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The reward of being truly effective in the public service - you get pushed out
He has also played a formative role in guiding Canadian policies regarding e-commerce, multimedia content development and information technology skills training, particularly for youth. GrassRoots Learning, this leading edge pedagogical and teacher-training model has involved more than 20M students in over 40,000 easy and inexpensive on-line collaborative learning projects. In my posts about CAP sites and Canada's now sad position globally on the web - I mentioned Doug Hull - whom I see as being the best public servant in the country. I
Robert Paterson's Weblog
- Wednesday, March 17, 2010
ZumoDrive Brings Cloud Storage And Syncing Application To Android And Palm Devices
The startup launched an iPhone app last year, which let users sync their content to their phone without having to deal with local storage capacity issues. Additional features include video streaming from ZumoDrive directly to devices in MP4, H.264 format, music organized by artist, albums, and even playlists created on other devices, the ability to stream music in the background and listen to music over both 3G or EDGE networks.
Additionally File syncing and storage startup Zumodrive is expanding its mobile offerings today with free applications for Android and Palm phones.
TechCrunch
- Tuesday, March 16, 2010
Live Blog: MOG Is Bringing Its Impressive Music Service To iPhone And Android
Along with playlists and individual songs, users can also tap into MOG Radio, which generates a playlist of songs based on one of your favorite artists, albums, or songs (it’s a bit like Pandora, but you can dynamically adjust the content of your station using a slider and can jump to new songs as many times as you’d like). Streaming and downloading works over Wi-Fi, 3G, and EDGE.
I’m here in Austin, Texas, where MOG CEO David Hyman is introducing the service’s new mobile functionality. This is a major step for MOG, and may be an inflection point in the
TechCrunch
- Monday, March 15, 2010
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YC-Funded Directed Edge Sees A Post-Search Web Where Recommendations Rule
“ Whoever manages to change the nature of content display on the Web from a search problem to a recommender problem will reap tremendous rewards. ” That quote, by Greg Linden, the man behind Amazon’s recommendation system, is the dogma of Directed Edge , a new Y Combinator -backed startup in the recommendation space. And while there are no shortage of companies out there that focus on some of these 8221;
Amazon, of course does product comparisons, but there’s no reason recommendations shouldn’t be a part of news consumption, music consumption, social
TechCrunch
- Thursday, August 6, 2009
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The U.S. Is Outsourcing Away Its Competitive Edge
has lost or is in the process of losing the ability to manufacture many of the cutting-edge products it invented. is Outsourcing Away Its Competitive Edge
David B. All this assumes your manufacturing partner is content to subsist on your table scraps. Today, many people are looking to high technology sectors — like alternative energy — to be the growth engine that revives the U.S. economy and gets it back on track.
HarvardBusiness.org
- Thursday, October 1, 2009
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Silicon Valley Elite Flock To Y Combinator Demo Day
The company’s first product involves security cameras — it can take many hours of security footage and then identify the few moments when things out of the ordinary are happening, cutting down the footage to only a few minutes of important content. Soon the company will be releasing its API, which will allow developers to tap into the software to shorten a variety of different kinds of content (including things like wedding videos). I’m here at Y Combinator’s Demo Day, where the latest batch of the incubator program’s startups are showing off the fruits of their labor to a room of press and VCs from around Silicon Valley.
TechCrunch
- Wednesday, August 19, 2009
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Audio in eLearning: When Rough Around the Edges is Better
So you've got one version that's pretty rough around the edges and one version that's smooth and polished. Put the content where it can be accessed. And create content that learners will trust. [We'll At our seminar today on using Articulate and Moodle and "Doing More for Less" , the conversation turned (as it always does) to using audio in eLearning. One of the participants talked about a focus group/research project his organization did.
Learning Visions
- Tuesday, June 9, 2009
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The State of Online Video: Getting Paid for Content
This guest post is written by Ashkan Karbasfrooshan , the founder and CEO of WatchMojo , a leading producer of premium, informative and entertaining video content. Combined with the economic meltdown, media executives had the knee-jerk reaction to knee-cap free, ad-supported content in favor of subscriptions.
But when it comes to ad-supported models, marketers will never feel 100% comfortable advertising The company’s catalog of 5,000 videos has generated over 105,000,000 streams since 2006. Today, WatchMojo streams nearly 10 million videos each month and reaches 20,000,000
TechCrunch
- Monday, January 11, 2010
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VBrick Plays for Video Content Management in the Enterprise
What we really see with the VBrick announcement is the emergence of video content management systems with all sorts of technology options that had not previously been as much of an issue for enterprise customers.
VBrick is banking on its ability to offer a more complete content management system than its competitors. Scaling: VBrick offers a "reflector appliance," The big plays being made for video in the enterprise are leading to all sorts of issues of how to scale with distribution, archiving, and optimization - without creating a huge burden on the overall network.
So,
ReadWriteWeb
- Monday, October 5, 2009
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Best of the Best: Hive Five Winners, April through September 2009 [Hive Five]
Photo by tinyfroglet . Best Content Filtering Tool: OpenDNS OpenDNS is a perfect solution for people who either lack the time or expertise to set up and administer a full-out content-filtering server. While you can delve into the details of each block of time, simple adjustments like expanding the amount of time you've worked on a project is as easy as grabbing the edge of the block with your mouse and tugging it down. The third quarter of 2009 was filled with all sorts of useful communication tools, time saving applications, and software to help you get things
Lifehacker
- Friday, September 25, 2009
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TC50: Thoora Brings The Day’s News Cycle Into Clouds Of Content
Users can browse through the site by category (the site includes sections on Entertainment, Businesses, Lifestyle, and more) as well as a section that features recently controversial content. Sustainable competitive edge.
DC: As the news moves away from traditional media outlets to encompass more blogs and social media, trying to follow the news cycle on the web can be an excercise in futility. There are some great topic-specific sites (the TC staff are all avid readers of Techmeme ).
TechCrunch
- Tuesday, September 15, 2009
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Study: DRM Makes Pirates Of Everyone
In the UK, a rather lengthy study by a law professor, Patricia Akester, states what many of us already knew, the laws involving use of digital content make things only more difficult for honest people, and those who would use things dishonestly will do so no matter what.
The paper by the professor states that things as innocuous as use of content by a blind person make infringement almost a necessity -
Problems were not hard to find. When Akester spoke with the UK’s Royal National Institute of Blind People, Head of Accessibility Richard Orme told her that those with sight
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Profitably Running an Online Business in the Web 2.0 Era
But the biggest question that comes up is that if you let your users generate most of your content and then expose it all up via an API, how can a profitable business be made from this? This has been the question from the outset, and though you can build enormously successful sites in terms of numbers of users and amounts of content using Web 2.0 Online platforms are actually very easy to monetize but having compelling content or services first is a prerequisite. Fully Automated Online Customer Self-Service: Let users get what they want, when they want it, without help.
Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog
- Wednesday, November 29, 2006
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