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Individual stats like Facebook passing the 400 million user mark, Twitter hitting 50 million tweets per day, and YouTube viewers watching 1 billion videos per day are impressive on their own, but what if we looked at Internet-related stats collectively? Jesse Thomas did just that in his video State of the Internet. The video — created and animated by Thomas with data from multiple sources — highlights some remarkable figures and visually depicts the Internet as we know it today. Its a must-watch video for anyone trying to wrap their minds around just how immersed web technologies have become in our everyday lives. Jesse Thomas (JESS3) designed and animated this for the JESS3 lecture at AIGA Baltimore in Feb 2010.
The theme chosen for the 4th eLearning Conference will emphasize knowledge-based, technology-enhanced educational change, effectively contributing to the emergence of a learner-centred participative environment. We invite all those engaged in triggering and managing educational changes, innovation, and excellence in e-learning to share their experiences and practices by submitting research papers, case studies, view points and reviews: Abstract Submission: 15th November, 2010 Accepted papers will be included in the conference proceedings, which will be available at the Conference on CD-ROM. Papers will also be entitled to a Best Paper Award, and to be published in the University’s refereed International e-Journals of Excellence in e-Learning. Corporate Showcases & Exhibitions opportunities enabling companies to present recent developments will also be available throughout the 2010 Conference, in addition to poster presentations. All submissions need to be made against a particular subtheme of the Conference: Re-Engineering Learning, Teaching, & Quality Important Information: For more information visit:
The problem, from the security service’s perspective, is that the e-mails never spend any time where the UAE’s security services can examine their contents. In what appeared to be an earlier attempt to get around this issue, Etisalat attempted to get RIM users on its network to install some software that simply took any e-mail that had been decrypted and forwarded it on to a server within the UAE. This effort was quickly discovered, however, and RIM washed its hands of the whole thing publicly. Now, the UAE has apparently decided that if you can’t subvert them, you might as well kill them. As of October, RIM devices will be cut off from Internet access when using carriers based in the UAE. The security services would apparently accept the company setting up a local proxy server for monitoring, but the user population is small enough that RIM may be comfortable walking away from that market instead. But there are some signs that the UAE isn’t alone in this. A BBC report on the same topic mentioned that some BlackBerry services would be banned by Saudi Arabia; both mentioned India being concerned with its inability to monitor traffic from the devices. If other security-conscious nations follow suit, RIM could find that, collectively, the moves would threaten a considerable fraction of its customer base. Why the apparent ire is focused on the devices themselves rather than the general approach isn’t clear. An SSL connection to an offshore e-mail server would seem to create just as much trouble as RIM’s approach, but there don’t seem to be any efforts afoot to clamp down on other smartphone platforms. [Source: arstechnica.com ] The Travels of Wiglington and Wenks Virtual World is an exciting new massive online virtual world for kids where players can travel to places around the world, through time and space, meet famous historical people, play fun enriching games, make new friends own exotic islands, build culture-inspired houses, wear all kinds of cool clothing and costumes, explore secret locations, solve ancient mysteries and become a legendary traveler! Probably the most massive virtual world for kids to date, The Travels of Wiglington and Wenks features more than 100 fun-filled educational real world and imaginary locations from the past, present and future. Parents can look forward to a safe site for their children where they will be learning about history, geography, landmarks, famous people, inventions, the environment, animals and more. And for the children, they can expect hours of fun-filled exploration. The Travels of Wiglington and Wenks was originally a children story book series by John Bittleston, later adapted into a virtual world for kids. Go play An 11 minute documentary exploring the merits and impact of pixel art, animation and chiptune music (obviously Mona Lisa isn’t 1956… 1506) |
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The United Arab Emirates tends to be one of the more moderate nations in the Persian Gulf region, which may have contributed to its rise as a major financial center. The bankers apparently brought their BlackBerrys with them, creating a small but dedicated group of users on the UAE’s local carriers, like Etisalat. But one of the selling points of the BlackBerry—strong encryption between the hardware and RIM’s e-mail servers in Canada—hasn’t sat well with the UAE’s security services. After previous attempts to subvert the encryption, the UAE has now decided to simply ban sales of the devices. Meanwhile Saudi Arabia is considering blocking the use of RIM’s instant messaging service.