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Happy Birthday WWW

  • Posted by Dave S.
  • November 13, 2006

To quote the Grateful Dead’s song “Truckin”, What a long strange trip it’s been. I guess it’s not completely accurate in this case, but it seems appropo…
“Today marks the 16th anniversary of the World Wide Web. According to the timeline on the W3.org site: ‘The first web page [was] http://nxoc01.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html. Unfortunately CERN no longer supports [...]

Skypecasting

  • Posted by Dave S.
  • November 8, 2006

This could prove to be a pretty interesting online educational tool. Imagine teachers being able to post a discussion question or assignment on their blog. Or as a corporate trainer with a dispersed training audience beign able to combine WBT with ILT. At a predetermined time participants / students could Skype into an online synchronous [...]

Google Broadens its Portfolio (Again)

  • Posted by Dave S.
  • October 31, 2006

Well, after hearing the news a few weeks ago that Google was going to halt new development to focus on improving their already vast array of products and services (Features not Products), I thought that they finally gained the focus needed to evolve, mature and round-out their already dizzying array of products. So I was [...]