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Bringing Millions of Books to Billions of People: Making the Book Truly Accessible

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

It creates an opportunity to have public benefit being balanced with business interests. For the content of books, this flexibility is expressed in ideas like public domain, when the copyright owned by the author or publisher ends at some point. These were the days when people had just one PC at home.

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Is Privacy for Everyone (Including Donors) Dead?

Bloomerang

At the time, Mark Zuckerberg was at Harvard University, and he developed it with his fellow students and friends, Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum, Dustin Moskovitz, and Chris Hughes. students at Stanford University. The public demands it, and because of it, governments are responding. . 21 st Century Data Breaches.

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The FCC and Accessibility

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

We need to think much bigger with the Internet and the full range of disabilities. It’s certainly within our technical capabilities to provide a basic level of access to the information and communication capabilities of the Internet and web through broadband. Are they intended to inspire students? Recognize past accomplishments?

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Computer Technologies Program in Berkeley: Windows MultiPoint Server Case Study

Tech Soup

They also offer low-cost computer repair to the public. teamed up to supply Computer Technologies Program with everything they would need to set up a bank of MultiPoint Server-based public access computers. Windows MultiPoint Server Premium 2011 licensing. They have a T1 Internet connection (10 MB up / 100 MB down).

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Harvard's Berkman Center: Second Life Course

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

"CyberOne: Law in the Court of Public Opinion," will be the first Harvard course. to be open to the public as well as the the first Harvard course to be offered. live interactive sessions with remote students in Second Life. live interactive sessions with remote students in Second Life. The course. The course.

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10 Steps to Extension Professional 2.0 Remix

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Guide your students to conversations and resources. Collaboration on student projects or other ways. Say you want to track mentions of a particular public issue or news item. It is an idea closely tied with the term user-generated content and creative commons licensing. Here's how the Creative Commons licenses work.

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Open Source Database solutions part I

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

I’ve been using databases since I was a grad student in the 80s, and I’ve been designing and developing database-driven applications for the web since 1995. Unlike the others, that are released under varied open source licenses, the code for SQLite is public domain. I promise (!)