Interesting Time Magazine Articles

I really should read Time Magazine more often! I came across an issue brimming with Web2 articles from December 25 2006 - #51.

Web2 (or more directly YOU) is named 'person of the year' for 2006!!!

A good overview of Web2 - plus a nice image mind-map of web2 services (only in print version).

An overview/history and early video of YouTube development.


Also of interest:
Overview of "World of Warcraft".

iPhone Flash Demo.

Surgery Recovery Tools

1. Panadol


2. Watch - to while away the dragging hours


3. 3G cellphone to keep in contact & read RSS feeds, blog etc...


4. Bible - spiritual rejuvenation required!


5. Wireless Laptop - they need longer life batteries!!! - hence 3G cellphone higher in list!


6. A good fiction book - but hard to concentrate enuff to read much for first few days!


7. iPod - with a large library! Stops insanity


8. And MOST IMPORTANTLY - should be first in the list - a loving wife! and friends



9. Oops - and don't forget PRAYER - faith that keeps you from falling over the edge into despair when nothing seems to make sense!

Prostate Cancer Research

From NZ Herald A12 Thursday 25 Jan 2007 - Research indicates eating 2-3 servings of tomatoes along with 1.5 cups of broccoli daily reduces cancer cell growth by 30%

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Wimax at EIT!!!

Trans-Tasman broadcast and telecommunications technology provider Kordia has secured the New Zealand distribution rights to RoamAD’s networks, which it plans to deploy throughout the country.

The partnership of the two companies won its first New Zealand contract before Christmas, coming top of five bids to build a wireless access solution for the Eastern Institute of Technology (EIT) in Hawkes Bay.

Kordia chief executive Geoff Hunt said Kordia (which was until recently known as THL Group) will develop more applications and is willing to work with other content and service providers in the Wi-Fi arena.

“This deal with RoamAD and EIT Hawke’s Bay is our first step towards increasing ease of use and the utility of Wi-Fi networks throughout New Zealand,” he says.


Wow - not bad thinking for a 'small' regional Polytechnic with 3000 EFTS!

Original Article here.

NMC 2007 Report at EDUCAUSE ELI

Get Horizon! at EDUCAUSE ELI: "Okay, this was just the fun part. The six topics:

Time to Adoption 4-5 Years:

The New Scholarship and Emerging Forms of Publication

Massively Multiplayer Educational Gaming

Time to Adoption 2-3 Years:

Mobile Phones

Virtual Worlds

Time to Adoption One Year or Less:

User-Generated Content

Social Networking"

(Via CogDogBlog.)

Gmail

By forwarding pop3 mail to Gmail i can pick it up on my mobile devices - Cool!

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Bits & Pieces

1. I've been using google reader mobile on my cell phone for RSS feeds - getting used to the interface, although I still prefer NetNewsWire Lite on my Mac (with Newsgator synching).

2. http://www.vox.com looks like a nice featured blogging host, with growing mobile features.

3. The Google synch plugin for Firefox is a great way to synchronize bookmarks and settings between Firefox on multiple computers - very similar to .Mac synching for Safari.

4. The Apple iPhone looks very cool - could be the perfect UMPC device for education!!! (especially with the uptake of podcasting in education already...)

Christmas in Te Awamutu & Athenree - a great family time - but NO 3G

Brung my Vodem with me - but GPRS access available only :-(

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Imaging a Dual-Boot MacTel!

To find out how, have a look at http://www.bombich.com/mactips/dualboot.html, and download the free OSX app 'NetRestore' from the same site - the same author as CarbonCopyCloner!

Study on 'What [US] College Students want from their Education'

Interesting article:

Study on 'What [US] College Students want from their Education': "

http://www.eduventures.com/about/press_room/

12_12_06.cfm?pubnav=about

Via Jim Farmer's eLibrary feed, an ongoing treasure trove of documents on patents and elearning (amongst other topics), comes news of this report by Eduventures, a Boston-based consulting firm. You have to pay for the full report, but even the short precis has some interesting nuggets from a student perspective. According to this summary, the study of 6,200 enrolling freshman in the US found 'Professional Preparation,' 'Academic Strength' and 'Affordability' (in that order) as the top 3 things incoming students are looking for. And around the notion of 'Academic Strenght,' apparently

students value 'close interaction with faculty' and 'experiential learning' more than 'honors programs' and the development of smaller 'learning communities.'

"

(Via EdTechPost.)

Bluepulse

Bluepulse is one of the best social software hubs for mobile i have come across. http://www.bluepulse.com

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PageFlakes

PageFlakes is an interesting Social Software hub for your fav SS right inside your web browser (Firefox is best option currently). Worth checking out & playing with.

Blogged with Flock

New Flickr Mobile

New Flickr Mobile: "New Flickr Mobile
Flickr recently rolled out an updated version of their mobile site at m.flickr.com. When I first reviewed Flickr Mobile I found it limited but useful. This update removes most of the limitations I mentioned. Photos are now searchable by tag or description and new links give you more options for viewing your contact's photos.

One of the best features of Flickr Mobile, the ability to upload photos directly from your browser, has been retained. Browser uploading only works from certain phones, mainly Nokia's, but if you have a compatible phone and an unlimited data plan it makes uploading photos essentially free. For the rest of us, Flickr also supports uploading by MMS. The new version of Flickr Mobile even uses access keys for every link making navigation very efficient.

This is generally a nice upgrade but there are issues - mainly centered around logins. There are a couple of different issues with logins. Flickr has two types of logins, users who signed up before August 15, 2005 and haven't upgraded still use their old Flickr login, which can be any email address. Anyone who signed up after that date has to use a Yahoo id which in the case of users of Yahoo partners like ATT is also an email address. The Flickr PC site accepts either type of login but the new version of the mobile site only takes Yahoo logins. This is a change from the previous version of Flickr Mobile which accepted only Flickr logins. I had a Flickr login so I had to do what Yahoo calls 'merging' my Flickr and Yahoo accounts which turned out to be a rather frustrating process. When I tried to merge the ATT-Yahoo account whose email address I had always used to login to Flickr, Yahoo couldn't complete the process saying that my login was invalid. To get it to work I had to change the email address that my legacy Flickr account was tied to. Once I did that I was able to merge my ATT-Yahoo account to my Flickr account.

A more serious login problem is that users of phones with the Motorola MIB browser may not be able to login at all. I don't have one of these phones so I can't be sure, but it's definitely broken using Motorola's MIB emulator. Clicking the login link just brings up a blank page. I think the url to the login page is too 'complicated' for this rather brain-dead browser to handle.

The screen shot shows yet another issue with Flickr Mobile and the MIB browser. That blue rectangle next to the Flicker logo is a link labeled 'Login'. You can't read it because Yahoo tried to change the links to Flickr's special shade of blue. The same thing happens to other links when they are selected. It's risky trying to change link colors on mobile pages as several popular browsers have bugs in this area. For mobile web developers, there's more on this issue here and here.

Except for the login issues, this is nice upgrade to Flickr's mobile functionality. Flickr mobile is a great way to entertain your friends and acquaintances with your vacation photos anywhere, any time. Flickr Mobile is on the Yeswap.com mobile portal in the Entertainment folder.
Flickr Mobile: xhtml-mp
Content: Usability:


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Planet Mobile Web 12/7/06 9:13 AM Editor http://wapreview.com/blog"

(Via Planet Mobile Web.)

GapMinder

this is a really interesting statistics tool:
http://tools.google.com/gapminder/

Feedback on Opera Mini 3.0

Opera Mini 3.0 and The Ajax Phone: "

1. Feed Reader: I’ve let this replace the native feed reader I have on my phone. The UI is better than what the Sony Ericsson M600i offers, and it actually supports a multitude of formats, including Atom 1.0


2. Photo upload. My phone has no camera, but here it is, direct photo upload from within Opera Mini.


3. Support for secure connections: You can finally use secure services and stay safe all the way.


4. Since most web authors have no regard for mobile usability (and no, dotmobi won’t help), Opera Mini 3.0 has content folding, where long navigation lists and other filler fluff is collapsed so you don’t have to scroll past 323 pages to get to your actual content.

"

I must say that I have found the same on my new SE M600 - Opera Mini3 has some nicer features (& uses less data) than the full Opera8 built into the M600!

(Via Planet Mobile Web.)

Opera Mini v3 for Mobiles

Opera Mini v3 is now available - with some cool new features:

Features

Download

Online Simulator

M600 video overview

From http://www.allaboutsymbian.com/

type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer"
flashvars="file=http://mediafiles.allaboutsymbian.com/aasvp3.flv&showdigits=true&autostart=false" />

Multimedia from All About Symbian

blogging from M600

TriaIing Kablog,a java blogging application

KERRANG! the weekly rock magazine goes QR Code

KERRANG! the weekly rock magazine goes QR Code: "

Photo: Robert Price



The new Kerrang, the english weekly rock magazine, hit the newsstands yesterday. We are proud to announce that the mobile tag below made it in the magazine*.







Short Code: 20207331 / Download the Kaywa Reader / Supported Phones





So if you want a Free Fightstar Video download, you should probably try it out.



By the way - if you know some german, you can read a review of FIGHTSTAR's Grand Unification over at Bandsmagazine



* See our other mobile tag projects.



Related: And see Emily's post about QR Codes for Food Traceability in Japan."

(Via Planet Mobile Web.)

MobileYouth: Introduction

MobileYouth: Introduction: "Children don't know the rules we set for them; this is why they defy convention. SMS grew thanks to young people 'breaking the rules'. MMS was an attempt to increase per-message fees. Some real views from youth follow, highlighting social value of mobiles for youth (duh).

Lifetime value of a young mobile customer in the UK is $20,000. This decreases as they get older."

(Via Planet Mobile Web.)