Category: Social Creatures
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Simple tech for the simple exercise
The popularity of running seems to be increasing again – it seems to go up and down through the decades. One of the things that is likely helping out this time is a little bit of technology from Nike and Apple (or you can get the non iPod version of the sportband). Wired has an…
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If we want kids to grow up digital, it might mean
… that, like the Millennials in this report (RWW) who are often successfully dictating to their IT departments what type of technology they want to make use of to communicate for business (often in ways that are similar to those used for pleasure). This new generation of employee seems to have little regard to privacy…
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Vain in the name
These last few days have seen quite the interest in who scored which vanity URL from Facebook. Outside some commercially styled or really geek usernames (default.aspx an example – et al) most are true to their owner’s identity. That is assuming that you had a name that was uncommon enough across the millions of Facebook…
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Hurried toward burnout? Encouragement, Self Esteem and Achievement.
Over the last few months, I’ve had several reasons to expand my scope of cursory research to beyond how technology can be brought into the classroom. It is certainly something that is still interesting, but I’m firmly of the mind now that it is not the technology that we need to be concerned with (I’ve…
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Google’s unsocial social network
Google has likely been building this up internally for a while, as reported by the tech media: The problem with Google Profiles as a social network is that it’s not social. Google Profiles lacks the equivalent of Facebook’s “Wall Posts” and “Status Updates.” (Profiles has a status message, but only people on your Gmail Chat…