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Virtual Education a Reality for Aaron E. Walsh
The Federation of American Scientists and the Kauffman Foundation are backing the Boston College’s own Aaron E. Walsh efforts to build virtual reality education content for virtual worlds like Croquet, Second Life and Project Wonderland. Walsh has been focusing on delivering content to children with disabilities through the Grid Institute an organization that promotes the…
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Demand OLPC
As they roll off the production line demand for the little education laptop is growing. The OLPC project, created by Nicholas Negroponte, to help teach the worlds children is starting to gain real traction. It sure didn’t take long to run through the first production run! The Give 1 Get 1 program appears to have…
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Qwaq Secures $7 Million in Funding From Alloy Ventures and Storm Ventures
Full speed ahead. With the rise of virtual technology and a huge lead in the virtual workspace market, Qwaq pulls even further ahead with a successful first round funding raising $7 Million from Alloy Ventures and Storm Ventures. Qwaq Forums the company’s first commercial product is built on Croquet and open source virtual world development…
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Interview with Avi Bryant on FLOSS Weekly
In this episode of this podcast on free, libré and open source software, hosts Randal Schwartz and Leo Laporte talk to Avi Bryant about Seaside, the “heretical” web application framework for Squeak and Smalltalk, initially developed by Avi, and used by him to develop the DabbleDB site.
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Problems with the Weekly Squeak RSS feeds
WordPress.com (the free service that hosts The Weekly Squeak) has recently done some adjustments to its blogs’ RSS feeds. This adjustment led to the discovery of a bug in the Universal Feed Parser used by some desktop and web aggregators (such as Planet Squeak). The bug has been promptly fixed, but if you’re still experiencing…
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