SoundCloud is a platform that puts your sound at the heart of communities, websites and even apps. Watch conversations, connections and social experiences happen, with your sound as the spark.
SoundCloud – Your Sound, At The Heart
4 May 2011
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Posted by Teb Locke
Science 2.0: ResearchGate is like a Facebook for Scientists
19 April 2011ResearchGate is a free social networking site and collaboration tool aimed at scientific researchers from all disciplines of science. It provides web applications including semantic searching (whole abstract searching), file sharing, publication database sharing (e.g. endnote libraries), forums, methodology discussions, groups etc. Members can create their personal blog within the network. [Wikipedia]
ResearchGate has received funding from a former Facebook executive and the same venture capital firm that backed Twitter. Since 2008, 900,000 people from 192 countries have signed up as members.
[Source: NPR]
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Posted by Oscar Retterer
Pagination comes to Google Docs – Docs Blog
13 April 2011Today, we’re doing another first for web browsers by adding a classic word processing feature—pagination, the ability to see visual pages on your screen. We’re also using pagination and some of Chrome’s capabilities to improve how printing works in Google Docs.
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Posted by Teb Locke
Free Technology for Teachers: Scrumblr – Simple Online Sticky Note Sharing
29 March 2011Scrumblr is a new site that provides an online space to create and share sticky notes with a group.
via Free Technology for Teachers: Scrumblr – Simple Online Sticky Note Sharing.
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Google Docs editing finally comes to iPhone, iPad, Android
17 November 2010Those who depend on Google Docs know how frustrating it is when you want to make a simple change from an iPhone, but can’t because Google Docs is read-only on mobile devices. Until now, that is. Google has just introduced a new mobile editor that makes it possible to make changes to your Google Docs from any iOS 3.x or later device, as well as from Android devices running Froyo (2.2).
via Google Docs editing finally comes to iPhone, iPad, Android.
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New Web Code Draws Concern Over Privacy Risks
13 October 2010Worries over Internet privacy have spurred lawsuits, conspiracy theories and consumer anxiety as marketers and others invent new ways to track computer users on the Internet. But the alarmists have not seen anything yet.
In the next few years, a powerful new suite of capabilities will become available to Web developers that could give marketers and advertisers access to many more details about computer users’ online activities. Nearly everyone who uses the Internet will face the privacy risks that come with those capabilities, which are an integral part of the Web language that will soon power the Internet: HTML 5.
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Let Google Voice Rock the Classroom! | new.school
14 July 2010This post is geared more toward a K-12 classroom, but it has some creative ideas for using Google Voice that could be applied to many learning environments.
With Google Voice, learners can call in and leave messages that can be emailed, downloaded as .mp3 files, or embedded in web sites using the included html code. Basically, it’s a way to create audio recordings, without the need for a computer or mic.
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CritiqueIt
6 July 2010@BryanAlexander recently mentioned this tool in one of his tweets. It looks like it has promise.
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Brown University has gone Google…
1 July 2010
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Dipity – online times
18 June 2010Dipity lets you create timelines that you can share with the world.
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