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Location in Signature, Easy to Use (Staff) Perhaps Google is trying to roll out new tools and apps too rapidly because Location In Signature, although a good concept for travelers who wish to have their travels followed, is a poor implementation of the concept. We are using it in any event. |
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What Have We Wrought? by John F. McMullen Readers of the Weekly Update may remember my recent dialogue with Amanda Chapel concerning Web 2.0. Briefly, she pointed out many disruptive and unwelcome results of the adoption of Web 2.0 technologies. |
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Twitter? It’s What You Make It? by David Pogue From the New York Times [Introduction by John McMullen -- I find Twitter to be one of the hardest things to explain to those unfamiliar with it. It seems to me that either "you get it" right away or "you don't get it". It's easy to say that "you must use it to appreciate it" but, if one does not see the benefit, often it will not be tried. I think that David Pogue's article may convince some folks to at least try Twitter.]
Pogue — Writing can be solitary work, but not when you write a tech column. Feedback pours in so quickly — by e-mail, on blogs, in online comments — that it's almost real-time performance art.
For the longest time, my readers kept nagging me to check out this thing called Twitter. I'd been avoiding it, because it sounded like yet another one of those trendy Internet time drains. E-mail, blogs, chat, RSS, Facebook. ... Who has time to tune in to yet another stream of Internet chatter?
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Volume 1 Issue 2— February—March, 2009
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On Intelligent Machines: Two Books by John McMullen There are many aspects to the ever-expanding and rather nebulous universe known as Web 2.0; ever-expanding because there are constantly new tools being developed and new equipment to support the development, nebulous because many things fall under the umbrella of “User Content” that is considered the basis of Web 2.0. Hello, Android by Ed Burnette and Programming Collective Intelligence by Toby Seagran are reviewed. |
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Meebo (Staff) Bring all your instant messaging together for free into one web page and use your preferred tool from any place through any browser (without downloading or installing a client). Group chat is also provided, in addition to IM, by Meebo through partnership sites such as AIM, Yahoo, MSN, Google Talk, Gmail, MySpace IM, Facebook Chat and more. Meebo also enables live communication integrated into any website with Meebo Rooms, Meebo Community IM, and Meebo Me. |
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Google Street View by Barbara E. McMullen Well, this is certainly an interesting application. Another Google app to while away a rainy day. You get the idea you can walk the streets from your computer. While Street View does not really give you that ability, it does add another dimension to your GPS. I started at home, to see if I could walk down the hill from my barn to the deli in town. |
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NY/NYC Metro Distance Learning Association (NYDLA) by Barbara E. McMullen After a lengthy process, the Interim Board of Directors announced that the NY/NYC Metro Distance Learning Association (NYDLA) has officially been granted Federal and State 510(c)3 non-profit status. Along with four very well attended meetings in 2008, this represents another step in the creation of a vibrant professional association dedicated to the increasingly important field of e-Learning and Distance Education. |
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Animated Examples using POV-Ray by C. J. Evangelisti When I retired, a friend, Gerald Goertzel, and I wrote programs for computer graphics once a week. We used POV-Ray -- Point of Persistence Raytracer, which can be downloaded, for free, from povray.com. POV-Ray renders 3D objects using ray tracing. An active community comments on code and images.
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Cloud and SAAS Disrupts Software Pricing by Stan Veit The per-seat license pricing of software is based upon an internal server and many clients. This plan breaks down when a company buys software as a service. Do they pay the provider for each seat and also pay the software owner a per seat license? Or does the provider pay for the software and if so, on what basis? |
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The Shift to Social Capitalism by Jay Deragon, Social Media Strategist As computer enabled society marches toward social capitalism as a result of overburdened financial institutions, a new generation of social media applications will form to emulate those institutions. Social capital, creative capital, and intellectual capital will increasingly behave like tangible assets. As an example, this article compares the concept of the financial credit score with an abstract on a social credit score as a means of framing this new shift to social capitalism.
Machines and Rationality by Frank Bandach, Chief Scientist & President, eeggi.com The likelihood that some day machines will be able to think or become rational is an ever growing reality rather than a possibility. Rationality, in its most basic and rudimentary form, is nothing more than a function which gives us the ability of forming conclusions and inferences based upon available information. As a result, rationality, like all other functions, must and does follow certain processes which need to be carried out in order to perform and fulfill its purpose. |
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Will the Memory Stop Going Round and Round? by Stan Veit Ever since the dawn of computing, memory has been a limiting factor in building computer systems. The first personal computers had 2K, or 4K of dynamic Ram that had to be constantly refreshed or it would “forget” its data. Static Ram was a great improvement but expensive. Memory boards with 16K bytes of static ram would typically sell for $500. |