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Links for 2012-01-24 [del.icio.us]

• Udacity - Educating the 21st Century
  New online education platform - “We believe university-level education can be both high quality and low cost. Using the economics of the Internet, we’ve connected some of the greatest teachers to hundreds of thousands of students all over the world. “
• Neiio Contact
  A new contact management site. Not sure if I need or want this, but some may find it useful. Via Netted by the Webbys: “The site pulls contacts from Facebook, Linked In, Outlook, and Gmail and allows you to sort them into custom groups. Once built, those groups can be exported and uploaded to email accounts, cell phones, and address books. If creating groups is too much work, use the site’s Clever Groups tool to automatically sort contacts based on the links between them (think family, college friends, co-workers, etc.).”
• YouTube - One Hour Per Second
  What happens in the ‘hour per second’ of video uploaded to YouTube?
• Focus on the User
  Fascinating search experiment: How much better would social search be if Google surfaced results from all across the web? The results speak for themselves. We created a tool that uses Google’s own relevance measure—the ranking of their organic search results—to determine what social content should appear in the areas where Google+ results are currently hardcoded. All of the information in this demo comes from Google itself, and all of the ranking decisions are made by Google’s own algorithms. No other services or APIs are accessed.