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There was a warm feeling with the audience when it premiered last year, Google Chrome, but that has not stopped other developers like Opera to join the club. Also known scroll through the internet: Opera 11.50 for Windows (download), Mac (download) and Linux (download) was released today and now offers Web applications in the form of extensions.
Web applications are special sites written in HTML5, CSS and JavaScript that allows developers to treat the browser as a platform for coding. What it means to the end user, you can run games like Angry Birds, get weather updates in real time, or see the recommendations of your favorite sites on the fly.
Other changes in Opera 11.50 include interface and support for password synchronization setting in Opera Link. The engine improvements the new version include a wider support HTML5, including improvements also Session history and navigation and make it faster SVG CSS and more stable for loading images.
Through a small program, users can organize their books, photographs, his albums, videos as if it were a library. A good rating, excellent management, will take you directly to the document you need. A personal library. That’s what gives Library Thing. Come and read. Come and comment. Regístrense and enjoy the system.
Add what you’re reading or your whole library – is a simple catalog with the quality of a library. In addition, Library Thing connects you with people who read the same as you.
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With the growing impact of the tools and relationships between people involved in the so-called Web 2.0 or social Web, universities have been identified in these enormous potential for learning processes either directly to students, faculty and staff and the public general thinking of the extension, continuing education.
An example of the incorporation of Web 2.0 to the university, with very good results, is the project: The Open University’s Portfolio Of Web 2.0 Services that can serve as reference to other universities or educational institutions and libraries (as well as many are already doing) to implement such services. This project provides services iTunes, Face book, YouTube, Twitter, Open Learn, etc.