Today @ PC World OLPC Announces Next-Gen XO-2 $75 Laptop

Today @ PC World OLPC Announces Next-Gen XO-2 $75 Laptop: "The nonprofit One Laptop Per Child has just shown for the first time images of its next-generation touch-screen laptop that goes by the name XO-2. According to Nicholas Negroponte, chairman of OLPC, the laptop is under development and has a goal of costing $75. Negroponte showed off images of the XO-2 at an OLPC event here at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He says the first XO-2 is slated to be built by 2010."

The journey to a wireless Boston - The Boston Globe

The journey to a wireless Boston - The Boston Globe: "As many cities have now learned, a corporate-driven, one-size-fits-all model for wireless may not provide the most effective solution. Well-publicized difficulties with such municipal WiFi plans have caused many to regard universal wireless models with skepticism. Yet at openairboston.net, we regard these difficulties as validation. Rather than throw millions of dollars at a citywide solution that might well fail, openairboston.net has employed discrete investments in small-scale rollouts that test technology against neighborhood needs to produce flexible systems that teach us how to do wireless right."

One Laptop, two systems - The Boston Globe

One Laptop, two systems - The Boston Globe: "THE GOAL of the nonprofit One Laptop per Child project has always been exciting: build a cheap, sturdy laptop and give it to poor children in developing countries to improve their educations."

Epilepsy charity condemns posting of seizure clips on YouTube | Society | guardian.co.uk

Epilepsy charity condemns posting of seizure clips on YouTube | Society | guardian.co.uk: "The posting of footage of people having seizures on the website YouTube has been condemned as the modern equivalent of Victorian freak shows.

The National Society for Epilepsy (NSE) is angry that the website features dozens of clips of sufferers having seizures and hundreds more showing people pretending to have seizures. Some videos have been watched by about 250,000 people."

Business & Technology | Microsoft joining laptop crusade | Seattle Times Newspaper

Business & Technology | Microsoft joining laptop crusade | Seattle Times Newspaper: "Microsoft and the laptop organization announced Thursday that the nonprofit's green-and-white XO computers now can run Windows in addition to their homegrown interface, which is built on the open Linux operating system. That had been anticipated for months, but it amounts to a major shift."

Ten Ways to Change the World Through Social Media : Sustainablog

From Sustainablog.

Ten Ways to Change the World Through Social Media : Sustainablog: "f you’re reading this blog, then you’re on board with social media. There’s a good chance you belong to social networks like Facebook or MySpace. It’s likely that you Digg stories and even possible that you Twitter. These technologies and services, together with a growing number of others, make up the social web. It’s much like the regular web, but more interactive. More…social. It invites and even demands active participation from everyone. It has a global reach with viral capacity, and yet it’s bringing local communities closer together. It enables people to connect, organize, and make a difference as never before. Indeed, social media is a powerful force, one that the world’s CEOs are starting to acknowledge and take seriously."

Smart Mobs » Blog Archive » Twitter crowdsourced China earthquake in realtime

Smart Mobs » Blog Archive » Twitter crowdsourced China earthquake in realtime: "While the mainstream media scrambled to put up their “breaking news” headlines Robert Scoble alias Scobleizer, was early to tweet the news. Quickly there were live radio interviews, pictures, google maps, videos all being sent in real-time, says VentureBeat."

Citywide wi-fi bites the dust | Philadelphia Daily News | 05/14/2008

Citywide wi-fi bites the dust | Philadelphia Daily News | 05/14/2008: "arthLink, in a federal lawsuit filed yesterday to break that partnership with the city and Wireless Philadelphia, complains that it spent almost $30 million to develop the system and has just 5,942 subscribers. Most customers pay $19.95 a month while 908 'digital inclusion' customers qualify for a $9.95 rate based on their household income."

NewsFactor Business | The Craig Behind Craigslist Looks at Life Beyond His Site

NewsFactor Business | The Craig Behind Craigslist Looks at Life Beyond His Site: "ut there is a real Craig in Craigslist, Craig Newmark, and lately he has been looking at life beyond his little list that has become one of the most popular U.S. Web sites."

MySpace announces 'Data Availability' project with Yahoo, eBay, Photobucket, Twitter | Webware : Cool Web apps for everyone

MySpace announces 'Data Availability' project with Yahoo, eBay, Photobucket, Twitter | Webware : Cool Web apps for everyone: "Inaugural partners in the project are Yahoo, eBay, Photobucket (also owned by News Corp.'s Fox Interactive Media), and Twitter. The program, available to MySpace's users worldwide, will be rolling out to a full version in the coming weeks.

'Historically, social destinations on the Internet have operated as independent, autonomous islands,' DeWolfe said. 'Today, MySpace no longer operates as an autonomous island on the Internet...We're hoping to create a significantly more social experience across the Web.'

This is a huge deal."

ABC News: Cyclone Relief Efforts Get High-Tech Help

ABC News: Cyclone Relief Efforts Get High-Tech Help: "As cyclone recovery efforts begin in a rural third-world country where even owning a cell phone is illegal, relief organizations turn to high-tech helpers: satellites."

Wired Campus: Co-Founder of Second Life Says Academics Are Biggest Trailblazers in Virtual Worlds - Chronicle.com

Wired Campus: Co-Founder of Second Life Says Academics Are Biggest Trailblazers in Virtual Worlds - Chronicle.com: "Co-Founder of Second Life Says Academics Are Biggest Trailblazers in Virtual Worlds

Cory Ondrejka, the co-founder of the virtual world Second Life who is now a visiting professor at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Southern California, said in a speech today that virtual worlds are here to stay, and that professors are among the most active pioneers."

onPhilanthropy: Articles: Helmets On, Social Citizens on the Rise

From onPhilanthropy

onPhilanthropy: Articles: Helmets On, Social Citizens on the Rise: "As the largest living generation of Americans, Millennials are using their passion for causes and their digital savvy to change the world in very practical ways; one purchase, one house built or mile walked at a time. Millennials are hands-on “experience seekers.” They want to experience change, to touch and feel it, and they want a menu of options for acting now and seeing results in real time for real people."

SiliconRepublic.com: Irish non-profits benefit from tech philanthropy

SiliconRepublic.com: Irish non-profits benefit from tech philanthropy: "07.05.2008 - Nearly 400 non-profit organisations and higher education institutions in EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa) are using donated licences from Salesforce.com to organise their work, according to the Salesforce.com Foundation, the philanthropic arm of the software-as-a-service company."

PC World - Business Center: OLPC Tries to Bridge Gap With Developer Community

PC World - Business Center: OLPC Tries to Bridge Gap With Developer Community: "A virtual uprising that broke out among developers questioning One Laptop Per Child's commitment to open-source software has prompted an official from the nonprofit effort to play peacemaker."