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• Emirates: iLingual iPhone app

  
  Chris Rawlinson — Authority: 127
  UK agency Lean Mean Fighting Machine have created a fab little iPhone app called iLingual for Emirates . The app helps you speak in different languages (French, German and Arabic ). All you need to do is take a picture of your mouth, the app then uses the picture and animates it so that when you get the app to say ...
  3 days ago

• Go from "Hand it in" to "Lets publish it"

  
  Awesome Resources for Curious Teachers — Authority: 100
  This article on the Innovative Educator blog was so insightful that I wanted to share it with you guys. It gives ways for students to publish their work for a larger audience rather than just turning... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
  4 days ago

• Quick Hits

  
  Jenkins Blog — Authority: 132
  The New Oxford American Dictionary has anointed “unfriend” as 2009’s Word of the Year. Um … OK. Beats “tramp stamp”, I guess. Paul Allen, co-founder of Microsoft and owner of the Seattle Seahawks and Portland Trail Blazers has non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma . I wish him well. Lexis now has an iPhone app ...
  1 week ago

• "Youre fired. I only want people who already know how to do their jobs."

  
  Dangerously Irrelevant — Authority: 552
  Back in July I said that I was concerned that we never seem to hold folks accountable for being self-learners. I also noted that In many job sectors, employees are expected to keep up with relevant technologies or risk job loss. When do we require that of K-12 and postsecondary educators? At what point do we ...
  1 week ago

• 3 year-olds know more than adults?!

  
  Awesome Resources for Curious Teachers — Authority: 100
  According to a study done by Betty Hart and Todd Risley (published in 1995), children of college professors used more vocabulary than low-income adults. The 3-year-olds had a vocabulary size of 1,116... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
  1 week ago

• Social Media Goodness:What Happens When We Mix

  
  Beaconhill NW — Authority: 127
  LinkedIn has always been about helping you to build your professional identity on the web. The many elements that make up your online professional brand range from your LinkedIn profile to the many professional conversations you’re a part of. Status has proved valuable to our users, from finding new assignments ...
  2 weeks ago

• Message to Boise Schools: Open the Internet to Students

  
  Technology Teacher — Authority: 100
  I was at North Junior High School Monday morning, trying to help English teachers figure out a way for students to write, share, and publish their work. In the process, I found out just how locked down Internet access is for our students. I discovered that almost ALL social networking, video sites, and collaborative ...
  2 weeks ago

• Small Numbers Loosely Joined

  
  Jenkins Blog — Authority: 132
  Item 1: Verizon sold 100,000 Droids last weekend. Not bad for an Android phone launch, but small potatoes when you consider Apple sells a million iPhones each time it debuts a new model. But Android is a long-haul project , for sure. Item 2: Only 2 weeks after its release, Windows 7 has the same market share ...
  2 weeks ago

• Esquire magazine: Augmented Reality Issue

  
  Chris Rawlinson — Authority: 127
  This almost literally blew my mind, hands down best use of augmented reality tags I have seen so far. In the above clip Esquire editor David Granger demos the interactive magazine. The Augmented reality sections of the magazine have been developed with digital-services firm The Barbarian Group . “We wanted to ...
  2 weeks ago

• Zillow’s ‘fresh and new’ local housing data

  
  Reno Realty Blog — Authority: 120
  If you haven’t taken a look at Zillow’s online regional/local housing data in awhile, it’s worth another visit.  Zillow has added many new metrics to its offering, as well as additional ways to slice and dice its data.Housing market data can be viewed at the national, state, regional and local levels.  Within ...
  2 weeks ago

• Destined to be a Holiday Classic

  
  Jenkins Blog — Authority: 132
  Verizon started off with “ There’s a map for that “. Next it was the “ iDon’t ” ads. And now, for the holiday season, Verizon’s sent the iPhone to the Island of Misfit Toys: I love it when the plane says, “You’re gonna fit right in here,” then falls over and goes splat in the snow. (Via ...
  2 weeks ago

• Google Voice Desktop App

  
  Technology Teacher — Authority: 100
  I’ve been talking a lot about Google Voice , this great new tool that allows you to have ONE PHONE number that will ring multiple phones. It would be extremely helpful for people who have multiple phones (a home phone, a cell phone, a work phone), yet want to have one number that would ring all phones if needed. ...
  2 weeks ago

• Are we too connected?

  
  Dangerously Irrelevant — Authority: 552
  WHO TV (Des Moines) aired a special report, Are we too connected ? , on last night’s news broadcast. Among others, they interviewed me and Dr. Michael Bugeja , Professor and Director of Iowa State University’s Greenlee School of Journalism and Communication . I have interacted with Michael a couple of ...
  3 weeks ago

• Toyota Prius: iPhone App Unleashes Creativity in Times Square

  
  Chris Rawlinson — Authority: 127
  Great creative work from Saatchi & Saatchi LA for the Toyota Prius . Using the new Prius iPhone App , users could see their drawings created on the iPhone displayed on the Reuters digital billboard in Times Square from October 26 to 28. The Prius Experience App has four modes — including "Draw," the one ...
  3 weeks ago

• New Tools Launched For Google Social Search

  
  UwidoNews - Submitted news — Authority: 171
  The launch of the new tool that was said to be launched this week has been made available from Google Labs for the users. The announcement about the launch was made in last week’s Web 2.0 conference that was held in San Francisco.
  4 weeks ago

• Mobile Phones Easier to Find Than Food for World’s Poor

  
  Internet & Democracy Blog — Authority: 406
  This news from Foreign Policy’s Joshua Keating is pretty amazing. He writes that: We’ve reached a very strange point in human history when it is assumed that people who don’t have access to food will have working cell phones. He points to an announcement by the UN that it will use cell phones to send ...
  4 weeks ago

• Another Example of How Google Disrupts Markets

  
  Jenkins Blog — Authority: 132
  The WSJ (sub required, but there’s a recap at TechCrunch ) is reporting that shares of GPS makers TomTom and Garmin are down 20% and 17%, respectively, on news that the Motorola Droid (and all other Android 2.0 devices) will feature Google Maps Navigation . Let me say that again, another way: Google announced ...
  4 weeks ago

• FWIW: AccidentSketch

  
  Jenkins Blog — Authority: 132
  For your edification: Lifehacker has a short post about AccidentSketch, an online tool for drawing accident scenes. Speaking of edification, I am most amused by the comments section .
  4 weeks ago

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