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Elgg Powered Sites

Wed, 03 Sep 2008 11:42:33 -0700

Here are a few popular Elgg powered sites:

UnLtdWorld UnLtdWorld is a social network aimed at connecting social entrepreneurs, social innovators and socially-minded people.
Snippr Snippr is a custom social networking site built on Elgg.
Rucku Rucku is the web’s largest social network dedicated to rugby.
University of Brighton Community@Brighton is a social networking system for students and staff at the University of Brighton. It was the world’s first campus wide social network.
Stop Heathrow Expansion Greenpeace UK Site visitors can upload a video from their mobile phone or computer to add their voice to the lobby.

Please feel free to update this list accordingly

Flat World Knowledge LLC

Wed, 03 Sep 2008 07:58:59 -0700

Hulu Bad For the Net, Video Still Not Clogging It

Wed, 03 Sep 2008 07:01:42 -0700

Hulu is a problem. So argues a paper by University of Minnesota Professor Dr. Andrew Odlyzko, who says that video isn’t actually clogging the Net right now, but that streaming video content is such an inefficient way of getting video from one place to another that sites should find better options, such as faster-than-real-time streaming and buffering. The goal of the paper is to counter carrier assurances that they will protect video even without any mandated Network Neutrality. Odlyzko argues that such assurances might lead to special video pathways, but that’s not the Internet the market wants and needs.

Aside from Odlyzko’s attack on streaming, which he says comprises 9.6 percent of total web traffic during evening hours and has grown 169 percent year over year, the largest part of the paper is devoted to data that supports his conclusions that content, such as Internet radio and video, is worth less than connectivity such as voice or Twitter. People don’t pay for content, they pay for connectivity, says Odlyzko.

For all the hoopla about Hollywood, all the movie theater ticket sales and all the DVD
sales in the U.S. for a full year do not come amount [sic] to even one month of the revenuesof the telecom industry. And those telecom revenues are still over 70% based on voice,
deﬁnitely a connectivity service. In wireless, there is very rapid growth in data service
revenues, but most of those revenues are from texting, another connectivity service (and
one that the industry did not design, but stumbled into).

The report makes for good reading for those thinking about the value of broadband connections (from a revenue perspective a text message generates $1,000 per MB for a carrier while a wireless voice call generates $1 per MB and broadband Internet generates 1 cent per MB) and next-generation services. But if people will pay for connectivity, why can’t Twitter find a business model?

Hauptseite - Hochschulkarriere.de

Wed, 03 Sep 2008 05:01:03 -0700

Connexions - Browse

Wed, 03 Sep 2008 00:58:10 -0700

Events@Duke

Tue, 02 Sep 2008 08:58:48 -0700

Duke uses Bedeworks for its events calendar.

Open Source Textbooks Challenge a Paradigm | Epicenter from Wired.com

Tue, 02 Sep 2008 07:56:58 -0700

OpenCourseWare Consortium - Home Page

Mon, 01 Sep 2008 17:57:34 -0700

Free Online Course Materials | MIT OpenCourseWare

Sun, 31 Aug 2008 06:57:26 -0700

Slashdot | Harvard Open Source Courseware

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 23:55:58 -0700

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Thu, 28 Aug 2008 18:04:34 -0700

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Solar Powered Necktie is Poorly Designed for Geeks-Only

Tue, 19 Aug 2008 18:08:42 -0700

In todays’ world, a company should make things that are useful with a usable design. In the case with this Solar Powered Necktie, we feel it’s been very poorly designed so no one would buy one.

Regardless, we do like the idea that you can charge your iPhone while walking down the street looking like an idiot.

Who knows, maybe no one will notice it though.

Now a group of researchers at Iowa State University have created a necktie using newly developed solar fabrics. The neat thing, is that the tiny solar panels are arranged in a grid that looks kind of like what you might see on a tie anyway. There’s even a pocket sewn into the back where you can stash the device you’re charging.

via dvice, gadgets7

Brought to you by: Zedomax.com

Solar Powered Necktie is Poorly Designed for Geeks-Only

Harvard Proposal to Publish Scholarly Research Free on the Internet - New York Times

Sun, 17 Aug 2008 14:05:23 -0700

SUN? Campus Ambassador Program - Open Positions in Italy

Sat, 16 Aug 2008 15:08:55 -0700

I’d like to inform members of the MySQL? Community about an amazing Program @ Sun? Developer Network: the Campus Ambassador Program.

Quote:
Sun has more than 500 campus ambassadors worldwide who help spread knowledge and awareness of leading-edge technologies such as Java?, NetBeans? IDE, OpenSolaris?, and many more.

Now that MySQL? is part of SUN? I guess that you can be ambassador of MySQL? too, among the other SUN?’s products.

Quote:
Campus ambassadors are Sun? Microsystems interns who build a Sun? community on their school or university campus. They learn all about the latest Sun? open-source technologies and share that knowledge with fellow students. This includes activities such as starting a Sun? user group on campus, demonstrating Sun? technology to fellow students, promoting Sun? events and contests, and blogging.

Quote:
Campus ambassadors work a few hours each week and bring cutting-edge technology to fellow students, professors, and researchers — and they get top pay to do it.

Positions available for Italian Students:

Politecnico di Torino
Politecnico di Milano
Università La Sapienza di Roma
Università Federico II di Napoli (currently in-between hiring cycles)

Student Developers - Overview:
http://developers.sun.com/students/index.jsp.

Campus Ambassador Program FAQs:
http://developers.sun.com/students/community/faqs.jsp.

Campus Ambassador Map:
http://developers.sun.com/students/community/map.jsp.

Ambassador Blogs:
http://developers.sun.com/students/community/blogs.jsp.

Ambassador Twitter:
http://twitter.com/suncablogs.

There are a lof of other resources at http://developers.sun.com/students/index.jsp. The following are my quick links:

You can also visit SUN? @ SecondLife (here’s some pics of my last visit) or join some groups on Facebook, like the Sun? Microsystems Studentzone Group.

Take a look now, the new academic year is about to begin!

Stanford 大学が本当に Zimbra を全面採用 : a++ My RSS 管理人ブログ

Fri, 15 Aug 2008 11:05:28 -0700

Computer Science: Publication: em Where do I begin? A problem solving approach to teaching functional programming

Fri, 15 Aug 2008 09:04:59 -0700

Stanford 大学が本当に Zimbra を全面採用 : a++ My RSS 管理人ブログ

Fri, 15 Aug 2008 04:05:20 -0700

Open Learning - Openlearn - The Open University

Thu, 14 Aug 2008 13:10:55 -0700

Flat World Knowledge LLC

Wed, 13 Aug 2008 05:05:02 -0700

Open College Textbooks coming soon!

Make Textbooks Affordable

Tue, 12 Aug 2008 22:04:57 -0700

Free Online Courses from Great Universities & Colleges (Download Lectures) | Open Culture

Sun, 10 Aug 2008 04:09:40 -0700

Firefox in yet another African native language, Luganda

Sun, 10 Aug 2008 00:09:20 -0700

Glasgow Parallel Haskell Algorithms Repository

Sat, 09 Aug 2008 22:08:11 -0700

Free Open Courseware Directory | College@Home

Fri, 08 Aug 2008 21:09:05 -0700

Moodle and Social Constructionism: Looking for the Individual in the Community

Thu, 07 Aug 2008 13:12:51 -0700

Hot-Lava-Software,-Inc.

Tue, 29 Jul 2008 11:46:08 -0700

{{Infobox Company | company_name = Hot Lava Software, Inc. | company_slogan = Mobile Content and Learning Solutions. | foundation = 1999 HOT LAVA SOFTWARE was founded. | location = Warrenton, VA, USA | key_people = Bob Sanregret, CEO | industry = Mobile Content and Learning Solutions | products = Learning Mobile Author (LMA), and Mobile Delivery and Tracking System (MDTS) |homepage = [http://www.hotlavasoftware.com]}}

’’‘Hot Lava Software, Inc.’’’ is a provider of mobile authoring, publishing, delivery and tracking solutions. Hot Lava Software anticipated the need for mobile content in the form of learning, reference, surveys, testing and job aids to support a growing remote and field workforce. Using Hot Lava Software’s content development and publishing system (LMA), integrated with the Hot Lava mobile delivery and tracking system (MDTS), an organization has the tools and knowledge needed to launch and track mobile initiatives fast and cost effective.

History In 1999 ’’Hot Lava Software’’ began creating Just-In-Time Learning modules to aid students studying for rigorous certification exams such as MCSE, CCNP and CCNA. The first two years they created modules manually, using programmers, content developers and instructional designers. As the library of mobile content grew, Hot Lava Software realized that it would be cumbersome and expensive to keep the short learning modules up to date using the customary programming cycle. With experience in developing mobile content, Hot Lava Software created this automated tool to keep their own library up to date and change it as often needed. Hot Lava Software Services ===Learning Mobile Author (LMA)=== LMA is an easy to use development tool that allows the generation mobile content with no programming experience for multiple handhelds and mobile phones. Hot Lava Software’s Learning Mobile Author is a mobile content authoring and publishing tool that allows the rapid design, editing and publishing of trackable mobile learning and testing content. ===Mobile Delivery and Tracking System=== The Mobile Delivery and Tracking System is used for delivery and tracking of content published using Learning Mobile Author. ===Modules=== Hot Lava Software modules are posted on [http://www.handango.com| handango] and on [http://pocketgear.com| pocketgear]. Some of the various modules include MSCE Test Prep, SAT Test Prep, First-Aid Emergency Guides, and Yoga & Meditation. Current Project Hot Lava Software has just teamed with the Ewing Kauffman Foundation to promote science and math Education at sporting events. The promotion is scheduled to run at various minor league baseball games and DC United MLS games. The promotion is intended to increase the interest of children in the fields of math and science by teaching them through sporting events. Follow the link to see a clip from one of the games [http://youtube.com/watch?v=4RoiGA7YTs8| Sports Bytes]. Partners Hot Lava Software has partnered with the following companies from around the world: {| class=”wikitable” |- ! Dealer/Reseller ! Technology/Content |- | North America
*Knowledge Shift NEW (Chicago)
*Perago Learning Solutions, Inc. (Raleigh)
*OHE Associates (Colombus)
*naois (Washington DC)
*OnPoint Digital (Savannah)
Australia/Asia
*Omni Asia Pacific (Sydney and Melbourne)
*CEOlution Alliance (Singapore)
*OMNI Consulting Thailand (Bangkok)
*PT. Brilyan Trimatra Utama (Jakarta)
*Peak Performance (Maharashtra)
Europe/Middle East/Africa
*Alpha Agility Consulting (Amman and Riyadh)
*Kalleo (Johannesburg)
*Interacteive Cursus Ontwikkeling (Amsterdam)
*SiR Learning Systems Ltd. (London)
*Global Solutions Ltd. (Sofia)
*Weinreich Unternehmensberatung GmbH (Oldenburg)
| North America
*BlackBerry Made Simple
*Perago Learning Solutions, Inc.
*OnPoint Digital
*University of Georgia
*West Chester University
*Deep Creek Consulting
Asia
*CEOlution Alliance Gold Partner
Middle East/Europe
*Arab Open University
*Royal Scientific Society
*Skills Pl
*University of Nottingham
|} Customers Hot Lava has a various number of customers, but here is a list of some of their biggests ones: Verizon Wireless, US Army, Cisco Systems, US Navy, Xerox, DMRTI, State Farm, University of Georgia, General Dynamics, University of La Rochelle, Motorola, University of Alabama, CTS MD, AOU Bahrain, Johnson and Johnson, Alvey Elementary, Nike Bowerman Elementary, ERA, Prince William County Schools, and Blue Cross Blue Shield Telenor References * [http://www.hotlavasoftware.com|Hot Lava Software Website] * [http://www.youtube.com| YouTube] * [http://www.omnisf.com/html/AboutUs.html] * [http://mlearnopedia.com/content/view/54/83/] External links * [http://www.hotlavasoftware.com/ Official site] * [http://www.download.com/LMA-Learning-Mobile-Author-/3000-2064_4-10862598.html?tag=mncol&cdlPid=10862599|Download LMA]

Data Centers That Will Follow the Sun and Chase the Wind

Fri, 25 Jul 2008 15:55:14 -0700

A plan to combine cloud computing, fast broadband and renewable energy could reduce the demand data centers place on the electrical grid and save companies money on power costs. Data centers’ ability to suck up inordinate amounts of electricity is turning them into the Hummers of the computing world. And much like Hummers, their power-guzzling ways means they are becoming increasingly costly to run. To read about the plan being worked on by Andrew Hopper, head of the Cambridge University Computing Lab, head over to Earth2Tech.

Higher Ed Podcast Purposes & Examples " Moving at the Speed of Creativity

Tue, 22 Jul 2008 16:49:47 -0700

LearningSpace - LearningSpace - OpenLearn - The Open University

Tue, 22 Jul 2008 08:58:43 -0700

ACU Connected: Mobile Learning - Abilene Christian University

Mon, 21 Jul 2008 17:57:22 -0700

ACU Abilene Christian University - web page behind the iTunesU vids and bits. iPhones to students, massive top down support, student design involvement more..

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