The news earlier this week about Riverdeep merging with Houghton Mifflin is largely a financial out for Riverdeep. Still, the combination of content and technology assets makes a lot more sense than Houghton Mifflin’s previous hookup with Vivendi. At the least it wakes up the ed-tech space, at best it will increase competition by putting […]
Archive for October, 2006
Riverdeep + Houghton Mifflin
Published October 29th, 2006 in Business & Finance, Culture, Educational Technologies and Uncategorized. 0 CommentsCorporate Branding Comes to Second Life
Published October 20th, 2006 in Culture, Marketing and Uncategorized. 0 CommentsDemonstrating the growing corporate interest in using virtual worlds like Second Life to extend and hone their brand image, Reuters has opened an “in-world” news bureau in October that is publishing news from the outside world for Second Life members and news of Second Life for […]
Scientists Say Games Not Playing Around
Published October 18th, 2006 in Culture, Educational Technologies, Serious Games and Uncategorized. 0 CommentsAs reported by CNN this morning The Federation of American Scientists (FAS) and the Entertainment Software Association (ESA) have released a comprehensive report based on the Summit on Educational Games.
The report states, “Modern video and computer games offer a rich landscape of adventure and challenge that appeal to a growing number of Americans. Games capture […]
Distinct or Extinct?
Published October 17th, 2006 in Marketing, Uncategorized and Web 2.0 & Beyond. 0 CommentsWhich are you going to be, distinct or extinct?
Business guru Tom Peters puts it bluntly when he asks that question, but he’s right. You can either stand out in your uniqueness or stand by as your job is commoditized and out-sourced. So, how do you become “distinct�
Executive blogs are the hottest new way to stand […]
Lighter Side of Google/YouTube
Published October 13th, 2006 in Culture, Emerging Technologies, Uncategorized, User Experience and Web 2.0 & Beyond. 0 CommentsNow that the impact $1.65 billion Google/YouTube deal has begun to sink in there’s plenty of serious commentary to ponder and strategic planning to do if you’re in the web-video business. Meanwhile here are a few lighter observations.
First from Slash/dot: “Google’s acquisition of online video sharing site YouTube.com resulted in massive traffic headed to uTube.com, […]
PBS Videos to iTunes
Published October 10th, 2006 in Culture, Educational Technologies, Uncategorized, User Experience and Web 2.0 & Beyond. 0 CommentsIf the Google/YouTube marriage wasn’t enough web-video news for one week, PBS announced today the launch of PBS content on the iTunes Store, making it possible for users to now purchase and download documentary specials and episodes from popular PBS prime-time and children’s programming. Episodes are priced from $1.99 each. Story continues here…
Google Buys Earth
Published October 9th, 2006 in Culture, Uncategorized and Web 2.0 & Beyond. 0 CommentsOnly kidding, Google didn’t buy the planet, but after the markets closed today they did announce the acquistion of YouTube for a cool $1.65 billion. In the brave new world of Internet Video that’s amost the same thing. There’s a good discussion of this deal on PaidContent.org who have also compiled this list of […]
The Internet Information Factory
Published October 9th, 2006 in Educational Technologies, Emerging Technologies, Uncategorized and Web 2.0 & Beyond. 0 CommentsThe computing power and storage capacity of the Internet information factory is ubiquitous, enormous, and harbinger of continuing change in how we create and consume content.
George Gilder explores this meme in his article for Wired 14:10 where he writes, “The desktop is dead. Welcome to the Internet cloud, where massive facilities across the globe will store all the […]
Riding the Wave of Web 2.0
Published October 6th, 2006 in Uncategorized, User Experience and Web 2.0 & Beyond. 0 CommentsBlogs, wikis, social networking, folksonomies, user generated content, websites as application platforms… with all the hype surriounding Web 2.0 these days a little clarity is welcome.
Logically you can start with Tim O’Reilly’s definition since he’s the ones who coined the the term. For an update, the Pew Internet & American Life Project’s October 5th, 2006 […]
21st Century Learning
Published October 5th, 2006 in Culture, Educational Technologies and Uncategorized. 0 CommentseSchool News has published an excellent resource called 21st Century Learning that offers both new stories and reprints of ones that are still relevant. When you dig in to it you’ll find:
How the success of the gaming industry has […]
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