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  • President’s Day at Macalester College

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    Image via Wikipedia This article is reposted from CollegeWebEditor.com.   Please read the original article and follow the comments and related articles there, this repost is for use in my class. You might have already heard about this YouTube video as several higher ed bloggers (mstonerblog, The Old College Try and edustir among others) and twitterers…

  • Map Wars – Bing Maps

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    Image via CrunchBase Last week at the TED conference in Southern California, Microsoft’s Blaise Aguera y Arcas demonstrated a new crowdsourced-version Bing Maps that integrates photos and even live video that is shared by others. Microsoft will also soon launch what we’ve dubbed “Bing Sky,” the ability to use Bing to look up in the…

  • Google Now Has a Street View Snowmobile

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    Image via Wikipedia First, there was the Google Street View Car, a special vehicle with a 360-degree camera mounted on top that brings us all that detailed Street View imagery. Then, Google engineers invented the Trike, a tricycle with a camera that can reach all those places where Street View Car cannot go. Neither of…

  • Brains can’t handle all our Facebook friends

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    Image via Wikipedia WE may be able to amass 5,000 friends on Facebook but humans’ brains are capable of managing a maximum of only 150 friendships, a study has found. Robin Dunbar, professor of Evolutionary Anthropology at Oxford University, has conducted research revealing that while social networking sites allow us to maintain more relationships, the…