On Saturday, we were one of the earliest sites to report that Flappy Bird creator Dong Nguyen was considering taking down the addicting and popular, Flappy Bird, out of the app stores. Nguyen seems to be one of those guys that's just not ok with fame. He fancies himself an indie game developer and never [...]
Global executives are aware that effective administration is the key to long-term business success, yet they still find themselves caught in administrative tasks, leaving no time to concentrate on other business aspects. Luckily for businesses of today, software tools can handle most of the administrative and management processes including contract management, bookkeeping, payroll, customer relationships [...]
The Learning Bird platform benefits students, teachers, and parents. Students are given "access to an online database of lessons matched to their learning styles, region and grade." Teachers benefit in several ways. They are given access to the database of lessons that can serve as teaching tools; they are allowed to watch and learn teaching methods and styles from said videos; they are paid for their additions to the database when their videos/material help a student on Learning Bird. Parents are allowed all the benefits of providing their child with a traditional tutor, at a fraction of the cost. A win-win-win.
Their are Minecraft apps, 3D printing websites, tons of merchandise, and a revolution of sorts happening around the popular, retro 8 bit game. It seems that most of the Minecraft merchandise you can purchase has been officially licensed from Mojang, the developer of the game. However there seems to be a lot of piracy and [...]
To boil the essence of the software down, a MapStory is an open-source platform for creating mapped displays of data sets. Think of a MapStory as a sort of video, showing trends, movements, events, or locations (among many others) on a map, over time. The MapStory pictured to the left, for example, shows how the 1988 Yellowstone shifted and grew over the course of several months. MapStory has the potential to become a sort of Wikipedia for visual data.
During the last weekend in January 2014, the 24-26, TheStreet - a media company that focuses on financial matters - conducted a survey of more than 1000 individuals. The topic of this survey was Bitcoin, or rather what these individuals thought of the currency. The results were pretty astounding. A whopping 76% of those polled had no idea what Bitcoin even was. Only 2% of those polled owned any Bitcoin, and 38% of resoindents though that Bitcoin hurt the value of the dollar.
It's hard to believe that the phenomena known as Flappy Bird may be going away, as soon as later today. Business Insider reported earlier today that the game's developer, Dong Nguyen, tweeted that in 22 hours the game would go away. Business Insider's Nicholas Carlson says that Nguyen isn't one for the limelight. Nguyen considers [...]
While we were at The 2014 Florida Educational Technology Conference (FETC) we had a chance to visit the Picaboo booth. They really opened up our eyes to a problem that you don't really think about too often: yearbooks. Maybe not a problem, but standard high-school yearbooks are riddled with inefficiencies and could be much, much better and less expensive. That is exactly what Picaboo does
In what was probably the most straightforward concept of any company/booth we visited at the 2014 Florida Educational Technology Conference, we had a chance to speak with representatives from Mac of All Trades. While simple, Mac of All Trades provides a much needed service. Imagine that you just purchased the new, top of the line [...]
