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EssayTyper as an automatic writing tool
So there are links being passed round about EssayTyper. Hit the website and it renders a page with “Oh no! It’s finals week and I have to finish my [blank] essay immediately.” Put in a topic and then bang the … Continue reading
Google gets fined by FTC for being evil
Google has seemingly defied its own policy of “do no evil” and been very, very naughty. Now they are in negotiation with the FTC to become the first company to be fined for a violation of internet privacy. Tweet
Google’s Project Glass
I gave a talk a month ago on what trends were going to shape organizational applications over the next five years, and a couple of those design forces were the increasing ubiquity of mobile compute endpoints and augmented reality/interaction with … Continue reading
Udacity continues Massive online course
I wrote earlier about Norvig and Thrun’s experiement with massive online courses and how it would impact on the university model this century. I am now following another link in the experiment, Udacity. Tweet
Tablet ownership amongst students growing rapidly
I have been predicting the increase of tablet computing in the general endpoint ecology for some time, and others have been there with me. Just last year there was a study which showed that students were ready to go to … Continue reading
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ID provisioning with clouds
The architectural ideal is to have a single source of authority for identity and AuthN/Z claims, hopefully based on something nice and open like LDAP. Then we began to see lots of federated identity solutions entering with SAML type federations. … Continue reading
OpenData for UK Government pushing Semantic Web development for government transparency
The UK Government recently committed to more open data when David Cameron announced the broadening of the publicly available government data with the publishing of key data on the National Health Service, schools, criminal courts and transport. This is a … Continue reading
RDFa in TinyMCE for semantic web content markup
TinyMCE is a nice, ajax compatible, platform independent web based Javascript HTML WYSIWYG editor control released as Open Source under LGPL by Moxiecode. TinyMCE has the ability to convert HTML TEXTAREA fields or other HTML elements to editor instances. TinyMCE … Continue reading
Google Labs shutdown – was it a data-driven decision?
Larry Page, a co-founder of Google and a co-creator of the amazing innovation culture at Google, continues to [sharpen] the company’s focus by now shutting down Google Labs as seen in this announcement of more wood behind fewer arrows. This … Continue reading
Web 2.0 Whiteboard
I have to shout out and praise the guys over at Scriblink for what is an impressive web 2.0 app for collaborative whiteboarding. Tweet