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• The World of Social Media 2011 - VideoInfographs.com - YouTube

  Interesting video with some fascinating data about Social Media. Shared today on Twitter (social media) by @amjohnston. (NOTE: The original tweet was in French, but the Translate feature in Tweetdeck allowed me to translate it.)

  tags: social media

• Paul Otellini Busts Some Myths About Intel - Arik Hesseldahl - News - AllThingsD

  • Moore’s Law is still alive and well, Otellini said. In 1997, Intel built a supercomputer called ASCI Red that could compute one teraflop. It required 2,500 square feet of space and 9,298 chips to get the number crunching done. Earlier this month, Intel announced a chip codenamed Knight’s Corner that can do a teraflop by itself. In the mainstream marketplace, today’s notebooks are 300 times more powerful than notebooks built in 1995.

• Easily Publish Gorgeous Magazines | Scoop.it

  Interesting way to collect articles of interest. Manually or automatically.

  tags: curation

• Why Diigo Rocks for Educators! | TeachHUB

  Nice article about Diigo for Educators

  tags: diigo social bookmarking education technology socialbookmarking

• Invasive species are blight on U.S. landscape – USATODAY.com

  "America is under siege — not by a foreign power, but by invasive species slowly working their way across the nation, leaving a sometimes-devastated and often-changed landscape in their wake."

  tags: insects invasive

  • Just as Dutch elm disease from Asia removed an iconic tree from the American landscape beginning in the 1940s, the emerald ash borer may conquer the ash tree in coming years.

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