CoboCards gives you a Sneak Peak on its Upcoming Pro Product

The German online flashcard platform CoboCards twittered to its users a link to a sneak peak video of the yet to launch pro accounts.

http://www.cobocards.com/screencast/en/sneakpeek/

http://www.cobocards.com/screencast/en/sneakpeek/

As I also had an EDUKWEST interview with Tamim Swaid, the founder and director of CoboCards, I think it’s about time to write up a little blog post about this company.

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There is a new Cat in Town – Learn2Lingo.com launched

New year, new language learning start up. I just got followed by Learn2Lingo on Twitter and had a quick first look and I have to say: it looks quite nice.

The good thing is that I can write this blog post after just 5 minutes being on the site. So the message gets through.

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Old Media vs New Media – Are you with Coco?

This is the first showdown, Wild West – highnoon style, of this new decade. The fight of the late night titans. Jay Leno vs Conan O’Brien.

It all started with NBC’s decision  to bring Jay Leno back into the prime time slot and hence move Conan and the Tonight show to 12:05AM. And as always when titans fight the smaller ones like in this case Carson Daily get crushed under their feet.

But besides some very funny videos and a big wave of support for Coco there is (as always) something to learn, right?

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Will you be a Digital Nomad?

My good friend and mentor Andrew Warner of Mixergy asked me this question yesterday after his interview with Colin Wright who is, of course, a Digital Nomad.

This is a very interesting question indeed and I think this kind of lifestyle will become increasingly interesting especially for educators. So, here is my take on it.

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At the Dawn of a new Decade

by Jon Sullivan

by Jon Sullivan

So, this is the last KirstenWinkler.com of the first decade of the second Millenium (depending on your calendar, of course).

Funny enough it does not feel like this. There is so much to do and do you remember the overhyped New Year’s Eve 1999 / 2000? I have to say, this was my worst New Year’s Eve party ever :) .

Anyway, let me take a short moment to wrap up 2009 and to give you a small outlook on my plans for 2010.

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