Sasha Kovaliov shared as favorite 28 Days to Improved Results with Social Media: Week One from Traffikd
Sasha Kovaliov shared as favorite “A Kindle For Every Student!” Vote! from TheNextWeb.com
In Greece the government pays for 99% of students’ textbooks which as you can imagine is no small cost. Well, in the video (below) Greek opposition leader George Papandreou recommends all students be given a sum of money each to purchase a Kindle (or like device) to replace the typical textbooks that students are given and the government spends a fortune on.
As John Aravosis from AmericaBlog points out, there is the issue of getting rights to the books required, as well as the costs involved in converting old books into digital format. Also, the cost of replacement should the child lose/break the Kindle is worthwhile considering, because lets face it, 5/10 kids are likely to have theirs lost.
Nevertheless, that aside, will ebooks lead to the death of textbooks?
Sasha Kovaliov shared as favorite OpenID + OAuth: Two Great Tastes That Taste Great Together from TechCrunch
Today, Google and Plaxo released a hybrid protocol that combines OpenID, the open online identity standard, with OAuth, the secure data portability standard. Too often, when a Website wants to import your contacts from another Web service, it asks for your login and password credentials. OAuth gets around that by sending you back to the original site where you login and authorize the one-time transfer of data. It is much more secure. And now it works with OpenID.
So far, this is just a test between Plaxo and Google, where a Plaxo member can invite someone via Gmail. Plaxo marketing VP John McCrea argues that this approach is:
- better for the user by being more convenient and more secure;
- better for the identity provider by not asking the user for their password and then scraping their data; and
- better for the site by delivering a higher conversion rate on signup flows and getting more useful data from the user.
It, of course, competes with another approach that is out there: Facebook Connect. But, then, that only works with Facebook.
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