May 30 2008
Champ Tracks - ICT Round-up for 29 May 2008
Another round-up of ICT news that you couldn’t possibly live without…
Organise that meeting:
- Organising meetings can be a real pain. Fortunately, there are several web-based services out there that let you create an event, manage invitations and even take payment. Mobaganda - based on Google App Engine - is the latest. It creates a custom web page for your event, sends out emails and lets you keep track of RSVPs in Google Reader.
- Folks are also starting to use the very elegant and simple Doodle to organise meetings. We’ve used Eventbrite to organise meetings, which is also capable of taking ticket payments.
Mobile 2.0:
- With spiralling travel costs, it’s no wonder that video conferencing was ranked the third hottest business technology in a 2007 survey. Check out WM Net’s guide here. Video-conferencing need not be expensive - check out Skype’s guide to free video-conference calls.
- A great story over at MobileActive about the Community Voice Mail (CVM) program which has provided a lifeline to 40,000 people a year across the U.S.
- Web developers take note - mobile web is the new platform you should be designing for. Mobile guru Dan Appelquist blogs about W3C’s new mobile web training courses.
- More from MobileActive - read how children in India are learning about sex education through “edutainment” mobile phone games that are designed to provide entertainment and be educational at the same time.
Web 2.0 and Social Networking:
- Read how our old friend Jason King has been busy building a Google Custom Search Engine for Dublin’s Ana Liffey Drug Project. The custom designed search engine helps people find reliable information on the web about addiction-related issues.
- Head over to Techcrunch to catch an interview with Mark Zuckerberg and COO Sheryl Sandberg at the D6 conference.
- Google Earth hits the web browser. Website developers are now able to embed 3D maps, powered by a special Google Earth Browser Plugin that end users must install. Unfortunately, it’s only available for Internet Explorer and Firefox users on Windows.
- Techcrunch talks about the next-generation web and the move towards browser storage - this lets users broswe web pages whilst not connected to the Internet - such as MySpace integrating Google Gears and Yahoo! new BrowserPlus product
And finally:
You can catch podcasts of the Regional Champs. Julie Harris does that wonderful husky-voiced thing, Paul Ruskin gives his top tips for using ICT, and yours truly coughs up quote on telephony.
