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How to use YouTube Videos in a Keynote presentation

Every trainer knows not to rely on technology working correctly, so I decided to include a couple of YouTube videos in a presentation I’m creating, not just link to them. The problem was that Keynote.app doesn’t seem to respond to the .flv files you end up with after downloading a YouTube video. When I dragged [...]

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Web 2.0 Word Builder

The Internet is abuzz with a whole new vocabulary: memes and tags, posts and mashups, LOLcats, tweets and RSS. Friends, characters, flag, subscribe and interesting have a whole new meaning. This article helps you find your way in the new Web 2.0 world. characters letters, numbers, symbols, or spaces. When you send a txt message [...]

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Kiwis like Internet relationships

In February 2008 Nielsen Online revealed that most New Zealand Internet users are generating web content. (Source: 02/26/2008 Consumer Generated Media: Evolution or Revolution?. ) We like photos, videos, music, blogs In plain English: we share photos, links and videos, through websites such as Flickr, YouTube, MySpace. We read and write blogs and wikis. We [...]

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Make an offline copy of a YouTube video

I’m preparing to present a keynote at a conference in April. Right now I’m just gathering ideas and resources, but there are several YouTube videos I may be interested in showing. As any presenter knows, if the Internet’s involved it doesn’t pay to rely on being able to go online — it’s best to have [...]

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Discover the Social Web

The Internet has utterly changed in the last couple of years, as the primary emphasis moves from storing and sharing information to connecting people. Older uses of the Internet such as Gopher, Usenet newsgroups and IRC are hiding away in dusty corners; email is becoming less useful by the day as spammers drown out legitimate [...]

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Flocking to the pictures

Flock is a really good web browser — its real selling point is the way it helps you work with the new web: the social web. Flock is a derivative of Firefox, so there’s ruggedness, quality and security, but Flock’s real selling point is the way it helps you work with the new web: the [...]

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