A pilot project will determine whether some free online courses are similar enough to traditional college courses that they should be eligible for credit.
While MOOC’s, massive open online courses, are still in their early days, the race has begun to integrate them into traditional colleges by making hem eligible for transfer credits, and by putting them to use in introductory and remedial courses.
Continue reading… “College credit eyed for massive open online courses”
Faster internet connections have made viewers more impatient.
Revenues are declining for the traditional forms of online advertising. Emerging as a bright spot for many media companies is the video. It offers an opportunity for long engagement and hefty ad rates — but also a challenge to make it work.
Continue reading… “Online viewers abandon video if it doesn’t play in 2 seconds: Study”
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In an introductory article on Ruby, creator Yukihiro Matsumoto said, “For me the purpose of life is partly to have joy. Programmers often feel joy when they can concentrate on the creative side of programming, So Ruby is designed to make programmers happy.”
Happy computer programmers?
In this interview, world renowned futurist Thomas Frey talks to Yukihiro Matsumoto, or “Matz,” as he is known online, about how and why he created the Ruby programming language, what interested him in creating a programming language rather than creating video games, plus what it means to bring the languages newest version, Ruby 2.0, to the programming community.
Time to rethink the who, what, where, why and how of big data.
It is probably time to rethink the who, what, where, why and how of big data. There has been a surge of important news in the past couple weeks, where we are approaching a period of relative calm and can finally assess how the space has evolved in the past year. Here are the top five trends shaping up that should change almost everything about big data in the near future, including how it’s done, who’s doing it and where it’s consumed.
Continue reading… “Top 5 trends that are changing how we do big data”
Top brands on Instagram
Of the world’s biggest 100 brands, 54 percent are now connecting with fans and customers on Instagram, and brand adoption on Instagram is growing faster than Google+ and Pinterest.
Continue reading… “54% of the world’s top 100 brands are now on Instagram”
Google Wallet is making back to the future changes.
Recently, Google Wallet made big changes to support Visa, American Express, and Discover cards and is now apparently making even bigger changes. As in, back to the future changes.
Continue reading… “How Google Wallet is going back to the future”
MOOC is massive open online course
Recently there have been many discussions over the topic of MOOCs. MOOC stands for a massive open online course. It is a tuition-free course taught over the Web to a large number of students.
Continue reading… “Will academia be destroyed by massive open online courses?”
Megathread is an intuitive plug-in that can be applied to any blog, forum, discussion platform, or social network, without changing anything about the existing site. Our proprietary process uses an ethical, 3rd-person approach to recognizing the social influence and relevance of key contributing factors, such as keywords, people, posts, discussions, groups, communities, and more.
Continue reading… “Megathread adds new relevance to people’s interests and information”
People are shifting from using websites, where search is a natural activity, to using mobile apps.
Last month something crucial happened that no one seems to be paying attention to. People searched less. That’s never happened before.
Continue reading… “The Google era may be over”
Online courses will revolutionize higher education and cut the cost to near zero for most students over the next decade.
In as little as ten years a quality higher education couldl be largely free—unless, of course, nothing much has changed. It all depends on whom you believe. But one thing is clear: The debate about financing education grows louder by the day.
Continue reading… “Within 10 years college could be totally free”
About 43.5 percent of our social traffic are social networks we know.
In the early days of the web, pages of information linked to each other. Then along came web crawlers that helped you find what you wanted among all that information. Around 2003 or 2004, the social web really kicked into gear, and thereafter the web’s users began to connect with each other more and more often. Hence Web 2.0, Wikipedia, MySpace, Facebook, Twitter, etc. This is the dominant history of the web as seen, for example, in this Wikipedia entry on the ‘Social Web.’
Continue reading… “Why the whole history of the web is wrong”
Companies need to focus on making this big data fast, intuitive and easy to manipulate.
In the past year big data has become one of the most buzzed about topics, and potentially overhyped, phrases of the year. Big data has huge disruptive potential and the flood of attention should be no surprise. A recent IDC report stated that the business analytics software market grew by 14.1 percent in 2011 and will continue to grow to reach $50.7 billion in 2016, all driven by the focus on big data.
Continue reading… “Big data needs to be fast and diverse or it’s useless”
By delving into the futuring techniques of Futurist Thomas Frey, you’ll embark on an enlightening journey.
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