United Nations Free Online University

The UN Global Alliance for Information and Communications Technology and Development (GAID) has released plans for a tuition free (non-profit) online university program to offer higher education for the masses.

The actual scheme was was opened up for admission almost 2 weeks ago, without any promotion or big announcements but has already signed up some 200 eager students from 52 countries! Now that the word is officially out I'm hoping that more students sign up for this great opportunity whatever their background.

The online University program intends on using free and opensourced tools and teaching materials (the way it should be really) and P2P to deliver the materials to students.

Check out http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=30848 for some more information.

Chrome Extensions

So it looks like Google are getting round to incorporating extensions into Chrome. I cant wait for the results to be honest. 

Update on Monday, June 1, 2009 at 02:29PM by Paul

Check out http://dev.chromium.org/developers/design-documents/extensions for some more information on Chrome Developer Extension program. 

Update on Monday, June 1, 2009 at 02:35PM by Paul

http://dev.chromium.org/developers/design-documents/extensions/howto

A Message from TPB

Palm WebOS details

Palm has just posted a rough cut guide to the inner workings of their latest WebOS (the operating system powering their new Palm Pre) on their developer network site. It Looks very interesting stuff quite honestly. It will also be very interesting to see how the Palm pre faires against the already established Apple iphone and the Andriod phones in terms of adoption and application development.

Google Chrome Running on MacOSX!!

It looks like the Google Chrome team are making some good progress getting Chrome up and running for the Mac (something I have been waiting for since the initial Windows release). The guys over at the big G have moved past the initial layout and Webkit compatibility testing and onto getting a Coca based UI up and running. Its also nice to hear that major functionality such as the task spawning and crash recovery are getting worked into this early build.

One of the best things about Chrome on Windows is its unique sandboxed environment and the way it handles web pages as separate processes in memory (Check out the Google Chrome Comic book for a run down of some of its more notable features). This approach to browser process management makes Chrome one of the most stable applications I have used. Its nice to see that they are employing the same approach with Chrome on the Mac.

Check out their progress and sneak peak updates here