If you read my first thoughts about Qwiki earlier this week, I hope that you were inspired to give it a shot. I’d be interested in your thoughts. If you didn’t try it because it required an invite, there’s good news. That requirement has been dropped. Register and get your Qwiki account and check it out. It’s an interesting “information experience.”
Day: January 26, 2011
Minimalist Blogging
links for 2011-01-25
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Users of the 4chan online message board managed to get access to the online student information system used by a New Jersey school district after the school's administrative password was posted to 4chan last week.
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Today, we’re excited to announce that Number Porting is available for all existing Google Voice users. This means you can make the mobile number you’ve always used your Google Voice number, so it can ring any phone you want—or even your computer.
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Our editor gets out of your way, so you can focus on writing. Period.
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Knowledge Ontario enables all Ontarians to develop the skills needed to succeed in a 21st century knowledge economy.
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Google's Education are of the Google Apps Marketplace
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Products to help businesses and consumers control their online lives
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uProtect.it is a free app that allows you to protect your comments and status updates, even preventing Facebook from accessing them.
In today's virtual world, you never know who is reading your posts. By using uProtect.it by ReputationDefender, you can be certain that only the people that you want reading your messages will be able to.
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Toying with Transmedia: The Future of Entertainment is Child’s Play
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This FREE competition, sponsored by the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Ontario (ICAO), allows students to make a variety of senior management decisions for a virtual firm in a virtual industry. In essence, students in teams of up to four members run their own business online while competing against teams from other schools. The object of the game? Make the most money by making the right business decisions!
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How do we create memories for children in a community that works together? We set a worthwhile goal of a Community Playground and we empower residents to achieve it.
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Storybirds are short, art-inspired stories that are curiously fun to make, share, and read. Teachers love them because they inspire their most reluctant writers and readers and reward their most adventurous. Kids adore them because they feel empowered by the tools and supported by the social feedback. Sign up today for a free Class account!
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backchan.nl is tool for involving audiences in presentations by letting them suggest questions and vote on each other's questions. backchan.nl is intended for conference or event organizers who want a new way to solicit questions from the audience and make better use of question and answer time.
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The Cloud without Compromises – eXpresso brings powerful, desktop editing to your browser so you can access your cloud-based files and coordinate collaboration among multiple people.
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17 Interesting Ways* to Use a Wiki in the Classroom
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The service slated to launch in North America in 2 months, will allow IT departments access to the enterprise and BES (blackberry enterprise server) part of the Blackberry while giving users a personal side for browsers, photos and social networking applications such as Facebook. This essentially splits the device in two and only gives IT departments control of things such as corporate email.
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This article is the first part of a three part series on Mac OS X security tips. As the additional articles are posted, we will update this post with links to the others.
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We here at Infographic World have recently begun to offer Animated infographics to our clients And as such we of course took to the web for inspiration to see just what the best animated graphics on the web had to offer. Without further adieu here are 20 of the best and most inspirational that we discovered during our searches.
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Here’s a visually organized look at the past 30 years or so of social media history, from Usenet to AIM to Friendster and beyond. This particular infographic comes with some fun facts
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