The Battle Over “Silicon Beach”
On in Industry News, StartUp LA.
Influential Los Angeles venture capitalist Mark Suster was sitting in a meeting of LA tech power players one week in March, with one agenda item: Get rid of the term “Silicon Beach.” Get it off the mayor’s office innovation reports.…
Continue ReadingHow to Stop Facebook From Sharing Your Web Browsing History
On in Industry News, Social Media.
Facebook is going to start sharing app and Web browsing history it collects with advertisers to display more targeted ads. This includes all those non-Facebook sites you visit. If this skeeves you out as much as it does me, you can opt out,…
Continue ReadingDo We Really Need to Learn to Code?
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“Learn to Code!” This imperative to program seems to be everywhere these days. Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg recently donated ten million dollars to Code.org, a non-profit that believes that “every student in every school should have the opportunity to…
Continue ReadingProgramming through play: Why teaching kids to code will change how the rest of us code
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As students enrolled in an after-school programming class, the group was already familiar with a multitude of digital tools designed to introduce kids to programming. With Code Monkey Island, I had seemingly entered into an arms race to teach kids…
Continue ReadingDigital Library Wallpaper lets visitors ‘borrow’ ebooks by scanning your walls
On in Cool Tech, Industry News.
Experiments like Night Film have blurred the lines between physical books and digital content, but a project by Vodafone Romania and furniture retailer MobExpert blur the lines between paper books, ebooks, and interior decoration. Digital Library Wallpaper is exactly what it sounds…
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