The OLPC (one laptop per child) programme is rolling forward and Nicholas Negropronte is nearing his dream of an affordable laptop for the developing world. Forrester analyst Josh Bernoff has an interesting post about the potential implication of the project. Despite efforts by Microsoft and Intel, he has high hopes for the project.
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Sky in Second Life
Sky News is the first news channel to broadcast from Second Life, the virtual community – report from AOP. Meanwhile, for those still not able to get their heads round the alternative world, Scoble has produced a four-episode video exploration of Second Life as a marketing medium.
Technorati Tags: virtual reality, web2
Telegraph offers blogging
The Telegraph has launched a blog service offering readers a free personalised homepage, reports the AOP. Called My Telegraph it incorporates blogging facilities and an RSS reader and is being dubbed a “reader community”, by the site. It aims to be as simple as possible for the web neophyte.
Technorati Tags: blogs, newspapers, online
Women dominant online
The AOP reports that young women are the dominant demographic online.
Women aged 18-34 are the most prevalent demographic group, accounting for 18 per cent of all active online Britons, and more than one-fifth of all UK computer time, according to Nielsen//NetRatings.
The 18-34 year old bracket including men and women accounts for 32 per cent of all active online Britons, said Nielsen.
Users aged 18-34 year old spend the most time online, the research company found, spending around 60 hours a month on their computer, compared with under 18 year olds which spend around 16 hours.
Nielsen also reported that, contrary to conventional wisdom, there are 1.7 times more 50+ year olds than children under 18 active on the internet, and one in four Britons online is at least 50 years old.
The overall UK internet population is split almost equally between males (51.5 per cent) and females.
New look for Analytics
Google Analytics has a new interface – much cleaner and intuitive. You can still get access to the old style if you need it, but I think most will switch easily to new style.
Scoble on Engadget’s misadventure
Ex-Microsoft blogger (how he must hate that sobriquet) Robert Scoble posts sympathetically about Engadget. The tech blog posted a story about Apple iPhone and OS X delays which purported to come from an official Apple corporate email circular. Sadly for the blog, the email turned out to be a fake, Apple’s PR department was slow off the mark, and the shares took a dive before the record way straightened. Still, the humility shown by Engadget does stand out – would that all misreporting was treated as seriously by the perpetrators.
Microsoft goes mashup
Popfly is a free online tool from Microsoft which enables even non-programmers to easily create mashups of web based services, says the official blurb. It’s not gong to be an officially supported product – just a sandbox for community experimentation. Is Microsoft finally beginning to get it? Who knows?
Copyright by Disney
Stanford University uses Disney characters mashed together to explain the “fair use” defence in US copyright law and to argue against extending the protection.
DoD clamps down
The Pentagon has restricted access to 13 social media sites, reports Paid Content. Security – viruses and phishing, not breaches of official secrets, were cited as the main reasons. Really?
Technorati Tags: social media
Reuters and Thomson
Paid Content has the skinny on the merger of Thomson and Reuters in the media deal of the year (so far).
Thomson will change its name to Thomson-Reuters Corporation. Reuters will be known as Thomson-Reuters PLC. The combined Thomson Financial unit and Reuters financial and media businesses will be called Reuters. The existing Thomson professional businesses – legal, tax and accounting, scientific and healthcare – will together be known as Thomson-Reuters Professional. Thomson-Reuters PLC and Thomson-Reuters Professional will have identical boards of management.