World Wide Web – Science, Technology, Society

Skillshare Takes On the Education Gap

Posted on April 10, 2013June 21, 2013 by timbatchelder

April Joyner, inc.com

Inc. magazine

Apr 2, 2013

What if anyone could go take to the Web to learn a job-getting new skill, at $20 a pop?

Michael Karnjanaprakorn believes that education and learning are two different things. And when it comes to…

Skillshare Takes On the Education Gap http://flip.it/odFq6 http://flip.it/my0Ik

Skillshare Takes On the Education Gap

The Best Thing I’ve Seen Today: Skillshare and Jason Thornton’s Pioneer Brewery: Snakebite IPA (procrastinationfiles.wordpress.com)
Skillshare (tanyazelaya.wordpress.com)
Skillshare – Learn and Potentially Earn Cash (pixiebudget.com)
Watch free online today: Skillshare at TEDActive (ted.com)
Welcome to June and Customer Acquisition (entrepreneurs.about.com)
SKILLSHARE@FRESHCAFEHI goes down this time next week 01/31/12! (permablitzhawaii.com)
10 Effective eLearning Options for Entrepreneurs (smallbiztrends.com)
With $7.5M From Redpoint, Bill Campbell & Others, Curious Launches A Marketplace For Life- Long Learning (gadtechno.wordpress.com)

Bio design used to create deceptive robots

Posted on December 19, 2012April 17, 2013 by timbatchelder

Deceptive robots created thanks to squirrel and bird bluffing
By Philippa Warr, wired.co.uk

Technology

By looking at deceptive behaviours in squirrels and birds a team at the Georgia Institute of Technology have created robots capable of deceiving one another.

The military-funded project, led by Ronald Arkin of the…

RT @WiredUK: Deceptive robots created thanks to squirrel and bird bluffing http://flip.it/pOTQo by @PhilippaWarr http://flip.it/YwACW

Scientists Have Built an Internet for Robots (gawker.com)
Robots Can Now Ask For Computational Help Via Web-based Database (ubergizmo.com)
Could Robots Replace Jurors? (blogs.wsj.com)
Robots Can Now Access ‘Brain’ in the Cloud, Potentially Making Them Cheaper (scienceworldreport.com)

Buffeted by the Web, but Now Riding It – NYTimes.com

Posted on December 18, 2012April 17, 2013 by timbatchelder

Buffeted by the Web, but Now Riding It – NYTimes.com

With Positions to Fill, Employers Wait for Perfection – NYTimes.com (jlphilly47.wordpress.com)
Tax Lobby Builds Ties To Max Baucus – NYTimes.com (huffingtonpost.com)
Stupid Writer Tricks – NYTimes.com (everythingscrivener.wordpress.com)

How to use Creative Commons visuals

Posted on December 13, 2012April 10, 2013 by timbatchelder

How to Use Creative Commons Visuals on Your Site
Nina Frazier, mashable.com

Tracking down quality visuals to accompany stories and blog posts can be difficult. Luckily, there are more than 200 million free photos on the web that are available for almost anyone to use — as long as they follow the tenets of Creative Common…

http://flip.it/sD1By

Creating Quality Web Content – Tips and Strategies (resourcelinkbce.wordpress.com)
10 top tools for creating infographics & visualizations (socialmedia.biz)
Social Marketing 2013: Capitalizing on the Visual Age (business2community.com)
7 Awesome Visual Alternatives to Google Docs (educatorstechnology.com)
Mashable Variety Show: An overview (jaimejcheng.wordpress.com)

7 Web Tools Every Start-Up Needs

Posted on October 10, 2012February 24, 2013 by timbatchelder

7 Web Tools Every Start-Up Needs | Inc.com

Afghan president orders US forces out of key province – NBCNews.com (worldnews.nbcnews.com)
Cuban leader Raul Castro says he will retire in 2018 – Reuters (reuters.com)

DownThemAll!: A great way to speed your downloads

Posted on August 23, 2010February 9, 2013 by timbatchelder

DownThemAll! :: Add-ons for Firefox.

Best download manager in Rule The Web

The Best of 3 Billion Add-on Downloads (mozilla.org)
11 Productivity Tools for Firefox (distilled.co.uk)
Mozilla Firefox 17: better add-on security but some add-ons may break (ghacks.net)
GMail Add-ons for FireFox (darcsfalcon.wordpress.com)
Adblock Plus is the most popular Firefox addon (neowin.net)
Firefox spell check — How to default to English (United States)? (ask.metafilter.com)
Winners of the Favorite Add-ons Contest (mozilla.org)
Firefox 17 to make add-ons more secure (h-online.com)
Over 3 Billion Downloads for Firefox Add-ons (news.softpedia.com)
Supercharging Firefox (firstdigital.co.nz)

KMWorld & Intranets

Posted on September 7, 2008September 7, 2012 by timbatchelder

An Innovation Competence Process Coming From K... — An Innovation Competence Process Coming From Knowledge Management (Photo credit: Alex Osterwalder)

KMWorld & Intranets 2008.

Search Technologies Named to KMWorld’s 100 Companies that Matter in Knowledge Management (prweb.com)
Mindbreeze InSite Wins KMWorld Trendsetting Product Award (arnoldit.com)
Smartlogic’s Semaphore, the Open Semantic Platform, Has Been Named by KMWorld as a Trend-Setting Product of 2010 (prweb.com)
KMWorld Recognizes TheBrain Technologies Knowledge Management Software as a Trend-Setting Product for 2009 (prweb.com)
Social intranets evolution or revolution (therunninglibrarian.co.uk)
5 Benefits of an Intranet – Back to the basics (sys-con.com)
2009 KMWorld Conference Call for Papers (billives.typepad.com)
Darwin Ecosystem’s Awareness Engine™ Named KM World Trend Setting Product for Second Year (billives.typepad.com)
Nielsen Norman Group Names Best Intranets for 2010 (billives.typepad.com)
Putting people at the centre: social staff directories ” Step Two Designs, Alex Manchester (steptwo.com.au)

Opera Mini & Opera Mobile browsers

Posted on August 28, 2008August 28, 2012 by timbatchelder

“O” logo used by Opera Software as the browser logo. Since a single letter cannot be copyrighted, this image is in the public domain. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Opera Mini & Opera Mobile browsers.

Best browser for stability, reliability, never crashes.

Opera Mini browser for iPhone? (reviews.cnet.com)
Opera readies mini browser for iPhone (reviews.cnet.com)
Hands on Opera Mobile 11, Opera Mini 6 (reviews.cnet.com)
Opera And Google To Remain BFFs Until 2014 (webpronews.com)
Starring role for the web on media players (opera.com)
Opera has more than 200m mobile users (mobile-ent.biz)
Opera Q2: Sales Up 32% To $52.1M; Mobile Surges, Desktop Flat, Google Deal Stays Put (techcrunch.com)
Google screams into top Opera soprano gig – again (go.theregister.com)
Mobile web trends in Africa (opera.com)
Opera Software has a new bright and shining beacon in Silicon Valley (opera.com)

Internet Archive: Digital Library of Free Books, Movies, Music & Wayback Machine

Posted on August 22, 2008August 23, 2012 by timbatchelder

Internet Archive: Digital Library of Free Books, Movies, Music & Wayback Machine.

This site hosts the way back machine (use to find all old screenshots of your web content developement), high resolution video hosting (much better than YouTube) (or use your own blog).

The Internet Archive (eogn.com)
Give back to Wayback – Donate to Internet Archives (beanstalk-inc.com)
Alexandria 2.0: One Millionaire’s Quest to Build the Biggest Library on Earth (wired.com)
The Internet Archive adds over 1 million torrents to the site (ghacks.net)
Free Knowledge (sonicalkaline.wordpress.com)
Search Or Browse One Million Public Domain Legal Torrents In The Internet Archive (makeuseof.com)
Difference Engine: Lost in cyberspace (economist.com)

ThinkFree Cloud Office: ditch those servers and paper pushers

Posted on August 27, 2007August 27, 2012 by timbatchelder

Image via CrunchBase

ThinkFree Cloud Office.

top rated office 2.0 by Rule the Web

Cloud services and your business: What’s your strategy? (bizblog.blackberry.com)
Join Us at CloudCamp Austin This Saturday (rackspace.com)
Riverwalking Inside The Rackspace Cloud (rackspace.com)
Building43 Launches On Cloud Sites (rackspace.com)
Pagerank for Event Graphs (windley.com)
PRACTICE – CLOUD – 10min (redravine.wordpress.com)
When the clouds came (ajithphotography.wordpress.com)
Amazon Web Services Announces Amazon Glacier (sys-con.com)
ThinkFree Office Mobile 4.2.120810 (Android) (apksharing.wordpress.com)

BillP Studios – WinPatrol 2012

Posted on August 25, 2007August 25, 2012 by timbatchelder

BillP Studios – WinPatrol 2012.

This is the high rated disk cleanup utility on Rule the Web along with disk medic, cCleaner for PC. Be sure to remove fax software, AOL, old restore points, and other crap, plus language support files and printer drivers.

[Product Review] WinPatrol 2012 Takes Aim at New Malware (pcworld.in)
How to Run Disk Cleanup in Windows 8 (helpdeskgeek.com)
Cleaning the disk completely ….. (slientpoison.wordpress.com)
How to clear space on your laptop hard drive (howto.techworld.com)
[Asparagus Jumpsuit] THE KAIJU PATROL (asparagusjumpsuit.wordpress.com)
Why Windows 8 Might Not Need Printer Drivers (lifehacker.com.au)
Spring cleaning with a technology twist (lenovo.com)
Disk Cleanup Is Missing On Windows Server 2008 R2 (richardstk.wordpress.com)
Agencies step up DUI checkpoints, patrols this weekend (blogs.sacbee.com)
Re: [ 02/70] floppy: Cleanup disk->queue before caling put_disk() … (lkml.org)

ProgrammableWeb – Mashups, APIs, and the Web as Platform

Posted on August 25, 2007August 25, 2012 by timbatchelder

Image representing ProgrammableWeb as depicted... — Image via CrunchBase

ProgrammableWeb – Mashups, APIs, and the Web as Platform.

ProgrammableWeb keeps tabs on mashups and open APIs across the Web. When a service such as Google Maps, Flickr, or Facebook opens its API, ProgrammableWeb is one of the best resources for finding new extensions or building your own.

Cloud Expo Silicon Valley Speaker Profile: Adam DuVander – ProgrammableWeb (sys-con.com)
7,000 APIs: Twice as Many as This Time Last Year (programmableweb.com)
Best New Mashups: Week In Review Featuring Google Maps, Dropbox and Spotify (programmableweb.com)
Next Version Of Twitterrific To Be Launched As Planned Despite Twitter API Changes (programmableweb.com)
30 APIs To Look At When Planning Your API (apievangelist.com)
Census API (web2learning.net)
The Rise of Shopping APIs [Infographic] (getelastic.com)
Alcatel-Lucent Creates Methodology For APIs And Makes Available Under Creative Commons (techcrunch.com)
What is the Future of Web APIs? (apievangelist.com)

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