del.icio.us bookmarks for Wednesday March 22 2006
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DiggLicious.com - a cool blend of digg.com and del.icio.us [ popularity displays ]
digg.com is a social news site and del.icio.us is a social bookmarking or tagging site. Below you can observe a live view of the action on these two sites without having to reload your browser
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BlogTalk Reloaded - the conference is scheduled for Oct 2-3, 2006. It will be held in Vienna, Austria
"yes, it'll be on Social Software beyond weblogs but surely it'll be about blogs too... will address researchers, developers, the community of users, the business and educational world and everyone interested in the phenomenon and the tools of social soft
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A Report on Learning Object Repositories. 28 March 2002. Review and Recommendations for a Pan-Canadian Approach to Repository Implementation in Canada
61 page pdf report including links to what were then interesting projects. for CANARIE Inc. Study Team David Porter Joanne Curry Bill Muirhead Nick Galan
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Experiments in presentation technology | Lawrence Lessig
I've been looking for a simple way to make presentations that link my slides with my voice. I may have made some progress. Phil Pickering suggested (comment 7) the idea at Doug Kaye's Blogarithms. I implemented it, using Keynote and iMovie, as follows
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code4lib session snatcher : [ideas and prelim code, using timings and S5] how to unify audio with presentation software in connection to podcasting
wanted to record a session while it was happening, and somehow have it synced with the slides automatically. Stir in some ideas from Lawrence Lessig, Dan Chudnov.. and I think I have the pieces coming together for a different kind of presentation softwar
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Carnegie Mellon LSAL : Learning Systems Architecture Laboratory: has developed the concept of a Learning Services Architecture and the Learning Services Stack as a framework for developing the next generation of learning technology systems. We're in the p
The era of monolithic Learning Technology Systems is over. Rather than building large, closed systems, the current focus is on flexible architectures that provide interoperability of components and learning content, and that rely on open standards for inf
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Collaborative Filtering strikes back (this time with tags) - "One of the roadblocks to collaborative filtering is user input, some expression of interest by a user that you can hook into. Tags provide such a hook. On the other hand, tags desperately need
What is collaborative filtering? Technically, it's an algorithm for matching people with similar interests for the purpose of making recommendations. In non-technical terms, it's a system for helping people find relevant content. Unlike search, where you
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A social analysis of tagging (or how tagging transforms the solitary browsing experience into a social one) | Rashmi Sinha's weblog
Why do people tag? For many, tagging is for sharing their own information and watching others. Even if you tag mostly to remember your own stuff, it is difficult to remain untouched by the presence of others. This article will explore how tagging lets us
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Mark Stubbs on UCAS and e-Portfolio: the Admission Officers' perspective; preview of XCRI web service demonstrator; and Amsterdam: JISC-SURF e-Portfolio | The E-Learning Framework - 2006-02-17 Amsterdam
[+ other repts]..UK admissions officers gather stakeholder perspectives on e-Portfolio.. strong support for the concept of a smart, non-monolithic course documen data entered once, extracted and transformed to meet the needs of different audiences
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ReportTool--a proposal and a working prototype :: ReportTool is a simple web application for creating, editing and viewing reports on students' work.
Almost every university department has to create, track and distribute reports on students' progress. It's much easier to do this on the web than on paper. Some departments and universities already have their own applications to solve this problem, most d
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Scuttle - open-source social bookmarking, supports most of del.icio.us API
Scuttle supports most of the del.icio.us API. Almost all of the neat tools made for that system can be modified to work with Scuttle instead. If you find a tool that won't let you change the API address, ask the creator to add this setting. You never know
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Read/WriteWeb: Microcontent Design, Part 1 : This is the first post in a series in which I will explore microcontent design
..involves: microchunking your content, taking advantage of open standards, employing microformats, letting users subscribe to all kinds of RSS feeds, freeing your content via APIs and other means, designing for re-use of information, monetizing it, and m
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VideoEgg : Making online video idiot-proof : This startup wants to make posting video on the Web as easy as e-mailing a photo :: CNN-Money On the Launchpad: VideoEgg tries to crack a new market - Feb. 27, 2006
[on viedoEgg March 20 kaunch].. Posting photos to the Web has become as easy as sending e-mail, thanks to websites like Flickr and Picasa. But digital video, despite its growing prevalence online, is not yet as idiot-proof. VideoEgg has plans to change th
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Tag teams | Lorcan Dempsey's weblog: The more I see of tagging the more like a conversation it seems.
it struck me that following tags is like conversation in some ways: in each case, you get hints and pointers, you fork in different directions, you are at the intersection of a variety of interests, and you are woven into a fabric of reference which may h
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Netvibes launch a 1 GB personal web storage module ! - Netvibes.com Blog :: Now you have a 1 GB hard drive available all the time on your desktop. And if you add some MP3s you can clic on them, they will play automatically
This module made in partnership with box.net and is a part of an ambitious projet to build a web 2.0 service ecosystem. If you own a box.net account you can log in but if you don't you can in one click create one automatically. No more hassle and multiple
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Library 2.0 - The challenge of disruptive innovation : A Talis white paper. Paul Miller Technology Evangelist [Version: 1.0], February 2006
Library 2.0 is a concept of a very different library service, geared towards the needs and expectations of today’s library users. In this vision, the library makes information available This paper builds on those core ideas, proposes solutions and c
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panlibus: Talis Source ..Talis have announced a new name in resource sharing and with it comes a new direction. Talis Source will launch on 19th May 2006, when the current contract to provide a system for The Combined Regions expires. The announcement com
pitching a new commercial product apparently a bit open in response to library2.0 trends.."Library software vendors (including Talis) will not be insulated from...disruptive trends. Vendors need to recognise that value is shifting. Libraries and those tha
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Microsoft Drops the Office Open Standard Ball | eWeek Nov 29, 2005: Microsoft's open-standard Office XML format announcement may have proved to be a dud; does not address the issues that open-source advocates have voiced previously against the license
this didn't happen: "The new license that will accompany the Open XML format with the standards organization will go well beyond traditional standards licensing and will be very positive for the vast majority of developers, even open-source developers."
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The Evolution of Cooperation under Cheap Pseudonyms (PDF)
analysis of the impact of cheap and available pseudonyms on the evolution of cooperation. Specifically, they analyze the behavior of the well known tit-for-tat (TFT) and probablistic tit-for-tat (PTFT) strategies in evolutionary game theory when players h
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CCTE Distributed Research : Social bookmarking portal for the Communication, Computing and Technology in Education program (Teachers College, Columbia Univ.)
experimental co-tagging / shared linklog portal for a teachers' college. some v good and well-described links on web + edu + systems
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Review of "Emerging Trends for Teaching and Learning" A NERCOMP event (10/27/05) | Academic Commons
in educational technology, there have always been "emerging trends.".. at this juncture, the range of possibilities on the horizon is particularly rich. There was a heightened sense of excitement, creativity, and possibility in the room that I continued t
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Checking Out eSnips | TechCrunch : although eSnips does provide 1 GB of free storage for users, they clearly are up to something else as well. Given the social aspects of the service, eSnips is really a content-centric social network.
users upload media files of any type, tag them, and either keep them private, share with other or make them public. But eSnips is also allowing bookmarking of web content, from a whole page to a line or paragraph. Others can comment on each piece of media
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Bug 330884 - When different users on one system choose to save or not save passwords for sites, any other user can see sites they not only saved passwords for but can also see what other users have been saving/never saving passwords for.
sad but funny exchange between bug report and analysts (it turns out that firefox is not flawed),, "This privacy flaw has caused my fiancé and I to break-up after having dated for 5 years..when he went to log-in under his dating sites (jdate.com, swingl
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PurpleSlurple - PurpleSlurple is a transcoding service that reformats Web pages on-the-fly to create granular addressability in document elements on EXISTING Web pages.
PurpleSlurple transcodes Web pages by inserting anchor tags , which appear as Purple Numbers, at each structural tag,
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- , that occurs on the page, thus making each element addressable via its named anchor. PurpleSlurple is AVAILABLE TODA
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Netvibes to Announce Seed Financing Today | TechCrunch: Netvibes, a very popular Ajax home page product that I said was a Web 2.0 Company I couldn’t live without, will announce seed funding by Index Ventures, Marc Andreessen, Pierre Chappaz (founder of
Over a million home pages have been created on Netvibes, and the service is available in a ton of languages. They are working on an API now that will allow for third party widgets to be created as well. Netvibes is headquartered in Paris and London. My o
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Q-Phrase: Next Generation Search - commercial desktop research tool for windows & os-x / metasearch engine / document analyser
[mm evaluating soon]"ConceptQ is the first personal research and discovery tool that enables users to efficiently analyze web search results as well as identify the most relevant Keywords, Phrases and Topics within a document.
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Quece : As a beta user, you will have access to Quece to search the web using your thoughts, not keywords. We are confident that after spending a few minutes with Quece, you will not want to go back to traditional search engines.
“Search Like You Think” Approach; Conversational “Personal Search Advisor”; One-Page Result
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WickedlysmartMain [Head First books from the Creating Passionate Users folks ] If you want to learn tough technical topics in the fastest possible way, stay tuned for more details coming soon.
currently 4 "brain friendly" tech-training books available - award-winning and prominently endorsed - ought to be worth tracking if the writing quality, common-sense and cognitive-load-reducing know-how are like their blogging :o)
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