R:ED October 3rd to October 9th

  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 August 15th to August 21st 2010

  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