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SepiaTown lets you view and share thousands of mapped historical images from around the globe
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Map your place in history.
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Esteemed UK magazine PC Gamer has just published its annual list of the best 100 PC games ever. Yeah, I’m as sick of lists as the next guy, but Deus Ex is top of this one, so I can let it go.
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140 Characters and Beyond: Extend Your Use of Twitter
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If brief communications like Twitter's 140-character messages, Facebook status updates and text messaging leave you longing for more substantial discourse, you may be in luck. This week, I took a look at Quora, a question-and-answer site that encourages thoughtful—even long-winded—discussions.
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Enter a musical artist and see how "close" other artists are in their favourite listening.
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A recent study out of Princeton, and brought to wider attention by Jonah Lehrer at Wired.com, suggests that ugly, irregular fonts can boost the amount of information readers retain from a text, while easy-to-read type is more likely to just sort of slide out of their minds.
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Google Earth is a game changer in the classroom and it brings geography lessons to a whole new level by providing an immersive interactive experience for students.
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As with any reputation, an child online reputation formed during one’s adolescence can haunt for years to come. It is imperative that you and your child have an open conversation about the possible repercussions of Internet interaction before any lasting damage occurs.
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Today, I’m pleased to announce the launch of the fourth annual Doodle 4 Google contest. Open to K-12 students in the U.S., Doodle 4 Google is an opportunity of a lifetime: design the Google.com homepage doodle for millions to see, and while you’re at it, take home a $15,000 scholarship and a $25,000 technology grant for your school.
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A proposed US Internet 'kill switch' to be used in the event of a cyberwar could actually cause more problems that it would prevent, a new report commissioned by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) has argued.
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Everything you need to remember, in one place
Store and manage your ideas, goals, recipes, contacts, memos, notes, schedules, wishlists, playlists… Everything, where you can always find it, accessible anywhere.
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Take your professional learning community to the next level by using Google Docs to collaborate with colleagues. Google Docs is an online office suite that allows you to create, edit, share, and publish documents, including spreadsheets and presentations.
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Interesting thoughts about the difference between Google and Bing search engines.
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We help organisations connect the dots between the rapidly changing digital landscape and the world of media where journalists, broadcasters, public bodies, academia, business, third sector and commerce meet.
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