Posts Tagged ‘community’

Des Internets Wertewelten und Machtverhältnisse

Link compilation of past month

Hiya my fellow blog readers, it’s been a while since my last post. Today, I would like to share again some nice links with you and I will start with some pretty fascinating talks of the 26C3 (Chaos Communication Congress ) in Berlin. There is firstly the talk about liquid democracy, a very interesting talk [...]

Link compilation of past month

The first link is about a presentation hold a few weeks ago at the University of Manchester about which part cloud computing could play in future development of the web and managment of data.
The next link you could call, google street view advanced. It is an website which enables you to do go on a [...]

University Orientiation and Freshers Week

At the 17th September started the orientation program at the University of Manchester. This introductory lectures were held to supported the new international students with some information to the registration process and the other duties.
Among the orientation program the International Society offered a wide range of activities, like city coach tours and many occasions to [...]

Link compilation of past month

In this category I will periodically post a collection of links I find on my way through the web. First one I want to share with you is the not new idea, but great solution of James Dyson with the AllSocket Concept for cleaning up the wire mess.

The 2nd one is a futuristic concept of [...]

Google’s WAVE

Google Wave is an great idea. It implements an open protocol, a platform with an API and a product with an GUI. The concept combines all great inventions and tools for communication on the Internet of the past days like email, wikis, forums, discussion groups and so on in one tool called “the Wave”. The [...]

HOME

The movie HOME is a free of copyright documentary by Yann Arthus-Bertrand. The intention of the author is to change the way we see the world. The movie embraces the major ecological issues that confront us and shows how everything on our planet is interconnected. The movie will be distributed in 87 countries and will [...]

Show your PC what you want?!

In my last post I have written about a software to control the PC with only one web cam, but if you want to input data in a form like text you would need the old keyboard, but there is an alternative that is interesting what if you use sign language as input method? This [...]

Ubunchu, Ubunchu, Ubunchu ……

A friend of mine has send me a link to this Japanese Manga comic Ubunchu, witch is about the Linux distribution Ubuntu. It’s available in various languages. The short and nice story is about three students getting into Ubuntu. Enjoy reading it!

Playing games on the cloud

Are you one those, who buys every year new hardware to play the newest games with the best settings? You can save your money this year and even if you not such a person it might interest you too.
The company OnLive reveals it’s games on demand service at the GDC the Games Developer Conference. With [...]