041212WarmUp

Continuing to follow the billion dollar acquisition of Instagram by Facebook, take a look at these articles and try to determine what Facebook was thinking and how Instagram is reacting:

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/04/10/on-instagram-backlash-about-facebook-acquistion/?ref=technology

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/11/technology/facebook-plays-offense-and-defense-by-buying-instagram.html?_r=1&ref=technology

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/11/technology/instagram-deal-is-billion-dollar-move-toward-cellphone-from-pc.html?ref=technology

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041112WarmUp

Latest technology news: Facebook buys Instagram for 1 billion dollars. Meet two of the world's newest billionaires:

http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2012/04/opinion-baio-instagram-trend/

http://www.webmonkey.com/2012/04/behind-the-scenes-at-instagram-tools-for-building-reliable-web-services/

http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2012/04/instagram-android-facebook/

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041012WarmUp

One of my favorite comic strips was written by Rube Goldberg.

What's a Rube Goldberg? Read about it @ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rube_Goldberg_machine

Who is Rube Goldberg? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rube_Goldberg

Visit the official site @ http://www.rubegoldberg.com/

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040912WarmUp

Google has announced a new product: Google Glasses.

Check it out @

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/google-glasses-unveiled-video-shows-life-lenses-augmented-reality-specs-article-1.1056172

http://www.pcworld.com/article/253259/googles_project_glass_eyewear_next_big_google_flop_or_hit.html

http://news.cnet.com/8301-11386_3-57409781-76/googles-project-glass-envisioning-the-business-boost/

http://gizmodo.com/5899091/google-project-glass-will-these-augmented-reality-glasses-change-how-you-see-in-the-future

http://slatest.slate.com/posts/2012/04/05/project_glass_google_unveils_augmented_reality_glasses.html

Also look up the underlying principle:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augmented_reality

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040412WarmUp

Some tech news for today:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/05/business/yahoo-to-cut-2000-jobs.html?_r=1&ref=technology

http://pocketnow.com/android/is-this-the-rumored-galaxy-nexus-tablet-from-google

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/05/technology/personaltech/lumia-900-a-beautiful-phone-from-nokia-and-microsoft.html?src=me&ref=technology

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040312WarmUp

What do you think about teaching Computer Science to everyone?

Read about it @

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/01/business/computer-science-for-non-majors-takes-many-forms.html?ref=technology

What is computational thinking?

Read about it @

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computational_thinking

and

http://www.google.com/edu/computational-thinking/

What do you think?

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040212WarmUp

Check out this interesting website about programming!

http://www.cs4fn.org/fundamentals/programming.php

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