[DDN] Re: [Book Release] Information and Communications Technology for Sustainable Development: Defining a Global Research Agenda

2005-08-26 Thread BBracey
Dear Friends and Colleagues, (Apologies for the impersonal and group email, or any duplications) Our book, Information and Communications Technology for Sustainable Development: Defining a Global Research Agenda, is out, and can be found at:

[DDN] A DD google map

2005-08-26 Thread Sandbox Education
Is there a DD google map? It would be great to have the profiles of people mapped onto the world map http://maps.google.com/ or in google earth. Siobhan Sandbox Education ___ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list DIGITALDIVIDE@mailman.edc.org

[DDN] INTERNET: INSTANT MESSAGING: Selected Press Coverage Explaining and Evaluating the New Google Instant Messaging Service for GMail Members

2005-08-26 Thread David P. Dillard
This Net-Gold post provides excerpts from and links to media coverage from news and technology trade press publications regarding the Google Instant Messaging service that has been just released. From: David P. Dillard [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri Aug 26, 2005 6:31 am Subject: INTERNET:

Re: [DDN] Google IM and Talk

2005-08-26 Thread Taran Rampersad
I did an entry on this (as well as Caribbean Telecom yesterday) - an interesting discussion ensued: http://www.knowprose.com/node/7950 One of the things of interest is also OpenWengo, as mentioned by AlignedLyric: http://www.openwengo.com/ Brian Russell wrote: The Google Talk IM service works

RE: [DDN] connecting with others in the Digital Divide Network community

2005-08-26 Thread Champ-Blackwell, Siobhan
Phil, Thanks as always for the work you do. Having my DDN profile is a great tool for me in my work - people ask me what I do - I just refer them to my DDN profile! Siobhan Siobhan Champ-Blackwell, MSLIS Community Outreach Liaison National Network of Libraries of Medicine - MidContinental Region

[DDN] Rocketboom's Powerful Liftoff (fwd)

2005-08-26 Thread Andy Carvin
The next issue of BusinessWeek will feature the following article about video blogging, examining the explosive growth of the video blog Rocketboom.com and other home-grown onlne video ventures -andy Rocketboom's Powerful Lift-Off These are the early days of video blogging. Most of the

Re: [DDN] Google IM and Talk

2005-08-26 Thread David Newberger
Google Also Announced that anyone can get a gmail account now. the setup is weird because they send the invite to your cell phone. https://www.google.com/accounts/SmsMailSignup1 I think it's kind of an innovative way to keep spammers out but I am sure they will still get gmail address soon.

Re: [DDN] Google IM and Talk

2005-08-26 Thread Brian Russell
The Google Talk IM service works with Macs and Linux too. It's based on the Jabber IM protocol. Check out this page for more info. http://www.google.com/talk/otherclients.html Google has only released a PC client application... -Brian Google announced today a free IM and talk service for

Re: [DDN] Google IM and Talk

2005-08-26 Thread Daniel O. Escasa
Sabi ni Jim noong Wed, 24 Aug 2005 18:33:53 -0400: Google announced today a free IM and talk service for registered gMail users (pc only) Available now at: http://www.google.com/talk/ To be more precise, they have a PC-only client, and in fact if I recall rightly, it's *Windows*-only.

Re: [DDN] connecting with others in the Digital Divide Network community

2005-08-26 Thread Claude Almansi
Hi Phil Thank you for the precious advice, Phil, and thank you for having helped me rewrite my profile. a further tip re, if I may: Phil Shapiro wrote: (...) as a volunteer project, i recently collected as many of these profiles as i could find. you can view these at

[DDN] Browsers automatically call search engines - influence on market share of browsers and search engines?

2005-08-26 Thread Claude Almansi
Good morning Duh. I normally type URLs in browsers' address boxes: a search engine's URL if I want to search the web. Yesterday, though, I absent-mindedly skipped this part and typed the search words directly in the Firefox address box: I immediately got a relevant page. Browsers call up a

Re: [DDN] Google IM and Talk

2005-08-26 Thread Cyrille Simard
Le 05-08-26 à 00:36, Daniel O. Escasa a écrit : Sabi ni Jim noong Wed, 24 Aug 2005 18:33:53 -0400: Google announced today a free IM and talk service for registered gMail users (pc only) Available now at: http://www.google.com/talk/ To be more precise, they have a PC-only client, and

RE: [DDN] connecting with others in the Digital Divide Network community

2005-08-26 Thread Prince Obiri-Mainoo
Hi, Phil: Like Siobhan, I am also excited for your efforts and in particular, for compiling all these names and links and including some of us in your list. People like you, Andy and several others I cannot readily mention here are not only asset to us at DDN but also a challenge and worthy

[DDN] More Harmonic Convergence with the 501 Tech Club

2005-08-26 Thread Deborah Elizabeth Finn
(A version of this item - with live links - is available at http://blog.deborah.elizabeth.finn.com/blog/_archives/2005/8/25/1169249.html.) Dear Colleagues, Wednesday evening's gathering of the Boston 501 Tech Club was a delightful anticipation of this fall's N-TEN regional conference. We met

Re: [DDN] Rocketboom's Powerful Liftoff (fwd)

2005-08-26 Thread James Lerman
This is VERY cool. Makes old-style written blogging look like morse code. Al Gore better watch out. Thank you Andy. Jim Lerman Andy Carvin wrote: The next issue of BusinessWeek will feature the following article about video blogging, examining the explosive growth of the video blog

Re: [DDN] Google IM and Talk

2005-08-26 Thread Jacqueline Morris
They've got a table for connecting via other clients - http://www.google.com/talk/otherclients.html I guess the rough edges are why we're testing it to work the bugs out for them. Jacqueline On 8/25/05, Daniel O. Escasa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sabi ni Jim noong Wed, 24 Aug 2005 18:33:53 -0400: