Smart.fm’s Facebook app may be smarter than you think
At first glance, a new Facebook application called Brain Speed seems like a fun way to test your knowledge of your friends — entertaining, but not much to it. However Smart.fm, the Japanese company behind the app, says Brain Speed is just a demonstration of how its technology can process structured data, and that it’s building more powerful learning tools using the same technology.
Brain Speed pulls in data from your friends’ user profiles, then automatically… Continue Reading
Cerego releases iKnow! social language learning platform
Web learning is taking a leap forward today as Cerego releases a social learning platform that lets people learn languages together. The iKnow! platform, unveiled in September at the DEMOfall conference, goes live today with 188 languages.
It’s one of a number of Web 2.0 meets distance-learning concepts that have been funded in the past few years. But it may prove to be very powerful for people because it ties the learning process to personally-relevant content
The… Continue Reading