Quickoffice, Inc.[3] is a discontinued freeware proprietary productivity suite for mobile devices which allows viewing, creating and editing documents, presentations and spreadsheets. It consists of Quickword (a word processor), Quicksheet (a spreadsheet), QuickPoint (a presentation program) and QuickPDF (a pdf viewer). The programs are compatible with Microsoft Office file formats, but not the OpenDocument file format.[4] Quickoffice was commonly used on smartphones and tablets. It was the main office editing suite on Symbian OS where it first appeared in 2005 and last updated in 2011, and came pre-loaded on all devices.[5] It was released for Android in 2010... Quickoffice, Inc., a company in Plano, Texas, was founded as Cutting Edge Software Inc. by Jeff Musa in 1997,[8] offering Microsoft Office and Excel compatibility for mobile devices. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quickoffice

What Google Spreadsheet was renamed to. (more)

Word Processor part of GoogleApps. Google Docs originated from Writely, a web-based word processor created by the software company Upstartle and launched in August 2005.[6][7] It began as an experiment by programmers Sam Schillace, Steve Newman, and Claudia Carpenter, trying out the then-new Ajax technology and the "contentEditable" HTML feature.[7] On March 9, 2006, Google announced that it had acquired Upstartle.[8][9] In July 2009, Google dropped the beta testing status from Google Docs.[10] In March 2010, Google acquired DocVerse, an online document collaboration company. DocVerse allowed multiple users to collaborate online on Microsoft Word documents, like other Microsoft Office formats, such as Excel and PowerPoint.[11] Improvements based on DocVerse were announced and deployed in April 2010.[12] In June 2012, Google acquired Quickoffice, a freeware proprietary productivity suite for mobile devices. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Docs#History

co-creator of Google Sheets, then SVP at Slack.com, now CTO of Notion since Dec'2013. https://www.linkedin.com/in/fuzzy-k-a58abb170/

He is currently VP of Learning Content and Instructor Experience at LinkedIn, leading the development of learning products which help every member of the global workforce learn the skills they need to achieve their professional goals. Before LinkedIn, JR was Chief Product Officer at Zapier, managing the product, design and Ux research teams developing workflow automation products. https://www.jonathanrochelle.com/official-bio (more)

Helen Branswell: *the USDA confirmed another 13 H5N1 birdflu infected herds in California today. That makes 125 herds there this week alone. (more)

Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 (A/H5N1) is a subtype of the influenza A virus, which causes influenza (flu), predominantly in birds (Avian Flu). It is enzootic (maintained in the population) in many bird populations, and also panzootic (affecting animals of many species over a wide area).[1] A/H5N1 virus can also infect mammals (including humans) that have been exposed to infected birds; in these cases, symptoms are frequently severe or fatal... In mammals, including humans, A/H5N1 influenza (whether LPAI or HPAI) is rare. Symptoms of infection vary from mild to severe, including fever, diarrhea, and cough.[5] Human infections with A/H5N1 virus have been reported in 23 countries since 1997, resulting in severe pneumonia and death in about 50% of cases.[8] Between 2003 and November 2024, the World Health Organization has recorded 948 cases of confirmed H5N1 influenza, leading to 464 deaths.[9] The true fatality rate may be lower because some cases with mild symptoms may not have been identified as H5N1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Influenza_A_virus_subtype_H5N1 (more)

Influenza A virus (IAV) is a pathogen that causes the flu in birds and some mammals, including humans.[1] It is an RNA virus whose subtypes have been isolated from wild birds. Occasionally, it is transmitted from wild to domestic birds, and this may cause severe disease, outbreaks, or human influenza pandemics... A filtered and purified influenza A vaccine for humans has been developed and many countries have stockpiled it to allow a quick administration to the population in the event of an avian influenza pandemic. In 2011, researchers reported the discovery of an antibody effective against all types of the influenza A virus... The annually updated, trivalent flu vaccine consists of hemagglutinin (HA) surface glycoprotein components from influenza H3N2, H1N1, and B influenza viruses. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Influenza_A_virus (more)

Avian influenza, also known as avian flu or bird flu, is a disease caused by the influenza A virus, which primarily affects birds but can sometimes affect mammals including humans.[1] Wild aquatic birds are the primary host of the influenza A virus, which is enzootic (continually present) in many bird populations. (more)

Amy Bruckman and Carlos Jensen: The Mystery of the Death of MediaMOO: Seven Years of Evolution of an Online Community (MOO). Typical Tuesday evening, 1993-­1996: In the online cafe, writing teachers begin to arrive. Twenty-five teachers will spend an hour discussing how to handle inappropriate student behavior in electronic environments... (more)

works at Linden Lab; used to work at Six Apart

Mark Paschal on designing semi-private Virtual Community like a Tree House. (more)

Steven Johnson: A Machine for Thinking: How Douglas Engelbart predicted the future of computing. (Hidden Heroes) In the fall of 1945, a 20-year-old electrical technician named Douglas Engelbart arrived at an American base in the Philippines on his first assignment for the Navy (more)

Actions by Big Government (aka Government Failure) which result in symptoms often called Market Failures. Making a mess of the Free Market/Market Economy (distoring FeedBack), esp for the SmallCo vs the BigCo. Explained by Public Choice Theory? (more)

50 Years of Text Games - From Oregon Trail to A.I. Dungeon - A definitive book about the first half-century of interactive fiction. https://if50.textories.com/ (more)

Frode Hegland: Deep Literacy is required for success in the 21st century but the language and culture around it is still mostly associated with social misfits – read ‘nerds’ – or boring work. However, deep literacy is really about deep self-realisation. Deep literacy is the mindset to excel as who you really are, freed from previous conventions and able to express yourself through getting more intimate with your work through improving your skills. http://www.deep-literacy.com/ (more)

Object Oriented MUD (Multi User Dungeon) (more)

Amy Susan Bruckman (born 1965) is a professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology affiliated with the School of Interactive Computing and the GVU Center. She is best known for her pioneering research in the fields of online communities and the learning sciences. In 1999, she was selected as one of MIT Technology Review's TR100 awardees, honoring 100 remarkable innovators under the age of 35. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amy_S._Bruckman

Andrea Forte and Amy Bruckman are presenting a paper at WikiSym about their attempt to use the Science Online Wiki in a High School Advanced Placement class (Math And Science). Students often worked in parallel during class and found that edit conflicts frequently slowed their progress... Mr. Grant likewise had difficulty grading the collaborative assignment. He found parsing page histories laborious and uninformative and had difficulty understanding how each student had contributed to the collaboration. They conclude: If wiki is to become a readily adoptable construction kit that supports Knowledge Building communities in schools, the tools need to foster collaborative practices by making it easy for students to work together and for teachers to assess collaborative work. If teachers cannot assess collaborative wiki work, then we cannot expect wiki to be adopted for Formal Education, despite the potential learning gains for students. Maybe it isn't the wiki that needs to be redesigned, but the Formal Education. (more)

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