Random Sites and Links
May 13, 2009
I thought that I would share some of the latest random things that I have read or seen over the last few months.
Finance
I have tried to stay away from politics in this blog. But everyone realizes that we are in the midst of one of the worst financial crises in our history. Therefore, I think it is important to share two of the best articles that I have read about the current crisis in the last few months.
“In Praise of Primitive Finance” by Amar Bhide
“Making Banking Boring” by Paul Krugman
Design
This neat site, 99Designs, allows individuals to bid on logos and web designs. It is a really innovative Web 2.0-ey way to do design work.
Voice Chat
Voxli is an extremely easy to use internet-based group chat service. I believe it was actually developed for use by computer game players, but I think this service could easily become the next standard in phone conferencing. If you are using another application, your chat continues without disruption. Imagine combining this with Google Presentation and we have a distance learning platform.
The Greatest Product Demo Ever
An Open Institutional Learning Network
This blog post is an informative window into the future of course management and data management in a school district.
6th Sense
Awesome video from the Ted Talks.
Datasets
This web site has links to hundreds of datasets from around the internet. As a former data junkie in my previous life as a consultant, I get very excited when I find easy access to data!
Top 25 Social Enterprise Web Sites
Open Source Textbooks
I recently discovered this awesome web site of Open Source textbooks. I believe the publishing industry, particularly the textbook industry, is ripe for disruptive innovations due to technology. It seems highly natural for the industry to move towards a more individualized wiki-style organization rather than large centralized publishing companies dictating the only texts to be used. The school publishing industry will soon follow the fate of the encyclopedia market.
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Hello! I’m Andrew, one of the founders of Voxli. We’re glad you found it!
We built Voxli for gamers, but quickly realized it could be useful to a lot of people. A lot of educators are using it right now. If there are features you’d like to see, feel free to send us an email or leave us feedback in Voxli. We read all our emails.
-Andrew