January 2009
6 posts
A Real Example of How oAuth Support Can Help Build...
With a week until the next User Group Meeting, Freebase just released an upgrade to their Acre platform. The release notes include improvements to the editor and the APIs, but the most interesting release is oAuth support. Acre developers can now write information from other web services to Freebase, on behalf of users.
Big whoop, right? Maybe not. If you don’t think this is a big deal,...
QUOTE: Death is my exit strategy. →
Death is my exit strategy. I’ll be doing significant customer service only as long as I live.
—Craig Newmark
When the Education Bubble Finally Pops
In a post published earlier today, John Robb claims that as “there is reason to believe that costs of higher education (direct costs and lost income) are now nearly equal (in net present value) to the additional lifetime income derived from having a degree…this situation has all the earmarks of a bubble. A bubble that will soon burst as median incomes are adjusted downwards to...
Tracks and Clusters
David Gelernter’s Edge 2009 Response:
(this one is more difficult to imagine, but not impossible…)
What will change everything? The replacement of 90% of America’s
teachers at every level with parent-chosen, cloud-resident “learning
tracks”; the end of conventional centralized, age-stratified schools &
their replacement by local cluster-rooms where a few dozen...
A Web Empowered Revolution in Teaching
Chris Anderson’s Edge 2009 response:
Today when we think of the world’s teeming billions of humans, we tend to think: overpopulation, poverty, disease, instability, environmental destruction. They are the cause of most of the planet’s problems.
What if that were to change? What if the average human were able to contribute more than consume? To add more than subtract? Think of...