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A Celebration of Succinctness

Sat, 06 Sep 2008 18:58:17 GMT

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In a world where we place so much value on competitiveness, we have awards for everything.
Now, there are the Twitties.
In a number of categories including “Best Tweet”, “Funniest Tweet”, “Smartest Tweet”, … various tweets from Twitter have been nominated as the best of the best for the year. Not quite sure how, or why, or [...]

links for 2008-9-6

Sat, 06 Sep 2008 10:45:32 GMT

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Journeys - Where to this time?
Really rough Alpha but looks incredible from a graphics perspective
(tags: world web2.0 virtualworlds virtual_worlds travel social)

September GEC Computers in the Classroom Newsletter

Fri, 05 Sep 2008 17:19:49 GMT

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This has been the summer of Web 2.0 for me. I’ve put a concerted effort into learning all that I can and expand my Personal Learning Network.
I have spent considerable time developing one of my Wikis and created a course for the summer for North American teachers who get July/August holidays called “8 Weeks to [...]

Tips for Social Media

Thu, 04 Sep 2008 11:38:39 GMT

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Jeff Pulver created one of the most common sense posts that I’ve read about the whole genre of social media, blogging, etc. that I think should be required reading for anyone who wants to venture into this area.
His post was “Tips for Not-for-Profits Learning about Social Media“.
His focus, as the title suggests, is in the [...]

More to Like About Chrome

Wed, 03 Sep 2008 11:50:28 GMT

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The more I played with Chrome last night, the more I liked it.
I started out with just plain browsing and kept trying to find progressively more complicated websites to see if I could make it crash or even fail to render the same way that it did in other browsers. No problems could be forced [...]

links for 2008-9-3

Wed, 03 Sep 2008 09:12:41 GMT

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Home - Microsoft Popfly
http://www.popfly.com/
(tags: web2.0 Technology software programming widgets mashup)

~ Anash Interactive ~
This companion site to the half-hour children’s quest series, Anash and the Legacy of the un-Rock, tells the compelling tale of young Anash’s mission as he tries to re-unite all parts of the Sun-Rock in order to fulfill a prophecy to attain peace [...]

A First Look at Google Chrome

Tue, 02 Sep 2008 19:35:17 GMT

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Google Chrome became available for download this afternoon.
Ever the adventurer, I decided to take a look at it. After all, I downloaded Internet Explorer 8 the other day…
First impressions are quite impressive. It loads and renders web pages very quickly. I tried it out on my blog, wiki, and website and it made them look [...]

links for 2008-9-2

Tue, 02 Sep 2008 09:18:47 GMT

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Water 4ll
In this issue we examine bottled water.
(tags: water science safety footprint)

Flowgram | What is a Flowgram?
Flowgrams are new and unique ways of taking people through a series of steps.
(tags: screencasting steps instructions)

Online Stopwatch
A Simple, Fast Flash Online Stopwatch and Online Countdown timer always available when you need it.
(tags: work web2.0 utilities watch useful tools)

Hashtags
Realtime [...]

links for 2008-9-1

Tue, 02 Sep 2008 00:07:30 GMT

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iamnews.com
It is for independent reporters, photographers, media moguls and anyone who wants to connect with reporters from the world and collaborate in the creation of news.
(tags: news media web2.0)

Is this it?

Mon, 01 Sep 2008 20:32:48 GMT

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For quite some time now, it has been rumoured that Google is about to get into the web browser business. But, it’s been very quiet from what I have seen and there were just rumours roaming around about what it might look like.
The problem with web browsing is that some sites require a certain [...]