elearning2.0 linklog

new player in the consumer photo-sharing space.. seems to emphasise access to pro design and print. says it is 100 times faster to make an album here than in [photo sharing sites]

RESPONDING TO GROWING COMPLAINTS ABOUT spam blogs, or "splogs," Google implemented new security measures to make it more difficult for users of its blogging service to create and maintain fake blogs.

useful resource for wordpress themes, etc

The advice-resources website has been set up to support the National Resource Service (NRS) and is aimed at national and local information and advice services.

[+ firefox extension] Hostip.info is a community-based project to geolocate IP addresses, making the database freely available (see below) but it needs you to put in your city to make it work. It only takes 10 seconds, and you'll get a warm fuzzy feeling

video of .Mac groups functionality - sweetly easy groupware for os-x users willing to pay? q:windows,linux users? q:service-oriented?

[but somehow so far it all works :-] "we’re seeing a new age of web-service outsourcing. One with no regulations - only expectations and hopes. Everything is based on trust, and trust sometimes fails. And the problem here is that even with web-services

looks like becoming a great tracking feed, with a hint of whimsy :).. "The MoMB is a site dedicated to listing webbased applications on a beta trip.

In the new method, no clearing element is used. This does not affect IE/Win which simply keeps enclosing the float as always (assuming the container has a stated dimension), but non-IE browsers will need a substitute for that element. Here's how it's done

To get a list of code charts for a character, enter its code in the search box at the top. To access a chart for a given block, click on its entry in the table. The charts are PDF files, and some of them may be very large. For frequent access to the same

links: HyperCard :Warehouse of everything involving Apple's HyperCard;WildFire : An open source HyperCard clone crafted with HyperCard!;XulCard : Application of our open source HyperCard clone ( XML / RDF / XUL);MetaCard : Engine hosting FreeGUI + tools,

The pledge means that Big Blue will not enforce its patents or charge a licence fee if any of the covered technologies in this sector infringe upon the patents. The company expects the initiative to stimulate the creation of interoperable standards that

Pluck InSite Blogging and InSite RSS Solutions drive content creation, site experience and web success metrics. Pluck's award-winning free RSS Reader for Internet Explorer, Firefox or the web delivers your favorite news and blog postings all in one place

Below you will find a pre-created VC friendly Web 2.0 company just for you! Hit reload to create another potential million dollar idea

Wists, is a free service that lets you visually bookmark any page on the web and create a small image, text summary and a set of keywords with it. You can then share your visual bookmarks with friends and you can add any non-private items from other wists

review of new social-shopping service; might have relevance to learning apps?.. "Kaboodle does one better - it places all the “digital scraps” on a single page, and allows you to add tags to that page. In other words, it lets you built a tiny personal

[good sense :-].."It feels like there is an attempt to granualise so much that we are in danger of making this unworkable – it is a case of being far more complicated than it needs be. I personally find the IMS specs pretty scary and would be in favour

[MM must watch to see how annotatable].. "Kaboodle is a free social bookmarking service. And it really does take things to the next level in terms of usefulness, particularly for certain types of stuff. For instance, Kaboodle really shines when bookmarkin

[site + blog don't yet make clear how the 'story telling' or 'social presentation' work - ie how they add value compared to Flickr. But there is buzz so worth watching? ". BubbleShare's mission is to help you tell your stories by providing you with simp

"InformationWeek reports that Microsoft plans to offer hosted implementations of SharePoint, CRM and ERP applications. But the best quote in that article was left till last. A "Microsoft insider" was asked which other products and services Microsoft would

[must check backstage list+track this].. "This post concerns an experimental internal-BBC-only project designed to allow users to collectively describe, segment and annotate audio in a Wikipedia-style fashion. It was developed by the BBC Radio & Music Int

[see modern Riya] defunct little project to use SVG to represent [people in the same photos] co-depiction.. "began experimenting withe notion of "co-depiction", a made up phrase for circumstances where two people are both depicted in the same representati

[see old rdf-web expts].. "Riya leverages potent facial and text recognition technology with an intelligent interface to help people make sense of the thousands of untitled and untagged photos that are building up on their hard drives (and on the web).

"This article presents an open source JavaScript library that finally brings bookmarking and back button support to AJAX applications. By the end of this tutorial, developers will have a solution to an AJAX problem that not even Google Maps or Gmail posse

[but might be mates of his?:-].."Bubble Share an amazingly simple way to share photos - definitely the simplest I've seen yet. I'm also very impressed by their roadmap. This app will kick ass and get some great uptake.

2238 bookmarks / 926 tags since 2005-04-26 - del. bookmarks of one of the techCrunch and edgeio principals; a v credible, hard-working and tuned-in guy. Looks like a very useful tech-tracking resource; also possible clues to what edgeio is all about :o]

For rich web application developers, the TrimQuery engine from TrimPath is a lightweight GPL open-source component that lets you have the power of SQL queries while running in a web browser. The TrimQuery engine is written entirely in standard JavaScript

A piece of the offline AJAX application puzzle. This idea was in response to a blog post found at Brad Neuberg's Coding In Paradise... store an array of data in AMASS storage, then the script allows the user to run a query on stored data by grabbing the d

AMASS makes it possible to store an arbitrary amount of sophisticated data, way pass the 4K limit of cookies or the 64K limit of Internet Explorer's proprietary client-side storage system. An AMASS-enabled web site can store up to 100K without user permis

comms code prob v useful in further expts?.. "My adventures with XMLHTTPRequest and a never-ending HTTP response..Draw and chat with your friends: (or play pictionary!) Just a prototype. Requires FireFox at present. IE is lacking a number of useful featur

interesting roadmap/perspective insights.. "Currently at delicious: 5M links, about 10M posts, on average about two tags per item. About 500,000 unique tags. Growth in tags is slow.

"Del.icio.us has extended its existing user-only search to everyone. Search functionality has also been expanded. You can use “tag:tagname” to just search tags. If you are going to do multiple tag search, AND must be capitalized. I like the extended f

"In addition to the robust and open search functionality released by Del.icio.us earlier this week, there are at least two additional new features that are worth noting. Also: For certain searches, del.icio.us has far more relevant results than any other

"I love music. But I hate when three applications fight over which gets to play it when I click on the links at http://del.icio.us/popular/system:filetype:mp3 . So I decided to do something about it: you will now notice a to the left of every mp3 link. G

"A tag bundle is just a group of related tags you can use to organize your tag cloud. It's a handy feature, but the interface for managing bundles has left quite a bit to be desired. One of the things we included in our release last weekend is a new inter

[must check groups fn].. "Shadows groups are pages created around a specific topic or interest. Create your own My Shadows Page with all of your tags, comments, ratings and discussions, all in one place. Shadows supercharges bookmarks with a "Shadow Page"

"Javascript closures can be a powerful programming technique. Unfortunately in Internet Explorer they are a common source of memory leaks. Therefore I propose a method to create closures that don't leak memory... So now we have truly leak free closures.

This document discusses a number of the concepts introduced in The Sxip Network Overview (http://sxip.net/docs/specs/sxip-overview.pdf) and illustrates and describes the processes involved in joining a Sxip Homesite and visiting a Sxip Membersite. These p

In this 40 minute conversation, Dick Hardt talks about Identity 2.0, and the ways in which personal identity might better be managed in the online environment. Dick, Founder and CEO of sxip Identity, gave one of the most talked about presentations at the

range od streamed and downloable video formats.. "How hard have you thought about identity? Not hard enough.

Personal perspectives on information science, the evolving Internet, delivery of public services online, Web 2.0, Library 2.0, communities, folksonomies and more. With an emphasis upon convergence between some or all of the above, and a UK slant.

[see battellemedia.com for eg of offering contextual search - at expense of doubling markup :-] Examples: "I need to know the gas mileage for my audi a8 2004 model." "Tell me about the history of eruptions from mount st. helens."

surprisingly [given our experiences :-] savvy and open blog by librarians / information specialists in Talis, who make the well-known library OPAC system

[dunno how pretty the pdf is, but a useful service - can link to your own content, converted, from a site/blog] .. options:Feed, OPML or Website URL;OPML URL for Digest ;+/- images

30 M free storage; *very* big/featureful JAVA applets for edits - too slow for real users? A serious contender with a business plan? Hit some key feature-points (pdf conversion, posting to blog)

Charlotte, N.C.-based Scientigo owns two patents covering the transfer of "data in neutral forms." These patents, one of which was applied for in 1997, are infringed upon by the data-formatting standard XML, Scientigo executives assert. Scientigo intends

Australian Capital Territory formal report [pdf, 1M, 107pp] - useable executive introduction to hardware technologies like mobile, RF; also some coverage of standards etc (formal, big-standards approach?)

Just after 12:45 p.m. Pacific time on Sunday 23rd October, Technorati counted its 20 millionth blog. It was Les CE2/CM2 Anquetil, a blog from an elementary school in Reims, France, in the heart of Champagne country. They started the blog to celebrate runn

The IEEE Learning Technology Standards Committee (LTSC) is chartered by the IEEE Computer Society Standards Activity Board to develop accredited technical standards, recommended practices, and guides for learning technology.

email list archivesfrom 2001; high signal-noise / low-traffic; packaging,repositories,access etc

"..it doesn't appear really to have to do with resource aggregation (or harvesting) per se, but rather, the combining of documents of different formats into a single format, much like the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Compound Document Framework.

A Compound Document is the W3C term for a document that combines multiple formats, such as XHTML, SVG, SMIL and XForms. The W3C Compound Document Formats (CDF) Working Group will specify the behaviour of some format combinations, addressing the needs for

with S5 prez+ audio, astute prez on eg why BB-webCT have market.."I'm at the Free Software and Open Source Symposium where I talked about why it is important for the open source software community to embrace open content. Slides are available online in S5

Sakai, the world's leading open source Collaboration and Learning Environment, and LAMS, the world's leading open source Learning Design system, today announced successful integration between the systems. This integration allows teachers and professors to

"Serious games, like every other tool of education, must be able to show that the necessary learning has occurred. Specifically, games that teach also need to be games that test. Fortunately, serious games can build on both the long history of traditional

p2p social networking needs..."What's missing? An extensible XML-based format for user profiles that is standardized and widely deployed. Actually, Jabber uses an XML version, with an interesting historical note. The W3C has an RDF spec of vCard, but I st

Welcome to S5 Presents. This is a free and open-source web based application for creating slideshows using Eric Meyer's great XHTML based slideshow software. Take a look at this example for a complete slideshow

hmmm - big or small? tight or loose? do they 'get' tagsonomies in this project? .. "An important and valuable characteristic of MLR (see ISO/IEC Project 19788-1) would be for this metadata model to present a highly simplified, “kernel” element set for

"With iPhoto, in order to tag something, you need to first dig around in the menubar to bring up the Keywords dialog, illustrated here.

"Offline a grid layout for a calendar makes sense. ut online calendars are dyamic. You know what cells are being used and which aren’t. Right now. Minimize the ones that aren’t and maximize the ones that are. There’s better design here.

+useful links.."what if an article has multiple authors? What if we want every student and faculty member to have a blog (x,000s) automatically. What if the author want to choose who can view his/her articles, e.g. friends, project groups, tutors? Using t

Warwick is exemplary in supporting usable student blogs. This describes their design/usability process.. "There are many different uses for blogs at Warwick from developing an essay plan, to creating a photo gallery and recording your personal development

Plone Software Center is a tool to keep track of software projects and software releases, and is used to power the Products download area on plone.org.

Plone Help Center is an application designed to aid the documentation of Plone, and is used on plone.org to categorize and keep documentation up to date. It should be usable for documenting other open source products (such as Plone Product add-ons) or eve

SchoolTool is a project to develop a common global school administration infrastructure that is freely available under an Open Source licence.

Twelve core strategies link to 30 classroom examples that show how to apply key research, using technology to engage learners and improve achievement.

Committed and innovative people can change the world for the better. Our mission is to enable people to solve local challenges with sustainable, innovative solutions.

"I only spent 15 minutes at FeedDigest "Making Your Feeds Fabulous" but its got a whole lot of "oompf" potential if you are trying to do more with using multiple feed sources. More or less, you create a "digest" that you can then mix in a few RSS feeds, a

"Supporting school reform and increased student achievement through technical assistance and research for educators in technology applications, integration and evaluation

Automotive Youth Educational Systems (AYES) is a partnership among participating automotive manufacturers, participating dealers, and selected high schools/tech prep schools. It's designed to encourage young people to consider satisfying careers in retail

loads of screenshots, figures, conference photos etc, nicely clustered

a dozen or so conceptual figures illustrating/defining web2.0-ness, collected during the first 'blogoposium' communal tagging experiment

Design Shack offers regular examples of great CSS, standards based design to help inspire and create. We feature any website which shows off some flair, and doesn't fit into the standard pattern we come to expect from CSS design. If you think you fit the

This page provides links to resources that look at the role of learning styles in the design of e-learning solutions. Listed in order of entry with most recent first.

The following activity focuses on helping learners identify and develop the necessary proficiencies for online success.

by Sam Adkins. " a growing market demand for Open Source learning management system (OS LMS) products. This demand has attracted the attention of many corporate and government clients. Clients have begun to ask if Open Source LMSs are now viable alternati

large glossary partly based on JISC Technologies Centre Glossary.."Entries for acronyms are under the spelled out form, with a cross reference from the acronym, except where the acronym is more usually referred to (for example, UCAS, CD ROM). Thanks to th

[500 days' consultancy, etc].. "The Higher Education Academy, in partnership with the Joint Information Systems Committee, is leading a UK-wide higher education e-learning benchmarking exercise. The exercise has been developed in response to feedback from

(2005 Framework) has established a set of 12 e-learning indicators that can be used to assess the uptake, use and impact of e-learning in Australia’s vocational education and training system (VET). These indicators can be adapted and used by individual

Derek Morrison, HE Academy's Head of e-Learning and Paul Bailey, JISC Programme Director launched the UK-wide benchmanrking exercise and the Pathfinder Programme at ALT-C.

3 foci: Institutional support;Subject and staff development;National policy.. "Founded in May 2004, we are an independent organisation funded by grants from the four UK funding bodies, subscriptions from higher education institutions, and grant and contra

nicely categorised; good resource for site grafix.."Welcome to our texture library, we have 2700 free to download, free to use, high-resolution textures. The online version is always available at http://www.mayang.com/textures/

the XML dialect standards body

[Just a few random tips but useful].. "Here, for no reason at all, are 10 RSS power user tips that you can use to enhance your life. Some of these you might already know, others you may not.

Ward Cunningham, one of Microsoft's high-profile hires, is leaving the Redmond software company to join the open-source tool group, The Eclipse Foundation.

This site includes two rudimentary (beta) online tools designed to convert eps files (generated using Adobe Illustrator, Macromedia FreeHand or even OmniGraffle itself) to the appropriate code used to create shapes or stencils within OmniGraffle 3.X, and

Plans, the calendar service, lists its competitors here... a fairly thorough list of calendaring and social-calendaring services

Principal focus of R&D programme : Develop a simple process and tools that make it easy for authors in different places to work together and produce high quality print documents and web pages, with a web browser.

great series sharing hard-won expert code and tips for making effective use of google maps javascript API.."Starting today - and going until next week - I will be writing a post, everyday, detailing a chunk of Google Maps API-enhancing code that I've writ

early thoughts re improving on 'Behaviours'.."The premise for the module is as follows: Using the power of Pseudo-CSS Selectors, bind your Javascript functions to various HTML elements in the DOM. Looking at how Behaviour works, I've never been completely

[60 workshops] "This conference is a professional development and networking opportunity for e-learning practitioners in the learning and skills sector. keynote speakers from the learning and skills sector will address current issues, review progress and

[some possibly very useful features: I need to evaluate blog-api editor; tagging from large tagsets; d+d flickr->blog;'the shelf';efficiency of indexing visited sites;'aggregation',RSS-convenience].. "Here's a list of thirteen things you really should try

[requires WINDOWS, IE, SKYPE - will there be os-x support??]... "Whether you use Skype for business or to connect with family and friends, now you can show a presentation, work on a spreadsheet, or share photos of your weekend fun while seeing everyone on

CAST is a nonprofit organization that works to expand learning opportunities for all individuals, especially those with disabilities, through the research and development of innovative, technology-based educational resources and strategies.

Chameleon is a unique stock icon set for the web that features simple, friendly, universal shapes designed and hand-crafted by SimpleBits. The set contains 70 royalty-free 16x16 gifs. Choose either a pre-selected six-pack of standard colors, or create you

22/09/2005 - Governments would boost innovation and get a better return on their investment in publicly funded research if they made research findings more widely available, according to a new OECD report on the scientific publishing industry.

lots of updates, usefully categorised .."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

[in the web2.0 workgroup ring so should be quality content?] - another web2.0 tech-tracking and opinion blog, with sidebar links for introductory pieces and other blogs

seems to be a service that allowd users to share a location-map [useful given googlemaps url-length] and tag it for co-location/co-tagging goodness?

coverage of the merger from the blackboard.com site

SIGOSSEE supports a Special Interest Group on open source software in education, and provides access to publications discussions and collaborative activities

ugly design but very quick and relevent results info drawn from (all?) the taggable-content sources like technorati, flickr, delicious

multiple services and search sources; ugly but delivers useful results. definitely worth watching

1000's of fine-grained FAQs seem to mostly cover BOJS (bad old js :o) practices, but looks like some snuggets in there

from the author of 'Tools for Thought', slightly antique (updated 2004) free brief guide to a variety of techniques for note taking

VERY small organisation plone site - possibly almost empty / defunct (wiki gives zope error as of today)... also possibly a tad 'eccentric'?

This NGRF website contains rich resources relating to 'guidance' in its broadest sense. Additionally it provides you with the opportunity to link up with others with shared interests for discussion and comment on line.

Mambo is a full-featured content management system that can be used for everything from simple websites to complex corporate applications. Continue reading for a detailed feature list.

RSS platform company NewsGator Technologies on Tuesday announced the acquisition of popular Macintosh RSS reader NetNewsWire. Brent Simmons, the developer behind NetNewsWire, has also accepted a position at NewsGator.

eg enter http://airlines.gada.be (the query terms become the subdomain) for top results (no descriptions) from Yahoo, MSN, Flickr, Wikipedia, FindArticles, Google News, and others.

We're fueled by dynamic (keyword-driven) search results in RSS or Atom formats; if you know of a service that we're not utilizing, please tell us what the output string is (exactly) so that we might integrate it. The keyword(s) must be visible within the

[see my other bookmarks on this] web2.0-ish metasearch beta from lockergnome founder; uniquely mobile-friendly (search term in subdomain); indexes loads of RSS for keywords

..launched Gada.be today - a powerful tag meta-search engine that has an incredibly simple and thoughtful design

The Web 2.0 Workgroup is a network of premium weblogs that write content exclusively about the new generation of the Web [techcrunch/readwriteweb/webreakstuff] ... If you like any one of the affiliated blogs, we guarantee you'll like the rest too!

"I have been coming across many del.icio.us tools to visualize usage during my daily researching hours. So many, that I have decided to start making note of the ones I come across. From the span of about two weeks, I have been collecting as many as I coul

Yahoo does social bookmarking. Tools exist for import from del.icio.us etc.

How you make it easy for your Web users to blog, podcast, media share, mash, tag, etc. doesn't matter. But always give them rich, easy, and sharable ways to use their voice clearly and loudly on the Web. That's how Web 2.0 works.

..people have asked me how I produced the visualizations that I used in my talk on del.icio.us.I have selected a combination of two very nice applications for Mac OS X - Anthracite and OmniGraffle - to produce similar visualizations

little service text-processes your delicious bookmarks to rank the domains you bookmark by frequency [needs your del. login; requests api all; cahces for 2 hours]

...including sources (where known), translations of non-English quotes, and links to Wikipedia for further information! The English version of Wikiquote has 4,730 pages so far with many thousands of quotations and proverbs. Visit the help page or experime

great intro to del.icio.us + pdf of slides..."del.icio.us is an online service that combines the best features of referral systems, browser bookmarks, shared information, and descriptive tags. By creating public bookmarks on the del.icio.us site and taggi

vivid case of a blogger finding suspiciously familiar garbled prose on a spam-blog (in this case for Dominos Pizza) + useful comments explaining spam blogs, and measures to take

wonderful and exhaustive list of the different activities you can conduct with blogs in the classroom

purpose: highlight, in plainspoken language, interesting technologies that could be used in the classroom, and strive to be a useful resource for teachers of all subjects.

Three words: MySpace, Facebook, AIM. These services were the most often mentioned by the teenagers, and seemed to get the most of their attention. Then came Google, LiveJournal, MSN Messenger/YIM – because friends use them.

"in most organizations, findability falls through the cracks. Web site search engines return lousy results because designers and engineers don’t collaborate to fine-tune the relevance ranking algorithms. Dazzling product catalogs wallow in obscurity bec

good intro to implications of xdi.."The mission of the OASIS XDI Technical Committee (TC) is to follow the proven architecture model of the World Wide Web in order to enable an open XML "dataweb" as shown in Table 2:[7]

Welcome to the debut of Planetwork Journal. In this issue we focus on the emerging systems for online social networking, and the new kinds of knowledge and information sharing they make possible. We also look at why the high bandwidth, low byte media terr

XDI (XRI Data Interchange) is a new service for generalized distributed data sharing and mediation using

I just added a new category called “Open Tagging” because I’ve been having so many discussions with XRI-savvy bloggers (starting with Kaliya Hamlin and Mary Hodder) about how XRIs might be a solution for an open, distributed way of tagging content t

"This special issue seeks to examine mentoring relationships and offer new perspectives and frameworks, suggesting exciting avenues for future research on mentoring and career developmen

The ability to type 'd tag1 tag2 ...' on the location bar to tag a new URL. If you select a block of text on the page, that is saved as the extended description.

Borrowing the tags and descriptions shared by other del.icio.us users, Lazy Sheep makes tagging a page a one-click operation. In order to best suit any user, Lazy Sheep also includes a comprehensive set of options that can be configured to your exact spec

Lack of an open, interoperable data standard is a major issue in using social bookmarking services. An open standard would make it possible to easily collect social bookmark data and remix it to invent new services along the lines of gataga's experimental

This document serves to answer and discuss frequently asked questions about the HTML4 "rel" and "rev" attributes, and their linktype values. Specifically this document explores a number of issues common to and exposed by the various MicroFormats which ext

..an experimental MicroContent WikiWikiWeb built by JeremyRuston. It's written in HTML, CSS and JavaScript to run on any modern browser without needing any ServerSide logic. It allows anyone to create personal SelfContained hypertext documents that can be

forge for the tiddlywiki pure-clientside personal wiki editor: news. plugins, examples, server-side support/integration...

[can use iname for single-signon].. "You probably wouldn’t know if from reading our web site or this newsblog but the Identity Commons is about more than just i-names.

XDI.ORG is an international non-profit organization governing public services based on the XRI abstract identifier and XDI data interchange protocols under development at OASIS. This new layer of infrastructure enables individuals and organizations to est

[last updated 27 December, 2004] This is a collection of the (poorly documented) key-sequences and modifiers for making the most from os-x. came from a number of smart people, but Marc Pawliger started the list and Tim Hume collected the various responses

This FAQ was created by the organizers of the OASIS XDI TC to provide background on its formation (http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/xdi/). Other introductory material on XDI includes:

Many web applications that "mash-up" or integrate data from around the web hit the following issue: How do you request data from third party sites in a scalable and cost-effective way? Today, due to the cross-domain restrictions of xmlhttprequest, you mus

Inspired by Chris Pirillo's recently announced http://gada.be search aggregation and continuing my previous discussion, XMLHttpRequest, Do you trust me?, I created a simple illustration demonstrating the value of unauthenticated cross-domain requests.

examples are MSIE-only until someone proposes firefox security relaxation solution.."This week, I attempt to prototype an "ultimate outliner" that can consume OPML, RSS, Atom, etc. I limit myself to two hours from imagining the idea to posting an implemen

The first ePortfolio plugfest will be organised to present the state of the art of ePortfolio technologies and demonstrate and explore the possibilities for interoperability between ePortfolio platforms and other information systems (you are also invited

programme listing of the 3rd international conference for the ePortfolio

"Clusty is the search site owned and operated by Vivísimo that aims to change the way people search online. It uses our award-winning Clustering Engine to organize search results into folders grouping similar items together.

links to websites, PowerPoint slideshows, and other electronic resources used in support of presentations at Internet Librarian International 2005. Links are provided at the discretion of presenters. More will be added as they become available.

MSN will launch MSN Book Search (MSNBS) sometime in first half of 2006. The material will come from the Open Content Alliance (OCA) that Microsoft is formally joining today.In the early stages, MSNBS will be found as a separate vertical on the MSN Search

"The Alliance for Nuclear Responsibility works to protect the citizens of the State of California and future generations from the dangers of radioactive contamination. We support educating the public on options for energy generation and the passage of law

Solution Workshops offers Plone developer training to get your team up-to-speed, focused, and on track for fast results. Solution Workshops can also develop cost-effective custom solutions, whatever your requirements. For more about Plone consulting and p

"I hope this article will help these readers understand a little more about the movement that Plone has become, and why it is a very rational choice for many kinds of Internet applications.

Textbooks and e-books / Web 2.0 -- blogs, wikis,and podcasts (RSS) / Open source software... some of these will have long legs for the coming year and evolve into important topics for students, teachers, administrators, and publishers.

del. bookmarks of an astute and forward-thinking ed-tech blogger; useful and highly selective resources [665 on Oct-14-05; began 10-04]

Web of Blogs is a blog aggregator that brings together the voices of Web of Change participants attending the 2005 gathering.

good analysis with examples of why neither the ice-rockets nor the yahoos are good enough at timely search, drawing lessons from memeorandum . "it’s not who indexes the most, but who indexes and brings back the best stuff that matters... which gives you

more info on what Sphere 'does' to rank for relevance in brand-new posts [in-linkage 0 by definition].."Their approach involves three key algorithms - an analysis of links into and out of a blog, an analysis of metadata around a post (links, post frequenc

"I've been inundated with an enormous amount of subscribed search spam for designated keywords...99% from blogspot.com I don't know what's (specifically) making it so insanely easy for these spammers to get signed into your system, but you need to change

reporting an email from a google staffer saying they noted his spam-blog problem and will deal with it. Hopeful.

further horror stories of inundation from spam-blog in-links, see comments for tips on excluding blogspot from pubsub tracking feeds and story of complete blog replication :o{

Research on how users read on the Web and how authors should write their Web pages. Mainly based on studies by John Morkes and Jakob Nielsen.

actually useful tips/critiques... "Weblogs are often too internally focused and ignore key usability issues, making it hard for new readers to understand the site and trust the author.

Microcontent needs to be pearls of clarity: you get 40-60 characters to explain your macrocontent. Unless the title or subject make it absolutely clear what the page or email is about, users will never open it.

Some journals publish an electronic table of contents for the most recent issue. You can browse all the recent articles in these journals just as if they were on your bookshelf.

[fullcontent paid-for only; no RSS?] Higher education jobs, news and books for university and college professionals in teaching and research, from The Times Higher Education Supplement. You need to subscribe to access full text and other services.

RHG has acquired four companies that will provide key elements for the RHG portal: [cut] Wondir, Inc., which provides a community-based search for information about health needs and issues.

We’ve built a platform that makes it easy for anyone, even a newbie, to teach people about topics they care about. We believe that everyone is an expert about something, and the Squidoo.com platform is designed to make it easy to do that.

closed beta from late oct: "Squidoo makes it easy for you to create, share and discover meaning online. It's a co-op of everyday experts, called lensmasters, who build lenses on topics they care about. What's your topic?

Squidoo makes it easy for you to create, share and discover meaning online. It's a co-op of everyday experts, called lensmasters, who build lenses on topics they care about. What's your topic?

like connotea, but smaller team. Sweet, simple interface. Currently has more journals sites talking DOI to its bookmarklet than does connotea

it's readily accessible, it's linked directly into the literature and it's easily shared with your colleagues. Opening your references to other researchers enables you to discover new leads by connecting to the collections of those with similar interests

apparently improved DOI bookmarkleting from journals sites. Must check rationale in the discussion group and test.

Seth is trying to create a new grammar for the essential introduction to whatever. He calls it a lens and though you’ll be able to create these lenses on his Squidoo, he also is very clear that you can create a lens anywhere right now. I could create a

[our own fastfolders much nicer UI, but poss useful for kupu] fileNice 1.0 has been released. fileNice is a simple remote file browser, using PHP on the backend, and Ajaxian techniques on the web tier.

useful rant on shortcomings of search as we know it "...don't tell me that sticking more words in an engine will improve the chances of me finding what I want. Search isn't done

useful commentary : search needs context "[search]... is totally and absolutely something that needs to be fixed. And when fixed correctly is going to make Google/Yahoo!/MSN all look like black -n– white TV with rabbit ears for reception.

my photos, contacts and groups at Flickr - includes slideshows from some of my old talks

reviews from educator perspective - currently lacks wiki features... "OCLC is experimenting with User Contributed Content in OpenWorldCat. On their Product Works site they describe a pilot tool that allows end user contribution of reviews and descriptive

Open Knowledge Initiative develops specifications that describe how the components of an educational software environment communicate with each other and with other enterprise systems. O.K.I. specifications address broad interoperability agreements that a

[sigh... if only :o] "The W3C multi-column module is a CSS level-three working draft, proposed by the W3C to extend the current CSS box model. The module’s intent is to allow content to flow into multiple columns inside an element. It offers new CSS pro

[standards as in XML itself of course :o] MS Office 12, the upcoming version of Microsoft's flagship software suite will use XML file formats, allowing information to flow freely to and from Word, Excel or PowerPoint files to other applications and over t

[convenient subscribing] "Taskable is a new kind of RSS and OPML browser built into the Windows taskbar notification area. Clicking on the "little orange guy" provides always-on, instantaneous access to your favorite feeds from simple menus that can be tr

CETIS coverage of the $180m acquisition.."For the academic sector, this looks like the final act of consolidation in the Virtual Learning Environment (VLE) market. The two former rivals will officially merge, but much larger Blackboard will provide the br

1st prize.." use of videos captured on mobile phones and beamed to a tablet PC for projection on to a screen for whole-class discussion as part of an NVQ Level 2 class. 2nd prize went to the Stockton Riverside College project team who pioneered the use of

sigh... spam attacks on their wiki :o{ "We had a bit of trouble with our wiki this weekend- on Saturday, we recieved a spam attack from 164 different IP addresses, which deleted pretty much every page on our wiki.

more progress at t'ati.. "Here at Technorati, we just love new features. And we released a couple this week that are all about new ways to search... Search This Blog;earch the most authoritative bloggers in each category

well worth exploring the main links "here are two new databases that can be viewed via the Dewey Browser. Previously we just had the e-books from WorldCat. Now you can also search a database of 2.2 million of the most widely held WorldCat records, and,

includes guide to 'good hacks'.."We’re starting to see the first round of sites and pages breaking due to the CSS fixes we have made. We would like to ask your help in cleaning up existing CSS hacks in your pages for IE7. It is has been our policy since

WebEssentials05 keynote from WebEssentials05 in coding theme; S5 prez [with internal clicking for bullets :o]

I've made my two presentations available as PDF downloads, with associated audio links under a Creative Commons Attribution License. The audio and slides aren't synced, so you'll have to try to keep up on your own.

The materials in this site formed the basis of a presentation at Web Essentials 05 (Designing for Accessibility: Beyond the Basics), in Sydney, Australia delivered by Derek Featherstone. More examples are forthcoming.

WebEssentials05 talk by Tim Lucas in code theme; S5 prez [with internal clicking for bullets :o] - LOVELY S5 CSS

good review by Steven Faulkner of accessibility issues and reality of different readers/browsers... "Don't use them on any element to convey important information unless you provide device independent access to the information

WebEssentials05 talk in design theme by Russ Weakley. html presentation with link to podcast. Some practical tips and realistic review of common 'mares :o)

WebEssentials05 talk in Coders theme by Tantek Çelik; S5 prez [with internal clicking for bullets :o]

case study of their move to Plone.. "I originally wrote this for the Museums Computer Group newsletter to show the lessons learned from the development of a Content Management System (CMS), for the benfit of colleagues across the cultural heritage sector.

Tutorial length version of the Best Practices presentation, as delivered at the North American Plone Symposium, Jul 2005.

Sxip Identity's sxore (pronounced "score") : To enrich the dialog between blog authors and commenters, sxore provides a framework for identity and reputation, ensuring that blogging's participatory, user-generated content model isn't hijacked by spurious

[link to MSWord document, sadly :o[ ..."This newsletter provides an update on what is happening in the JISC e-Learning Programme for all the projects and others interested in the Programme. This issue contains a variety of news items relating to the stran

CutePDF Writer (formerly CutePDF Printer) is the free version of commercial PDF creation software. CutePDF Writer installs itself as a "printer subsystem". This enables virtually any Windows applications (must be able to print) to create professional qual

We can get the same effect with only one image using opacity and we can do it all with CSS. No scripting required

If you check my blog, you will see a new search box and tag cloud on the right hand side. Create a search engine using only a specified set of sources. You can also specify a set of keywords describing your interest/business, which are in turn used in a t

screenshots and details of set-up experience [beta is closed].."After signing up to the service, I went right to “Publish New Swicki” page. This page will bring me through an easy three step form to creating my swicki, and believe me, it is quite pain

To begin, enter the URL of an OPML file or the URL of a Webpage that has autodiscovery to an OPML file.

like OPML Surfer but without javascript expand-collapse nodes - online service to pretty-display OPML from a URL in-browser

This page is devoted to various tips and tricks that help improve the performance of your Python. I originally wrote this in (I think) 1996 and haven't done a lot to keep it updated since then. Python has has changed in some significant ways since then,

8/4/03.. What idioms should I use to make my code easier to read? What techniques should I use to make my code run faster?

[now mac-friendly] Tip: Want to share your video with the world? Add it to Google Video.

Kevin Lynch announces the Flex 2.0 familiy of technologies, which includes Flex Framework 2.0, Flex Builder 2.0 (aka Zorn), Flash Player 8.5 and ActionScript 3. He also demonstrates the new technologies by building a Flickr image viewer in about 5 minutes

[elgg blog, archive and files linked from here] Hi - my name is Graham Attwell. I work for Pontydysgu, a Wales based rsearch organisation. I am particualrly interested in the use of Portfolios for the recognition and valaidation of non formal learning.

WebORB Presentation Server is a platform for developing, deploying and hosting Rich Internet Applications. Using the product developers can create advanced Internet based applications delivering ultimate user experience. Supported client applications incl

Good, readable intro.. "The key to gaining PageRank is to ignore it and focus on the variables that control it... If you build a good website with good content, always keep in mind your important keywords and proactively work every day to earn and create

This page is a collection of real-life Ajaxian systems. If you're hunting for smaller examples, I'm building up a collection of toy demos. The idea there is to illustrate one tinny little pattern at a time. In contrast, many of the systems here embody a w

Overall, I love Flock. It has some excellent features and it definitely shows the social and blogging side to it. The interface is designed beautifully and it is a great browser. Sure, there are a few issues here and there, but it isn’t complete yet and

sort-of about best practice when throwing and returning from AJAX user input widgets..."In order to communicate content updates to users, many AJAX applications have adopted attention-getting techniques to highlight interface changes.” –AJAX Interface

looks like a good and current resource on major trends, events and news items rtelated to usability

Measure Map is a Web application that helps people get to know their blogs. We do this by collecting and analyzing blog-specific traffic statistics and presenting them in a browsable interface that encourages exploration. It is an experience that offers m

A JavaScript exploit that has been called the first "Web 2.0 worm" knocked out MySpace.com. The cunning JavaScript exploit added a million users as "friends", forcing the site offline. Service was restored on Friday but two days later the site was still s

cute story of coming up with "squidoo" as the name for squidoo ( and why flickr, 37signals etc are good names )

very good talks from very good open repositories projects, eg connexions from Rice, DSpace from MIT, Pachyderm, Scholar's Box, LionShare, VUE, Image Annotation Tool, + 'Towards an Education Inflected Architecture'

LearningTimes.org is an open community for education and training professionals. Members have free access to a wide range of opportunities to interact and network with peers from across the globe. Member activities include live webcasts and interviews wit

I introduced the notion of a Learning Management Operating System, or LMOS. I’m going to be blogging about this concept quite a bit in the coming days and weeks, so I have created a theme heading for it on my blog.

Generally: An overview of some basic tools and models used to create electronic portfolios. Specifically: A conversation about social software as a concept and its appropriateness for the generation of electronic portfolios (or the extension of electronic

see stephen's web for related writing... "e-learning is evolving with the World Wide Web as a whole and it's changing to a degree significant enough to warrant a new name: E-learning 2.0.

not sure whether they actually proxy, wrap or front-end anything 'really' but need to check - could be portals 2.0 goodness here.. "Ning is a free online service (or, as we like to call it, a Playground) for building and using social applications.

Discover interesting events, venues, and calendars; Narrow your search by time, place, keyword, proximity, and other criteria; Create unlimited web calendars, with built-in iCalendar, RSS, and web publishing tools

This series explores the work of the 25 sector skills councils which have been established by the Government to provide employers with a direct route to influence strategic planning for skills and training

a little idea but potentially powerful : subscribable OPML..."instead of subscribing to each feed in the document, the reader or aggregator subscribes to the OPML document itself. When the author of the OPML document adds a feed, the aggregator automatica

JISC has released a policy on open source, forcing projects to state up-front what licences they intend to use and then follow software engineering and IPR best-practices during the project; it does not prevent funded projects from developing closed sourc

The eight UK Research Councils, under the umbrella of Research Councils UK (RCUK), have proposed to make it mandatory for research papers arising from Council-funded work to be deposited in openly available repositories at the earliest opportunity. apply

Attached are my slides from the workshop on electronic portfolios for integrative learning that I led at Integrations 2005 last week. I presented a 10,000 foot overview of electronic portfolio practice at the beginning and a bit about the conceptual desig

"As a middle-school teacher, Clarence Fisher is used to spending some time each evening grading papers and reviewing lesson plans. But this year he's got an additional after-school task: updating his students' blogs.

Chair of JISC's Integrated Information Environment Committee, Reg Carr, signed the Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities on behalf of JISC. The declaration commits signatories to the “new possibilities of knowledg

From October, universities receiving research council grants will have to offer open access to their research findings, as Belinda Isaac, Head of Intellectual Property & Life Sciences at Morgan Cole Solicitors, explains

..."part of the on-going struggle to move user-created documents to a standards-compliant format which enables them to avoid vendor lockin. What differentiates the Fellowship from other groups is that individuals rather than companies are members.

[see also Dave Winer on live-opml reading lists - Scott notes opml limitations] .."I think the Feedbook concept is one of the building blocks of a personal learning environment - instead of a set of "learning objects", a mix of bookmarks, files, and feeds

notes problem of group context embedded in global system... "to enable a distributed conversation of any kind to take place requires an agreement of context among participants - that is, we have to have a way of knowing whether something is part of the co

elaborating on Winer's idea... "Recently Dave Winer proposed of OPML reading lists, lists of RSS subscriptions you subscribe to, making channels enter and exit your aggregator as the lists change.

sadly full papers not online and they charge £13 each! Papers from department staff on careers and guidance related issues

Stephen Downes' ongoing round-up of coverage..."News, blogger reaction and more on the Blackboard acquisition of WebCT - your one-stop source for all the reaction (if I've missed you, send me a note)

The International Journal of Evidence Based Coaching and Mentoring is a free access, international peer reviewed journal, which is published bi-annually online in February and August. The aim of the journal is twofold: firstly, to provide evidence-based,

The online world is evolving into a new open web (sometimes called the Web 2.0), which is all about being personalized and customized for each user. Not only open source software, but open standards are becoming an essential component.

"the first product I’ve seen that does a good job of prioritizing new content from feeds based on your historical reading behavior, as well as data gathered from the SearchFox community as a whole

terse pros & cons of the 6 main contenders for online/social aggregator/reader..."a couple of hours each day to test out these 6 feed readers, but i gotta say that i still can’t decide which one i feel most comfortable with. looks like i may have seriou

...makes use of the classic attraction-repulsion algorithm for graphs. Start exploring your contacts by entering your flickr username or the email address you used to register there.

The python wrapper that I used for most of this is fairly simple in structure. It uses a combination of Redland's RDF parsing (for the pleasantly fulsome RSS bits) and libxml2's HTML parser for the bits I needed to screenscrape. Href, User and Tag objects

[ambitious features] "GroundWorks was started to provide the Chacon team tools that were not otherwise freely available. It's closest open source relative is probably CivicSpace. Where CivicSpace is written in PHP, GroundWorks is being developed in Ruby O

[includes description of planned ff extension] We are looking to grow our development team. Please feel free to forward these descriptions to folks you feel would be qualified.

interesting analysis of del. tagging practice for his prev post on a python del.icio.us API wrapper (127 bms).. "what was the emergent categorisation of my piece? It was a pretty broad list, demonstrating several different styles of tagging strateg

very cool mashup!.. follow links to slides/demo "By creating a symbiotic relationship between the two sites in your browser, you gain an overlaid cross-site navigation that doesn't exist in the site as it currently stands, and del.icio.us users see your

clever!.. "how to take a list of politican's names and turn it into a network of directed links. The first step is to turn our flat text strings into references to internet resources that we can use to gather judgements about them. For the politics domain

Dave Winer - Father of RSS and Web Logging... [not permalink] NerdTV is a new weekly online TV show from PBS.org technology columnist Robert X. Cringely. NerdTV is essentially Charlie Rose for geeks - a one-hour interview show with a single guest from the

VisualComplexity.com intends to be a unified resource space for anyone interested in the visualization of complex networks. The project's main goal is to leverage a critical understanding of different visualization methods, across a series of discipline s

Plone Blog based on SimpleBlog product. It is enhanced with ping abilities, RSS2 support altogether with audio and video enclosures, TrackBacks.

Presentacular adds script.aculo.us visual effects to slide shows created with S5. It has the same advantages than S5 for creating slide shows: printer-friendly version, simple and semantic markup and portable across the most modern browsers.

For a newcomer, creating a presentation in S5 may seem a bit daunting at first. Don't panic! Writing your own presentation is very, very easy. In order to help smooth the way, here's a short primer on what to change and what to leave alone in an S5 presen

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.

Leo is: 1) a programmers, outlining editor and a flexible browser, 2) a literate programming tool, 3) a data organizer and project manager. 4) fully scriptable using Python, 5) Portable. Leo.py will run on any platform with Python and Tk/tcl.

XWT is the XML Windowing Toolkit. It lets you write remote applications which project their user interface over the net. Unlike all other remote-display technologies, XWT applications are usable and responsive regardless of network congestion, delays, and

...those 13 cool start-ups that were unveiled as part of Web 2.0's Wednesday afternoon Launch Pad each had to pay $5,000 for their 6 to 8 minutes of fame. That's the price of buzz today, I suppose.

The AttentionTrust is a non-profit organization that is developing and encouraging others to develop open source ‘attention recorders,’ devices that will allow their users to capture what they do and therefore assert some control it. Although later at

{Mike} I am confused and this sounds like a joke but it got big coverage at web2.0. Something to do with browsing history being sent to trusted services, which might allow V cool find by usage in future?

This year's sold-out Web 2.0 Conference had so much open source going on that my OSSdar receptors went into overload mode. Even the Microsoft guys talking up MSN Search had Firefox and OpenOffice.org icons on their laptops.

[poss useful - detailed case study of thinking process] This is the first article of a series on “How To Nail A Sexy Layout”. The first step in my development process is always creating the skeleton. Below is an example of a basic template that I star

( I'm at # 31 :o) CollaborativeRank is a search engine that places great emphasis on results found by highly ranked web surfers.

"I confess that I now get Del.icio.us but I don’t get how to tag well because you can tag just for yourself or for the world or to find stuff, you can tag micro or tag macro... Jeff Veen says he uses Delicous as a publishing tool

Flock advertises itself as a "social browser," meaning that the application plays nicely with popular web services like Flickr, Technorati and del.icio.us. Flock also features widely compliant WYSIWYG, drag-and-drop blogging tools. The browser even promis

Software experts say recent innovations in web design are ushering in a new era for internet-based software applications, some of the best of which already rival desktop applications in power and efficiency. That’s giving software developers a wide open

[namechecks Martin Owen! :o] The drive to get interactive whiteboards into British classrooms could be missing the bigger picture

Why not use a little JavaScript to make line spacing relative to line width? ..Came together a few weeks ago while reading another of the many blog posts on the pros and cons of flexible vs. fixed width web layouts.

..take a look at Sphere, a stealth mode start-up that has developed some interesting algorithms to solve this problem. They are in Beta, but I have been kicking around the product from the day the company started in April 2005, and have been solidly impre

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

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.

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.

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

telling reflection for us Plonistas: is Drupal good for geo-dispersed students and professionals: "personal and professional reflection (blogging); information gathering; forums, threaded discussions; communication with peers and/or instructors; combinati

This publication is aimed at practitioners and managers in colleges of further education [FE] and parallel settings in the learning and skills sector. It arises from a partnership between the Learning and Skills Development Agency (LSDA) and the research

As the Web continues to develop and expand, creating a vast array of information hubs, the question to be asked is: Will libraries be key nodes on this information network? If history is a guide, the answer is "maybe". Yes, libraries have adapted and have

pdf of slides from presentation by Ajaxian bods Dion Almaer and Ben Galbraith - useful intro

The mod_rewrite cheat sheet is designed to act as a reminder and reference sheet, listing useful information about mod_rewrite. It includes a list of flags for the RewriteRule and RewriteCond directives, list of server variables, a regular expression guid

Evidence Based Library and Information Practice is a new open-access, peer-reviewed journal due to begin publication in the spring of 2006. The purpose of the journal is to provide a forum for librarians to discover research which can contribute to best-p

IVA is a Web-based learning management system, which is developed in Tallinn Pedagogical University in order to advocate constructivist approaches and practices in e-learning. IVA is a modification of another open-source Zope product called Fle3. Just lik

[dunno if thought-through architecturally :o].."basic idea of an i-tag (identity tag, independent tag, intelligent tag – take your pick) is that a user could tag an object (photo, video, sound file, text or an entire blog post), where the tag, and the o

..filters in real-time the area around the mouse pointer and displays the result — as seen by a color blind person — in a floating palette. Since there are many types of color blindness, Sim Daltonism allow you to choose the one you want to see.

It seems that many people aren’t as well informed about character references as they should be, so I’m going to clearly explain everything you need to know (and some things you probably don’t) about them, primarily for HTML and XML. There are two ty

Many equate Ajax to “Is it using XMLHttpRequest?”, which I think is taking the acronym too literally. There’s a reason why I’ve learned to say “Ajax” rather than “AJAX”: the term is user-centric, not techno-centric, and best defined in ter

[a must-do service, but do I trust it? :-] "blummy is a tool for quick access to your favorite web services via your bookmark toolbar. blummy works on almost every page on the web. Just click on it at your toolbar.

Google’s apparently releasing base.google.com. While some see it as a Craigslist play, it’s a lot more than that: Google has seen the future, and the future is one big mashup of microcontent. “A” microcontent is a small chunk of information, typic

The most monotonous entities in the known universe, forms, are a staple of every web programmer’s balanced diet. ... here are ten tips to transform your plain vanilla into double chocolate chunk with marshmallows

Pure CSS-based layouts have come a long way but they still have shortcomings [2] that fail to address certain design goals without compromising the true separation of content and presentation.

Well I decieded to show you a little trick on how to stop some of the issues with the refresh button. This is a quick and easy to implement. If your Ajax calls have some complexity, then you are going to have to adapt this slightly, but it may give you a

These are my notes and recollections to the RNIB media briefing into accessible PDFs. The Royal National Institute for the Blind hosted a media briefing on the evening of the 20th October 2005. The topic was the accessibility of PDFs

This example demonstrates bi-directional messaging between heterogeneous (Flash and AJAX) clients and WebORB Message Server. The server performs additional processing to geolocate chat users, injects necessary information in messages so users can plotted

great resource given scale of BBC's visitation.. 6 pages in depth, eg:Internet Explorer 85.9%; Firefox 9.7%;Safari 2.6%.."It started with a casual enquiry from a colleague - "I wonder how many Firefox users visit the BBC homepage?" - and before I knew it

Welcome to ProgrammableWeb v1.1. On the surface this site may not look much different, but on closer inspection there’s a variety of new features: Tags, Categorised APIs, Update-Dates, Sortable,integral examples

[V rem. of my old tech :o].. "So how do you load Javascript after the page has loaded? One way is with an XMLHttpRequest Call. The browser can easily accept a Javascript response and evaluate it. Any code not inside a function will be executed immediately

advice and experience for doing javascript / ajax memory leak testing

they 'get' it I think :-] .. "Electronic Portfolios are an archive of one’s work, achievements, ideas, thoughts and feelings which reflect an individual’s intellectual, emotional and social developments- in essence, they are a document of an individua

Two great tastes that taste great together: now that del.icio.us offers feeds by filetype and iTunes has full video support (including “vodcasts,” or video podcasts), you can load up iTunes with free video files bookmarked and tagged in del.icio.us. H

interesting notes on tagging features, trends, ideas. incl brief wmv.."Last night I attended Berkman special evening event titled “Future of Tagging” with Joshua Schachter, founder of delicious, with David Weinberger, Berkman Fellow, who moderated.

cute, simple newbie introduction to using del.icio.us, formatted and written for stress-free getting-started

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

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