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Monthly Archives: July 2007

on $100/$150 laptops

July 30, 2007 – 9:43 am

Like many others I have been watching with interest the development of the $100 laptop. At work we were even fortunate enough to play with one for a couple of days.
The olpc is a great initiative with a fantastic vision and it is interesting to see that there are now companies seemingly building on […]

By Jerry Leeson | Posted in Educationau | Comments (3)

on locr: geo-tagging photos

July 20, 2007 – 6:02 am

Visiting one of our service providers this morning gave me a chance to play with a photo geo-tagging service. locr provides a service that uses an internal or external GPS receiver to tag your photos with GPS coordinates which you can then upload to their website to share with the rest of the world. […]

By Jerry Leeson | Posted in Educationau, Web 2.0, locr, geo-tagging photos | Comments (0)

on Podmo

July 10, 2007 – 9:23 am

Here’s a great local innovation (I like those). Podmo provides ‘free community networking for mobile phones’. Its a great service which provides access to content and other services such as messaging at no cost to users. All you need to setup a ‘podmo free zone’ is a server with Bluetooth radio capability […]

By Jerry Leeson | Posted in Educationau, interoperability, Podmo | Comments (0)

on blogging (part 2)

July 10, 2007 – 8:36 am

Thanks to Tim for this. I like Tim’s approach to blogging - his blog is work related but not on a work blog which provides a nice level of independence and freedom to discuss, well anything really. Also, separating the time to blog from work allows inspiration to write about something whenever that takes […]

By Jerry Leeson | Posted in Educationau, blogging | Comments (0)