Wow, it looks like they took out way more than his tonsils!
Quote of the Day: “I don’t want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying.” – Woody Allen
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Massive open online courses are transforming higher education and science
MOOCs: Internet-based teaching programs are designed to handle thousands of students simultaneously.
Engineering, science, and technology have at the forefront of the massive open online course movement. These classes also are providing fodder for scientific research on learning.
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The value of the internet
The value of a good is much trickier to measure than measuring the cost. Value involves considering a hypothetical question – what would your life be like without that good?
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Tablet mobile traffic surpasses smartphone traffic
These days, if you are surfing the Web from a mobile device odds are you are doing it not from a smartphone, but from some type of tablet. For the first time tablets have surpassed smartphones for percentage of website views, according to a study done by Adobe.
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Welcome to the future of education: Technology is changing the way students learn
Technology will make education even more accessible and more reliable than it has today.
Kevin Kelly told the audience at the 2007 EG Conference for youth and young adults that 10 years ago no one would have believed the Internet was coming, least of all him.
The interspecies internet: TED2013
TED2013
We are connected with people all over the world by the internet. But could the internet also connect us with dolphins, apes, elephants and other highly intelligent species?
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Global music sales growing for first time this century
In 2012, global music sales rose by 0.3 percent to $16.5 billion. This marks the first good year for the music industry since 1999.The music industry’s 21st century renaissance comes down to four factors: Better mobile technology, a growing global middle class, more music-listening options, and an effective crackdown on piracy that is making paid music a more attractive option.
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The cyber-cold war between China and U.S.
Cyber cold-war
A lengthy confidential list of computer addresses linked to a hacking group that has stolen terabytes of data for corporations in America was circulated to the country’s internet providers last week by the Obama administration. But, it left out an important fact that almost every one of the digital addresses could be traced to he neighborhood in Shanghai that is headquarters to the Chinese military’s cybercommand.
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Yahoo CEO Mayer Now Requiring All Remote Employees to Not Be (Remote)
“We need to be one Yahoo!, and that starts with physically being together.”
Here is the internal memo, courtesy of some very irked Yahoo employees, sent to the company about a new rule rolled out by CEO Marissa Mayer. The new rule requires that Yahoo employees who work remotely relocate to company facilities.
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More ads, higher completion rates on longer online videos
Total video views among internet users in the US were up 23% year over year in Q4 2012.
The appetite of U.S. online video viewers appears far from satisfied. Research from video monetization firm FreeWheel shows that the total video views among internet users in the US were up 23% year over year in Q4 2012. That growth has paralleled an increase in video ad volume, which grew 47% over the same time period, according to FreeWheel. (FreeWheel’s data covers only rights-managed videos, and does not include user-generated content.)
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The internet’s 19 degrees of separation
Most Web pages can be connected in 19 clicks or less.
The internet is unfathomably vast. But it’s more tightly bound that you may think, according to a new study published in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society.
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How Americans use the internet as tools for health
81% of U.S. adults use the internet for health information.
For Pew Internet’s September 2012 health survey, they explored how U.S. adults are using the internet and digital technology as tools related to health and healthcare. Among the findings:
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