The phenomenal impact of the opensource movement has spread during the last five years. Among the successful ones are Mozilla Firefox (which has more than half a billion downloads at the end of February), OpenOffice, and Ubuntu Linux. But besides that, the open-source movement has not only created good softwares, it challenges the way we used to think, work, and live. This movement is an invitation for people to give and receive. The results of this movement can and have made an impact on people’s lives. Visit FreeRice.com or The Hunger Site and see for yourself. The collective power and wisdom of the human family has the power to combat and overcome hunger, poverty, violence, war, and any obstacles that may prevent the human person from reaching our true dignity. You, as one person in the human family, can make a difference in the lives of someone by just a click. Be the change.
As a person who enjoys communication, and the different technologies that allow us to be connected, I have been following the progress of VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocal) over the past five+ years.
I remember about twenty years ago, my family had to go to the post office of the largest city in Vietnam, across from the Nhà thờ Đức Bà Sài Gòn, in order to receive a long distance call from my dad in the U.S. It must have cost my dad a ton to make that short call.
As a child, I enjoyed playing the transmission game on one of the camping trip in which tin cans and strings were connected together to deliver the message.
Mapping the Unmappable: Visual Representations of the Internet as Social Constructions
My grandfather often makes this comment after making a call to Vietnam when he was living with us here in the U.S.: “How does the telephone know which hole to crawl out and transmit my voice to the other side of the world?”
Today, I was reading the responses of readers on DSLreports.com to an article about people ditching landlines , based on a new study by the Center for Disease Control. I came across a member who shared the experience of switching to a VoIP company call VOIPo. I did some research, and came across the post of their founder and CEO, Timothy Dick, communicating the status and progress of the company. I was surprised to see how well they are doing. They must be doing something well in this competitive market, competing against the giants like AT&T, Comcast, among others.
If you have service with them, or other VoIP company, what is your experience? Have you ditched your landlines to VoIP?
Have you ever had a file that you wanted to send someone through email, only to find out that the file was not accepted by your email provider because of its size or the file type?
Here is a quick and easy solution. Use one of these easy service and add it to your email:
FileDropper
This service is easy, and allow you to upload up to 5GB. Yes, it is easy and is the only one I know which allows the large file size of this kind. The uploaded file is displayed on a bar showing the progress of the upload. Once your file is uploaded, a URL and an embed link is provided for you to share with others. Can’t get easier than this!
Sample of an embedded file:
Ramya Raghavan, a nonprofits & activism manager of YouTube, made that presentation with NTEN to show the recent developments of YouTube and how you can use YouTube to aid your organization.
Every once in a while I receive emails from friends and family about a poem, a story, a picture, or a song that touches my heart. Here is one of them. A good song for reflection during the season of Lent.
Want some hear some inspirational talk? Well, J.K. Rowling, the author of the best-selling Harry Potter book series, will not fail you in her Commencement Address, “The Fringe Benefits of Failure, and the Importance of Imagination,” at the Annual Meeting of the Harvard Alumni Association in June of 2008.
Yes, you heard it correctly, or feel it in the air already. It spread like the snow storm that just passed Chicago today.
We have everything from AIM to Yahoo!Messenger, then Skype and MSN Messenger, to Facebook and MySpace, RSS, recently with Twitter and Google Wave, and now the Google Buzz!
Google Buzz is yet another tools that provide more ways for people to keep in touch and share with the whole world their thoughts and views. What I like most from this new technological tool is the ability to view photos (and video?) full screen. You can connect with your existing websites like Flickr, Picasa, or Twitter and those websites will “Buzz” your followers of additions or updates. You can also post interesting links just like you already do in Facebook.
So what’s your thought with all of these social media and communication tool? Is it really helping us to connect and form better relationships and stronger community? I hope these new developments serve to enhance rather than replace our human connections with one another, the deep bond with the planet we live on, and the intimacy with the Divine Artist and Creator who shared life and love with us.
The number of websites that provide videos are exploding. This is made possible because of the drop in cost of bandwidth for content providers (Netflix is an example) to deliver it and an increase capacity and demand from the end user to access it. Many devices (roku, PS3,Xbox…)in the last two or three years are capable of connecting to the Internet as a medium, with Wifi leading the way, and more and more are able to show video. This combination provides more choices for the viewers.
Asides form popular websites like YouTube and Hulu, or Blip.tv, we now have websites like PBS (see Video.pbs.org) that provides their programs online.
This got me thinking:
How does the ability to access the videos, whether for entertainment or informational purposes, affect us? Are we better for having watched these videos or not?
How can we use these video contents to shape our world, our particular communities, and our own lives so that life is more meaningful and enriching?
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