Barcodes, QR codes and the like are continuing to evolve:
Bokode: Imperceptible Visual Tags for Camera Based Interaction from a Distance
July 31, 2009
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Wolfram|Alpha Blog : Wolfram|Alpha’s Got the “Write” Stuff
July 30, 2009Wolfram|Alpha is a great resource for writers. It has an enormous words and linguistics database that writers can use for such things as word definitions, origins, synonyms, hyphenation, and Soundex lookups.
Type “word contest”, and Wolfram|Alpha will retrieve the word data for the English word “contest”. The results tell you many definitions of the word, that its first known recorded use was in 1603, that it rhymes with “conquest”, and a wealth of other data on just that word.
via Wolfram|Alpha Blog : Wolfram|Alpha’s Got the “Write” Stuff.
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Appellate Court Overturns Blackboard Patent; Blackboard To Press On
July 29, 2009Blackboards patent on learning management system technologies has been overturned by the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. The court ruled Monday in favor of Desire2Learn and invalidated some claims in patent No. 6,988,138, also known as the “Alcorn patent” or the “138 patent.” But the saga will continue.
[Source: Campus Technology]
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Echo 360
July 28, 2009
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Augmented Reality Apps to Arrive with iPhone 3.1
July 27, 2009The L.A. Times reports that Apple will begin allowing developers to produce augmented reality applications starting with the upcoming iPhone OS 3.1. Augmented reality uses the device’s GPS, camera and digital compass to overlay real-time data onto live video.
One example of an augmented reality application is Nearest Subway which helps find the nearest subway station:
Another example is ARF, an augmented reality virtual pet game being developed for the iPhone in the GVU Center’s Augmented Environments Lab at Georgia Tech.
Augmented reality on the iPhone will require the latest iPhone, the 3GS, because only this model has the digital compass and video capabilities required for augmented reality.
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Clicker U.
July 27, 2009To some academics, clickers are a great new technology, allowing professors to measure instantly whether students in a large class are grasping new concepts (or are even in class). To others, clickers represent a depersonalizing influence.
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The hidden problem with Twitter
July 24, 2009Oxford University Press has been studying the language of Twitter these past six months – take a look at what they’ve found.
[Source:HigherEdMorning]
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The iPod, As We Know It, Is Dying
July 24, 2009by MG Siegler on July 21, 2009
During its quarterly earnings call today, Apple CFO Peter Oppenheimer focused a lot of attention on what the company is now calling its “pocket products.” That is, the iPhone, the iPod touch and the iPod. You’ll notice that Apple has taken to separating out the iPod touch from the rest of the iPod line. And that makes sense, given it shares many more similarities with the iPhone. But it’s also for another reason: The iPod, as we know it, is dying.
Of the three pocket products, two saw huge year-over-year growth this quarter, one did not. While iPhone sales grew a massive 626% year-over-year, iPod touch sales actually grew just about 130% too. And while Apple may consider the iPod touch outside of the iPod line, for financial purposes, it’s still counted with them. So when you hear that overall the iPod family saw a 7% decline year over year, you know that the actual iPod numbers minus the iPod touch, must not be very good at all.
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Free Online Courses & Lectures from Great Universities (via Podcast and MP3) | Open Culture
July 24, 2009Download free courses & lectures from some of the world’s leading universities, including Stanford, Yale, Berkeley, MIT, Oxford, Harvard and others.
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California Digital Library Offers Web Archiving Service
July 24, 2009Faculty, students, researchers, and librarians can now create archived collections of Web sites through the California Digital Library’s Web Archiving Service — a way to preserve information on the Web that could otherwise be removed or deleted.
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