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Squidoo Homepage [ as of Dec 8 2005, Squidoo is in public beta ]
[ now ] ..'anyone can visit Squidoo, find lenses, claim lenses, and build their own. We're thrilled to open our doors to the public, and to let everyone use the platform that you've been helping us test and improve these last few weeks.
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OASIS SOA Reference Model (SOA-RM) TC : Under the auspices of the OASIS standards consortium, a group of end users, software vendors, and other interested parties came together to help define a reference model for Service Oriented Architecture (SOA
v nicely written..'SOA itself is used in multiple contexts within the software industry with confusing, differing and even conflicting definitions. How can SOA be described in an architectural manner that is abstract of all implementations?
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JISC IE Architecture - Distributed Systems - UKOLN, Andy Powell, Last updated: 28-Feb-2005 : This document presents the JISC Information Environment (IE) as a 'reference model'
The JISC Information Environment allows the end-user to discover, access, use and publish digital and physical resources as part of their learning and research activities. Discovery to delivery (D2D) is the process by which an end-user moves from identify
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Key indicator for a bubble | Epeus' epigone - Kevin Marks weblog :: When expensively educated, fashionable young graduates start showing up in your field, you're in a bubble.
The trouble with this indicator is that if you aren't looking for it it seem like the natural order of things .. [but] the finely-tuned herd instincts that get selected for in the Ivy League or the posher UK universities make them flock to the latest bubb
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Web 2.0 and Scale | Danny Ayers, Raw Blog :: Caching is one of the key features that has enabled Web 1.0 to scale. The current caching architecture is agnostic - it works now for human-oriented documents, there’s no reason it shouldn’t work for machin
If the Web is the platform, then as much of the data that isn’t entirely application-specific must be exposed in such a way to allow it to be devolved to other parts of the Web. ..for the system to be robust, there will be more work on caching, and less
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Leveraging the Web: Caching | mnot’s Web log: After a prototype using Squid, we got buy-in to go further. The app had some pretty specific requirements; for example, each and every request had to be authenticated, but we still needed to get the PDF from
very useful case study, clearly written: big company wants fast access to big files from many locations and were quoted tons for a star network. 'why not use web cache' - indeed.
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rssread - YubNub.org : command Uses Google's RSS feed reader to read an RSS feed.: http://www.google.com/reader/preview/*/feed/%s[no url encoding]
could be very useful as part of other web interfaces?..'eg Reading a slashdot feed given the feed url: rssread http://rss.slashdot.org/Slashdot/slashdot / Using a feed that has already been YubNubed: rssread {url rssslashdot} rssread {url rssbbcnewsuk}
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JotSpot Tracker - Stop emailing those Excel "tracking" spreadsheets. Simply copy and paste to publish them as an interactive web site. It only takes 30 seconds Sign up now to try Tracker for FREE
Copy and paste from Excel, or choose from readymade templates | Share it securely on the web | End "dueling versions" | See calendar and map views | Break out of the cells | Add file attachments, notes or anything else on the web | Your data is yours
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xFolk Veg-o-matic Alpha | The Community Engine Blog: a pre-alpha version of a greasemonkey script, aka xfolk-veg-o-matic, that takes advantage of this architecture. The script scans a web page for all instances of xFolk microformatted content and adds wid
This post explains how to install and use the alpha version of the script that will be packaged with Reblog 2.0 Alpha.For those unfamiliar with xFolk, it is a microformat for tagging links and creating distributed social bookmarking systems.
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Developing with Ning | The Community Engine Blog: Fred Wilson has suggested that Ning might lower the cost of entry for point web applications, i.e., those designed to fulfill a specific need very well. In its current state, I don't think so.
[Ning-ing requires coding]..'Everything else required modifying code intensive php pages. Examining these, it quickly became apparent that I was going to have to spend some time with the API documentation to make any real progress beyond showing Ann Arbor
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The Community Engine Blog: Emerging Practice Archives
the main blog is useful too, but especially this department - frequent posts tracking development and opinion of social / learning / 2.0 software and of emerging patterns of use and practice..'The community engine helps organizations thrive in the interne
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A Tag Based Learning Remix | Community Engine Blog: We attempt to crack the class participation nut by mandating participation in an online self-organizing space. Our aggregation mechanism is based on the tags participants provide for their contributions
project at Michigan's Ross School of Business that is designed to remove classroom limits on student participation - simple pinciples:;Require everyone participate.;Move most class participation online.;Structure online participation to be self-organizing
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Remixable Web: Public RSS Aggregator ::Library clips :: September 2005 - This newsmastering portal is aggregating blog posts as well as del.icio.us bookmarks, with categories/tags intact…it’s the best I’ve seen yet!
The best part is that not only is the post/bookmark content re-syndicated, but so is the blog category or del.icio.us tag …this means that you can view or discover posts by category (these categories seem to be a total of the categories in everyones bl
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Not School! Talking with Prof. Stephen Heppell. Episode 2 [educause; by AllanADL on Wed, 2005/12/07] - Not School! Seducing Kids back into Learning | connect.educause.edu
We continue our conversation and talk about "Not School". This amazing 5 years old, multi million pound sterling a year, project sounds radical, and it is radical, but in this episode Stephen Heppell also points out that the learning outcomes of "Not Scho
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