Google recently released it’s own browser: Chrome. Using it is of course a trade of privacy versus convenience. However, now there is an unpolished version: Iron. Some German software developers stripped the source code of Chrome from any reference or feedback link to Google. Browse with the benefits of Chrome, and whithout the privacy worries.
This thursday, Andrea Schrijen is an invited speaker for Chi-Nederland in Eindhoven. She will explain what she means with “creativity as a crowbar” when she talks about her work for FABstrct as an engaged designer. With creativity as a means she creates a meeting point for business(wo)men, artists and average Joe. This results in for example truly engaged marketing campaigns with just that bit of extra and inspiring interaction styles for SME’s.
Interested? Join the meeting and stay for a drink afterwards. We will be in “De Zwarte Doos”, room 1.04, Thursday, September 25. You’re welcome from 1900 onwards, Andrea will take the floor at 1930.
Please send an email to susanne_dot_buck_a_t_planet_dot_nl, for our convenience.
Outdoctrination, I am outdoctrinated, you are outdoctrinated? Children behave beyond the descriptive power of science in Sugata Mitra: Can kids teach themselves?, an inspiring and revealing talk at the LIFT conference 2007 in Geneva.
Sugata Mitra worked on the “internet in a wall” experiment. Take a monitor, put it in a hole in the wall and provide a mouse. Watch what happens when children start to discover. Repeat all over “demographically-rich” India.
The full presentation takes 21 minutes. If you want to skip the intro and experimental scientific stuff, FFWD to approx 15 minutes in time where he presents his findings. Some high-lights:
Watch the video at TED.com