Facebook recorded 260 billion page views per month, more than 10 times it’s nearest rival (MySpace at 24 billion page views per month). Facebook needs as many as 30,000 servers to run and is still growing…
An amazing talk delivered by Marja Brandon at Microsoft in 2004. Marja believed that education was failing to take advantage of advances in neuroscience that have led us to better understand how we learn. She founded a school and based teaching around 4 core skills
- Critical and creative thinking
- Problem posing and solving
- Bold thinking – don’t think outside the box, live outside the box
- Community connectedness – connect everything they do to the real world
Marja built a new school curriculum based around 9 brain rules…
For the past few years now, we have seen various videos uploaded to YouTube visualising the trends that have emerged thanks to the Internet and mobile devices. You can find older versions by searching YouTube for ‘Did you know’ or ‘Shift happens’. Here’s the latest one, updated with 2009 news stories: Hat tip to friend [...]
[Update: 20th Oct 09] More additions to the product line-up… This is the first in a series of sound bites I’ll be publishing (wi-fi permitting) during the SharePoint 2009 Conference (SPC09) here in Las Vegas. More details will follow after the event. The SharePoint 2010 product line-up was announced during Steve Ballmer’s keynote on Monday [...]
