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100 top sites for the year ahead: our latest selection finds that location-based services, work-anywhere collaboration and video are prominent

Online Collaboration And Learning: The Best Resources Of 2008 From MasterNewMedia - Robin Good's Latest News: If your goal is to improve the ways and tools with which you collaborate with your team, as well as the resources and approaches to to learn, discover and share more of what you know, here are the…

Limewire is a  P2P file sharing service that has been around for a long time.  Limewire is alpha testing their newest version… Limewire 5. And one of the features that is being included in this newest update is the ability to set up private  torrent networks. Which means that only your friends and others that you invite will beable to access this network and download the torrents that are being offered there. This feature allows you to very quickly share files - large and small - with team members, friends, and family without having to worry about strangers getting their hands on your data, home movies, etc.

http://limewire.com/

“Pew has released a study showing that for the first time more Americans get their news from the internet than from traditional newspapers…. 59% of people under 30 said they get most of their news online while an equal percentage said TV was a primary source of news. The kids these days are not as keen on newspapers, which got a response of 28%…”

from downloadsquad

More holiday snaps at flickr/jedd

Parua Bay, Northland, NZ

TimeBridge Thrives on Scheduling Your Time: TimeBridge recently announced its product’s ability to sync with Apple iCal as well as with established calendar apps such as Google and Outlook. TimeBridge’s stand-out feature is the simplicity with…

Watch the Season 2 Premiere of Flight of the Conchords Now; New Zealand’s fourth favorite folk rock novelty act is back — find them on Funny or Die before they return to HBO. (Funny or Die)

huge hunk of kauri gum polished by my grandfather

How to keep meetings short: 5 tricks:

afterhours:

Making the meeting rooms 5 degrees colder than everywhere else. First it keeps people awake, second it gives them a biological reason to want to resolve issues and get out of the room quickly.

using the web app Remindr you can text and email yrself a reminder for any of those tasks you always seem to forget or put off till the last minute.

Schools as Learning Communities: Introduction: This paper focuses on what Astuto and colleagues (1993) label the professional community of learners, in which the teachers in a school and its administrators continuously seek and share learning and…

Radio Beta lets you  aggregate radio streams by geographic location and not just genre. Just click the “Radios from New Zealand” link and browse until you find it. Always wondered what drive time radio sounds like in Australia? You can search by country too.

Radio streams are also sorted by genre, allowing you to search a huge list of rock, pop, 60s, 70s, or 80s music. Or if you know the station you’re looking for you can just use the search box. Radio Beta has its own audio player built in, which allows you to listen to music while searching the site.

Each day BlogTV has prime-time viewing hours when its traffic balloons from 2,000 concurrent users to tens of thousands. And its live shows are produced by a network of stars who have established audiences that follow them.

BlogTV is based in Israel, though it’s focused on the U.S. market and fully 80 percent of its viewers are North American. The site originally went live in July 2007 and for a time was yet another video + social network + live broadcasting + mobile + kitchen sink provider. But since May, BlogTV has defined itself as the live-streaming provider of choice for YouTube stars; it has nearly every YouTube top 100 most-subscribed user who’s not a company. How? By paying them…

from NewTeeVee

Dr. Gary Small, a psychiatrist at UCLA, argues that daily exposure to digital technologies such as the internet and smart phones can alter how the brain works.

When the brain spends more time on technology-related tasks and less time exposed to other people, it drifts away from fundamental social skills like reading facial expressions during conversation, Small asserts.

Other points of view included; from nzherald

Enjoying seeqpod; where you are able to compile personal podlists of searched songs. A kind of free jukebox in the cloud. An example is this Feist podlist.

a where’s wally moment beside the hutt river

What the future holds - 2008 Horizon report, Australia-New Zealand edition: Examines emerging technologies as they appear in and affect higher education in Australia and New Zealand in particular. The core of the report describes six areas of emerging technology that will…

• Find and play YouTube videos from artists by searching.
• Browse for music by genre, decade, mood, or subject matter of the lyrics.
• Enter an artist or song name to generate a playlist of YouTube videos of similar songs.
• Embed the Soundflavor Video Jukebox widget on your social networking profile or blog.

Soundflavor

Within 12 hours of recent events in Mumbai, the
NZ Herald provided a page of links to flickr photos, private video, youtube (over 600 video clips), digg, blogs and live streaming video that demonstrated how citizen journalism has moved to mainstream news source.

The twitter stream was fascinating yesterday, at tweetgrid for example, or by inserting  “near:mumbai within:15mi” into search.twitter.com.