YouTube and personal technology company Lenovo have teamed up to launch a worldwide initiative for 14 to 18 year-old high school students. Joined by space agencies including NASA, the European Space Agency (ESA) and Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), the initiative, YouTube Space Lab, invites students to design a science experiment that can be performed in [...]

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YouTube and personal technology company Lenovo have teamed up to launch a worldwide initiative for 14 to 18 year-old high school students. Joined by space agencies including NASA, the European Space...

Read More: YouTube and Lenovo team up to live-stream high school experiments from space

Some of the most exciting projects in videogames these days are from extremely driven and talented amateur developers. For all of the bombast and spectacle of modern, big-budget games, the most interesting work is usually being done by small teams. This week's featured Kickstarter project, Crystal Catacombs, shows just how a single, ambitious and determined developer can create a fascinating concept without having the backing (or bankroll) that comes with a huge studio.

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After the English Teacher at a Philadelphia high school was suspended for things she said about her students on her blog, it made schools take a closer look at their policies and propose a social media policy. The teacher has since won her court case and is allowed to teach again, but the whole situation ...

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The 9/11 10 year anniversary is this weekend and, I don't know about you, but it's really hard to watch the images of the World Trade Center crumbling over and over and over again. It's understandable to want to make a big deal about this milestone, but watching the footage puts me right back in [...]

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You've got 500-something friends, all of about 50 you really interact with. You went to school with Lucy and Henry, you've worked with Mike for years, and Joe lives just down the block. Facebook knows all of this — it just doesn't really go out of its way to show that it knows all of this. Until now.

Sometime recently, Facebook began rolling out "Smart Lists" to select users — which, as the name implies, intelligently groups certain obvious groups of friends into pre-packaged lists. Take that, [...]

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New Career Opportunities Daily: The best jobs in media.

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Of the many bright ideas Twitter seems to have coined, the "140 characters or less" concept seems to be its shining star. We've said it before and we'll say it again — The unique brevity of the platform forces us to "cut out the fluff" and limit us to sharing only the most important bits of information. The Wall Street Journal reports that this same concept is now taking hold of our education system.Once upon a time, admissions officers at popular schools required prospective students to s [...]

Read More: The Twitter Influence: Columbia Business School limits application essays to 200 characters

People used to share news, ideas and drawings via paper in the old days. And, quite frankly, paper is still a very good tool. A number of digital pen products for writing and drawing have appeared over the years. The latest entry in this field comes from Wacom a pioneer in producing consumer and professional digitizing tablets.


Read More: Wacom Inkling Bridges Old School Pen & Paper Drawings to the Digital Vector World

It's that time of the year again when everyone is either getting geared up to go back to school or are getting their children ready for it. There are some things that needs to be checked in order to be prepare for back to school experience. This infographic lays out some pretty nifty tips to [...]

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Canon PIXMA MG8220.There was a time when "social" communication involved paper and ink (either from a pen or, more recently, toner). Canon announced two new printers that not only print from smartphones (via an app) but can also directly print Gmail attachments and Google Docs documents. This old school sharing works in the other direction too. Scanned photos and documents can be sent directly from the printer to a smartphone.


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I was going to write about something totally different today, but a bus came up the street to pick up school kids. This is the first week of school here in Georgia.  And it got me to thinking. Why was I thinking about school when my son is happily married and in his 30’s?  Because [...]

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Shahed Khan is CEO and Co-founder of a pre-launch startup called Viatask.  He’s been featured in the Chicago Tribune, Tech Cocktail and more, has been attending every networking event he can, pitching to VCs and—get this—he’s only 16!  That’s right—Shahed is part of the rising phenomenon of teen entrepreneurs.  Although he’s only in high school, he’s not letting that stop him from following his business dreams.  I had the opportunity to ask Shahed some questions about Viatask, as well as his exp [...]

Read More: 16-Year Old Entrepreneur Shahed Khan On Starting A Company In High School

KidZui, a developer of an award-winning internet browser for kids, released its latest product for kids. A website called ZUI.com that allows kids to search and explore in excess of 5 million parent and teacher approved websites. The search engine includes popular sites like YouTube videos, games, images and you name it.


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Scholabo is the private social network for primary and pre-schools. The site isn't meant for pupils though – it's more aimed at bridging the divide between parents and teachers.It launched to the UK market in February 2011, and it's designed to provide a secure ‘gated' community where schools can send child reports, news, updates and private messages to parents.Additionally, the platform enables schools to share things like classroom learning resources, school photos and event inform [...]

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Guest post by Bill Murtha, President and CEO of Roberts Communications, a leading independent advertising agency with offices in New York and Minnesota. Everything you know about social media you probably learned in high school. In full disclosure, a lot of our social media strategy flows out of the work we do with Jay Baer.

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Guest post by Bill Murtha, President and CEO of Roberts Communications, a leading independent advertising agency with offices in New York and Minnesota. Everything you know about social media you probably learned in high school. In full disclosure, a lot of our social media strategy flows out of the work we do with Jay Baer.

Read More: Secrets of Social Media You Learned in High School

Guest post by Bill Murtha, President and CEO of Roberts Communications, a leading independent advertising agency with offices in New York and Minnesota. Everything you know about social media you probably learned in high school. In full disclosure, a lot of our social media strategy flows out of the work we do with Jay Baer.

Read More: Secrets of Social Media You Learned in High School