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Monthly Archives: June 2007

Facebook vs MySpace: American class divisions

Somehow I missed danah boyd’s paper “Viewing American class divisions through Facebook and MySpace” until today.
I think it’s pretty much a must-read for anyone working in this space:
The goodie two shoes, jocks, athletes, or other “good” kids are now going to Facebook. These kids tend to come from families who emphasize education and going to […]

Tried the “$100″ laptop

I’ve just been playing with an early prototype of the “$100″ laptop (yes, I know it won’t be $100…)
Very, very nice.

Accessibility Toolbar demo

At education.au we’ve had an ongoing project to develop a tool to do accessibility checking for learning management systems behind logins.
Most existing accessibility tools use 3rd party webservices to do analysis of websites, and these services cannot see behind secure logins.
The education.au Accessibility Toolbar is a Firefox plugin which does accessibility checking on the […]