this video highlights some changes especially in development countries. Learning about diseases, food distribution, social support against discrimination, fair elections by instant messaging, collective news reporting, finding jobs through SMS marketplaces, accessing market prices for goods from the countryside.
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Just watched two episodes of gestalten.tv. great podcaston arts& design, architecture. Hgih quality produced intensively communicating the message.
You should watch the Google WAVE introduction video, explaingin the basic functionality and features. I think some parts are really revolutionaory for live coopariton and collaboration on the web. It basically allows a continoum from email/wiki/instant messaging.
So everyware is coming. These little rabbits can already do quite a lot of things as being your alarm clock, read RSS feeds, podcasts or receive messages.
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Nice video made with txt characters about economic development.
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This is a very nice analysis of the news reporting about current and daily happening catastrophies which calculates a news death ration for swine flu and tuberculosis.
Youtube EDU was launched, so more and more video based portals looking at Open Content.
Mit YouTube EDU geht ein direkter Konkurrent zu Apples iTunesU an den Start. Zahlreiche Videos aus den so genannten Partneruniversitäten wie das MIT, Yale, Harvard oder Stanford wurden zusammengetragen und können sich auf die Youtube-typische Art und Weise angeschaut, abonniert und kommentiert werden. Darüber hinaus gibt es ein eigenes Suchformular, welches nur die Edu-Inhalte ausliest.
Nokia is researching things around ubiquity, sensor data and how user experiences will change. Very interesting project, just explore!
Ideas Project: “Welcome to IdeasProject, an entirely new way to connect with some of the most visionary and influential thought leaders in communications technology and their disruptive ideas. A project of Nokia, hosted at www.ideasproject.com, IdeasProject brings together these important big thinkers to contemplate the big ideas that matter most to the future of communications, joining them up through video clips, links, articles, podcasts and dynamic maps to push the boundaries of Web navigation and the thought process itself. Explore the IdeasProject Web site, subscribe to its RSS feed, join its Twitter feed (ideasproject), and come back often to learn about great new big ideas as they break.”