps) available for purchase to all federal agencies and is an all-in-one store front designed to make the purchase and adoption of cloud computing services common place.
The US Government Is Going Google
It looks like The White House has copied a page from Google’sGoogleGoogle playbook and is now advocating that federal agencies move to the cloud. Google has long been a proponent of business in the cloud, most recently advocating their web-based Google Ap
Google Public Policy Blog: Introducing DataLiberation.org: Liberate your data!
Google's Data Liberation Front, is working hard to combat from an engineering perspective. We're a small team of Google Chicago engineers (named after a Monty Python skit about the Judean People's Front) that aims to make it easy for our users to transfer their personal data in and out of Google's services by building simple import and export functions. Our goal is to "liberate" data so that consumers and businesses using Google products always have a choice when it comes to the technology they use. What does product liberation look like? Said simply, a liberated product is one which has built-in features that make it easy (and free) to remove your data from the product in the event that you'd like to take it elsewhere.
Technical Debt
You have a piece of functionality that you need to add to your system. You see two ways to do it, one is quick to do but is messy - you are sure that it will make further changes harder in the future. The other results in a cleaner design, but will take longer to put in place. Technical Debt is a wonderful metaphor developed by Ward Cunningham to help us think about this problem. In this metaphor, doing things the quick and dirty way sets us up with a technical debt, which is similar to a financial debt. Like a financial debt, the technical debt incurs interest payments, which come in the form of the extra effort that we have to do in future development because of the quick and dirty design choice. We can choose to continue paying the interest, or we can pay down the principal by refactoring the quick and dirty design into the better design. Although it costs to pay down the principal, we gain by reduced interest payments in the future.
International Mind Brain and Education Society
The mission of the International Mind, Brain, and Education Society (IMBES) is to facilitate cross-cultural collaboration in all fields that are relevant to connecting mind, brain, and education in research, theory, and/or practice. You can learn about our work by reading our newsletter, journal, and online conference presentations or by listening to podcasts of presentations from our international meetings.
Service Cloud™ 2 - Salesforce Knowledge, Salesforce Answers, and Salesforce for Twitter - salesforce.com
The Service Cloud™ has been helping more than 8,000 companies deliver stellar customer service. Helping them run more efficient contact centers, connect with customers online, and even join the conversation in social communities. And today, their agents got a lot smarter. Now, they have a new way of joining the conversation online. And their customers have a new way to solve their service issues in the cloud, in real time. The next chapter in the customer service revolution kicks off with three exciting new products from salesforce.com: Salesforce Knowledge, Salesforce Answers, and Salesforce for Twitter.
Service Cloud™ 2 - Salesforce Knowledge, Salesforce Answers, and Salesforce for Twitter - salesforce.com
The Service Cloud™ has been helping more than 8,000 companies deliver stellar customer service. Helping them run more efficient contact centers, connect with customers online, and even join the conversation in social communities. And today, their agents g
Socialnomics – Social Media Blog
Socialnomics(TM) is a blog designed to cover the latest trends in social media. It primarily focuses on covering the latest news on social media and what it means Socialnomics-book-cover-3D-L-smallfor users and businesses, often taking irreverent view points of a popular topic.
My Teacher, My Hero | Alan Levine
My video sharing a story about my high school math teacher, Mr Witts
My Teacher, My Hero | Alan Levine
My video sharing a story about my high school math teacher, Mr Witts
the preservation of favoured traces | ben fry
We often think of scientific ideas, such as Darwin's theory of evolution, as fixed notions that are accepted as finished. In fact, Darwin's On the Origin of Species evolved over the course of several editions he wrote, edited, and updated during his lifet
Socialreporter | Clay Shirky: nonprofits must become new-style convenors - or lose their members
Clay Shirky really pins down what any organisation relying on members or supporters for its life must do if it is to stay in business as people increasing network online. That means change for campaigning charities, trade associations, and membership bodies who may have worked in the past through a mix of newsletters, events and perhaps not very special services. If they don’t offer more value, members and supporters will stop paying their subs. I’ve suggested this before, Clay says it much better.
Tech news: For the smarter kind of bookworm - Times Online
Asus, one of the world’s biggest consumer electronics businesses, confirmed last week that it is planning to shake up the market in the same way it did when it launched the first netbook — the low-cost alternative to the laptop. Asus claims its ebook reader will be cleverer and more versatile than the current crop available from companies such as Sony and Amazon.
Storybird - Collaborative storytelling
Storybirds are short, visual stories that you make with family and friends to share and (soon) print.
A library without the books - The Boston Globe
Cushing Academy has all the hallmarks of a New England prep school, with one exception. This year, after having amassed a collection of more than 20,000 books, officials at the pristine campus about 90 minutes west of Boston have decided the 144-year-old school no longer needs a traditional library. The academy’s administrators have decided to discard all their books and have given away half of what stocked their sprawling stacks - the classics, novels, poetry, biographies, tomes on every subject from the humanities to the sciences. The future, they believe, is digital.
Math in Society
Math in Society is a free, open textbook. This book is a survey of mathematical topics, most non-algebraic, appropriate for a college-level topics course for liberal arts majors. The text is designed so that most chapters are independent, allowing the instructor to choose a selection of topics to be covered. Emphasis is placed on the applicability of the mathematics. Core material for each topic is covered in the main text, with additional depth available through exploration exercises appropriate for in-class, group, or individual investigation. This book is appropriate for Math 107 (Washington State Community Colleges common course number).
Math in Society
Math in Society is a free, open textbook. This book is a survey of mathematical topics, most non-algebraic, appropriate for a college-level topics course for liberal arts majors. The text is designed so that most chapters are independent, allowing the ins
ACMA - Click and connect: Young Australians’ use of online social media
This research focuses on young people's use of social media, including how, why and when they encounter content, contact and privacy risks when they go online. The research was conducted in two parts—a qualitative phase and a quantitative phase.
Google Wave: 5 Ways It Could Change the Web
Google Wave arrives on September 30th. On that day, Google will start sending out 100,000 invites to non-developers to its much-anticipated real-time communication platform. It’s not even released and it’s generating more hype than almost any other web product in recent memory. The reason stems from its game-changing features and their potential applications on business, education, customer service, email, social networking, and more. So with Wave on the way, we wanted to explore some of the potential of Google’s upcoming product. We have a few of our own ideas and included some from Google Wave developers, but more than anything, we want your ideas, so be sure to leave your great Google Wave invention in the comments! Who knows, maybe we’ll feature them in the future!
Google Wave: 5 Ways It Could Change the Web
Google Wave arrives on September 30th. On that day, Google will start sending out 100,000 invites to non-developers to its much-anticipated real-time communication platform. It’s not even released and it’s generating more hype than almost any other web p