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Category Archives: Technology
Is this the future of digital magazines?
Is this the future of digital magazines? If the real experience turns out to be even close to how it shows up on the video, I’d want one. That is, I’d want to use this technology to produce one. More … Continue reading
Is Kindle 2 about to replace us in our family bed-time ritual?
Will the new Kindle read bed-time stories to our kids? Can it? Will it? Should it? TV has proven its worth as a baby-sitter, across cultures! Social networking has effectively come to represent what we do using a browser and … Continue reading
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Is the future of ‘books’ in our palms?
Google is making its database of 1.5 million public domain books accessible from mobile devices for free. Amazon is working to make all its Kindle titles available on mobile devices.Random House Publishing has announced that will make books available for … Continue reading
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Free text books on the internet!
Like the open source movement in software, an open source movements in the textbooks may be afoot. If this movement takes hold it will surely impact the textbook business, which is perhaps the only safe island in a sea of … Continue reading
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Tagged books for children, free books, free school books, textbooks
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Heard of novel podcasts?
According to Time magazine, novel podcasts, unlike audiobooks “are truncated into segments and may include ambient sounds, music as well a cast of voices playing different characters.” “Evo Terra, the co-founder of Podiobooks.com, says 45,000 episodes are downloaded each day.” … Continue reading
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Google Trends & Google Insights — Social Science Toolbox
I have been using Google Trends for some time now – for work and sometimes just for fun! Trust me it can be fun and educational. You can tell a lot about what is going on in people’s minds and … Continue reading
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Social Networking for Kids
Most major social networking sites require their users to be at least 13 years old. Anyone who has kids knows that the kids are all over Facebook, MySpace and Orkut. Of course the kids fake it, because they want the … Continue reading
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Six-degrees?: The power of Internet networking
I just noticed (accidentally) that I am ‘connected to’ Barack Obama, US Senator and Presidential Candidate through three different people. Talk of six-degrees of separation! In the world networked through LinkedIn, Plaxo and others, my guess is that it may … Continue reading
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“YAARI.com is a spammer”
I came very close to participating in a scam executed by an India ‘social networking’ site. Unwittingly, of course! It started when I received a mail from a site called yaari.com: ‘xyd wants you to join Yaari!… Is xyz your … Continue reading
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Why do people participate in social media?
Yossi Vardi commenting on Social Software suggests that ‘there are 3-4 major forces on the Internet: • self expression • communication • sharing • collaboration You’d notice that money is not one of them. It is interesting when you consider … Continue reading
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