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Archive for June, 2009

How will today’s students use the web of tomorrow?

How will today’s students use the web of tomorrow?

Last week, our CEO Michael Staton was on a panel during Internet Week New York, called “Beyond Facebook: How Will Today’s Students Use the Web of Tomorrow?” Hosted by Mark Moran of FindingDulcinea, the panel included 4 other executives of interactive online educational tools.

Inigral in New York

Inigral in New York

From June 3rd to June 6th, our CEO Michael Staton and I had the pleasure of attending the first ever Internet Week in New York City. Michael was one of five speakers on the “Beyond Facebook: How Will Today’s Students Use the Web of Tomorrow?” panel, hosted by FindingDulcinea on Thursday afternoon. The entire experience was enlightening.

A Google Wave robot container in Sinatra

A Google Wave robot container in Sinatra

Since I got a Google Wave account at Google IO, I felt like I should try to do something Ruby-ish in it.  I got talking to Charles Nutter, and he suggested a Sinatra template for Wave Robots.  So here it is. I stole shamelessly from Tim Morgan (http://github.com/seven1m) and Sam Ruby (http://github.com/rubys) to make this [...]

Invitation-bot: A Google Wave Robot in Python

Invitation-bot:  A Google Wave Robot in Python

Google Wave opened its doors to Google IO attendees yesterday, and I’ve been playing with it a bit since then. We had the usual problem with a new communications system:  no one knows anyone else.  And so a thread was started on the google groups list, where people were listing their email addresses so people [...]