2011 will be the breakout school year for tablets in classrooms

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Next week the 2011–2012 school year kicks off in earnest. On the Future Shop Tech blog (where I contribute posts), we’ve had the raft of Back to School 101 posts to help folks gear up (literally and figuratively ) for school, but in the meantime I’ve been keeping an eye on trends overall and I [...]

Good fences make good neighbors, especially when they are Flickr Geofences

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One of the things I’ve always liked about Flickr was the easy granular control over pictures. I have pictures of my kids up on Flickr, but to protect their privacy only people I mark as family and friends can see them. This is great, but what if I take a picture of something close to [...]

Vancouver’s Zite scooped up by CNN—Welcome to the new era of news

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It was rumored last week during the GROW conference, but today it’s been confirmed. Vancouver-based Zite has been acquired by CNN (Techvibes and RWW) for a rumored $20–25 million. Beyond kudos to the developers (who came out of UBC), I think this affirms what I’ve thinking for sometime—apps like Zite, Summify, and Flipboard might very [...]

HootSuite ups the ante with new Facebook features and support

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HootSuite does it again adding more features to the already stellar social media app. This time it’s all Facebook love for HootSuite and by the looks of the video from the newly updated HootSuite Facebook features page, I don’t think you’ll ever after visit Facebook again. Which is just fine by me. Now, if you’re [...]

Glassboard—A new private sharing mobile app with potential

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Don’t you think it’s just a mite ironic that nary a year after Mark Zuckerberg tried to convince us that privacy wasn’t terribly important and that people should get used to just sharing everything, we have a raft of apps that do the exact opposite? From Google+ to other “group messaging apps” people what to [...]

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