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Facebook: A social network evolves into a social utility
What can I say about Facebook that hasn’t been said? Newsweek has placed Mort Zuckerberg, the founder of the social networking giant on its cover. And the press has been hyperventilating about Facebook...
View ArticleWatch the Catsters on YouTube and learn about monads, math and functional...
Ok, I admit it: calculus is now officially a decade in my past. Math, or “maths,” as the Brits put it, however, is very much in my present, considering the importance of algorithms to modern life. (For...
View ArticleVideo: Twitter in Plain English
CommonCraft.com is already well known in the blogosphere and social media world for creating brilliant, lucid short videos that explain tricky concepts. The two-person team that make up CommonCraft...
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Happy Pi Day!
Yes, today is March 14, 2008, abbreviated as 3.14. Mathematicians everywhere celebrate today as Pi Day. You can join the fun over at PiDay.org.
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Better Education Through Open Source Robots
Heather Johnson is guest blogging at WhatIs.com this week. Heather is a freelance writer, as well as a monthly contributor for OEDb, a site that helps students select among accredited online schools....
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What is the future of the Internet?
Do you think much about the future of the Internet? Last week, the academics and technologists who consider the matter professionally gathered at the Berkman Center at Harvard Law School in Cambridge,...
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What is the missing link of integrated circuitry? The memristor!
The discovery of Thursday’s Word of the Day, memristor, has been theorized about since 1971, when the possibility for a fourth fundamental passive circuit element was first described. The invention,...
View ArticleWhat is a social spreadsheet? Dan Bricklin and SocialText combine wikis with...
Ross Mayfield, founder of SocialText, a maker of enterprise wiki software, announced the launch of a new social spreadsheet at the Enterprise 2.0 Conference. In his presentation to a packed hall of...
View ArticleVideo: MIT’s OpenCourseWare — Introduction to Algorithms (Lesson 1 and 2)
Thanks to a friendly Creative Commons license, these introductory lectures could be uploaded to Google Video by Peteris Krumins from the host on MIT’s OpenCourseWare website. In his post about them on...
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What is Blog Action Day? A chance to help fight global poverty.
Blog Action Day is, according to its founders, “an annual nonprofit event that aims to unite the world’s bloggers, podcasters and videocasters, to post about the same issue on the same day.” In 2007,...
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