OTR Backup 04/17/2012

• Now for the good news – sharing can make you happy. Pass it on | Maria Konnikova | Comment is free | The Observer

  Last week, Facebook made its largest ever acquisition: Instagram, the popular photo-sharing service that lets you snap, filter and send with the click of a button. While the fit seems to make sense – a major reason to use Facebook is to share photos; the more photos you share the more time you spend on the site; the more time you spend, the happier the advertisers – the $1bn price tag raised many an eyebrow.

  tags: news sharing pass maria comment free observer

• Technology Tidbits: Thoughts of a Cyber Hero: 15 Sites for Finding Images and Clip Art for Education

  A while back I did a top 10 sites for finding images and clip art for education.  However, a lot of things have changed since then and a few of those sites no longer exist.  That being said a handful of new and exciting sites have been developed for education for finding images which led me to creating a new list.

  tags: technology thoughts cyber hero sites finding images clip clip art art education

• Hands-on: getting work done with Google's new Aura interface for Chrome OS

  Google attempted to introduce a new approach to computing when it first launched Chrome OS in 2010. The operating system consists of little more than a fullscreen Web browser perched atop a rigorously-hardened Linux environment. The platform makes some unusual trade-offs, eschewing conventional native applications in exchange for bulletproof security and low-maintenance stateless computing.

  tags: getting google aura interface chrome

• The 6 Biggest "Oops!" Moments in Microsoft's History

  We’ve grown to appreciate the success of Microsoft’s Windows 7, but no one – not even Microsoft fanboys – can say that the company has actually done its homework before releasing every product.

  tags: biggest oops moments microsoft history

• India hires Microsoft in 'largest cloud deployment ever' | ZDNet

  Summary: India has hired Microsoft to roll-out student cloud email services to 7 million students in the country; thought to be the world’s largest cloud deployment to date.

  tags: india hires microsoft largest cloud deployment zdnet

• This is your brain on Oregon Trail: Lessons learned from a childhood of gaming

  Gaming isn’t the violence-inducing waste of time it’s sometimesmade out to be. Here are some important life lessons I learned from my childhood screen time.

  tags: brain oregon trail lessons childhood gaming

• So What Has Changed Since I Started Blogging and Tweeting? | Connected Principals

  My activity on my blog as well as on Twitter have diminished as of late. I still find an incredible amount of value/entertainment by engaging in the online discussions, I just find it harder to make time to write and send out 140 character tidbits.

  tags: cpchat

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