elearning2.0 linklog

eBay's Developer site - using Plone for connecting with its development community (though the community codebase is collabnet-powered instead)

GreaseMonkey developer-friendly script to allow testing in local files - an issue that can make developing AJAX applications a pain: when testing your pages, you need to host them in the same domain as your services.

OSXGuide.com is a community-driven, interactive forum for learning about MacOS X. We offer regular doses of how-to's, tutorials, and other information-packed articles we called "OSXGuides." In addition, we offer uniquely informative software and hardware

(it's free, it hosts your photos, its got RSS, AJAX, and lots of other goodies) - and scoble has just switched to it for OPML export :o) DABU is still beta software, but you're welcome to make a site, customize it, and upload your photos.

Now we get it. We’ve created a directory, in OPML format, of every TechCrunch company profile. Dave has put the TechCrunch directory up on Scripting News. The directory updates on Scripting News automatically as we update the OPML file. All of our conte

HTML view of the directory, in OPML format, of every TechCrunch company profile. Inlcudes link to download the OPML for offline use ( eg in OmniOutliner )

I think it's extremely simple: community sites are aggregations of people who are interested in what each other has to say. Actually achieving a community site is anything but simple

ARCast is an Architecture Podcast that my team has developed. The premiere episode focuses on the future of WS* and interoperability. Participants include Chris Haddad, Roger Sessions, Jeff Schlimmer, Dare Obasanjo and Michele Leroux Bustamante.

be great if it delivered podcast RSS [ "Slawesome is a really… awesome service that actually lets you record your voice without the need of software and send it to someone so they can hear you for free. You are given the spotlight for two minutes as you

I set out in 1988 to make an outliner that was also a programming language and object database. Now, in 2005, all the power of this idea is available in a download that's about the size of a 15 minute podcast.

eHub is a constantly updated list of web applications, services, resources, blogs or sites with a focus on next generation web (web 2.0), social software, blogging, Ajax, Ruby on Rails, location mapping, open source, folksonomy, design and digital media s

Yahoo! Site Explorer APIs provide access to information about your site from the Yahoo! Site Explorer service. These APIs help you better understand your traffic and usage -- querying for the pages in the Yahoo! index and the sites linking into a site. Th

[see also the API docs] Site Explorer allows you to explore all the web pages indexed by Yahoo! Search. View the most popular pages from any site, dive into a comprehensive site map, and find pages that link to that site or any page.

a lightweight computer data interchange format. JSON has the advantage, over XML, as a data interchange format in that it can be trivially parsed, by JavaScript, with JavaScript's built in eval() procedure. (This is important because of JavaScript's ubiqu

Due to the apparent x^2 / exponential dependence of JavaScript / JSON processing time on the number of records in IE (see Fig. 2) it is no wonder that as we move to more records the JSON total average processing time increases in the same manner. Therefor

I’ll be explaining to a bunch of journalists and other attendees what they most need to know about weblogs, feeds, wikis, and podcasts – just the basics. I’ll focus mainly on the “so what” of it all.

[with links] I first profiled a Web 2.0 office in early September and since then more web-based office products have surfaced. Peter Rip posted recently that he's now "bumped into an alpha or beta Web-incarnation for every Microsoft desktop product". He s

does not seem to index many feeds yet - email urls for their consideration ... AJAXian lookahead search results

With digg, users submit stories for review, but rather than allowing an editor to decide which stories go on the homepage, the users do

pretty smart - not only rehosts, but only delivers changes to clients, not complete feeds

BlogPulse is a window into the blogosphere…open it daily to discover the people, issues, blogs, posts, commentaries, tidbits and news that bloggers are discussing

Here’s an explanation of podcasting, and some links to some good environmental podcasts, for the people attending my Saturday workshop at the SEJ conference

This article is an attempt to clarify just what we mean by Web 2.0. the term "Web 2.0" has clearly taken hold, with more than 9.5 million citations in Google. But there's still a huge amount of disagreement about just what Web 2.0 means, with some people

[make sure to try the 'other color pickers' linked below main interface] "This is either something that designers and photo editors have been waiting their whole lives for, or one of those "I've created this because the Web lets me do it" kinds of things.

Some examples and demo implementations of the Google APIs are available below. This site introduces Google Web APIs (Google APIs) as an instrument and playground for webometric analyses.

clean, comprehensive, one printable web-page, covers 57 to 05

valuable source of reports on internet usage & trends in US, eg 'Teens and Technology', 'Health Information Online', 'Spam and Phishing'

SynchroEdit is a browser-based simultaneous multiuser editor, a form of same-time, different-place groupware. SynchroEdit is an open source project -- we are making available our source code and creating an open protocol, not a proprietary service.

my hypothesis about the cognitive process that kicks into place when we tag an item, and how this differs than the process of categorizing. In doing so, my hope is to explain the increasing popularity of tagging, and offer some ideas regarding the design

Reduce, Reuse, Recycle = [solve a specific problem, start as simple as possible,design for humans first, machines second, reuse building blocks from widely adopted standards,modularity / embeddability, enable and encourage decentralized and distributed de

We've been making a lot of updates and tweaks to our backend, as described at the beginning of the month. Most of these changes have been around speed and performance, and I hope that you've noticed the difference. We've also been listening to a lot of yo

Tantek’s been at the Web Essentials Conference in Sydney; audio from his talks: The Elements of Meaningful XHTML, Microformats: Evolving the Web.

(alternative to the Web2.0 conference :o) We will meet to discuss line breaks, spacer gifs, and the ability to launch links in a new browser window

...will build an e-learning 'international gateway' and 'international interface' for e-learning in Australia and the 2005 Australian Flexible Learning Framework (2005 Framework) in particular. It will strategically position the Australian vocational educ

The answer, Fletcher believes, can be found in the Bloglines APIs, which enable Bloglines to act as a feed cache as a way to insulate content providers from having to deal with high bandwidth consumption. "The individual publisher wanting to put out an RS

By using NetNewsWire’s Bloglines subscriptions feature, you can have the best of both worlds: the ability to read feeds from multiple computers while also being able to use NetNewsWire and get all the benefits of a desktop aggregator.

He's working with FeedDemon, Blogbot, and NNWire to support a new open standard that reduces RSS bandwidth demands. More here and here. Release in extended entry. Way to go, Mark!

very popular, free social aggregator: subscirbe, share, search, publish

Writeboards are sharable, web-based text documents that let you save every edit, roll back to any version, and easily compare changes. Use Writeboard to write solo or to sollborate with others

a continually-updated service that gets better the more people use it, consuming and remixing data from multiple sources, including individual users, while providing their own data and services in a form that allows remixing by others, creating network ef

Google has introduced its long awaited blog search service, becoming the first major search engine to offer full-blown blog and feed search capabilities

Yahoo's announcement comes less than a month after Google's release of its much antipated blog search. The Google engine, while fast and competent, has drawn few raves. (Here's my review) Blog search is a big chance for number-two Yahoo to steal the march

“blogoposium” [a word I created] allows those in the blogosphere to simultaneously blog on the same topic (OK - the word is new, the idea is not). It leverages the power of tagging and social bookmarking to provide an easy way for everyone to not only

Since this blogoposium is the first of many that I hope to “host”, I have created a Technorati tag called blogoposium1. Simply tag your post with blogoposium1 to get involved in this blogoposium.

sing del.icio.us (although I have been blinking lately), tag relevant items for this blogoposium to “blogoposium1″. I will be monitoring this the blogoposium1 tag and may highlight some of the more interesting thoughts.

Blog Flux MapStats is the coolest way of tracking your website visitors. Not only does it provide the normal statistics and graphs, we have incorporated the system into Google Maps! Instantly see where your latest visitors are coming from, and find out wh

my main reasons for replying are to point out just two things: (a) a way to approximate 'repository' now using very simple and widely available tools, and (b) work that I've started planning for 'middleweight' shared tagging, community tagging, and semi-c

[links to ongoing definition work] Richard MacManus summarizes this week’s evolution on the web 2.0 definitional thinking, inlcuding Tim O’Reilly’s important essay on the subject.

[via techcrunch] John Musser creates a great visual matrix of current mashups on Programmable Web. Let’s see how long he can keep it updated before it is simply too complicated to be usable. Great stuff.

This site is dedicated to the growing volume of web applications out there. As I come across new web applications, I will keep adding them to the site. Meanwhile, do share with us your favorite web applications if you have any!

Mike Arrington thinks Tim O'Reilly's Web 2.0 meme map should be simpler. As Dave said, "it's hard work to make things really simple" and I'm certainly finding that to be the case in writing a book about Web 2.0.

what do I get out of this "Web 2.0", you ask? The advantages of using the Web as a platform is that the services become more social and collaborative. Web 2.0 provides services that people can contribute to as well as mix and match. Another advantage of

The Open Content Alliance (OCA) represents the collaborative efforts of a group of cultural, technology, nonprofit, and governmental organizations from around the world that will help build a permanent archive of multilingual digitized text and multimedia

Yahoo, The Internet Archive and several other organizations announced the formation of the Open Content Alliance (OCA) to make thousands of books, multimedia files and other materials freely searchable and accessible online.

This piece is based on two talks I gave in the spring of 2005 -- one at the O'Reilly ETech conference in March, entitled "Ontology Is Overrated", and one at the IMCExpo in April entitled "Folksonomies & Tags: The rise of user-developed classification."

by Carlo M. Cipolla, Professor of Economics, UC Berkeley, in Whole Earth Review, Spring 1987

...to me the heart of Web 2.0 is the user. The enduring lesson of all of the social media and emerging technologies is that we've created an a la carte, do it yourself platform where users can engage with sophisticated forms of search, feeds, metadata and

For this year's list of worst design mistakes, I decided to try something new: I asked readers of my newsletter to nominate the usability problems they found the most irritating.

Reading about the Cognitive Analysis of Tagging reminded me of some interesting uses of tags that I've observed on Simpy. Here are three users who make interesting and very different use of tag support in Simpy:

After some digging through Simpy's backend, I found that Simpy users are quite dilligent about tagging. 98.73% of all links in Simpy are tagged! However, this has to be taken with a grain of salt, as Simpy let's users upload their browser bookmarks, and i

$1/$2/$3 for low/medium/high resolution stock photography | It's free to sign up and there are never any subscription fees. Start downloading, or upload your own photographs to sell to the largest design community in the world.

Welcome to AjaxPatterns.org, an Ajax resource and home of the in-progress draft for the upcoming "Ajax Design Patterns" text (O'Reilly).

This Web Portal supports the EU-Project 'MICaLL' : a Socrates partnership of eleven organisations from four EU-countries and contribute to the development of pedagogy and practice based methodology for network-based language teaching and learning.

Just as the web services world has quickly discovered that they need identity to secure their services, so too will the Web 2.0 world quickly (i hope) discover that identity is at the core of what they're working on.

The problem is that the onload event fires after all page content has loaded (including images and other binary content). If your page includes lots of images then you may see a noticeable lag before the page becomes active. What we want is a way to deter

I want to be able to search for events naturally with queries like nyc this weekend, etc. Since upcoming.org has an API, I was actually able to build a proof of concept event search that supports such queries. My example only works on a few cities, but I

no developer can remember all the different functions, options, tags, etc. that exist. Documentation can be cumbersome at times, thats why I like cheat sheets. They are quick references that feature the most commonly forgotten things on a specific topic.

Today I found excellent evidence that the cross browser event handler script addEvent() can be harmful if it's used without intimate knowledge of the differences between the W3C and Microsoft event registration models.

My recent entry addEvent() considered harmful generated many interesting comments and technical pointers. It's clear that the original addEvent() function doesn't quite cut the cake any more, and it's equally clear that we badly need a function such as th

Aral quite rightly mentioned that what people are starting to do now using AJAX, Flash developers were doing 3-4 years ago. As such, the Flash developer community had learnt a lot from their early mistakes, the same mistakes AJAX developers are making now

I never cease to be amazed at what problems can be solved with pure CSS. Here are 20 CSS techniques, tips and tricks that you may find handy:

IT Conversations podcast with Jason Fried of 37 Signals, on Lessons learned while building basecamp. Jason has a lot of good advice for building simple, and solid software. Here are some notes

Gorgeous 58-page pdf magazine covering techniques in AJAX, CSS, design, and biz web2.0, with downloadablee support files. The first issue of Treehouse magazine is now unleashed. Go forth, download and be merry. If you like what you see, please consider g

YA relatedness-map visualisation tool, but over closed metadata sets not open services...AquaBrowser Library compares a user's search terms to the metadata in your catalog to create a visual map (a "word cloud") of associations or overviews of areas of in

The popular to-do networking site. Discover what's important, make it happen, share your progress. Find your 43 things... 94,372 people in 2,871 cities are doing 211,185 things including…

JotSpot Live allows you, your colleagues or clients to take notes together on the same web page at the same time. Imagine everyone simultaneously typing and editing the same Microsoft Word document and you'll get the idea. Get started now — Sign up for

An extensive description of the various weblog APIs, including their pitfalls. By the architect of ecto

Finds by tag only thus few false-positives. Seems to be actively harvesting RSS from social bookmarking etc sites: search for tags in Posts Bookmarks Photos Podcasts Videos More

By using Web Standards I'm able to iteratively add to the prototype. But by using Ajax I'm able to easily add a level of interaction to my prototypes. f a site like a story, it unfolds the deeper you get into it. The only way you can reveal how they story

This is a presentation I gave to the ITS Learning reference group in Oslo today, on the broad topic of closed vs open systems, and the prospects for the future. [ppt] If you have problems with the Powerpoint, I've also got an archive of JPEGs available: p

One of the minor holy grails of XHTML and CSS is to produce a single, semantically logical ordered list that wraps into vertical columns.CSS and the browsers that support it don’t yet provide us with “vertical wrap,” so we have to augment basic list

For nearly a decade, web portals have been so successful that there’s been very little innovation. That’s about to change. Portals 2.0 are on the horizon, and everyone’s starting to pay attention: media companies, portals, consumer electronics maker

There are reports that AOL has acquired Weblogs, Inc. and will officially announce it later this week. The acquisition price, including earnouts, is reported to be $20-35 million. Weblogs, Inc., founded by Jason Calacanis and Brian Alvey was launched jus

Zimbra is an open source technology and community for building the next-generation messaging and collaboration server and client. The Zimbra community is committed to innovation for both the administrator and the end-user as well as to compatibility with

I'm writing Greasemonkey scripts to parse all the known microformats. I have two done already: hcard, rellicense. hCalendar is next. I've already done XFN parsing too, which is part

With less fanfare than MIT, Rice University has also been promoting a model for free, shared information that could be used by faculty members and students anywhere in the world. But the Rice program — Connexions — is different in key respects. It is

How to use the Connexions document template in Microsoft Word to create modules that can be easily imported and converted to the Connexions CNXML format.

I spent the day at the Canadian Heritage Information Network engaged in a lengthy and free-wheeling discussion of the concepts surrounding E-Learning 2.0 Although the PowerPoint Slides for my presentation today are basically the same as those I used in Ed

In this 6th article in the EDUCHAOS series Marie Jasinski explores the conative domain - having the will, striving, intentionality and determination to achieve a goal. Through an innovator’s soliloquy, discover why “going conative” is a critical i

Very simple way to get a meeting date agreed among busy people. 1. Select possible dates; 2. Email participants; 3. Monitor progress

Flickr Backup is a utility that allows you to download the pictures you have uploaded to Flickr back down to your computer for personal backup or restore.

extensive and expanding annotated list of Flickr tools, with some tips for newbies

Yahoo's recently acquired photo-sharing service, Flickr, on Monday rolled out two major new tools designed to bring more context and relevance to members' manifold images

FlickrJS is a wrapper to use the Flickr API from javascript through xmlhttprequest's. Or, in a more fancy way, using AJAX techniques to get data without reload the whole page. By including only a .js file you get access to the whole Flicrk API. You don't

ClearType improves readability on color LCD displays with a digital interface, such as those in laptops and high-quality flat panel displays. Use this online ClearType Tuner to turn on and tune your Windows XP ClearType settings. I just turned on my sett

Every hour, 10x10 scans the RSS feeds of several leading international news sources, and performs an elaborate process of weighted linguistic analysis to find the top 100 words, along with 100 corresponding images, culled from the source news stories.

Flickr Importr is a tool for Windows that allows you to upload images to Flickr and automatically add them to groups and sets. Additionally it can import tags from a variety of third party image applications. Quick overview of features:

jUploadr is a cross platform Flickr uploader. Currently it runs on Windows Linux and OS X. It allows you to set all properties of a photo before you upload it to Flickr. It also supports batch editing, so you can make short work of uploading a bunch of fi

We're getting confirmation that the rumors about Verisign buying Dave Winer's Weblogs.com are true. The price is $2 million. What Verisign wants with Weblogs is another matter. Weblogs was one of the first, if not the first, centralized ping servers that

[weblogs.com] prompted me to review my understanding of the blogosphere's notification infrastructure...blogging today about the weblogs.com/VeriSign deal, Dave Winer suggests that VeriSign can help bring order to the chaos

careful, thorough report on awareness and uptake of RSS; Data for this study was collected through an Internet-based methodology using the Ipsos U.S.

Though not bundled with Gmail as many people believed it would be, Google hooks Gmail into the RSS sorting and reading interface, as well as Blogger entry posting. Furthermore, Google search technology powers feed discovery. So, the seeds of added value a

FAQ for google's new (beta) TTW RSS reader...Google Reader makes it easier to keep up with your ever-expanding reading list of content from across the web.

Google just released a web-based RSS client called Google Reader. you use your Google Account to log-in and store your personal settings. Google Readers puts an emphasis on search When the service is up to speed again I’m sure other online feed readers,

Should we now assume that traditional media companies are willing to pay between $500 and $1000 per site that links into a blog? Not quite. The incremental value is in the size of the network and the underlying tools

The conference is over now and so here's a summary of my blog output from it. I was pumping out the real-time notes over the last 3 days! I didn't have much time for analysis - my brain was full to the brim just absorbing everything. I intend to dive into

What's in a Tag?,VC 2.0,Developer EcoSystem,Applications 2.0: AJAX and Beyond,New Ideas in Search,Open Source Infrastructure,Identity 2.0,Video 2.0,Strategic Blogging: Avoiding Death by Opinion,Data,AttentionTrust,Mash-ups 2.0

'official' list of Featured Articles, Press Coverage, Weblogs, and Podcasts

TechCrunch is a weblog dedicated to obsessively profiling and reviewing every newly launched web 2.0 business, product and service. We are part of the Archimedes Ventures Network of Companies. More information.

Unlike Bloglines, which uses frames to avoid page refreshes, Google Reader uses Ajax. The reader is visually stunning and at first glance appeared to be a contender. However, upon further review we’ve found what we consider to be some serious structural

[note category browser in sidebar, as planned for knotes] Our OPML experiment with Dave Winer (listen to Dave’s podcast here too) has captured the attention of a bunch of people, and new applications to leverage directories of blogs are being created by

The Web 2.0 conference Launchpad workshop where a dozen companies presented in an hour and a half.

Here’s the second set of companies that presented at the Web 2.0 conference Launchpad workshop.

googlemap for the british rail station in Bangor, Gwynedd

Mozile or Mozilla Inline Editor is an in-browser, context-sensitive, XHTML editor that allows a user to edit all or just specific editable sections of any XHTML page from the comfort of his own browser. It can act as the client-side of a content-editing s

I'm just wondering: how could we build an editor in Mozilla that was flexible enough to switch from one language to another on the fly? (The problem I see is that there are language-specific editors, but not a central application you could add XML langua

XPCOM is an acronym for "Cross Platform COM". It has come out of the Mozilla project, which maintains the main XPCOM project pages. The Python XPCOM package is a set of Python bindings to XPCOM, allowing a Python programmer to both use and implement XPCOM

Python Cross-Platform COM (PyXPCOM): Bindings between Python and XPCOM.