Starting November 12, One Laptop Per Child will be offering a Give 1
Get 1 Program for a brief window of time. For $399, you will be
purchasing two XO laptops—one that will be sent to empower a child to
learn in a developing nation, and one that will be sent to your child
at home. If you’re interested in Give 1 Get 1, we’ll be happy to send
you a reminder email. Just sign up in the box to the left and you’ll
receive your reminder prior to the November 12 launch date.

Update: OLPC, Reviewed by 12-Year-Old.

Technorati Tags: olpc, laptop, children, Give 1 Get 1 ]]> http://www.plasser.net/2007/09/25/olpc-give-1-get-1/feed/ 0 http://www.plasser.net/2006/12/12/105-years-ago/ http://www.plasser.net/2006/12/12/105-years-ago/#comments Tue, 12 Dec 2006 22:21:23 +0000 admin http://plasser.net/?p=299 In the year 1901 — exactly 105 years ago today — Guglielmo Marconi was the first who transmitted transatlantic wireless signals from Poldhu, Cornwall to Signal Hill, St. John’s, Newfoundland.

“We started confab.yahoo because we want to push the web and its applications up to the next level. After slightly more than a decade, we as an industry have only scratched the surface of the web’s potential. The opportunities are virtually infinite, and we aim to bring together the people that can inspire the next generation web.”

Prediction Markets: Tapping the Wisdom of Crowds

Prediction markets are speculative markets created for the purpose of making predictions. Assets are created whose final cash value is tied to a particular event (e.g., will the next US president be a Republican) or parameter (e.g., total sales next quarter). The current market prices can then be interpreted as predictions of the probability of the event or the expected value of the parameter. Other names for prediction markets include information markets, decision markets, idea futures, and virtual markets. (Wikipedia, Prediction Market).

Die Entwicklung des Jetcar wurde 1998 von den Brüdern Christian Wenger-Rosenau und Michael Wenger begonnen. Die Grundidee war, ein leichtes, strömungsgünstiges Fahrzeug mit extrem niedrigem Kraftstoffverbrauch zu entwickeln. Dies sollte durch einen leichten Stahlrahmen, eine GFK-Karosserie und den Einsatz eines kleinvolumigen Dieselmotors erreicht werden.

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