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15 JUL 09
Open Science, H1N1, Processing, and the Google Spreadsheet API | blprnt.blg SAVE
Recipe for using processing with the Google spreadsheets APITAGS
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The New Hidden Persuaders: how your TV set is watching you SAVE
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Clive Humby (dunnhumby, the people who run Tesco clubcard): “What we’d really like to do is match your digital media consumption – the websites you visit, the TV programmes you watch, the radio stations you listen to – to your shopping behaviour,” "TAGS
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detexify: draw a symbol, get the LaTeX command SAVE
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"Detexify is a neat Web service that lets you draw a mathematical symbol with your mouse, interprets the result, and shows you what LaTeX command to use to generate it." See also MathTran [ http://ouseful.open.ac.uk/blogarchive/013114.html ]TAGS
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13 JUL 09
Google Maps Mania: Augmented Reality Round-Up SAVE
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Handy review of Augmented reality apps that are out there in the wild already, and available for you to play with on your iPhone or Android phone. It's gonna be a summer of AR apps, I think... There might even be some useful ones... Like an AR version of the Sky map for Android, maybe? http://googlemobile.blogspot.com/2009/05/sky-map-for-android-mobile-planetarium.htmlTAGS
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The Platform4 blog - 4oD + Facebook = Test Tube Telly SAVE
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A social TV experiment from Channel 4: "adding thousands of programmes to 4oD made us realise we’d created a nice, new problem. How do you find the programmes you didn’t know you would like? How do you supply serendipity amid a vast on-demand TV archive? On linear TV, the schedule of programmes plays a big part - people often just turn on the TV to see what’s on. In on demand, it’s less obvious how you bump into nice surprises. On linear TV, people often hear about new programmes from friends or colleagues. If a friend recommends a show, we’re often motivated to check it out the next time it’s on. So we thought we’d see if we could use the same ‘friend recommendation’ thinking to help people find and watch otherwise hidden gems within 4oD. In techie terms, Test Tube Telly = 4oD + Facebook Connect. In English, it’s an experimental site that let’s you see what programmes your Facebook friends are themselves watching and discussing."TAGS
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What Counts as a ‘Conversion’ on WriteToReply? | Actually... SAVE
(by me) What conversion metrics should we use on WriteToReply and JISCpress?TAGS
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Commons based peer-production: One minute of Wikipedia edits SAVE
1 minute of wikipedia edits...TAGS
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Content is a Service Business - Tools of Change for Publishing SAVE
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"media companies are in the service business, not the content business" - WAKE UP - it's the same for education. And if it's not the *qualification* that people want, then "people are paying for the preparation of that content, to the extent that it helps them solve their problems more quickly and conveniently" - so that'll be effective exemplar tutorials the? Training in a specific that users can apply to their particular problem, probably not teaching the abstract...TAGS