EduGeek Journal

TechCrunch posted yesterday about the new natural language search engine by True Knowledge. While traditional search engines direct the user to a list of websites based on statistical analysis of key terms in the word or phrase being searched for, this natural language search engine actually translates the question (or phrase) into a query that [...]

The 3-D Web has been kicking around the web world for several years. Some companies have even tried to start some kind of 3-D Web environment, mostly with unsuccessful results (like the 3B web browser). Most of these efforts have been to create a 3-D browser that just connects 2-D websites along virtual streets. Pretty [...]

Turns out that MIT’s Technology Review is a very interesting site. (No surprise there. How much more wonderfully geeky can you get than MIT?) While browsing their site, I found their Documentaries section to have several interesting video clips, two of which I thought fellow edugeeks would find interesting. Jeff Han on a Better Interface [...]

On the way in to work today, I was listening to a Metaverse Session podcast (which is excellent, by the way), and they were talking about a screensaver called Twingly that shows a 3D globe and maps out in real time as blogs are posted from around the world. As soon as I got to [...]

Everything on the web seems to come with it’s own version number now. Even though most desktop-based programs have moved past that. Recently, education has even been given a version number online. Are you teaching education 1.0, or education 2.0? Don’t know the difference? Then I have the article for you. In a recent Innovate [...]

This is something straight out of Sci-Fi, but it is for real. 3-D scanners have existed for a while, apparently, but now they are coming down in price. 3-D printers are still expensive, but something that is possibly coming to a place like Kinko’s soon. The New York Times had an article about this technology. [...]