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VastPark is a developing virtual world platform well known to regular readers. NICTA (National ICT Australia) also has a number of years pedigree in some of the technological underpinnings of virtual worlds. In the case of the collaboration with VastPark, peer to peer (P2P) is the focus. The joint project announced this week involves the release of the beta version of an MMO P2P engine, christened Badumna (which incidentally are a genus of spiders). It’s a promising development and a further shot in the arm for VastPark.

VastPark is a developing virtual world platform well known to regular readers. NICTA (National ICT Australia) also has a number of years pedigree in some of the technological underpinnings of virtual worlds. In the case of the collaboration with VastPark,

Across nearly every industry sector ICT has enabled the systematic gathering of large quantities of data. There remains the challenge of making sense of it all. Many industry sectors are drowning in a flood of complex and voluminous data created by the digital revolution. These include security and surveillance systems, medical data and images, financial transaction records, management of electronic documents and environmental monitoring. In order to control, use and understand this data, NICTA is creating new technologies based on research in areas such as machine learning, image and video analysis, natural language processing, knowledge representation and reasoning.

The Peer to Peer research project investigates innovative decentralised techniques to manage networks and data to provide complex applications efficiently and economically. Service providers have been using the traditional client-server approach to provide online applications such as webcasting, video-on-demand and network gaming, often to millions of internet users. This involves the use of one or more dedicated servers deployed at strategic locations in the network, which users connect to and request services.

This website provides key examples in trade areas of the use of point-of-view video from many differing walks of life and differing ways to impart knowledge using digital media. This website also contains links to products for sale which enable POV resource videos to be made.

Record Anything, Anywhere. Record memos, discussions, interviews, and ideas on your iPhone. Use it as a voice recorder or a sound recorder.

Most conferences spend months lining up speakers and meticulously organize tracks. That’s why they call this an unconference. The attendees make the schedule. The rosetta stone of the entire event is the sessions grid. For having such tech-happy attendees, it turns out a physical grid works better than any software-based method for tracking sessions. Also unlike other conferences, the schedule shifts throughout the day, like cereal settling during shipping. Many sessions are moved around and some are merged. The latest schedule is always available in the central meeting room.

I am still struggling with what we really should be calling the Blogs at Penn State initiative. When we were making the case for investing in a platform I made the call for us think critically about how we should be thinking about this opportunity as so much more than a blogging service. I think some people got it right away, but we are still trying to figure out what the right language is to support our thinking. Really in the last six months or so that original vision is coming to fruition — the Movable Type environment we selected is truly empowering publishing across lots of areas. I’d like to share a couple of them and ask that you help me think about what is the best way to market and communicate it. There are lots of people now saying the Blogs at Penn State name is limiting peoples’ imagination.

The Peer 2 Peer University is an online community of open study groups for short university-level courses. Think of it as online book clubs for open educational resources. The P2PU helps you navigate the wealth of open education materials that are out there, creates small groups of motivated learners, and supports the design and facilitation of courses. Students and tutors get recognition for their work, and we are building pathways to formal credit as well.

Ever seen those signs in front of churches with the moveable letters? Ever wanted to rearrange the letters to make your own church sign? Well, now you can. Choose a design below, add your text, and a personalized church sign photo will be generated for you! Save it, send it to a friend, put on your website, or use it however you like. Enjoy!

In honor of Vanity Fair’s 25th anniversary, the magazine’s editors flexed their list-making muscles to determine the 25 best of everything—from book covers and documentaries to parties and political one-liners. Herewith, the top 25 news photographs.

To photograph the Northern Lights (Aurora Borealis), follow these instructions and tips to get the best photos. Try different settings shown here and learn what's best for taking pictures of the Northern Lights in all their nightly beauty.

a visual playground. Every week I'll take a popular and known website and reconstruct it by removing all words and images, replacing them with blocks (what is typical in the "concepting" phase of a design process). I welcome and value your feedback, comments or suggestions on websites to deconstruct.

The BBC's US08 bus is travelling coast to coast to find out what Americans are really saying about their country and this election. Click on the map to follow the journey.

Whilst making Shoot The Summer I've been thinking a lot about the capabilities of the mobile in film making and story telling. I Twittered my thoughts at the Cambridge Folk Festival then converted it to audio using my Mac's text to audio recognition software. I then dropped it over clips filmed on my mobile phone. The results are quite interesting.

Whilst making Shoot The Summer I've been thinking a lot about the capabilities of the mobile in film making and story telling. I Twittered my thoughts at the Cambridge Folk Festival then converted it to audio using my Mac's text to audio recognition softw

SnapTell offers industry leading technology to recognize camera phone images sent by consumers and respond with relevant content. Our technology is integrated into a complete hosted mobile marketing solution available now to brands and marketers worldwide. SnapTell’s technology has been developed by our team of established industry experts with decades of collective experience in relevant disciplines.

The social media game was played for the first time at the UK National Circuit Rider Conference January 2007 following a presentation by Beth Kanter and David Wilcox. Here's David blog item and there's a report of sessions on this wiki here and here. he purpose of this first simple version is to trigger conversations about what social media tools may be appropriate in different situations

Qwitter e-mails you when someone stops following you on Twitter with a message like this: John Gruber (gruber) stopped following you on Twitter after you posted this tweet: What's the difference between Arial and Helvetica?

To overcome these challenges, and in order to develop a sustainable model for OER production and use, UWC is planning to shift its OER publishing strategy to more closely involve students. We are intending to use the model of “dScribes” that was developed at the University of Michigan and adapt it to our local needs. The RipMixLearners project at the University of the Western Cape in South Africa. It is a place where students create educational resources for their peers at UWC and others. Students will work closely with faculty to record all materials (including make audio recordings of lectures) and compile them in an open repository, accessible to other students as a resource to support their course work, and available on the public Internet.

To overcome these challenges, and in order to develop a sustainable model for OER production and use, UWC is planning to shift its OER publishing strategy to more closely involve students. We are intending to use the model of “dScribes” that was developed

AideRSS is an intelligent assistant that saves time and keeps you on top of the latest news. We research every story and filter out the noise, allowing you to focus on what matters most.

Sprol shows the visual macroscopic effects of the decisions and behavior of our society. Since previous generations have not had the advantage of this perspective it is our obligation to use it wisely.

With a very little effort, you can take existing photographs of everyday scenes and make it look like they're actually of miniature models. It doesn't take much to fool the mind of the viewer, but there are a few basic rules you can follow to help convince your audience that they're looking at a railway set rather than the real world; see the section on picking the right photo at the bottom of this page. You'll need a copy of Photoshop CS or later to follow this tutorial.

Based on a review of a number of case studies, and some literature on wikis, the paper proposes a taxonomy of wiki journalism, and outlines the opportunities and weaknesses of the form.

Based on a review of a number of case studies, and some literature on wikis, the paper proposes a taxonomy of wiki journalism, and outlines the opportunities and weaknesses of the form.

GazoPa is a next generation similar image search engine in private beta.

TinEye is an image search engine built by Idée currently in beta. Give it an image and it will tell you where the image appears on the web.

This blog accompanies the October 1 Afternoon Talk/Presentation/Discussion/Workshop at the University of British Columbia, and will serve as our Untalk Media and Discussion Holder.