links for 2007-08-17

• Miles Berry :: Blog :: Moodle: probably UK schools’ favourite VLE
  (tags: moodle vle learning elearning)
• : Becta’s big challenge on eStrategy – new survey
  Excellent overview of BESA report on Personalised Learning in Schools
  (tags: moodle vle learning school online)
• If you dig straight down, where will you end up?
  This is very cool, found via www.userfriendly.com – most of the UK get’s very wet just SE of New Zealand, parts of Scotland end up closer to Antartica (which explains the weather)
  (tags: application cool education entertainment mapping mashup google maps)
• GigaOM Skype Groans & SIPphone Gains «
  Indeed – downloading Gizmo Project as I type…
  (tags: voip skype gizmo)
• The Joy of Flex » Blog Archive » 360|Flex day 3: The Ribbit Phone Component with Charles Freedman
  Phone calling from within Flex – all you need is Flash Player 9 – how cool is that (and how scared Skype given current outage)?
  (tags: flash voip skype flex)
• Vancouver: Canada’s Greatest Start-Up City? | Montreal Tech Watch
  Great post about Vancouver and lots more in comments about other great Candian cities in whic to start-up your next venture – including a discussion about the weather!
  (tags: canada vc venturecapital finance startups entrepreneurship funding)
• TechStars Demo Day – Class of 2007
  More early stage startups to watch – and lots of learning about the process that got them there.
  (tags: techcrunch web2.0 techstars entrepreneur innovation startups)
• Minimo project page
  New mobile browser based on mozilla?
  (tags: ajax application browser computing firefox mozilla pda software mobile pocketpc)