Friday, April 01, 2005

Saba to Acquire Enterprise Learning Vendor THINQ. The Learning Management System (LMS) marketplace has one fewer contender today as Saba signs an agreement to acquire Thinq in the third quarter of this year. A Gartner report observes, "This acquisition will give Saba a solid installed base of THINQ customers, but little else. THINQ was out of money and out of developers, having outsourced all of its development (but not its engineering design) to third-party engineering houses in India." More, More, More. By Press Release, Training Press Releases, March 30, 2005 [Refer][Research][Reflect] [OLDaily] 10:03:57 PM      Google It!.

Three Great MindManager Blogs. I've never found mindmaps particularly useful, but many people have. Those who use MindManager will want to look at these three blogs recommended by James McGee - Mike Jetter, Hobie Swan and Nick Duffill. James also has a new column out in Enterprise Systems, The Invisibility of Knowledge Work. By James McGee, McGee's Musings, March 31, 2005 [Refer][Research][Reflect] [OLDaily] 10:02:47 PM      Google It!.

Google Ride Finder Announced [Slashdot:] 9:18:49 AM      Google It!.

a million monkeys typing � D*I*Y Planner 2.0 Released. cool app for creating your own planner [Edubloggers Links Feed] 9:13:22 AM      .

Nifty Corners. rounded corners with CSS [Edubloggers Links Feed] 9:10:54 AM      Google It!.

Scan 'shows if people trust you'. Scientists say they can tell whether a person trusts another by using a brain scan. [BBC News | Science/Nature | UK Edition] 8:59:36 AM      Google It!.

Say 'Cheese' to Google Satellite at 10AM [Slashdot:] resolution 1 meter per pixel -- This ability to see ourselves has far reaching potential - each person can be visible as a pixel somewhere on the earth if they wave when the satelite flyover is happening.  The eye in the sky is could help us to care for one another.  It would be interesting to see if hand held laser pointers could be seen from the satelite so your spot would look brighter than the next person's spot/pixel.  -- BL 8:50:44 AM      Google It!.

Britannica Takes Over the Wikimedia Foundation [Slashdot:] "The Encyclopaedia Britannica has initiated a "semi-hostile" takeover of Wikipedia. Wikipedia administrators, members of the Wikimedia Board of Trustees, Arbitration Committee members and several other cabalists will receive free access. However, their adminship powers will be stripped permanently." -- subversion for dollars or if you cannot beat then then join then in the corporate style -- BL 8:35:35 AM      Google It!.