A christmas version of the story of the three little pigs and the bad wolf.
The Three Little Pigs are trying to escape the Big Bad Wolf on Christmas…with disastrous but hilarious results, they decide to…
Cert: PG (I don’t want to upset the kids.) 
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Continuing my very occasional series of videos from unusual lectures, here’s a clip from a Math(s) class at Biola University:
Via The University Blog.
A (very) quick look back at the Google story over the last 11 years. From Stanford to Mountain View and around the world, featuring many different products, starting with BackRub (Search) up to Go..
Excellent video covering the origins of the most powerful company in on-line media today.
University LipDub has taken University campuses across Continental Europe, Brazil and Québec by storm over the last year! Karine Joly and Mike Richwalsky mentioned it on Twitter the other day which got me looking at some of the examples. One of the best – from l’Université du Québec à Montréal – has been featured on CNN and “LipDubs” [???] the Black Eyed Peas’ I Gotta Feeling:
I wonder if there are there any Media or Performing Arts students out there who fancy giving this a go..?
Google Wave was launched on the 28th May, 2009 at the ‘Google’s I/O Developer conference’ in San Francisco. It has been developed by a team working in Sydney, Australia. Which consist of two brothers, Jens and Lars Rasmussen and has Stephanie Hannon as the lead project manager, all of whom were previously involved in Google Maps.
What it is Google Wave?
It is a new platform for communication and collaboration on the web in real time coming later this year. I can’t wait!
It is based on a “Wave”, a different way to communicate by integrating many of the tools we are currently using such as email, maps, videos, photos, blogs and chats in just one interface. So, we can create a wave and invite our collaborators to join the conversation by giving them access to send simple messages and edit the wave directly. Truly Impressive.
It combines some of people’s favourite aspects of email, instant messaging, wikis, blogs, chats, projects and social networks. There’s even a twitter client (Twave robot) – you can tweet into and out of a wave!
The following are few of the cool features from the demo:
- Real Time: Drop photos onto a wave and see the thumbnails appear on the other person’s machine before the full upload is finished. Just watch the demo to view this
- Embeddability: The waves can be embedded in any blog or site
- Drag and Drop: Wave lets you drag and drop files directly onto its interface
- Open Source, Applications and extensions: With open APIs developers will be able to create different applications for the waves. There will be plenty volunteers.
The API has been used to build a bunch of cool extensions such as: - Bloggy, a blog client, lets you make a blog post as a wave
- Linky is a link-recognition engine that is clever enough to recognize that the link you just entered is a YouTube video
- Buggy, a bug-reporting tool that can also be a participant in a wave
- Bidder, You can turn a wave into your own eBay
- Wiki Functionality: anything within the Google Wave can be edited by other members
- Playback: We will able to reproduce any part of the wave to keep track of what is being said or done and to see how it evolved
- Translation: Wave has the capacity of autocorrecting and translating in real time, which allows collaborative work among people that don’t share the same language
- Spell Checker: an extension called Spelly which uses the entire corpus of the web as its dictionary
Google Wave is promising to change the scope in: Education, e-learning, collaborative projects, companies and organizations, as it can be the most popular tool to create Personal Learning Environment or Personal Learning Networks.
Could Google Wave really redefine web communication? We’re going to have to wait a while though to find out, as this product is still under development. Right now it’s only available to a select group of developers who attended Google I/O conference and have an account to create their own Wave servers. I’m sure there will a lot of articles on the web keeping us informed of the development process, pros and cons.
If you want to find out more about Google Wave, allow yourself some time to watch the full demo, then you will be able to understand why people are extremely excited.
This video came up on my feed reader when it was posted (I subscribe to Michael Wesch’s channel) but for some reason I didn’t get around to watching it. But the internet has a funny way of bringing good stuff back to you so happily Ewan McIntosh posted about it yesterday giving me a second chance to catch it:
It’s almost an hour long, but if you can afford the time it’s well worth watching – it’s pitched just right giving details about not just the technologies (which you may already know about) but the anthropological issues.
Tags are being used by more and more websites. They’re everywhere. Look at the top of this post, its been tagged (by me). Look to the sidebar, a tag cloud (more about these later). Chances are if you use any social networking site or web 2.0 site, you’ll have used, seen and interacted with tags.
Our new-look corporate site, extensively uses tagging, specifically in News, Events, Imaging and the eProspectus, but what’s a tag used for? A tag is metadata, a keyword or term associated with or assigned to a piece of information. So tags can be added to any page in a web document and associated with any other pages prieviously tagged with the same tag.
The tags themselves are usually single words, informally and personally chosen. If you’ve signed up for accounts with Flickr, Picasa, delicious, Magnolia or YouTube, to name but a few, you’ve probably added your own tags by now. So is tagging just a way to show similarities between your documents? Not really, tagging data on these sites provides a simple navigation through to your own content, but also hooks into other members’ data by turning tags into links, which aggregate documents similarly tagged.
Tag Clouds
Popular tags can be visually represented through tag clouds, also known as a weighted list, with the most popular tags shown larger and bolder. Again the tags are links which drill down to similar content. You could even base an rss feed on a tag to alert visitors to new content so tagged.
Microformats
By adding rel=”tag” into the links, the link also becomes a microformat. Microformats are a standard way to represent things in HTML, by adding rel-tag we’re standardising the link as a tag. Making the link a microformat allows the reader to find similarly tagged content from a wider source than just the current site. Firefox users can install a fantastic add-on called Operator. Operator recognises microformats on the page and in the case of tags, offers the reader entry points to content similarly tagged on other websites. Sadly there doesn’t seem to be anything similar available for Internet Explorer, yet.
Machine Tags
On the horizon, we have Machine tagging or Triple tagging. Machine tags use a specific syntax to define extra information about the tag, making it more meaningful for interpretation by computer programs. Triple tags comprise three parts: a namespace, a predicate and a value. For example, ehu:news=607This kind of tagging isn’t currently used on the Edge Hill site, but it’s built-in ready to go. Anyone interested can see an implementation on Adactio, any Flickr images, tagged ( where n is representative of his blog post) will be included automatically.adactio:post=n
Adopting Tags
By adopting tags, or creating tags so unique, ensures that all things tagged are related. For example, all news, event and images relating to this year’s Solstice Seminars could be tagged: solstice08. The tag is so unique, items tagged with it would be unlikely to be included out of context. Such unique tags can be promoted like a product, by requesting conference attendees to tag their own online content, on websites and slides etc.
Tagging Best Practices
If you’re about to embark on a journey of tagging for your own sites, it can feel a little daunting. There are, however, some best practices you can use to get started:
A bit of light entertainment since it’s less than a week until Christmas*:
This video was taken down from YouTube when the copyright holder of one of the photos objected to not receiving credit but it’s back online now for everyone to see. There’s much debate as to whether it really was breach of copyright or if a parody is fair use.
Is there a bubble, and is it going to burst? That’s a question many commentators will probably try to answer in their New Year predictions, or refuse to answer if they have any sense! Last time there was a “market adjustment” a lot of long term good came out of it. The waste and excess was given the squeeze and the good ideas won through. I could write more about this but I won’t – enjoy the video, and stay tuned over the holidays – I’m going to try to blog some stuff.
* Find out on isitchristmas.com when it really is Christmas!
I wonder if any lecturers at Edge Hill have any strange rules like Dr Strong’s requirement that any student whose mobile phone rings get up and sing a song…
Via Technosailor.
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