Guest Speaker: Curt Smith
Jan 26, 2011
Please find the presentation from Curt’s talk. Thanks again Curt – amazing insights!
Peer Presentation: RSS Readers & Burners
Jan 20, 2011
Here is a copy of the Peer Presentation from class #2:
Homework
Jan 20, 2011
Please sign up for an RSS reader and add this feed, TechCrunch & Mashable at a minimum to the reader. Due to the fact that we were unable to complete the lecture this is the only homework assignment this week.
Thanks!
Class 2 2011
Jan 20, 2011
Deck from Class 2, thanks again to Curt for coming in.
What are your favorite two websites and why?
Jan 13, 2011
Reading: The Other Road Ahead
Jan 01, 2011
Please read the article below.
The Other Road Ahead, By Paul Graham
September 2001
(This article explains why much of the next generation of software may be server-based, what that will mean for programmers, and why this new kind of software is a great opportunity for startups. It’s derived from a talk at BBN Labs.)
In the summer of 1995, my friend Robert Morris and I decided to start a startup. The PR campaign leading up to Netscape’s IPO was running full blast then, and there was a lot of talk in the press about online commerce. At the time there might have been thirty actual stores on the Web, all made by hand. If there were going to be a lot of online stores, there would need to be software for making them, so we decided to write some.
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Update to website coming soon
Nov 17, 2010
Online Learning
May 02, 2010
Digital media technologies will transform teaching and learning. Also known as distance learning, e-learning, online learning, Open Education Resources (OER.), or open learning, it has enabled people to share different forms of knowledge across all kinds of content. Higher educational institutions such as Yale, M.I.T. and Carnegie Mellon, have been offering their course materials for the public to access. Anyone from the world can access their professors’ lectures about Anatomy, Philosophy, or the Solid State of Chemistry. Furthermore, Amazon’s Web Services enable both learners and educators to easily access their infrastructure services, including CloudFront and Mechanical Turk, for teaching, research projects of large content, coursework, survey forms, translations and lecture transcriptions. Not only will the movement of curriculum to a digital, online environment transform the learning experience for students, but it will eventually shift the way our society views education by displacing the traditional educational system.
PRESENTATION TO FOLLOW.
Research Process for Online Health Support
May 01, 2010
This deck highlights the research process I went through to discover whether or not an idea I have for an online community already exists. I made use of Google AdWords to search for keywords relating to my topic, and Quantcast to find traffic and demographic information on related websites. I also brainstormed about possible marketing strategies as well as the type of advertisements I found relevant to my topic.
