Skype Group Video Calls – Beta Version

Released earlier this year, Skype Group Video Calling, a beta version for Windows users. In order to use this software everyone in the call must all be using the same version of Skype 5.0, but hey it’s a beta. If this rolls out to other devices then could prove to be a killer app for [...]

The Machine is Us/ing Us by Michael Wesch, Kansas State University.

Machines are processing more and more information everyday. We need them to survive in today’s’ information age. What will happen as the data begins to pile up, and we decide to ask the machines to help us make decisions based on this historical data.  Ooh scary! Well maybe it is or maybe it ain’t or [...]

Exploring Social Media Monitoring: An Industry Survey.

It has taken social media to get corporations thinking more seriously about all those web possibilities. Using Social Media to create the communities of brand loyal Internet savvy users, corporations can learn so much about why consumers adore or hate their brand. But the knowing of when and how to communicate will be one of [...]

Interactive Textbooks for Education.

I used to hate carrying books to school. You’d think I was packing for a round the world tour, filled with sun and action packed adventures. No, I was just going to school. Macmillan US makes textbooks dynamic which allow teachers to freely customise and modify the textbooks, which can then be made available online [...]

What’s Next, Gen X?

This is a great book for you Gen X’ers. Being squeezed between the Traditionalists, Baby Boomers and Generation Y, Generation X is expected to work longer than the usual 20 years. I suppose we always knew it… have been witnessing it now at first hand for too long, and it’s only in inevitable that it’s [...]