The revenue streams for each division are similar and can be made available to the user as a customizable menu of options.

1. Non-intrusive, content appropriate Online Advertisements
2. Promotional Ad Banners/Videos and View Books
3. College and Job Search & Online Listings
4. Affiliate sales – example: Amazon store
5. Affinity sections – Corporate sponsorship section/MyMajor
6. Content distribution – e.g. eBooks, Games, Videos, etc.
7. In text links to search engines
8. Micro site sponsorships
9. Market Research Surveys & Analysis
10. Site development & marketing
11. Online course percentages
12. Multiple partner relationships – Colleges, Museums, Libraries, School Suppliers, Entertainment, Airlines, Hotels, Health & Fitness, Electronics, Clothing, etc.

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Although in the earliest stages of development, this virtual reality gaming rig already looks pretty intriguing. Engineered by clever kids at the University of Texas at Austin, it hot-wires an eye tracking camera to a motorised pico projector with the result that the player literally can’t take their eyes off the screen. Wherever they look, that is where their view of the gaming world is projected. The rig makes most sense in a first-person shooter, although the students have also tried it in a flight simulator where the player uses their head to roll and pitch the aircraft. Yes, it looks rather similar to the Microvision PicoP laser projection gun we wielded at CES, but there’s a key difference: the player does not need to hold anything or have anything attached to their body. This unencumbered Kinect-esque approach could potentially allow a greater sense of freedom — except that, for it to work, the player is forced to sit directly in front of the eye tracker. Find a way to fix this, dear Longhorns, and you could be onto something. Video after the break. – from engadget –

Libraries and learning in general are undergoing a radical change. This past semester I presented a paper entitled “The Digital Incunabula” at Post. Very simply put, the presentation focused on how we are in the midst of a major change in communication, if you don’t think so just ask Mubarak.

This change is global and it is local. However, overall it affects us personally everyday. This column will focus on how that change is being implement in four areas: Hyper-Local, Local, National and Global. These areas all have issues concerning how we use technology to teach our children to take their place in a global economy and society.

Hyper-Local

I will look to find and interview students and teachers in Huntington to see how they are using this new technology to learn better and to actually enter this new digital world. We all see those commercials with school kids talking around the world. Personally I use iChat video on my simple 6 year-old laptop to communicate with my International students over semester breaks. It is free and dependable. In class I just hook up the teacher’s computer to the projector use a pair of $20 dollar speakers and voila – the class is global. Well, what does it take to accomplish these feats of global initiatives? Do we need millions of dollars in a technology budget or is it just the passion to do it? Is it worth it and how difficult is it? Remember money doesn’t always provide solutions – passion does (IMHO).

Local

What are other schools doing around the Island and do our schools provide these services as well? Now this doesn’t mean, “if Johnny ran around with scissors we should also” but it may be best to see what the heck Johnny is doing first?  Why – because sooner or later Johnny is going for the same interview on the same day at the same college/company as our little precious Tyler?

National

Well what is being implemented nationally to help our students and are we part of that plan? Are colleges requiring a digital application? Is a video bio a good thing? What skill sets do our children need to get into and be successful in college today? Can they compete in that classroom when they graduate K-12? Do they actually know how to properly research (major plug for the library here.) Better yet, are they being shown how to use digital sources; eBooks, etc. and the Internet (BTW – the Web is dead) to do research and to gather materials? A piece of colored yarn on the edge of your construction paper cover doesn’t cut it anymore.

Global

Where are we globally? After all we all know that it is no longer a Mom and Pop world, hey just look at Main Street in Huntington. More stores are for rent than I have ever seen before. Business is global and we need to know how we are preparing our children for that future. When they leave the hallowed halls of academia will they be that old Abbott and Costello joke? “Did you go to school, stupid?” – “Yeah and I came out the same way”…

Why can’t Johnny blog?

At the end of their educational journey will our children be ready and properly prepared to enter and succeed in a global marketplace? Education by itself is a necessary and wonderful thing, critical thinking can never be replaced by technology, just doesn’t work. I myself use minimal technology in my lectures -however, I shudder to think how I could properly discuss issues without being able to display and discuss via video, articles, and interviews.

“Because I said so…” doesn’t work today, nor should it ever have. Can you imagine Socrates pulling that one? Concretes change daily. The only benefit that form of thinking or teaching ever did was stunt the student into being quiet and not asking the question. Imagine a world where Jobs, Wozniak, Gates, and Adele Goldberg (you don’t know her? well you’re in luck here’s the link to her bio http://www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/muiseum/goldberg/goldberg_page.htm ) never got an answer to their question? Actually that may be the reason why they became who they are today?

Hey, sheepskin worked at the start, but even the Monastic scholars upgraded to Papyrus 2.0, isn’t it about time we did?

The Kno had been touted as an alternative to the iPad – and a high-profile one at that, with a $46 million investment last fall from Andreessen-Horowitz and a strong endorsement from Marc Andreessen who called the device was “the most powerful tablet anyone has ever made.”

full story here…

Nolessdumas prediction 1/22/11 – The Kno tablet will garner a large part of the marketplace….

IMHO – All design whether it is visual or physical (engineering) is based on the need to work harmoniously within our environment.  In any of your disciplines whether it be: visual design, user interface design, information architecture, motion design, branding, marketing, art, film, etc. the goal is to deal with this base harmony of the human and life. We also choose to use that structure as the basis for a counter approach. In other words the same harmony we work with to produce our design is the same harmony we use as criteria to create any subversive work. In both cases we are working with the same criteria either to mimic or to repel against. There has to be a force to push off against.

My job is to find an umbrella to fit the discussion under – in order to show the relevance between parties and discussion, the reason being that we all can learn from one another’s experiences and concerns.  Designers need to be ready for any topic area, or any client’s needs. BTW – I consider all humans to be designers – good or bad.

Why do I harp on the force of electromagnetics? It is the base of harmony in our world, whether visual or physical. Do some research on Einstein, Faraday, Clerk Maxwell, etc.

Visual – the electromagnetic spectrum goes from gamma rays to infrared. The area of “color” we see is only approximately 20% of that spectrum. The visual arts depend on that spectrum and the portion we call light to distribute the intended message. This is but one example. Do some research and look up how we get things like gigahertz… take a look, or even better how and why we can perceive images or repetition of images.

Within the energy of sound we use these frequencies to distribute and receive our messages. Have you ever tried to listen to a message or music in which the frequency/pitch being used was uncomfortable to our ears – we pass this off as an “irritating speaking voice” or as a stream of beautiful music? (Disco not accounted for here.)

The video we were watching concerning magnetic pulses is an example of using frequencies – albeit maybe not a comfortable watch – hopefully in this case to achieve what some consider healing? I didn’t present the short video to purposely demonstrate the healing arts but to show the power of the simple earthly force of electromagnetism and frequency.

If you have the time checkout the articles on the hum of the Earth and see where that sound – be it to some – holistic or spiritual – emanates from? The goal of these discussions is to give a base or again “umbrella” to the overall discussions to connect thoughts not to prove hierarchy.

Hope this helps.

Nolessdumas

This section is dedicated to the predictions of “Nolessdumas”.

Over the years Mssr. Dumas has predicted hundreds of events in the world of technology and the related fields. They have all seemed to come true in the very near future.

Each week there will be new predictions and visions from Nolessdumas.

Please check back every Monday morning.

And remember –
“Who knew??? – Why Nolessdumas did!”

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Prediction – 2/14/11

By June 2011 Google will buy Yahoo and its services.

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Prediction – 2/11/11

Borders is now gone – B&N will survive but B&NCollege is gone in 5 years or less.

BTW – Nolessdumas predicted Borders gone 5 years ago… however he did miss out on that whole Egypt thing

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Prediction – 1/21/11

After witnessing first hand, the power of the Kno tablet I predict that this device
will garner a very large share of the Higher Ed marketplace by year’s end.

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Prediction – 1/15/11

By the end of 2011 –

Online education will grow 400% and will be used by almost 70% of all traditional universities

http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/11_18/b4226040096294.htm

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First Prediction of 2011

By April 2011 –

Adobe Flash will be available on all tablet computers – including the iPad…

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