Is The Decline Of IT Employment The Fault Of The Educational System? « Revelations From An Unwashed Brain. Yes, You Can do Open Source on Windows Phone - Port 25: The Open Source Community at Microsoft. Core Concerns - WebGL and Hardware Acceleration. W3C20 Anniversary Symposium Twenty years ago, Tim Berners-Lee founded the W3C, an international community that develops open standards. To mark this anniversary, W3C invites the web community to W3C20, a 3-hour symposium on the future of the web. Opera 24 released Opera 24 (based on Chromium 37) for Mac and Windows is out!
For users, it includes tab preview, better hi-res support and more obvious Private Windows. Web Notifications in Opera Developer 25 Opera Developer 25 for Mac, Windows and Linux has been released, with support for web notifications too. Opera 23 released Opera 23 (based on Chromium 36) for Mac and Windows is out! Opera Mini 8 for iOS released Opera Mini for iOS has been completely redesigned, with three different rendering modes. Opera 22 released Opera 22 (based on Chromium 35) for Mac and Windows and for Android is out!
Opera 21 released Opera 21 for Mac and Windows (based on Chromium 34) is out! Browser update news A New Dev.Opera Happy first birthday to Blink Last Post Y! Y! LXD PRESENTS: "MATCHED" STARRING HARRY SHUM JR. N=billions: The smartphone revolution in the behavioral sciences. March 12, 12:30pm ETBerkman Center for Internet & Society, 23 Everett St, 2nd FloorThis event is now at capacity, please join the webcast. 5.9 billion people now use mobile phones, of which 1.1 billion are smartphones. Smartphones will empower behavioral scientists to collect terabytes of ecologically valid data from vast global samples – easily, quickly, and remotely. Smartphones can record where people are, what they are doing, and what they can see and hear. They can run interactive surveys, tests, and experiments through touch screens and Bluetooth peripherals.
This talk focuses on what smartphones can do now, and will be able to do in the near future, as research platforms. Smartphone research will require new skills in app development, Big Data analysis, and recruitment through social media, and will raise tough new ethical issues, but smartphones could transform the behavioral sciences even more profoundly than PCs and brain imaging did. How does open source affect company culture? Image by opensource.com An open source company is naturally a company that produces open source code for others to consume.
But how does the notion of producing software code in the open affect company culture? I believe that an organization cannot produce open source code if it is not generally open itself. By this I mean having culture of transparency and of openly sharing information and ideas. The same basic environment that is often found in open source development–a sense of open community, where everyone is welcome to share their opinions and ideas–is often present in open source companies as well. But a company is different from an open source community in a key way: in every commercial entity, there is information that cannot or should not be shared with everyone. During my eight-year tenure as CEO of MySQL, we believed that openness, both in our product and our company culture, would lead to greatness. Internally we tried to be open, too. Who Rules the Web Now? - Peter C. Horan and Jeffrey F. Rayport - The Conversation. Explore museums from around the world! LONDON, Tuesday 1st February.
Today Google unveiled the Art Project, a unique collaboration with some of the world’s most acclaimed art museums to enable people to discover and view more than a thousand artworks online in extraordinary detail. Over the last 18 months Google has worked with 17 art museums including, Altes Nationalgalerie, The Freer Gallery of Art Smithsonian, National Gallery (London), The Frick Collection, Gemäldegalerie, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, MoMA, Museo Reina Sofia, Museo Thyseen - Bornemisza, Museum Kampa, Palace of Versailles, Rijksmuseum, The State Hermitage Museum, State Tretyakov Gallery, Tate, Uffizi and Van Gogh Museum. The results of this partnership, which can be explored at www.googleartproject.com involved taking a selection of super high resolution images of famous artworks, as well as collating more than a thousand other images into one place. In addition, museums provided images for a selection totalling more than 1000 works of art. PS. Firefox 4 T-shirt Design Challenge Design Challenge - Mozilla Creative Collective.
Social Networks - desktop clients. I usually don’t like software that resembles a website’s functionality. Let me explain. I don’t find a good reason to use a facebook desktop application just to have that website’s links in a different order. Well, if that application has some offline functionality, dial-up is a part of science history today. At the end, I am not so into the web social addiction, therefore I think I am not suited to judge such software. I take my information dose every day by RSS, my mobile browser, facebook, twitter, classic web browsing and to tell you the truth I feel info-bloated. I just scroll fast until something catches my attention and at the end I find myself using just my browser (my tried and reliable websites) and Google.
Lately, I discovered that I am logging-in logging-out twitter just to update news on my personal and fmag (www.fmag.gr) accounts. I can now manage my 2 twitter accounts in a better way, plus I added my Facebook, LinkedIn and Google Reader accounts. Underheard in New York | Fighting homelessness 140 characters at a time. IBM’s Strategy to Manufacture Social Networking Surprises - CIO Central - CIO Network. The World Is Obsessed With Facebook.
Social media users grapple with information overload. By Jon Swartz, USA TODAY Updated 2/2/2011 10:55:31 AM | SAN FRANCISCO — Jose Huitron had just hit the digital wall. Frank Franklin II, APAn iPhone user accesses his Twitter account. As social media toys such as Twitter, Facebook and YouTube open more lines of communication, more people might find themselves overwhelmed by all the information. Frank Franklin II, AP An iPhone user accesses his Twitter account. Toggling between Facebook, Google, Twitter and a handful of other online communities, he found it hard to keep up with a constant barrage of tweets, texts and instant messages. "There are so many things coming at you," says Huitron, 29, owner of HUB 81, a social-media consultancy in Santa Maria, Calif. A crush of popular social-media toys — Facebook, Twitter, Google, Yahoo, Yelp, social games, Skype, YouTube and Quora, to name a few — has opened the lines of communication between millions of people as never before.
People are drowning in a deluge of data. Source: Skype (December 2010) Peartrees - is the social curation community. An new mashup in the social network family. Pearltrees. Pearltrees is the social curation community. It is the social way to discover, organize and share the stuff you like on the web. Use Pearltrees to keep the stuff you like on the web at hand, to discover new things in your areas of interest and to share them with your friends. Pearltrees' game play is pretty simple, but its potential is limited solely by your imagination: Pearl the stuff you like on the Web. Yes, Pearltrees is completely free. You don't have to create an account to read pearltrees. Pearltrees’ CEO introduces the cool new UI to web I heard about Pearltrees from Tom Foremski. Since the social networking, blogging and microblogging thing exploded (in terms of how many people actively using these services), we have been fed up with useless information every day (anyway, I am speaking for myself).
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Please don't steal. TheOatmeal.com was lovingly built using CakePHP. Disney Acquires Social Network For Kids Togetherville. » Is Technology Isolation Syndrome a Myth? - Social Media & Technology - Lockergnome. Twitter tells third-party devs to stop making Twitter client apps. In a statement issued today by Twitter on its official developer mailing list, the company informed third-party developers that they should no longer attempt to build conventional Twitter client applications.
In a move to increase the "consistency" of the user experience, Twitter wants more control over how its service is presented to users in all contexts. The announcement is a major blow to the third-party application developers who played a key role in popularizing Twitter's service. More significantly, it demonstrates the vulnerability of building a business on top of a Web platform that is controlled by a single vendor. The situation highlights the importance of decentralization in building sustainable infrastructure for communication.
The message was posted by Ryan Sarver, of Twitter's platform team. "We need to move to a less fragmented world, where every user can experience Twitter in a consistent way. Facebook adds Trusted Friend and other safety features. During a recent White House anti-bullying conference, Facebook, in order to help users who are being bullied or abused, has created a new 'Trusted Friend' feature on their website. People who use the site can now report any issues seen on there to a friend or even a moderator via the Safety Centre. The Massachusetts-founded company has also revamped their Safety section by simplifying the language used and offering more tips for both adults and young persons. Conversations - The official Nokia Blog. More details about Nokia-Windows Phone 7 deal revealed. The deal which is meant to see Windows Phone 7 on Nokia devices has taken a new turn according to the 20-F document Nokia have filed at the Securities and Exchange Commission.
The PDF shows that the deal has not been finalised and states that the "planned partnership with Microsoft remains subject to negotiation and execution of definitive agreements by the parties", followed by "there can be no assurances that definite agreements will be entered into. The future impact to Nokia Group’s financial statements resulting from the terms of any definitive agreements will be evaluated once those terms are agreed. " While this may not come as a surprise to some, there has been extensive chatter on the internet about the details of the deal.
These latest finding cast doubt on whether or not we will see a Nokia device running Windows Phone 7, or, if we do when it will be available. Click here for the non-PDF version of the 20-F 200 page document. Microsoft paying Nokia $1 billion to use WP7? Cheap at twice the price. Bloomberg reported yesterday that Microsoft will end up paying Nokia more than $1 billion to promote and develop Windows Phone 7 handsets, citing two unnamed sources said to be knowledgable of the terms of the agreement.
Nokia's commitment to the platform is also long-term: the agreement lasts more than five years, according to the sources. The people also confirmed that the final contract between the two companies still hasn't been signed. For this reason many of the details and specifics are still not public. Microsoft will be paying some money up-front, and giving Nokia a share of advertising revenue. It will also be paying for its use of Nokia's Navteq mapping services. On the face of it, this sounds like a lot of money. In the short term, this deal certainly favors Nokia.
But longer term, this deal should prove to be a big win for Microsoft. Strategically, it's even more valuable for Redmond. For users of the platform, the length of the deal is also encouraging. New Windows Phone 7 ads go head-to-head with your current smartphone. Microsoft is getting ready to take to cut-throat world of internet advertising in a desperate bid to get its fledgling, and stumbling, Windows Phone 7 smartphone OS off the ground. In leaked advertisements obtained by WinRumors, the Redmond outfit is taking on its smartphone competitors head-to-head in an attempt to convince potential buyers that the WP7 way of doing things is indeed the quickest.
The ads ask game punters to pit their existing phones against WP7 in some simple tasks to see which proves the best at getting you back to what's happening around you - not unlike the original WP7 ads that aired on TV around the platform's launch in late 2010. Understanding the Rise of Social Networking in Brazil. Orkut was the first major social networking service to arrive in Brazil and it has just passed the seven-year mark.
Although several other social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter are growing in popularity, Orkut maintains a strong leadership position and it is still growing. It’s intriguing to explore how and why Orkut established such a strong foothold on the Internet in a country that didn’t have high Internet adoption rates when Orkut first arrived in January 2004. As soon as Google launched Orkut, it spread rapidly among technology workers and students. People quickly became interested in the ability to connect to people they admired. Also, many of these early Brazilian users lived away from their hometowns and friends, some in order to attend college, some in order to work.
Orkut allowed them to maintain their far-away connections. Why Orkut and Why Brazil? There are three major reasons why Orkut was widely and quickly embraced. As a tool, Orkut had a number of advantages. Thunderbolt smokes USB, FireWire with 10Gbps throughput. Intel has finally launched its new peripheral interconnect technology—formerly codenamed "Light Peak"—now branded "Thunderbolt. " Developed in cooperation with Apple, which introduced Thunderbolt on its newest MacBook Pro laptops on Thursday morning, the new interconnect is designed to bring workstation-class I/O throughput to mobile workflows as well as serve as a next-generation connector for peripherals, including displays, storage, and video and audio devices.
Intel first announced Light Peak at the Intel Developers Forum in 2009. The proposed standard was intended to replace interconnects like FireWire, USB, and others with fiber optic connections capable of up to 100Gbps bi-directional throughput. Moving to fiber instead of copper allowed increased speeds as well as dramatically longer cable runs.
In its initial out-of-the-lab incarnation, Thunderbolt can use either copper or fiber connections for 10Gbps bidirectional communication.
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