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It monitors conversations via microphones and shows a visualisation of the current state of the conversation using arrays of color LEDs. Reflect is intended to act as public shared memory that describes recent and past moves in the conversation.

When we first got the XO laptops for development purposes I took them home so the kids could play with them and I could get a better idea of how kids would naturally decide to use them.

When we first got the XO laptops for development purposes I took them home so the kids could play with them and I could get a better idea of how kids would naturally decide to use them.

We map large networks by decomposing the myriad nodes and links into modules or communities, and then identifying the patterns of flow between these modules. Our approach originates within coding theory

As social networking continues to grow in popularity and play an ever increasing role in education and training, it is important to understand the potential risks that accompany the many benefits these powerful resources bring.

Apple has today launched iTunes U in Australia. Previously successful in the US and Europe, iTunes U is a partnership between Apple and seven Australian and New Zealand universities to provide university content for download off the iTunes portal.

here are some some chrysaline predictions for the future of the next 3-5 years of virtual worlds:

follows public tweets that have embedded tags that start with a # character. We also pull in recent public photos from Flickr and public bookmarks from Del.icio.us.

offering exhaustive (some might say exhausting!) detail on the art and science of travelling light, going pretty much anywhere, for an indefinite length of time, with nothing more than a single (carryon-sized) bag.

Celebrating Twitter and our favorite error page cetacean. Basically, this site is here to poke fun at the people who take twitter's downtime a little too seriously. But where has the whale gone? The club has not been very active...

Yet, as digital distribution begins to remove some of the barriers to entry, I've long predicted that Australia would begin to compete for eyeballs across the English speaking world and beyond.

a new paradigm has arisen. Less is more. Simplicity is power. Create a solid foundation, and let others build a thousand different houses, each catering to a different need, and you’ll never go out of fashion. Simplicity is the key that unlocks the web.

a new paradigm has arisen. Less is more. Simplicity is power. Create a solid foundation, and let others build a thousand different houses, each catering to a different need, and you’ll never go out of fashion. Simplicity is the key that unlocks the web.

in the 2008 race, the first in which campaigns are feeling the full force of the changes wrought by the Web, the most attention-grabbing attacks are increasingly coming from people outside the political world.

Based on current trends for low-power chips used in devices like cell phones and iPods, we're likely to see eight times the CPU power in handheld devices by 2010, Adrian Cockcroft said at Usenix '08 technical conference this afternoon.

Flipswap makes it easy to give mobile phones a second shot at life by offering fast, free and eco-friendly ways to trade them in.

From Blackberry to LG, tons of touchscreen handsets will hit the market this year to take ground from the iPhone. However, they're missing something very important. It's not about the touchscreen guys, it's mainly about the mobile apps.

Defuddle was launched in 2008 by two guys living in Sydney and Melbourne, Australia. Realising the value of mass opinion, they tried to capture it in a bottle. After discovering that opinions can't fit in bottles, they built Defuddle.

Defuddle was launched in 2008 by two guys living in Sydney and Melbourne, Australia. Realising the value of mass opinion, they tried to capture it in a bottle. After discovering that opinions can't fit in bottles, they built Defuddle.

it looks like the Wii Balance Board is nonetheless spurring on some hackery of its own, including being used as a navigation device for Google Earth and World of Warcraft.

it looks like the Wii Balance Board is nonetheless spurring on some hackery of its own, including being used as a navigation device for Google Earth and World of Warcraft.

Online collaborations tools keep offering new and improved features to work, share and present with other people at a distance.

Princeton University just announced plans to publish Kindle version of its textbooks this fall, joining Yale, Oxford, and Berkeley in supporting the device.

Princeton University just announced plans to publish Kindle version of its textbooks this fall, joining Yale, Oxford, and Berkeley in supporting the device.

ARGs, as traditionally designed and developed simply aren’t games. They often have games embedded in them.

sheer briliiant blog post written cleverly in an end around manner as to how teachers might use web technology.

a social network where millions of fans and artists discover new music, videos, and photos, and share their tastes with friends.