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R:ED October 17th to October 23rd

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  1. Why We Need TechCrunch in the Classroom
  2. Blackboard to Sell Online Courses Through New Partnership
  3. Video Calling Startup Wham! Nails $3 Million In Series A
  4. Collaborative Diagramming Tool Cacoo Goes Freemium, Adds New Features
  5. Unsocial: Foursquare Plus LinkedIn Minus All Your Friends
  6. How Social Search Will Transform the SEO Industry
  7. Ooyala Launches Video Paywall Powered By PayPal
  8. Evernote Raises $20M In Bid To Become A “Global Platform For Human Memory”
  9. Internet to Surpass 2 Billion Users This Year
  10. Download The OS X Facetime Beta Right Now
  11. An Art Class in a Video Game?
  12. Ning Gets Its Groupon On
  13. 49% of Small Business Owners Use Smartphones [STATS]
  14. Ustream Lets Users Set Up Their Own Pay Per View And Ad Free Broadcasting
  15. Disrupt Winner Qwiki Arrives In Private Alpha (1,000 Invites)
  16. Mobile Credit Card Reader Square Now Open for Business
  17. Robots Are Changing the Future of Telecommuting

R:ED October 10th to October 16th

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  1. Gates Foundation Announces $20 Million Fund to Improve Education with Tech
  2. Bill Gates talks education tech
  3. Is Mobile Video Chat Ready for Business Use?
  4. Ning Everywhere Debuts With Third-Party Extensions, Mobile Apps And More
  5. Facebook to Update Commenting Plugin with Votes and More [REPORT]
  6. The Video Phone Comes Of Age: One Fifth Of American Adults Have Made A Video Call
  7. Prep for the SATs with iPad and iPhone Video Game
  8. Marvell Giving $100K to Education App Developers
  9. Skype Gets Serious Facebook Integration
  10. Updated Yahoo! Messenger for iOS brings cross-platform video calling
  11. HOW TO: Accept Credit Card Payments on Mobile Devices
  12. TED Brings “Ideas Worth Spreading” to the iPad
  13. Among Gen-Y, the Facebook Backlash Has Arrived
  14. For Millennials, Brands May Be as Important as Religion, Ethnicity
  15. Government pulls plug on Teachers TV
  16. StudyBlue Raises $3.6 Million For College-Focused Studying Platform
  17. E-book Sales Up 193% So Far This Year
  18. Skype’s VP Of Enterprise On Future Strategy, Products And Competitors
  19. Making Math Lessons as Easy as 1, Pause, 2, Pause …

R:ED October 3rd to October 9th

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  1. Google TV’s Secret Weapon: Video Calls From Your TV
  2. As The Productivity Suite Wars Heat Up, Microsoft’s Live@edu Adds More Partner Schools
  3. Barnes & Noble Launches Publishing Platform PubIt To Rival Amazon’s DTP
  4. Don’t Speak English? StarsFeed Translates Celebrity Tweets So You Don’t Have To
  5. Mobile Messenger and Poll Everywhere are rolling out a new initiative to reach students where they spend a large chunk of their time anyway–on cell phones.

R:ED September 26th to October 2nd

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  1. On Language – Learning Language in Chunks – NYTimes.com
  2. Japan to pilot digital textbooks in classrooms
  3. The United States Is Losing Its Innovative Edge: Report
  4. Textbook Rental Juggernaut Chegg Adds Another $75 Million To Its Coffers
  5. UK Med School Students Get a New Prescription: iPhones
  6. We are not Waiting for Superman, We are Empowering Superheroes
  7. Forrester: Social Networking On The Rise Worldwide, Content Creation Not So Much
  8. Authors Feel Pinch in Age of E-Books
  9. Pinger Now Turns Your iPod Touch Into A Free Cell Phone
  10. Voxy Helps You Learn A Language By Text, iPhone, Email And Web
  11. Skype and Facebook to Announce Partnership [REPORT]
  12. Social Learning Company Koofers Raises $5 Million From Revolution, Others
  13. Peter Thiel Has New Initiative To Pay Kids To “Stop Out Of School”
  14. Exclusive: Facebook and Skype Readying Deep Integration Partnership
  15. The Case For Social Media in Schools
  16. Most Tweets Produce Zero Replies or Retweets [STUDY]
  17. Survey of Kids: Physical Books Here to Stay, In Parallel to Rise of E-Readers
  18. Obama’s World-Beating Business Plan: Keep Kids in School Longer
  19. Togetherville Helps Parents, Kids, And Schools Connect With New ‘Communities’ Feature
  20. Learning Curves on the Career Path

R:ED September 19th to September 25th

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  1. Facebook Has Quietly Implemented A De-Facto Follow Feature
  2. Why Our Schools Suck, The Movie
  3. Kiva Adds Student Loans To Microlending Marketplace
  4. The Latest Galaxy Tab Video Spot Makes A Solid Case For the 7-inch Android Tablet
  5. The Global Education Race
  6. Sweet Seeds: Zynga Raises $500K In Two Days To Build School In Haiti
  7. vChatter Launches A PG-Rated Version Of Chatroulette
  8. Twitter to Release a Real-time Analytics Solution This Year [REPORT]
  9. Mark Zuckerberg Donates $100 Million to Newark Public Schools
  10. How Universities Can Win Big with Location-Based Apps
  11. The End of Education Is the Dawn of Learning
  12. Project 10100 Winners

R:ED September 12th to September 18th 2010

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  1. YouTube Starts Testing New Live Streaming Platform
  2. Livemocha looks to crack Rosetta Stone with new language service
  3. Scribd Redesign Is An Attempt To Become A “Social Network For Reading”
  4. Barnes & Noble Projects $1B In Digital Revenue, 25% Market Share By 2013
  5. 5min Brings 200K How-To Videos To Dailymotion
  6. Coming Soon: Mind-Reading Cell Phones
  7. Lifeplayer, the MP3 Radio for the World’s Most Forgotten
  8. Foursquare Targets College Students with New Universities Program

R:ED September 5th to September 11th 2010

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  1. Breaking down language barriers with a pocket picture guide
  2. Forget What You Know About Good Study Habits
  3. Sugata Mitra: The child-driven education
  4. Tablet Maker Kno Raises $46 Million for Dual-Screen Digital Textbook
  5. Campus Dibs Is A Groupon For Colleges: Smart Move
  6. Maths graduates in Punjab are being taught the British syllabus so they can give private lessons by phone and via the web
  7. Prezi Meeting Brings Collaboration to Web-based Presentations

R:ED August 29th to September 4th

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  1. Fora.TV Triples Traffic. Wait, That Many People Want Hour-Long Videos on Economics?
  2. Skype Introduces 10-Way Video Calling
  3. EverFi Raises $11 Million For Financial Literacy Education Application
  4. Textbook Rentals Go Into Hypergrowth: Bookrenter Says Revenues Are Growing 725 Percent
  5. Udemy Scores $1M In Seed Funding, Aims To Democratize Online Learning
  6. 15 Essential Back to School Podcasts
  7. Vidyo Bets On The iPad And iPhone For The Future Of Video Conferencing
  8. comScore: Time Spent Watching Live Web Video Up 650 Percent
  9. Rise of the Anti-Content Farmers
  10. The Boss Is Robotic, and Rolling Up Behind You

R:ED August 22nd to August 28th

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  1. College Curriculum Requires Undergrads to Play Video Game “Portal”
  2. Seth Godin Gives Up on Traditional Book Publishing
  3. Skype Etiquette
  4. Why Social Media Projects Fail – A European Perspective
  5. Facebook Trademark Lawsuit Aims to Limit Use of “Book” by Others
  6. Hey Facebook, Here Are Some Other Companies You Can Bully Or Sue
  7. Guess Who Is Trying To Trademark The Word “Face”? (And Guess Who Is Trying To Stop It?)
  8. Kanji Amnesia And Why It’s Okay To Forget Kanji
  9. Does Your Language Shape How You Think?

R:ED August 15th to August 21st 2010

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  1. Chegg’s First Acquisition: CourseRank
  2. Invideous adds ‘social playhead’ to its video monetization platform
  3. Are Your Facebook And Twitter Friends Using Other Languages? Try XIHA
  4. Digital Textbook Startup Inkling Scores Sequoia Funding, Publisher Deals
  5. China’s position as an economic superpower may be hampered by the patrimony and poor academic ethics of its universities
  6. Roommates Who Click
  7. As Private Tutoring Booms, Parents Look at the Returns
  8. Looking for Baby Sitters: Foreign Language a Must

R:ED August 8th to August 14th 2010

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  1. CourseSmart For iPad: Free App With 90 Percent Of ‘Core Textbooks’ Available
  2. NOOKstudy: Barnes & Nobles’ free digital foray into the education market lets students read e-textbooks, take fully searchable notes & highlights
  3. Teaching English as a foreign language pays up to £1,500 a month – and you get to see the world
  4. Institute of Education study finds exam performance improves if students concentrate on learning rather than grades
  5. Tech Weekly: Google’s access plans, academic collaboration, innovation
  6. TED and Teaching Ourselves With Technology
  7. Indian Tablet Gets TV Demo But Is Still Hard to Believe
  8. PayPal to Reinvent Micropayments

R:ED August 1st to August 7th 2010

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  1. Knewton Brings On Ex-AOLer David Liu As COO
  2. It’s A WinWin, Grou.ps Launches Referral Program For Ning Exiles
  3. Echo Brings Comments To Your Homepage With Real-Time River
  4. Want A Retweet? Be Insightful, Or At Least Link To Someone Who Is
  5. Recurly Raises $1.6 Million To Help Companies Manage Subscription Billing
  6. Apple Is About to Own Your Face
  7. 11 Free Services for Scheduling Social Media Updates
  8. Pulse + Posterous = News Sharing Bliss
  9. How 12 CEOs & Founders are Leveraging Web Video
  10. Social IM Client Digsby Finally Gets Group Chat Support

R:ED July 25th to July 31st 2010

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R:ED (read) is a list of stories which we have not covered on this blog but are nevertheless worth to take a look at. We will  set up such a list each Sunday from now on and hope that you will find it useful.

  1. India unveils world’s cheapest laptop
  2. LearnBoost Raises $975K To Help Teachers Manage Grades And Classrooms Online
  3. Ask.com Reinvents Itself with a Focus on Community Q&A
  4. Tinychat Boasts 500 Million Minutes Of Usage And 300,000 New Users Per Month
  5. Weebly’s ImagePerfect Gives Users Drag-And-Drop Image Editing
  6. Pearson to acquire Wall Street Institute: acquisition extends Pearson’s position as world leader in English language teaching
  7. YouTube Boosts Maximum Upload Limit To 15 Minutes
  8. Become the Master of Any Subject with a Suite of New iPhone Apps

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