Google OS Announced Today, I Predicted it 3 Years Ago
July 8, 2009 by joe.bustillos
Filed under JBB's Digital Fiefdom, featured
In their official blog, Google announced Google Chrome OS. CNET’s Webware ask why, to which Google said “Why not.” Who cares, my Pepperdine friends and I predicted this back in Early 2006 with the following video commercial:
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Broke Bookends
March 15, 2009 by joe.bustillos
Filed under JBB's Digital Fiefdom, education re-examined
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Remember how impressed I was last time when I was using online research tools? Yeah, in the meantime I’ve run headlong into a less than amazing experience. I went so far as to pay for the upgrade of my copy of Bookends, only to get weird error messages when it can’t read PDFs and doesn’t seem to work with my school’s online databases. Damn. I’ll probably continue to use Zotero and RefWorks to gather data and we’ll see how I might get the data into my documents. Ack. Share this Post[?]
Reading Redesigned Continues: Kindle2 & Big Rocks from the Sky
February 27, 2009 by joe.bustillos
Filed under JBB's Digital Fiefdom, JBB's Media Buzz, education re-examined
Amazon’s Kindle 2 has begun arriving in happy gadget freak’s homes this week. Announced on February 9th by Amazon.com founder, Jeff Bezos, the Kindle 2 is reported to have cleaned up some of the style-points that version one suffered from with a thinner, lighter device and boosted internal memory from 512 MB to 2 GB. But the $359 price that Amazon is keeping for the device, many tech writers say it’s still way too high and will get in the way of the device taking off. But now that the devices are showing up, the geek pull toward shiny electronics seems to be taking hold. I know I’m feeling it.
Following the initial announcement the crew at CNET’s Buzz-Out-Loud podcast noted that it was very Apple-like in it’s form, verbiage and “message” control. The promo video/commercial (above) that I saw on Engadget certainly reminded me of an Apple ad. Question is whether Amazon is going to make the same Apple made 25 years ago when they assumed that everyone would pay extra for a revolutionary device (in Apple’s case the original Macintosh). That mistake almost spelled the end of Apple and we would have missed out on all of the revolutionary things Apple has done since then. As an educator and technologist I see a potential with the Kindle that we cannot afford to miss. And it goes way past the Kindle being a shiny new technology thing.
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