Deutsche Podcast-Verzeichnisse

kommt man in einem Bericht über die Podcast-Szene und deren zentrale Anlaufstellen im Web an iTunes nicht vorbei. Apples kostenlose Jukebox hat nicht nur den Erfolg, sondern auch die Popularität etlicher Audio- und Videopodcasts entscheidend beeinflusst und ist in der Zwischenzeit auch die erste Adresse für Neugierige und Suchende geworden. Abonnieren mit einem Klick, ein kurzes Reinhören ohne vorherigen Download sowie die simple Suche machen das Angebot übersichtlich und einfach zu nutzen, doch iTunes steht nicht alleine.

Expanding Education with Internet TV

Within the trend of traditional print publications moving into Internet TV, we just saw the launch of MIT Technology Review’s broadband channel. MIT Tech Review is a highly prestegious publication focused on the research and development work that happens here in Cambridge. Leveraging the cost economies of Internet TV production and distribution, they’ve created a new form factor for their media that explores and exhibits the work of MIT scientists in a manner that wasn’t possible before. It will be exciting to see the broader academic communities and media outlets move into Internet TV.

Washington College of Law: Podcasting a Success

American University Washington College of Law introduced podcasts with the arrival of the 2005 class, and after a school year of podcasting, the College is considers the program a success. To date, the 200+ episodes have been downloaded almost 65,000 times.

“The primary goal of WCL’s Office of Technology,” says Dean Claudio Grossman, “is to deliver event content, interviews with VIPs, and course material to students and faculty in many formats.”

Online Video Viewing Soars

The number of online video watchers in the U.S. increased 18 percent in six months, from October 2005 and March 2006, according to comScore’s first-ever study of video viewing habits, writes ClickZ. In March, viewers initiated 3.7 billion online video content streams and on average watched nearly 100 minutes of video content, compared with 85 minutes in October, according to comScore’s new Video Metrix service.

Men initiated 52 percent of those streams, women 48 percent, in March, and men spent on average two hours with the content - women, 1.3 hours. Males 18-34 spent the most time with online video, averaging 140 minutes, but all age groups are watching online video. Some16 percent of video consumption takes place during prime-time hours, and 22 percent on the weekend. Viewers spent about an hour a month watching video while in work locations.

Classroom Lecturing Assistant: The Google Jockey

Gute Idee: A Google jockey is a participant in a presentation or class session who surfs the Internet for terms, ideas, or Web sites mentioned by the presenter or related to the topic at hand. A screen displays the jockey’s searches for all participants to see.”

Scenario

Dr. Chen has been using Google jockeying all semester in his Western History class. He has been livening things up by getting a student to “Google” real-time during his lectures, searching the Web for resources relevant to the day’s topic.

The Google jockey’s actions and results are displayed to the rest of the students on a projection screen.

An IM application lets students send requests to the Google jockey for particular searches or direct the jockey to reference sites. Dr. Chen has rotated the task of jockeying, and each student has had an opportunity to do it once.

Statistical graphs and charts

Wer es leid ist, seine Charts in Powerpoint zu redu- und produzieren, der ist mit dieser Seite bestens bedient: Dutzende von alternativen Quellen und Tools!

Web TV wohin man schaut

Videoservices, wohin man klickt: vSocial oder blip.TV, die Dienste werden professioneller, vielfältiger - und wie im Fall youtube und googlevideo sind sie bereits dabei, die Angebote großer Sender und Seiten klickratentechnisch zu überrunden.

Open Source CRM: vtiger

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Visualize Online Information Trends

The latest tool from Google is an online application that enables users to explore Google database of search queries and news headlines. It is possible to find out and compare the latest trends in Google searches and immediately see how or when the online news media have provided coverage on those specific issues.

You can insert various terms and compare their popularity on Google, obtaining graphs to visually understand the level of interest that Google users have towards the selected topics. Announced during the last Google Press Day, Google Trends provides a well-organized and easy graphing for the volume of search queries and news references over time, by city, regions, languages and so on. Currently being under development and thus only available for English language users, Google Trends sports the usual no-frills branded interface.

Google Trends could become an ally of content writers that need to understand the global relevance of a topic at first glance. Moreover, ICT and e-commerce professionals can check the popularity of a certain product or service by seeing how many Google searches have been performed on that item.

Youtube.com gets more traffic than the BBC

Video und Web 2.0 sind die dominierenden Themen im Internet 2006 (bis jetzt). Wie damals, als das Web 1.0 aufkam, verpassen die meisten Unternehmen diesen Trend wieder, oder sie marginalsieren ihn. Gut für die anderen …