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The figures speak for themselves and are pretty much what I would have expected on the whole, but one or two caused me to do a double-take. This one surprised me: YouTube’s bandwidth costs per day are about $1,000,000. That’s $365m per year on handling 13 hours of uploaded video every minute and well over 100m videos viewed every day. I guess it doesn’t seem that expensive when you think of it that way.

Created:Sat, 24 Jan 2009 19:46:50 GMT

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A terrific talk by Joseph Parr of Plaxo. This video explains the technologies behind social sites very clearly. It’s an hour long but, if you’re interested in developing social applications and you’re not sure where to begin (or even worse, you *are* sure but haven’t heard of these standards) then it’s a great introduction.
Created:Wed, 14 Jan 2009 06:22:08 GMT

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A simpler, primitive but very usable and less over-technologised system than Wordle that takes some plain text (or HTML from ANY web page) and turns it into a tag cloud. I saw Wordle when it was relatively young (months, not years ago!) and it was slightly more like this, though even then had some novel output options and was less developer-focused than TagCrowd. TagCrowd generates very clear legible, standards compliant, HTML/CSS but little else. They profess a desire to build an API, but it has none yet. Even so, sometimes simple is beautiful. A nice little system.
Created:Sun, 11 Jan 2009 10:32:53 GMT

http://community.brighton.ac.uk/jd29/weblog/39250.html

 http://www.edutopia.org/james-gee-games-learning-video

A marvellous video from Edutopia featuring James Paul Gee in which he presents some very persuasive arguments for games and social media in education. More importantly, he challenges how school education is done in the US (although there are local differences this is much the same as it is done most of the world when you get down to basics, and pretty much the same as much of university education, especially in the sciences) and offers some ways out. Not much is new in what he has to say, but he says it very well. Enjoy!