Condividere le presentazioni sul web

Sliseshare

da rashmi-sinha:

The process of sharing slides is broken. It goes from my hard drive to yours via email. Or if I put it online, its in a clunky format like pdf or Powerpoint that you need to download.

Slideshare solves that problem. It webifies your slides – it makes the experience of viewing them, sharing them with individuals or groups smooth and seamless. You can upload your slides from Powerpoint or OpenOffice (Keynote users will have to save in Powerpoint format for the time being) and Slideshare will render them like this here. You can tag, comment and most of all embed your presentations into your blog or website like this one below.

per adesso è ancora “invite only” ma gli inviti si possono chiedere formalmente…

cià:)

Rebuilding Microsoft

Un bell’articolo di WIRED Magazine sull’ascesa di Ray Ozzie (il papà di Lotus e Groove) in Microsoft e su come la compagnia di Redmond stia cambiando da quando Bill Gates gli ha ceduto il testimone.

There are, of course, two major reasons for Ozzie’s ascendancy at Microsoft: Gates and Ballmer. Ozzie is one of the few technologists anywhere whom they respect; they’d been trying for years to get him to join the company. Now he’s carrying their hopes for the future, and it’s a heavy load. Ozzie needs to move Microsoft from selling software in a box to selling lightning-fast, powerful online applications ranging from gaming to spreadsheets. The risks are enormous. The mission is to radically alter the way the company sells its most profitable software and to pursue the great unknown of so-called Web services – trading an old cash cow for an as-yet-to-be-determined cash cow. No, Microsoft doesn’t think its customers will stop using PCs with hard drives and work entirely online, but the desktop era is drawing to a close, and that promises to force some painful trade-offs.

Link: http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/14.10/microsoft.html

Gioco serio: un ossimoro?

ESP game è un esempio di human-based computation, ovvero far fare agli umani cose che sono ancora troppo complicate per i computer, per esempio riconoscere le immagini.
E’ anche un esempio di software sociale perchè collaborando con un partner, causalmente scelto, si possono etichettare le immagini sul web e renderle conformi alle norme di accessibilità. Il tutto in forma di gioco. Considerate le finalità, c’è chi chiama questo tipo di giochi serious games.
Se volete giocare, accomodatevi.

Xdrive: hard disk virtuale da 5GB gratis

5 Gb gratis con XdriveXdrive è un hard disk virtuale da 5 GB. Xdrive consente di:

Xdrive è gratuito ed è un servizio sviluppato da AOL.

da downloadblog.it