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Surviving Surfeit: How Do We Cull Important Information Now?

By Trent Batson

Trent Batson questions whether we need to archive almost «everything» just because we possibly can in the digital age.

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Webcast: Transform teaching and learning with class capture

Webcast: Transforming the teacher-student paradigm with class-capture technology

Enable students and faculty to create rich online content, access recorded lectures-anytime, anywhere-and quickly search content to find what they need for study and review. Attend this informative webcast to see how Yavapai Community College uses Tegrity’s flexible, easy-to-use tools and resources to create a better teaching and learning experience on their campus.

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IBM Expands Team Collaboration, Social Networking Software

IBM has introduced a new tool for migrating content from Microsoft SharePoint and other data repositories into Lotus Quickr. The new Lotus Quickr Content Integrator, which recently began shipping, is designed to bring content from existing repositories into Quickr’s «team places» for collaboration and sharing.

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Georgia Tech To Implement CalDAV in Sakai

Georgia Tech announced recently that it’s contracted with open source service provider Unicon to integrate CalDAV within its Sakai implementation. CalDAV is a calendaring protocol that allows for event and meeting sharing across various platforms via WebDAV.

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Strangeloop Device Addresses Web App Performance Pains

Strangeloop Networks has introduced a product the company is billing as the first appliance designed specifically to accelerate enterprise applications in service-oriented architectures. The new WS1000 Web Services Accelerator is aimed at the growing number of organizations employing Web services to integrate disparate applications and databases, to extend their mainframe applications and to deal with performance challenges associated with dynamic Web apps.

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Web 2.0 Event Draws the Bleeding-Edge Cloud Crowd

Tim O’Reilly woke up his end-of-the-day audience when he took the stage at the Web 2.0 Expo, held April 22-25 in San Francisco. The publisher of the popular «In a Nutshell» computer books series declared that the Internet is fast becoming «a global platform for everything,» and an «amazing tool for harnessing collective intelligence.»

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Live Mesh: An ‘Open Platform’ for Developers

Amit Mital, general manager of Microsoft’s Live Mesh group, had a message for developers attending the Web 2.0 Expo April 22-25 in San Francisco: Think open platform.

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• Campus Technology 2008: MIT Tour Showcases Cutting Edge Technologies
  Go behind the scenes at MIT to observe the latest in Next-Gen initiatives and learning spaces as part of Campus Technology 2008, July 28-31, at the Westin Boston Waterfront Hotel! Internationally renowned for its advancements in the use of pedagogical technology, MIT has opened many new projects and initiatives for reviewing via our exclusive MIT-personnel guided tours. Planned in association with our MIT experts, this year’s tours offer attendees several choices that highlight MIT’s cutting-edge research in education technology and resources. Don’t miss the latest in Next Gen learning designs and architectural spaces you’ll see on the MIT campus! For complete tour information go to:
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• Webcast: Lecture Capture Improves Distance Learning Program at GWU
  In this free, 60-minute session, you will hear how Echo360 helped GWU create a simple, easy way to capture lectures and offer them to students online. Get details on the implementation process and hear the success the program has experienced, allowing it to extend its reach beyond the Washington, DC metropolitan area.
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