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Google Currents: Publishing Platform to Marry Magazines and Mobile | Wired Business
Sample image of Currents Producer. Courtesy Google Mobile blog Thursday, Google finally launched its long-rumored magazine-style publishing platform for tablets and smartphones. In development, it was code-named Propeller. It turns out that while Currents contains pieces of all of those, it’s probably thought best primarily as a platform for established and independent publishers to quickly develop magazine-style touchscreen layouts for news stories and other content. “We felt there was an amazing amount of great online content that was not being displayed well when we tried to access it on our phones and tablets,” Google’s Mussie Shore told Andrea Spiegel at Forbes. Think of it like Blogger and Blogspot — just for the age of tablets and smartphones. Google is launching with more than 150 partners, including newspapers, magazines and blogs, each of which is producing one or more “editions” for Currents.
How to publish your content to Google Currents
In today’s technology themed post I’m going to explain how to publish content to Google Currents. First though – what is Google Currents? Google Currents is a new product from Google. Google Currents main advantage over a traditional RSS reader is the fact that you can pull content from all sorts of different sources, such as a twitter feed or website, and present it all to your readers in one neatly packaged application. Google Currents launched with a heap of big name publishers all on board, ready for consumption. To complete this walkthrough you are going to need a Google account. Finally, you’ll also need to be using Google Chrome, as Google Currents Producer doesn’t, as of writing, support other browsers (thanks to commenter Rich for pointing this out!). Note that as of writing the Google Currents application is only available to folks in the US. Getting started with Google Currents Adding your content This is where all the magic happens. Adding a webpage feed to Google Currents
The top 10 ways to create digital magazines | .net magazine
If you're used to visiting netmagazine.com every day, then you'll notice something a little different about the site you're looking at right now. That's because .net magazine, the print publication that's been the web industry's bible since 1994, is now publishing all its online content via Creativebloq.com. UPDATE: We've migrated around 250 of 1,800 old articles. Where to buy .net magazine The print title remains unaffected - to buy a copy, head here: What's Creative Bloq? Creative Bloq is a multidisciplinary site for designers and creatives of all types. So where can I go for my daily fix of web news/inspiration? Stay right here! How do I filter out the other stuff? If you want to view general web design articles, then use the web design tab in the nav. In short, at Creative Bloq we're addicted to design - and we're really happy to have you on board.
Free education: Learning new lessons
TOP-QUALITY teaching, stringent admissions criteria and impressive qualifications allow the world’s best universities to charge mega-fees: over $50,000 for a year of undergraduate study at Harvard. Less exalted providers have boomed too, with a similar model that sells seminars, lectures, exams and a “salad days” social life in a single bundle. Now online provision is transforming higher education, giving the best universities a chance to widen their catch, opening new opportunities for the agile, and threatening doom for the laggard and mediocre. The roots are decades old. In April two of Mr Thrun’s ex-colleagues, Andrew Ng and Daphne Koller, launched a rival, Coursera, with $16m in venture capital. Republic of Letters The trend stretches far beyond America. Individual academics have MOOCs too. One spur is economic and political pressure to improve productivity in higher education. MOOCs are more than good university lectures available online. Spires not wires
4 Ways I Document My Own Learning in Class
There is a lot written about documenting student learning. How do we capture what happens as they acquire knowledge? But these days there is another person who is learning in the room – me. Organizing - This year, as I have blogged, I am trying out Evernote to capture my own learning. Photos – I have become a big proponent of visually capturing what goes on in class. Audio – Audio clips of students at work are being added to my ‘files’. PDFs – I use my computer as many do to teach/review content. For me, the portfolio approach of audio, visual and written lesson documenting is invaluable and provide a better experience for the next group of students.
SimCityEDU Is Coming Soon To A Classroom Near You
Added by Jeff Dunn on 2013-01-20 Remember SimCity? Me too. I loved it. I adored it. So you can imagine my excitement when I heard that Electronic Arts is developing SimCityEDU . SimCityEDU will fit into the U.S. Details are still scarce at this point but the screenshot above via The Verge should whet your appetite like it did mine. **Want an early look? Comments are closed.
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