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MoMB: 1000 Betas | The Museum of Modern Betas [The Blog] - The MoMB just hit the 1000 entries mark
The MoMB just hit the 1000 entries mark (a tribute to Google) – here is the condensed gallery of all betas, alphas and landing apps so far (#1, #2, #3, #4, #5):
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Web2.0 List, Web 2.0 Site - members submit web2.0 services/companies/sites, tag and rank them - but no RSS!
[oops - I could not find a feed link - not very web2.0 of them :-] 639 as of april 1 2006 ( 730 members ) - tagcloud to browse categories. [ hot top all (639) new (31).. hot: today this week
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Pluck RSS Reader, News Reader, Bookmark Manager, Blog Reader [ free. plugins for Internet Explorer6, firefox, or web-based
Choose from our free software downloads for Internet Explorer or Firefox, or sign up for Pluck Web Edition. Pluck is adware-free, spyware-free, and just plain free.
/OS-X/apps aggregator basic-intro-materials browsers/MSIE extensions/MSIE extensions/firefox for:ngrf rss/client windows-apps -
Google! [ dec 1998 google company search interface from wayback machine ]
(btw the google.stanford.edu page from may 1998 seems to be broken at wayback just now) as added as 1000th beta at MoMB
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TechCrunch » The State of Online Feed Readers [ thorough comparison of 9 web-based RSS/atom readers ]
I examined nine web-based feed readers (for previous reviews of each of these, see the TechCrunch Index): Attensa Online;Bloglines;FeedLounge;Google Reader;Gritwire;News Alloy;NewsGator Online;Pluck Web Edition;Rojo
/basic-intro-materials resources/comparison resources/introductory resources/tech-tracking rss/aggregators social-rss web2.0 web2.0/biz -
BBC - Innovation Labs [ London Manchester Yorkshire ]
The Innovation Labs are a series of creative workshops for interdisciplinary teams of professional creative technologists, application designers, software developers and interactive media designers. We are inviting independent new media companies in three
/BBC for:rgedwards funding policy/UK policy/innovation to-do webtech/MUST-WATCH -
Active Web Reader Customizer: Customize and distribute your own RSS Reader
[sigh... :-] with the Active Web Reader Customizer, you can now recommend and distribute an RSS reader that includes your feeds and web pages. The user then simply downloads the Active Web Reader with your pre-loaded RSS feeds, saving you money and effort
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Active Web Reader : RSS Reader - Feed Reader- free; requires Internet Explorer 6 or higher [has commercial customizer]
Active Web Reader is a FREE web feed reader that supports RSS 0.9x, 1.x and 2.x feed formats. It is a lightning fast RSS reader that takes up only 1MB on your PC. An advanced Auto Discovery feature enables you to find RSS feeds while you browse websites u
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Newsgator vs Bloglines vs Google Reader » Digital Inspiration: Software Reviews, Technology News, Downloads, Productivity Tips
Bloglines wins but Google Reader, still in beta, is close. Google Reader outperformed everyone when searching for new content but Bloglines interface and usability make it a big winner: Google Reader: 26;Bloglines: 27.5;Newsgator Online Web Edition Free:
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SharpReader RSS Aggregator [free] : SharpReader is an RSS/Atom Aggregator for Windows, created by Luke Hutteman
req .NET Framework, version 1.1 SP1. Handles all RSS versions, ATOM 0.3 and 1.0, modules like dublin core, content:encoding, xhtml:body, etc; HTTP Authentication support. Advanced threading support allowing you to view connected items together in a threa
/aggregator basic-intro-materials for:rgedwards for:stephentufail portal-admin rss/client to-do windows-apps -
Plex beta available - Phil Beauvoir, CETIS. March 31, 2006
the PLE desktop client that we've been developing. We have versions for Windows, Mac and Linux. You'll need to ensure that you have Java installed on your machine. At this stage, there's no documentation or help for the App, so just "hunt and peck"!
/DLA JISC OS-X/apps PLE beta elearning/personalised for:alharris for:grahamattwell for:rgedwards java linux/apps to-do webtech/MUST-WATCH windows-apps -
Online courses aren't just for home-schoolers anymore | csmonitor.com : Small schools use them to broaden class offerings; Michigan aims to mandate them. By Kate Moser | Contributor to The Christian Science Monitor
Once considered the domain of home-schooled students, K-12 online learning is a fast-growing option for public school students in rural, urban, and suburban areas. Michigan lawmakers are likely to pass legislation soon that will require high school studen
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ScienceDirect - Respiratory Physiology & Neurobiology : The pyrophysiology and sexuality of dragons
S. T. Georgy, J. G. Widdicombe, and (with the assistance of V. Young) Department of Physiology, St. George's Hospital Medical School, London SW17 0RE, UK; Accepted 1 April 2002. Available online 11 October 2002.
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Advanced Google Search Operators
Google supports several advanced operators, which are query words that have special meaning to Google. Typically these operators modify the search in some way, or even tell Google to do a totally different type of search. For instance, "link:" is a specia
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The Case for Institutional Repositories: A SPARC Position Paper. Prepared by Raym Crow, SPARC Senior Consultant. The Scholarly Publishing & Academic Resources Coalition, August 27, 2002
[full paper as html + pdf version] This paper examines institutional repositories strategically, from two complementary perspectives: 1) as a natural extension of academic institutions' responsibility as generators of primary research seeking to preserve
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Scholarly Journals at the Crossroads: A Subversive Proposal for Electronic Publishing - An Internet Discussion about Scientific and Scholarly Journals and Their Future. June 27, 1994. Stevan Harnad
The subversion will be complete, because the (esoteric -- no-market) peer-reviewed literature will have taken to the airwaves, where it always belonged, and those airwaves will be free (to the benefit of us all) because their true minimal expenses will be
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Science Library Pad: presentations on e-Science and e-Biz workflow, and research data preservation
'Liz Lyon has been doing a lot of work in the areas of research data linking to publications, e-Science, and integrating with research workflow. Here are two of her recent presentations
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Typepad is launching blog widgets | TechCrunch : Typepad offers a library of widgets (screenshot above) including for now 32 items to choose from in 6 categories (Games/ JobSearch / Music / Photos videos / Publishing / Search). You can subscribe this XML
Typepad will offer users a much easier and seamless way to add side features (feedburner, technorati, Pandora favorites songs,…) to your blog without the necessity to go the service’s website (say Pandora) and do the usual copy/paste of the html code
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Institutional Repositories | Open and Shut?: The institutional repository is currently a hot topic within the library and open access (OA) communities. But what is an institutional repository? What purpose does it serve? And what issues does it raise?
[full article + pdf - 10500 words but he asks for donations] Richard Poynder reviews its history and current status, and concludes that while OA advocates may have spawned the institutional repository, it might be time for them to walk away from it.
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My 'Future of Web Apps' slides... (plasticbag.org) : Native to a Web of Data - Tom Coates
WONDERFUL presentation - beautiful to look at and conceptually spot-on: 9 simple points for creating web apps in the web2 way (in one slide!)
/for:rgedwards for:stephentufail pdf presentation quotable recommended theory/anti-bull theory/architectures theory/interfaces theory/systems-effects web2.0 web2.0/issues -
Shiira Project - Shiira is a web browser based on Web Kit and written in Cocoa. The goal of the Shiira Project is to create a browser that is better and more useful than Safari. All source code used in this software is publicly available.
japanese project [Revised BSD license. See the header of source codes] Shiira 1.2.1. It is the Universal Binary...In the future, after Shiira 1.0 is released, we will be evaluating future development of the web browser. I have a lot of ideas for this, but
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Shiira mini | Shiira Project - Shiira mini is a small Web browser widget which works on Dashboard. It takes all advantages of Dashboard. Small and quick.
[not v useful as is, but an eg of webkit+dashboard which may be good for PLE experiments?]You can configure the home page, bookmarks bar, and background color on the preferences panel. Shiira and Safari bookmarks are imported.
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BlueShoes: Web Browser List by rendering engine [ Trident, Gecko, KHTML / WebCore, Presto ]
We categorize browsers by their rendering engine. For us as developers it does not matter how a browser handles bookmarks, we care how it renders the webpage and how it executes javascript.
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Macintosh Internet Software: The Mac Orchard is a community resource - a carefully cultivated list of the most vital Internet applications and related resources for Macintosh Internet users, along with Internet software reviews contributed from The Mac Or
These pages represent the most complete, most up-to-date collection of Macintosh Internet applications available anywhere on the Internet. [ categorised; does seem thorough]
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The Economics of Open Content Symposium - WGBH Forum Network | January 23-24, 2006 - Intelligent Television, with the support of the Hewlett Foundation and MIT Open Courseware
representatives from media industries, cultural and educational institutions, and legal and business minds to discuss how to make open content happen better and faster. Intelligent Television has been conducting a year-long investigation into the economic
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Two more reasons why so many tech docs suck | Creating Passionate Users: A great deal of non-reference technical docs suck for a wide range of reasons, but the two most critical (yet fixable) are...
1) We assume the reader is inherently interested. 2) We drastically underestimate the role interestingness plays (especially in retention and recall).
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Yahoo! Search blog: All Your Web 2.0 Are Belong To Us : We're in the midst of buying Dogg (a Web 2.0 cross between Digg and Dogster "Where Every Dog Has A Webpage"), and you know what? It's a lot of work.
So after some long discussions with Web 2.0 experts, we've decided to just buy Web 2.0. All of it. All the people, the round cornered boxes, crazy business ideas, and pastel colors. Henceforth, "Yahoo!" will be synonymous with "Web 2.0."
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Lazybase.com - Shareable custom databases. Lazybase allows anyone to design, create and share a database of whatever they like.
Bookmarklet generation, RSS feeds, and more. Easily add a view into your Lazybase database to your own website. Create new types of items, or use the samples provided by Lazybase.View lists in many ways, on maps or on graphs.Link types together (for exam
/architectures/service-oriented data2.0 for:alharris for:grahamattwell for:rgedwards portal-admin portals2.0 social-startup webtech/MUST-WATCH -
Bleezer is a powerful blogging client. And it's free. Java-based. Featureful
Windows, OS X, and Linux. Work with any blogging service - even Blogger.; Add tags for any tag service. Technorati, del.icio.us, or anything else.;Create custom markup. Define your own key combinations for custom HTML markup.;Spell check. Ensure everythin
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SmugMug - hack - about : Hacks APIs Tricks API: XML-RPC API: REST trick: smugDAV
[much as I love flickr and instinctively loathe this lot, they *do* have rest, rpc apis *and* potentially v useful DAV interface - maybe it's just their lack of round-cornered boxes :o] apis, tricks, hacks, scripts etc documented here
/architectures/REST architectures/service-oriented social-photos social-startup web2.0
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