Facebook Users Are Poorer Students — And Don't Know It
Like drunk drivers who insist to the arresting officer that the booze has no affect on their ability behind the wheel, college students who are on Facebook are poorer students than those who don't partake — and say it has no impact on their studies. read more
Work Related Characteristics of Online Life
Strategist Gary Hamel created a list of 12 work-relevant characteristics of online life and I have reposted them below.
1. All ideas compete on equal footing
2. Contribution counts far more than credentials
3. Hierarchies are natural, not prescribed
4. Leaders serve rather than preside
5. Tasks are chosen, not assigned
6. Groups are self-defining and self-organizing
7. Resources get attracted, not allocated
8. Power comes from sharing information, not hoarding it
9. Opinions compound and decisions are peer-reviewed
10. Users can veto most policy decisions
11. Intrinsic rewards matter most
12. Hackers are heroes
A Protest For China's Internet Censorship
What is this all about? click here for an article from the NY Times.
Porter Mufflers
Porter Mufflers uses the CMS system, Joomla, as its development platform. This allows easy expanded development.
A Nielsen study done in the second quarter of 2008 said teenagers ages 13-17 text more than any other demographic group. 1,742 per month or 58 per day. The Nielsen study, of 50,000 cell phone users nationwide, found that people use their cell phones more for texting than for talking. On average, each user sends 357 texts a month versus 204 voice calls a month.
Google Lattitude
Welcome to ClearComet
ClearComet Ventures was an early pioneer in delivering video over the Internet. In 1999, we delivered our first videos over the Internet in Real Streams of archival matches of the AWA Wrestling Association on our first website to the delight of wrestling fans around the world. Even if most watched with 56k modems.
ClearComet supports the viability, reliability, and sustainability of the green Software-as-a Service (SaaS) model.
We believe that traditional, on-premise software is fundamentally anti-green, based on its slow pace of software innovation and reliance on redundant and energy inefficient hardware.
Skype is now available on the iphone and other mobile platforms! www.skype.com
We plan and implement successful WEB 2.0 strategies.
Cutting the Cable on Cable TV
A recent apartment move provided eWEEK Labs analyst Cameron Sturdevant with an opportunity to cut the cable on cable TV. He used Roku, Netflix, Amazon, Tivo and Apple to free himself. read more at eweek.com
Twitter-Facebook-Youtube
While completely different technologies, Twitter has been gaining a lot of buzz. Check out some facts as reported by compete.com.
SAAS or cloud-based e-mail systems are cost-effective for companies or divisions up to 15,000 users, determined Forrester Research analyst Ted Schadler, who surveyed IT professionals at 53 North American and European enterprises to find out where they run their e-mail and other messaging and collaboration services.
Web 2 - Bits
According to a Forrester Research report released in 2008, by 2013, investment in customer-facing Web 2.0 technologies will outstrip spending on internal collaboration software by nearly a billion dollars.
Social networking tools will be de rigeur in enterprises in 2009, so get your portfolios fitted with proper social tools, including contacts lists for professionals, discussion forums and other tools to help colleagues connect.
Dennis Peterson has been named 2008 School Superintendent of the Year in Minnesota by his peers (www.mnasa.org). We spoke with him in a 2006 interview on "Technology in the Classroom".
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Web 2.0
Web 2.0 is a term which describes the trend in the use of World Wide Web technology and web design that aims to enhance creativity, information sharing, and, most notably, collaboration among users. These concepts have led to the development and evolution of web-based communities and hosted services, such as social-networking sites, wikis, blogs, and folksonomies. Although the term suggests a new version of the World Wide Web, it does not refer to an update to any technical specifications, but to changes in the ways software developers and end-users utilize the Web.
Dennis Peterson has been named 2008 School Superintendent of the Year in Minnesota by his peers (www.mnasa.org). We spoke with him in a 2006 interview on "Technology in the Classroom".