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Wikiversity eyes strong growth over next few years The online collaboration that has made Wikipedia one of the most used sources of information on the Internet is also being used to build a school and offer classes across the online world, and the project is taking off. Capitalize on emerging collaboration options Messaging vendors have long been packing their wares with features in hopes of providing an all-encompassing platform that fulfills every enterprise’s collaboration needs. Rather than shell out far too much again this year for seldom or inefficiently used capabilities, why not consider emerging alternatives as a way to assemble a collaboration environment suited to your particular budget and needs?  January 8, 3:00 a.m. PST The free multimedia opportunity As 64-bit processing becomes mainstream, the next major computing platform shift is due to arrive by 2008. If the open source community doesn't step up to the plate and address major impediments to widespread desktop adoption, Linux could be left behind. January 1, 3:00 a.m. PST New Creative Commons head to reach out to businesses Creative Commons, the grass-roots content licensing system that has taken hold amongst bloggers and other content creators online, could soon be arriving in your digital camera. December 29, 5:23 a.m. PST Good ideas take time Two years ago, I publicly floated the concept that IT should start thinking more like entrepreneurs. What a disaster! I was speaking at a meeting of CTOs, and I mentioned that I’d heard of a few IT departments that were focusing, at least in part, on creating saleable new products and services for their companies. I asked the group what they thought of the idea. December 4, 3:00 a.m. PST Microsoft refurbishes Windows Marketplace First, best wishes to my friend First Lt. Robert Lange, who is about to head off to Iraq in charge of a new “law and order” company. Good luck, Rob; keep your head down and come home. August 31, 3:00 a.m. PDT The end of the era at Microsoft can't come fast enough The press is abuzz with speculation about Bill Gates' "impending" departure from Microsoft, the company he founded. As InfoWorld Editor in Chief Steve Fox rightly points out, no other company could announce executive turnover in two years' time and have it called news. What lends gravitas to this nonevent, however, is an idea that's been growing within the industry and that's beginning to find its voice: It's time for change. June 26, 3:00 a.m. PDT Free Software Foundation: Free as in "do what I say" When Richard Stallman created the Free Software Foundation (FSF) in 1985, it was organized around a radical idea: Software should be free, not just as in free of charge, but free as in the concept of liberty. During the next 20 years that idea turned out to be not just radical, but surprisingly practical. Beginning with Stallman's Emacs text editor, to the various Gnu utilities, the Linux kernel, and beyond, free software has proved to be an enduring success. May 29, 3:00 a.m. PDT Easing app deployment with an open source sandbox I’ve just returned from a day at the University of Mary Washington in Fredericksburg, Va., where I participated in the annual Faculty Academy on Instructional Technologies. I greatly enjoyed the opportunity to give a keynote talk on 21st century literacy, and to discuss Web 2.0 with a panel of like-minded thinkers. May 24, 3:00 a.m. PDT Imagining a day without Microsoft Did you ever hear the warning, “be careful what you wish for, it might come true?” Well, because Microsoft is the company most people love to hate, I decided to ask a cross section of industry cognoscenti this simple question: What would happen if Microsoft and all of its technology disappeared tomorrow? May 23, 3:00 a.m. PDT Three sentenced for 'warez' activities Three U.S. men have been sentenced to jail or home confinement for their participation in so-called warez online piracy groups, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) announced. May 19, 2:50 p.m. PDT Web-based alternatives to PowerPoint When Edward Tufte famously declared that PowerPoint is evil, I violently agreed. “If your words or images are not on point,” he wrote, “making them dance in color won’t make them relevant.” May 17, 3:00 a.m. PDT > Applications |
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