December 2008
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15 useful things students did with mobile phones in class: 1 Timing experiments with stopwatch 2 Photographing apparatus and results of experiments for reports 3 Photographing development of design models for eportfolios 4 Photographing texts/whiteboards for future review 5 Bluetoothing project material between group members 6 Receiving SMS & email reminders from teachers 7 Synchronising...
“You cannot look up on Google something you do not know exists; and the ability...”
– In praise of facts | The Economist
“The study, which polled 2,210 people and was released this fall, found that...”
– Drilling Down - Blogs Find Favor as Buying Guides - NYTimes.com
“If you can use patterns in Google searches to track flu outbreaks and predict a...”
– Taipei Times - archives
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“Tweetwasters, a new Twitter-based toy, calculates the total amount time you...”
– ROI Math for Brands on Twitter - Advertising Lab: future of advertising and advertising technology
“54% of consumers say information from a company’s brand representative who...”
– Consumers Pursue Personal Interaction with Brands Online - MarketingVOX
“The combination of cheap or unlimited internet access tariffs and handsets which...”
– Social networking boom for mobiles | Business | guardian.co.uk
“Julian Bayliss, a scientist for Kew based in the region, discovered Mount Mabu...”
– Scientists discover new forest with undiscovered species on Google Earth - Telegraph
“Facebook is #5 site in global minutes; 140MM+ active users; 50%+ users outside...”
– Mary Meeker’s latest Technology Trends presentation (Dec 2008)
“Already, the Greek riots are prompting talk of a new era of networked protest....”
– Rioters without frontiers | Rioters of the world unite | The Economist
“a study of P2P file sharing, reported by AP, in Sweden estimates that 38% of...”
– Sweden: The home of illegal file sharing? | Media | guardian.co.uk
“research by one of Britain’s largest music charities suggests that the...”
– Guitar Hero leads children to pick up real instruments - Times Online
“Facebook is being used to repossess an Australian couple’s home. In what...”
– You’ve been poked - now you’re homeless. Lawyer serves repossession papers on Facebook - Times Online
“although Phorm’s software may conclude that you are interested in buying a...”
– Phorm is out to alter world of online advertising - Times Online
“Increasing numbers of African users were already carrying out their own form of...”
– Mobile Finance: Indigenous, Ingenious or Both? - PC World
“today many rural (African) communities are familiar with concepts such as loans,...”
– “Build it Kenny, and they will come…”: Mobile finance - indigenous, ingenious, or both?
“53% of Nigerian adults have access to a mobile phone, but 74% don’t have a...”
– naijablog: Banking survey in Nigeria
Tanzanian Farmers and Their SMS-Empowered Market... →
“Howard Dean used the Web to raise money. But Obama used it to build an army. And...”
– How Will Obama Now Use the Internet Army He Built? | Newsweek Enterprise - Technology | Newsweek.com
“More than 70 percent of people on Facebook use at least one application per...”
– Facebook’s platform: Rebuilding the plane in midflight » VentureBeat
“more than a million viewing requests were made on the BBC iPlayer every day in...”
– Organ Grinder: BBC releases list of 10 most viewed shows to mark iPlayer’s first birthday | Media | guardian.co.uk
“UK users.. account for 25 per cent of editing activity on Wikipedia”
– Wikipedia censorship highlights a lingering sting in the tail | Technology | The Observer
“Last year, digital-display manufacturers cranked out four billion new screens,...”
– Idea Lab - Becoming Screen Literate - NYTimes.com
“Some popular Web sites with huge selections of movies (like porn sites) have...”
– Idea Lab - Becoming Screen Literate - NYTimes.com
“the habits of the mashup are borrowed from textual literacy. You cut and paste...”
– Idea Lab - Becoming Screen Literate - NYTimes.com
“We are becoming people of the screen… We are now in the middle of a second...”
– Idea Lab - Becoming Screen Literate - NYTimes.com
“48 percent of dot-com companies founded since 1996 were still around in late...”
– Prototype - Lessons of Survival, From the Dot-Com Attic - NYTimes.com
“About 20 million people around the world have made a video call for personal...”
– Grandma’s on the Computer Screen - NYTimes.com
“When Martha Rodenborn discovered that Elena, now 4, would sit happily in front...”
– Grandma’s on the Computer Screen - NYTimes.com
“When Gail Hecox of Park City, Utah, shows her 2-year-old granddaughter Lily her...”
– Grandma’s on the Computer Screen - NYTimes.com
“no one quite knows what it means to a generation of 2-year-olds to have slightly...”
– Grandma’s on the Computer Screen - NYTimes.com
“By most estimates, customers spend about $1.5 billion a year on virtual goods...”
– Storefronts in Virtual Worlds Bringing In Real Money - NYTimes.com
“So far, the deepening recession has not slowed sales of virtual goods, which...”
– Storefronts in Virtual Worlds Bringing In Real Money - NYTimes.com
WatchForeign companies in Japan’s high-tech markets (Stanford University lecture) - SlideShare
“They reveal conditions in the city that were previously hidden in spreadsheets...”
– Vodafone | receiver » Blog Archive » Locative media and the city: from BLVD-urbanism towards MySpace urbanism
“On May 14, 2008, just days after the Sichuan earthquake, a young college student...”
– China IWOM Blog - Post details: How IWOM is Redefining the Relationship between Brands and Consumers
“There are currently more than 300 health and fitness apps for the iPhone 3G,...”
– Vodafone | receiver » Blog Archive » Fun with the there and then – the diary that writes itself
“Japan has 90.9 million Internet users—the third-most in the world behind China...”
– Japan Online - eMarketer
“Location finding has added a new dimension to a growing market being dubbed...”
– Vodafone | receiver » Blog Archive » Fun with the there and then – the diary that writes itself
“Nielsen Co. estimates that online ad revenue in China in the third quarter grew...”
– Online Advertising Gets Boost in China - WSJ.com
“We understand Digital, it’s just another medium”…. If you hear...”
– advertising practitioner: palpitations
“Back in its heyday, Ford Motor made every single part of its cars, including...”
– Seth’s Blog: What to do about Detroit
“The noise makes it far easier than it has ever been before to hear the thunder...”
– Seth’s Blog: The noise 