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Microsoft’s Zune to rival Apple’s iPod | CNET News.com Little is known of this development yet apart from the fact that the Zune brand covers both hardware and software, that one device will be hard-drive based and have wireless capabilities, and that the first device will come out before the end of the year (i.e., […]
3 Comments | posted in iPod, iTunes, Microsoft, music industry, Zune
Can Windows and Linux Learn to Play Nice?: A commercial company has to build intellectual property, while the GPL, by its very nature, does not allow intellectual property to be built, making the two approaches fundamentally incompatible, Muglia said. Interesting take on “intellectual property.’ Would benefit from a bit more of an explanation. Is “IP” […]
Leave a comment | tags: Eric Raymond, Free Culture, FSF, FUD, IP, production, resistance, RMS, software development | posted in advocacy, content, Digital Life, free software, hegemony, intellectual property, Microsoft, open-source, product and process, productivity, WIPO
Sounds like iWork for iPad will export to Word but not to PowerPoint or Excel.
6 Comments | tags: export formats, features, file exchange, file formats, Google Docs, import formats, iPad, iWork, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Powerpoint, Microsoft Word, promises, SlideShare, Steve Jobs, Walt Mossberg, Zoho, Zoho Show | posted in Apple, Austin, cluefulness, collaborative learning, comment-fishing, content, course management systems, Crazy Predictions, Creative Commons, Education, getting things done, iPod touch, learning and teaching, learning materials, lecturecasts, linkfest, Moodle, Outlining, participatory culture, pedagogy, predictions, productivity, ramblings, shameless plug, students, Teaching, teaching and learning, techno enthusiasts, techno lust, wishful thinking, wishlists, workflow, writing
I’m one of those who feel the iPad is the right tool for the job.
16 Comments | tags: always-on Internet, Apple, books, cafés, computer sessions, interface, iPad, iWork, Keynote, liveblogging, longform texts, mobile computing, mobile sessions, mobility, multitasking, multitouch, OTA, Over-the-Air, personal devices, PowerPoint, presentation software, reading, road warriors, screen real estate, social contexts, Touch devices, touchscreens, ubiquitous Internet, videoconferencing, work sessions, workflow | posted in Apple, blog comments, Blogging, blogging tools, cluefulness, comment-fishing, computers, Crazy Predictions, creativity, Digital Life, digital lifestyle, Education, enhanced podcast, enthusiasm, field recording, fieldwork, gadget freaks, gadgets, geek crowd, geek culture, geeks, hype, iPhone, iPod touch, learning materials, lecturecasts, linkfest, mac, mac os x, Newton, nostalgia, OLPC, One Laptop Per Child, PDAs, Placeholders, pleasure, podcasting, predictions, product and process, productivity, ramblings, recording, reviews, satisfaction, shameless plug, smartphones, soapbox, speech recognition, Teaching, teaching and learning, Tech, techno enthusiasts, techno lust, technology, textbooks, trends, trusting people, wishful thinking, wishlists, workflow, writing
Been thinking about names again. Partly because of Lexicon Branding, a Sausalito, CA firm specialized in naming research for brands. As it so happens, my master’s thesis was on proper names. I mainly focused on anthroponyms (personal names) and toponyms (place names), but the connection is obvious between Lexicon’s work and what I have done […]
7 Comments | tags: advertising, anthroponyms, Bamanan, brand names, cross-cultural communication, Ethnography, evocation, evocative power, graduate research, Humanities, intellectual stimulation, language sciences, Lexicon Branding, Mali, marketing, meaning, music studies, naming, naming research, personal branding, praise-songs, proper names, publicity, resonance, salience, semiosis, Semiotics, significance, social media, social sciences, Symbolic anthropology, toponyms, West Africa | posted in shameless plug
Open Access I’ve been enthusiastic about OA (open access to academic texts) for a number of years. I don’t tend to be extremely active in the OA milieu but I do use every opportunity I can to talk about OA, both in formal academic contexts and in more casual and informal conversation. My own views […]
2 Comments | tags: academics, active reading, critical thinking, Diigo, dissemination of knowledge, epîstemiology, Eric Raymond, ESR, humility, Larousse, many eyeballs, open access, open education, open-mindedness, peer-review, Peter Suber, research publications, scholars, scientists, shallow bugs, social dimensions of knowledge, transparency | posted in Academia, academic publishing, academics, Actively Reading, geek culture, knowledge, knowledge management, knowledge people, linkfest, mandates, OA, online publishing, open access, Open Source Movement, open-source, openness, research impact, research publications
Ok, it probably shouldn’t become part of my habits but this is another repost of a blog comment motivated by the OLPC XO. This time, it’s a reply to Niti Bhan’s enthusiastic blogpost about the eeePC: Perspective 2.0: The little eeePC that could has become the real “iPod” of personal computing This time, I’m heavily […]
1 Comment | tags: 802.11g, 802.11n, 802.11x, accelerometer, adaptive technologies, agism, alphabetization, alternatives, Android, Asus, AsusTek, audio inputs, audio outputs, aurality, Bluetooth networking, cameraphones, cameras, cell phone, communication device, community-building, complemenary technologies, constructionism, culturally appropriate, daydreaming, device categories, disruptive technology, eeePC, embedded Linux, engineering challenges, feature lists, for the rest of us, Ford Model T, Ford T, Fordism, form factor, generation gaps, global cellphone penetration, global markets, GPS, Graphical User Interface, GSM, GUI, handheld devices, handhelds, Handhelds for the Rest of Us, handicaps, handset, haptics, headphones, headsets, hearing-impaired, HftRoU, humanism, humanitarian aid, humanitarian intervention, humanitarianism, input devices, inter-device, Internet Protocol, iPod Dock Connector, keyboard obsession, keyboard-les, keypad, kinesics, leapfrog effect, literacy, local manufacturers, location-based, long-form text, MacBooks, manufacturing costs, mesh networking, microphones, Microsoft Surface, MMS, mobile, multilingualism, multitouch, navigation, Newton, next big things, Nintendo DS, OLPC debacle, OLPC dream, OLPC Sugar, OLPC XO-1, One Handheld Per Child, Open Handheld Alliance, open minds, operating systems, OS, Palm, paradigm shifts, Perceptive Pixel, personal digital assistant, Pixel Qi, Playstation Portable, portable, portable devices, portable games, portable gaming consoles, portable media players, positioning, post-OLPC projects, power autonomy, power consumption, power management, prototypes, scree size, screen reading, self-empowerment, Skyhook, Skype, smartphones, SMS, solidarity, speakers, speech recognition, speech synthesis, subnotebooks, Symbian, tagfest, techno lust, text-focus, textism, Touch devices, touch-typing, typing, Ultimate Handheld Device, UMTS, unintended uses, USB, visually-impaired, VoIP, weather, Wi-Fi Positioning System, WiFi, WiMax, Windows Mobile, XO-1, Zune | posted in advocacy, Apple, books, cellphones, comment-fishing, computers, constructivism, Crazy Predictions, cultural awareness, cultural diversity, development, Digital Divide, diversity, Empowerment, gadgets, globalisation, glocalisation, Google, informal learning, iPhone, iPod, iPod touch, Learning, linkfest, localization, location-specific, Microsoft, Nicholas Negroponte, OLPC, One Laptop Per Child, openness, ramblings, techno enthusiasts, techno lust, technological determinism, textbooks, voice, voice interface, WiFi, wishful thinking, wishlists, writing, Zune
Repost from: Lounge: Apple Touch Devices in the Classroom? (Some redundant parts from the last post.) Watched and blogged about Apple’s enterprise and development media event, yesterday. The event was about what I call “Touch” products (iPhone and iPod Touch). One thing which struck me is that Phil Schiller started the enterprise section of that […]
2 Comments | tags: educational technology, laptop programs, Microsoft Exchange, network administrators, One Handheld Per Child, Pointy-Haired Boss, schools, Touch devices | posted in Apple, Education, iPhone, iPod touch, OLPC, ramblings
I’m still on the RDF. Apple‘s March 6, 2008 event was about enterprise and development support for its iPhone and iPod touch lines of handheld devices. Lots to think about. (For convenience’s sake, I’ll lump together the iPod touch and the iPhone under the name “Touch,” which seems consistent with Apple’s “Cocoa Touch.”) Been reading […]
9 Comments | tags: Apple Touch, Cocoa Touch, educational technology, iPhone SDK, iPod touch, Newton, PDAs, SDK, smartphones | posted in Apple, cellphones, comment-fishing, computers, Education, eLearning, informal learning, iPhone, iPod, iPod touch, iTunes Wi-Fi Music Store, linkfest, podcasting, Tech, techno enthusiasts, technology, textbooks, voice, voice interface, wishful thinking, wishlists
Saw a few things about Adobe’s AIR today, including a New York Times piece describing the “Webtop” play. In that NYT piece, a mention was made of Adobe’s own Buzzword “online word-processor.” Tried it out and, if it’s a sign of things to come, there might be some cool stuff happening for the webware enthusiast. Buzzword has some niceties […]
1 Comment | tags: Adobe, Adobe AIR, Adobe Buzzword, cloud computing, Outlining, Webware, word processing | posted in Web applications
To summarize the situation: Most of the software for which I paid a fee, I don’t really use. Most of the software I really use, I haven’t paid a dime for. I really like no-cost software. You might want to call me “cheap” but, if you’re developing “consumer software,” you may need to pay attention […]
2 Comments | tags: business models, free as in beer, free as in speech, free software, freeware, futurism, OCR, open-source, Optical Character Recognition, software development, speech technology, subscription plans, text-to-speech, TTS, voice desktop, voice recognition, voicetop, Webware | posted in Apple, cellphones, Crazy Predictions, ramblings, software, speech recognition, techno enthusiasts, techno lust, technological determinism, technology, voice, voice interface, Web applications, wishful thinking, wishlists
Wow! I’m impressed. No, I’m not a shill for AT&T. And I’m not even an AT&T customer yet. So, what am I impressed by? Customer service. Quality of customer service. Customer service representatives who do their job well. Instead of just assuming that it should happen all the time and complain when it doesn’t, I […]
1 Comment | tags: AT&T, basic psychology, broadband, complainers, conversational tone, CSRs, customer service, customer service representatives, customized service, doing business, DSL, Ethnography, helpfulness, ISPs, landline, measured line, personal approach, personalized service, phone companies, phone line, praises, residential phone service, satisfaction, Skype, surveys | posted in A, AT&T, customer service
Yeah, I tend to get overly enthusiastic about new devices. And so does a large part of the “tech press.” But, once in a while, a device comes which pretty much everyone predicts will fail. So, recently, I’ve been thinking about playing devil’s advocate with those predictions. Basically, stating that some device which seems […]
3 Comments | tags: Amazon, books, computers, Crazy Predictions, devil's advocate, E Ink, handheld devices, Internet appliances, Jeff Bezos, Kindle, mesh networks, tech enthusiasts, tech gurus, tech media, tech press, wireless revolution | posted in Crazy Predictions, ramblings
He’s been called a rogue ninja. And I think he deserves a raise. Whatever he’s getting. “Rogue ninjas”… I wonder if we can get that on our business cards. Best compliment ever « whateverblog. Well, these days, I’m doing “evaluation of quality” surveys over the phone so I often hear about people who apparently deserve […]
Leave a comment | tags: evaluation of quality, feedback, Joe Cheng, quality assurance, quality control, Windows Live Writer, WLW, XML-RPC | posted in blog editors, Blogging, Microsoft, praises, responsiveness, Windows Live Writer, WLW, WordPress.com
Much to be said about a recent ITConversations podcast episode. Ostensibly, this episode was about the LibriVox success story. (LibriVox is a community project producing public domain audiobooks from public domain books in diverse languages.) Yet, during this conversation, Web analyst (and Microsoft employee) Jon Udell along with LibriVox founder Hugh McGuire managed to share […]
11 Comments | tags: acoustics, auditory, aural, aurality, grassroots movements, Hugh McGuire, Jon Udell, Kara Shallenberg, LibriVox, oral, orality, Patrick Tanguay, public domain, Sean McGaughey | posted in aesthetics, audio, linkfest, Montreal, participatory culture, podcasts, ramblings, sound, Yulblog
Yet another Apple rumour, this time about iTunes allowing some type of subscription model: Media Biz Apple changes its iTune? « In this case, the comments to the blog entry are, dare I say, more insightful than the entry itself. Movie subscriptions would make more sense than music subscriptions because people are used to rent […]
Leave a comment | tags: Bittorrent, Calabash Music, eMusic, Last.fm, Napster, Pandora.com, Ruckus | posted in Apple, iPod, iTunes, MySpace, Zune
In response to Jess on organising one’s information. FavoUrites: Social Bookmarking (PART) My own use of social bookmarking isn’t that social nor that efficient. At this point, I tend to simply add things to my del.icio.us account as a way to remind myself that I would eventually like to blog about those links. Sometimes they’re […]
2 Comments | tags: bookmarking, Clié, DOI, folksonomies, metadata, OmniOutliner, OneNote, PalmOS, PDA, personal digital assistant, scrapbook, Spotlight, Zoho | posted in Blogging, commenting, del.icio.us, Gmail, mac os x, PDAs, RefWorks, tagging, Technorati, Web 2.0, WordPress.com
I might enjoy Zoho more than I thought I would. In a browser (like Firefox 2) with a “spell as you type” mode, it can be fairly useful. However, the desktopization of Zoho Writer (a widget which allows users of Zoho Writer, Sheets, or Show to edit files offline) wasn’t working for me, just now. […]
Leave a comment | tags: Google Docs, online applications, online editing, Web tools, Zoho
This one is even more exciting than the SecondLife statement. After the announcement that the USPTO was reexamining its patents in a case against open source course management software, Blackboard incorporated is announcing that it is specifically not going to use its patents to sue open source and other non-commercial providers of course management software. […]
2 Comments | tags: ATutor, Blackboard, Bodington, business, commercial, Elgg, freedom to think, law, legal sense, libre, patent pledge, patents, software development, USPTO, victories, WebCT | posted in Content Management Systems, course management systems, eLearning, free software, freedom, innovation, Microsoft, Moodle, Open Source Movement, Sakai, WIPO