Horizon Project
2008 Horizon Report is now available from ELI and NMC.

Inspiring quote to me
"The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well." by Horace Walpole, English author (1717 - 1797)

Happy New Year!
Very glad to see Creative Commons raised $584,572 in its 2007 campaign.

Google Talkabout: Merry Christmas, God Jul and 圣诞快乐
Get instant translation or interpreter while chatting.

Google Knol - Google's Play To Aggregate Knowledge Pages
Interesting App. It seems like a bit of Wikipedia, Yahoo! Answers, and Mahola. Although you cannot access it at the moment, there is a screenshot. Also, post on Google Blog.

The Story of Stuff with Annie Leonard
Must-see viral video. The principles from Made to Stick are very apparent.

What the Google Intranet Looks Like
Ideas for other intranet sites

Microsoft Live Labs: Photosynth
A nice innovative feature out of Microsoft in a while

Blogger in Draft: New feature: OpenID commenting
First step by Google towards open single sign-on identity

Google Experimental Search
Beginning of a Google social search or customized search?

Google LatLong: Think globally, mark locally
You can now move markers in Google Maps to more exact locations by yourself. And, of course, you can continue to see the original mark if you want to. Many who know me realize that I mostly favor Google products/services over others. The new features like this are the reasons I find Google admiring.

Top 12 Areas for Technology Innovation through 2025
ChangeWaves - Observations on the Future from Social Technologies
A nice summary - hope to see more specifics over next few weeks.

23andMe
The personal genetics service is now open to the public at $999. Interestingly, deCode just came out with its deCODEme service, while both companies use Illumina technology.

one learning child. one connected child. one laptop at a time
Until Nov. 26, for $400, you can donate a XO laptop to a child in a developing country AND receive one for yourself (AND one free year of t-mobile wi-fi access in the U.S.). I'm hoping to donate one and is anyone interested in joining me or contributing to mine?

FreeRice
Find out and improve your vocab level while donating rice to the poor for free - thanks to ads. A simple website with a simple idea, making a difference.

Virtual video cutter
cool that it creates small chunks of content from longer streaming audio or video files.

New Century Learning Consortium
It "will assist with the implementation of high quality, large-scale online and blended learning programs at a limited number of small and mid-sized colleges and universities." Should Alliant be joining the consortium?

Livescribe Blog
You may remember Livescribe, smart pen and paper based technology, from June and Sept posts. Its blog just came out today. Hopefully, it will come out as early as possible in Q1 2008.

Corruption Lecture - alpha version (Lessig Blog)
Although I already mentioned it under shared readings, I wanted to emphasize the lecture again in this post. It's Lessig's first presentation (alpha version) on 'corruption.' If you are an educator, scholar, tech evangelist, or someone who cares about influence/effects of money on reason/decision-making/society/politics, it is a worthwhile piece to explore and ponder.

And, you may already be familiar with his simple presentation style. As he moves into a new research area, note the change in font - nice font. Note the use of html code format.

Management guru Gary Hamel: Break free! - Sep. 27, 2007
Achieving innovation and discipline at the same time!