Google ready to invade telco turf, bid on 700MHz spectrum. (via arstechnica.com) Because the 700MHz has such desirable spectrum propagation characteristics, it's also much cheaper and easier to roll out a network with excellent coverage than it is to do so with higher-frequency technology. Making broadband access cheap and affordable means more people come online, ...

Will pilot the Edusim project setp. 4th — and wanted to share this video.

This sim is a tweek of the Croquet KAT Demo 1) Download the sim -=here=- (296 megs) 2) Unzip the file 3) Start the sim (using the direction in the slidecast above) 4) Send feedback to rich.white@greenbush.org 5) Enjoy !

A huge list of web 2.0 tools for educators: [simplespark.com] Enjoy ! ===

_ Dawson and I were talking about just these types of virtual meeting/work/collaborative spaces the other day. Margaret Hooshmand worked as an executive assistant at a Cisco Systems (CSCO ) office in Silicon Valley until she decided to move to Texas. But her boss, Senior Vice-President Marthin De Beer, really wanted her to continue working ...

Join the Greenbush Social Network ! [greenbush.ning.com]

I am contiuning to build resources – with a planned student pilot within the next 6 weeks

Wow… who would have though even 1 year ago Microsoft would even consider moving towards opensource software? A few years ago I blogged fairly regularly about opensource and how schools could embrace it [www.greenbush.org] — here is the Microsoft opensource web site. [www.microsoft.com] [port25.technet.com] [www.linuxjournal.com]

A long presentation on Croquet in the early days (when it was in beta development):

_ Some of our potentially biggest content providers for the emerging mobile media and virtual environments platforms reside right here at Greenbush. Being that Greenbush is primarily a content provider.. especially these three !

My $.02 — this article is a long one, a decent read, so Ill re-cap [tinyurl.com] "It feels like the early days of the Internet," says Steve Prentice, a vice-president at Gartner Research (IT ). Gartner estimates that by 2011, 80% of Internet users and major companies will have avatars, or digital replicas of themselves, ...

_ My $.02 is that there will always be a place for legacy web applications (for the more simple everyday functions that do not require interaction etc.). But when it comes to collaborative environments – like virtual meetings (think goto meeting), virtual classes (think Blackboard) its pretty clear that in time the 2D variety just ...