Tag Archives: web2.0
When Pearls Hold Your Web Pages
When working with web bookmarks, what is more satisfying that collecting good ones, organizing them, and sharing them the way that you want? Tags aside.
Morning Musings: Only half of all Tweets are in english
Semiocast, a French based consulting group, conducted a study over a two-day period (Feb. 8 thru Feb 10) examining close to 3 million tweets this February and found some interesting results. Semiocast’s study found that out of those 3 million tweets, roughly 1.5 million of them were not in English. The english language only popped [...]
Instructional Technology Grants Showcase: INSITE
INSITE stands for the International Network of Students Investigating Technology for Education. This project is the brain-child of Dr. Timothy J. Newby, an instructor in the college of Education here at Purdue University. As a selected project for one of the TLT Instructional Grants, Dr. Newby worked with our student developers Mike Chaten and Bryan [...]
Making Your Final (Web 2.0) Exit
It had to happen. Fads usually encounter a negative bounce once they begin to mature, and the Web 2.0 Suicide Machine is the ultimate nose-thumbing to all the social media hysteria. According to the company web site, “This machine lets you delete all your energy sucking social-networking profiles, kill your fake virtual friends, and completely [...]
Microsoft Office Online
Over the past week, Microsoft has slowly rolled out Beta access to the new Office Online suite to a select number of Windows Live SkyDrive users. This new web application suite can be seen as a direct competitor to Google Docs & the Zoho Office Suite, and an evolution of their Office Live workspace.
Call for Proposals – Computers & Writing 2010 Conference
The Computers & Writing Conference at Purdue University is looking for speakers and will be accepting proposals until midnight on October 23rd. This year’s conference theme is “Virtual Worlds” @ Purdue. The C&W Conference is sponsored in part by the Purdue College of Liberal Arts, Professional Writing dept, Purdue OWL, and Introductory Composition. As mobile [...]
Teens & Tweets – Yet Another Survey
Another day, another survey full of data and ideas on why teens are not flocking to Twitter like we think they should. TechCrunch guest Author Geoff Cook (co-founder & CEO of myYearbook) posts his results from a survey of about 10,000 teens, ages 12 – 17, and comes up with some interesting results. According to [...]