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Web 3.0 – The Semantic Web Video

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A whole bunch of individuals talking about the semantic web, including one of my favorite writers/speakers – Clay Shirky. While I’ve written about the semantic web on this blog before, this video is a succinct way to understand what Web 3.0 is all about.

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The Semantic Web cometh

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A simple search of the web using a search engine like Google reveals a fantastic array of information. This sort of rudimentary search and pray approach isn’t effective, and grows more ineffective by the day with the growing size of the web. It can – Web 3.0 or the Semantic Web holds that promise. Users of web 3.0

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Mobile Learning Considerations – Native Apps or Web Apps

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So Native Apps vs Web Apps? Should you make a web app that works on all of these phones or a device specific native app? Here’s what I think they are: Web Apps. Performance would be lower as compared with that of native apps and will also be dependent on the web access speed. Native Apps.

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Optimizing Web Media for Mobile Learning

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Add a mobile device specific style-sheet that will render content based on the capabilities of the device accessing, the web server can then determine which content to serve up. Come to think of it, if I used a desktop-based web-browser I’d be looking for similar information. Optimizing for the Mobile Web.

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15 Top Learning, Technology & Media Links: Weekly Digest –10

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The past weeks have seen a flurry of Web activity – bloggers making predictions for the coming months; retrospections on the year gone by; new product releases; top lists, summary posts being pulled up, and more. This week we deliver you a dose of the latest in mobile learning, Web design & development, eLearning and Social Media.

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Is HTML5 Ready for eLearning Development?

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Clearly Apple is backing HTML 5, CSS 3 and JavaScript for developing future web applications. Browsers Lack HTML5 Full Support – While making HTML5 the de-facto standard Apple seems to have forgotten that none of the web browsers for mobile or desktop have full HTML 5 implementations at this time. Is it ready for eLearning Development?

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Adobe AIR & Flash Player 10.1– How it Can Benefit Mobile Learning

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Due to this (and some other reasons like processor capability, device features, etc), not all devices support Flash – neither within the web-browser nor outside of it. At some point one would justify Apple’s standoff against Flash on their handheld devices, and advocate open-web culture of HTML5 or alike.