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When you think of virtual worlds, the first one that probably pops into your head is Second Life, but in reality, there are a number of different virtual worlds out there. There are worlds for socializing, worlds for gaming, even worlds for e-learning. But one thing that most virtual worlds have in common is that they are places for play, not practicality. (Yes, even the e-learning worlds are designed with elements of "fun" in mind). Outside of some reports that virtual worlds will replace web conferencing in the enterprise, we haven't seen a lot of innovation in this space which would make businesses sit up and take notice. However, that may be about to change thanks to new software that lets you perform data visualization and manipulation techniques within the virtual world environment.
Finally, A Practical Use for Second Life - ReadWriteWeb
Twitter Professors: 18 People to Follow for a Real Time Educatio
Lon S. Cohen is a writer and social media strategist. He is @obilon on Twitter. Never before in history has it been easier to glean from the knowledge of others who will give it away to you for free.
Barack Obama was just sworn in as President of the US and though he stumbled in repeating his oath, the speech that followed was delivered flawlessly and was widely praised around the web. (Several readers have told us that it wasn't Obama that stumbled, it was Justice Roberts.) There were quite a few concepts discussed that we suspect haven't been a part of past inaugural speeches. What words were used most often? We ran the full text of the speech through tag cloud generator Wordle.net for one view of the event, and just for the sake of historical context we ran George W. Bush's second inaugural speech through as well.
Word Cloud Analysis of Obama's Inaugural Speech Compared to
Tinderbox stores and organizes your notes, plans, and ideas. It can help you analyze and understand them. And Tinderbox is a powerful but personal content assistant that helps you share your notes through the cloud and on the Web. Writers and journalists find Tinderbox invaluable for research, world-building, sourcing, and plot construction. The Tinderbox map view shows relationships and links among dozens or hundreds of notes. Structure emerges and evolves naturally as your understanding grows.
Tinderbox: The Tool For Notes
Dabbleboard - Online whiteboard for drawing & team collabora
Dabbleboard is an online collaboration application that’s centered around the whiteboard. With a new type of drawing interface that's actually easy and fun to use, Dabbleboard gets out of your way and just lets you draw. Finally the whiteboard enters the digital age! Who uses Dabbleboard? Dabbleboard is used by anyone that uses a real whiteboard, in business and education. Our users include designers, developers, consultants, salespeople, teachers, students, etc.
