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22 mai 2019

Yahoo! Podcasts, Yahoo! October 10

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Various authors: Yahoo! Podcasts, Yahoo! October 10, 2005

Yahoo! launched a new podcast search and subscribe service on Sunday, marking the most significant development in the field since ipodder (now known as indiepodder). Yahoo! does podcasting a bit differently - "When you subscribe... you will be asked to download a small file called a .pcast file that contains information about the podcast. This file tells jukebox software like Yahoo! Music Engine, iTunes 5.0, and others to keep tabs on this podcast and to go fetch new episodes for you whenever they are ready." The .pcast file looks almost exactly like an RSS file. More...

21 mai 2019

Microsoft Seeks Patent Covering Web feed Readers

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Microsoft Seeks Patent Covering Web feed Readers
We have people in our organization who keep saying you can't patent things that have been previously invented, announced or publicized - and yet every day, it seems, we see evidence of the opposite. Microsoft gave us all a lump of coal over the holiday by filing patents on aspects of RSS-based content syndication. From CNet: "Microsoft has filed for two patents covering technology used to organize and read syndicated Web feeds, such as those delivered via the widely used Really Simple Syndication, or RSS, family of formats." More...

18 mai 2019

What’s Microsoft’s vision for conversational AI? Computers that understand you

Techno-News BlogFor example, he explained, systems today can add a new appointment to your calendar but not engage in a back-and-forth dialogue with you about how to juggle a high-priority meeting request. More...

18 mai 2019

Give This Funky Google AI One Word And It Will Give You A Whole New Poem

Techno-News BlogIn the latest demonstration of how far artificial intelligence has come, designer Es Devlin and Google have developed Poem Portraits, an algorithm that can be used to generate poetry from one suggested word. More...

18 mai 2019

Quantum Leap Into the Future of Education

Techno-News BlogQuantum computing will burst onto the educational technology scene. Are you preparing now? The quantum era will soon be upon us. The changes we will see will far outpace even those we saw in the development of personal computers, smartphones and broadband networking — combined. More...

18 mai 2019

The Shape of Higher Ed to Come

By Steven Mintz. A video produced by Microsoft Office Labs in 2009 offered a vision of technology in 2019. It included simultaneous transitions between languages, touch screens, gesture controls, e-paper, wall-sized smart displays, voice activated digital assistants, and pocket projectors. More...

15 mai 2019

The Quiet Crisis

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Susan Walsh Veronikas and Michael F. Shaughnessy: The Quiet Crisis, University Business September 22, 2005

Interview with author Peter Smith, who offers his own analysis of the crisis in American education: it's the universities' fault. "The problem, he says, is not that millions of lower-income and minority students lack the capacity to learn, but that colleges and universities lack the capacity to educate". More...

15 mai 2019

Online Higher-Education Market to Exceed $6B in 2005

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Westfair Communications: Online Higher-Education Market to Exceed $6B in 2005, September 20, 2005

The headline tells the story. According to the article, online learning has gained credibility and "will grow 38 percent over 2004, reaching revenues of more than $5 billion." And while for-profit institutions have lept ahead, the article predicts that non-profits will more more strongly into the sector in the coming years. More...

15 mai 2019

It's A Whole New Web

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Unattributed: It's A Whole New Web, Business Week September 19, 2005

The commercial media is beginning to notice that there's something happening on the web. "A whole new Web is emerging from the wilds of cyberspace. It's no longer all about idly surfing and passively reading, listening, or watching. It's about doing: sharing, socializing, collaborating, and, most of all, creating." By the same token, though, Roland Tanglao warns us to not be fooled again. More...

15 mai 2019

The Brains Business

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Adrian Wooldridge: The Brains Business, The Economist September 15, 2005

"A more market-oriented system of higher education can do much better than the state-dominated model." This is the central message being advanced in this series of articles, and the Economist is not above routine rhetorical sleight of hand to make the point (consider, for example, the false dichotomy drawn between "techno-utopians" and "cultural conservatives." Or ponder the omission of Canadian statistics in the comparisons between the U.S. system and purportedly "state-dominated" models). More...

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