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Video Annotating Socially

By alex | Published: 7/9/2010
You may not have heard about the Video Annotation Socially (VAS) system yet* and so I figured I would try to provide a quick overview. VAS is basically a way to make comments on a video. If you’ve used the commenting feature on Viddler or on YouTube, you get the general idea, and VAS can […]
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Boston Globe Narrows Focus

By alex | Published: 6/14/2010
Boston Globe Tailors Print Edition For Three Remaining Subscribers
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MS: For your protection

By alex | Published: 3/19/2010
Vista’s on my main machine. For what it’s worth, it isn’t nearly as buggy as people seem to think. I’ve been reluctant to make the upgrade until 7 has been pushed along farther, and may decide to not make that transition. And because it is necessary, I run Windows Update. But Update has, for the […]
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iPad Goes Back to the Future

By alex | Published: 3/8/2010
So Penguin is talking about how tablets (read “iPads”) will lead to new forms of books. Their vision? Encarta, circa a decade ago. Really? This is what Penguin thinks people want from Pengiun? They’re going to try to go head-to-head with PopCap? The future of the book is, at least for the next few decades, […]
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