Aung's shared items from Google Reader

Monday, September 24, 2007

Visualizing Economics
A cool site about economics info, bringing data into life

Tuesday, September 18, 2007

Marc Lesser: Accomplishing More By Doing Less

Common Craft - In Plain English
Explaining products/services in plain English.

Monday, September 17, 2007

TechCrunch40 Conference 2007
40 hottest startups showing their products/demos

Google presentation software already out tonight
Eventually, it is here! Let's see how good it is for collaboration. Of course, it isn't intended to compete with MS PowerPoint features to features (at least for the time being).

If you're new to Google Docs, watch this video to learn more about creating and collaborating on documents (and now presentations!).

Friday, September 07, 2007

Novel Resizing of Images
Software developed by Shai Avidan and Ariel Shamir. It changes the whole concept of limited image resizing that we become used to. Wondering when the product may be available.

Thursday, September 06, 2007

Participatory Media Literacy
Howard Rheingold - Resources for educators and students

My Library feature on Google Book Search
I haven't really tried it out in details. Useful tool for students.
Link on Google Blog.

KnowledgeWorks - Map of Future Forces Affecting Education
Must-see site

Wednesday, September 05, 2007

OpenID: an actually distributed identity system
Open source alternative for authentication. When will Google support it?

Monday, September 03, 2007

Made To Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die by Chip and Dan Heath
Worthwhile reading if you need to communicate ideas!

Saturday, September 01, 2007

LiveScribe Smartpen: The Entire D5 Demo With Walt Mossberg and Kara Swisher | BoomTown | Kara Swisher | AllThingsD
You can now see the whole demo online! Too bad, we'll have to wait until 1st quarter next year.