Archive for the ‘Web 2.0’ Category

Watch Le Web Live December 10 2009

About Le Web: “The real time web is taking the world by storm! Twitter has grown exponentially in one year with an extremely simple service that does only one thing: keep you in touch with what your friends are doing, in real time. Facebook entirely redesigned its most important assets, its home page and opened [...]

Ustream – Broadcast Events Live From Your iPhone

Ustream just changed the way we broadcast events to our crowds. With their newly released Broadcaster application for the iPhone you can use your iPhone’s camera to broadcast any event right into your interactive UStream channel. Polls can also be started and closed from within the iPhone app. A great service to try in todays [...]

Google Wave and Education

Imagine a scenario in which a professor, instead of having students discuss questions in separate threads in a classroom forum, s/he simply starts a conversation in one place on the Web where everyone can add videos, photos, gadgets, maps, text and more media to illustrate their points. Now imagine this conversation could also be played [...]

Did You Know 4.0

All right… annoying version number aside, this is an interesting video similar to Shift Happens and other “trendy” videos out there about how social media and the Web are becoming even more important as more and more people get access to these technologies. And, well, of course, how knowledge is becoming less of an authoritative [...]

Record Screencasts and Demos with no Downloads

It is nice not to have to download any programs if you want to record simple screencasts and demos (and in SIMPLE steps) of your computer screen. Here is an good review of ScreenToaster by Jane Hart. What is even better is not to have to create yet a new username and password for yet [...]

Augmented Reality and Learning

The dawn of augmented reality on a consumer level presents many possibilities for marketing, tourism and virtually any area of expertise. But what would be its impact in Education and learning in general? Would the possibility of adding a layer of information and rich media atop an individual’s view of the world via his/her mobile [...]

DimDim Webconferencing

DimDim just released their 4.0 version that has more features and is more compatible with Mac computers (including desktop sharing). The free version includes hosting and scheduling meetings for up to 20 participants and 3 participants plus the host can have active mics at the same time. They also have an open source version for [...]

Microsoft Doesn’t Believe in Open Source Virtual Worlds

As seen in this article from PC Magazine reported by ITExaminer, Microsoft (via Craig Mundie) doesn’t seem to believe in Open Source virtual worlds such as Second Life. While I agree that (open) virtual worlds are still very limited, I believe in the potential of such environments on a long term basis and I don’t [...]

Open Source Alternatives to Web 2.0 Services On Your Local Server

Open Source ReadWrite Web Alternatives – Upload a Document to Scribd Read this document on Scribd: Open Source ReadWrite Web Alternatives Please visit the link above and give me your feedback in the “comments” below. Thank you.

Open Source Social Network Engines

No-one is impressed with the words “social networking” anymore. We used to have to explain to new comers what “Myspace” or Facebook implied. Now everyone can have their own social networks online with relatively no cost using open source solutions that I think deserve some attention: 1- www.elgg.org -> free and open source initiative. Very [...]