013: The Cloud

All of the Above: Design, Code, and Learning

English - February 24, 2015 08:00 - 43 minutes - 49.5 MB - ★★★★★ - 18 ratings
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We explore what the cloud really is, how all the things on the Internet are crazy, and weigh the pros and cons for education's reliance on third parties for their friendly neighborhood cloud necessities.

Episode 013: The Cloud

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Show Notes & LinksIntroMashable at 0:45

This fierce blizzard has made February Boston’s snowiest month ever

Sean: Tackling the Cloud (Starts at 2:09)Gizmodo at 2:37

What is “the Cloud” — and Where is it?

PC World at 3:12

iCloud vs. iTunes backups: The crucial differences that affect your data

Research Agenda in Cloud Technologies at 3:55Information Architects (iA) at 4:18

iCloud’s previous over-simplification of file hierarchy

The Economist at 4:55

Jennifer Lyn Morone incorporates herself

Quartz at 5:00

You own it, but Facebook can still use it

YouTube Help Center at 5:18

This new rule about paid product placements caused a stir

Ars Technica at 5:30

Old article about Facebook’s “deleted” photo challenge

Snapchat’s Corporate Blog at 5:45

How Snaps are Stored and Deleted

Jennifer Mack at 5:50

How the Library of Congress receives Twitter’s firehose, and what that really means for deleted tweets

A nice project that aims to help people with long Terms of Service agreements by giving them grades

Wikipedia at 6:30

Cloud computing

Apple at 6:50

Free hour-long workshops

Apple at 7:00

iCloud

iGeeksBlog at 7:20

Step 8: Do a satanic ritual

Apple Support at 7:42

My Photo Stream FAQ

Connected at 8:26

#25: The Microsoft of Ourselves

Apple at 8:40

iCloud Drive

Apple Support at 9:20

OS X Yosemite: Manage iCloud storage

YouTube at 10:19

Surprise.

Wikipedia at 11:00

The Rat Pack

Dropbox Help Center at 11:00

Packrat a.k.a. Extended Version History

Hacker News at 11:33

HIPPA-compliant servers are a can of worms

All Things D at 12:27

Those Dropbox checkmarks were hacks. Yosemite made them official. Some people don’t like it.

Stack Exchange at 13:30

Users need feedback… man.

OS X Human Interface Guidelines (HIG) at 13:30

Post-Show Follow-Up: There is some visual feedback when your Mac can’t connect to the Internet to upload the file to iCloud Drive, but it varies in helpfulness depending on your Finder view:

Icons List Columns Good ole’ Cover Flow Microsoft Office Online at 14:00Adobe Creative Cloud at 14:02iCloud Beta at 14:04

Now anyone can use Pages, Numbers, and Keynote for iCloud

Wired at 15:28

Mat Honan gets hacked — Apple and Amazon were accomplices

Medium at 15:31

Naoki Hiroshima’s @N gets hacked — PayPal and GoDaddy were accomplices

Sam: Cloud of Crazy Things (Starts at 17:04)IFTTT at 17:06

If this, then that — and that, and this, and those

IFTTT’s Do, Do, and Do at 17:14

We are manure, I mean.. mature

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Skedaddle as a Service