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Plain-English Translation of the Blackboard Patent Claims: [PDF 7pp 28KB]'a listing of the 44 claims in Blackboard’s U.S. patent #6,988,138, along with an interpretation of each claim - interpretations written by Michael Feldstein, who is not a lawyer
from mfeldstein.com, where he also lists as among the likely infringers: ANGEL, Bazaar, Desire2Learn, dotLRN, eCollege AU+, IBM Workplace Collaborate Learning, LON-CAPA, Moodle, Saba Learning Suite, Sakai, SumTotal Enterprise Suite, WebCT
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Software Tagging Workshop - PriorArt | Sep 14th and 15th, Portland, OR: OSDL is organizing a workshop for Open Source Software authors, repositories, and users to help define and create a distributed "Social Tagging" mechanism to describe OSS
'The goal is to create a system that will allow the characteristics of OSS code and documentation to be easily collected and searched by everyone, while still being distributed and shared by all participating repositories
/open-source/issues policy/open-source policy/software-patents resources/best-practice resources/documentation social-bookmarking tagging -
Open Source as Prior Art - Project Wiki ['We want to see fewer poor quality patents. We also wish to help people defend themselves against bad patents. Our strategy to achieve this is simple; Help the USPTO use Open Source as prior art']
incl existing publications as P.A. | USPTO and P.A. | Make data more valuable as P.A. | Guideline for Developers | ensure your program can be used as P.A. in 20 years | Tagging Prototype | Easier searching for P.A. | OSSTag | A Social Tagging Engine
/code-tech/documenting open-source/issues policy/open-source policy/software-patents resources/best-practice resources/documentation tagging wiki -
Open Source as Prior Art [org website]: 'The goal is to reduce the number of poor quality software patents by increasing accessibility to Open Source Software code & documentation that can be used as prior art during the patent examination process
'3 patent quality initiatives identified thru collaboration among USPTO, IBM, OSDL & others in the Open Source community & software industry: 1. Open Source Software as Prior Art (this website) | 2. Community patent review | 3. Patent quality index
/evangelism/anti-patents evangelism/open-source policy/open-source policy/software-patents resources/best-practice resources/documentation standards-org -
del.icio.us/help/networkbadges - Network Badges allow you to display details about your del.icio.us network as part of your website
a new feature [as of aug 06] ... encouraging use of the del explicit network -- eg of display = I am Mike_Malloch on del.icio.us... I have 39 people in my network... I have 64 fans... Add me to your network
/del.icio.us portal-admin social-bookmarking to-do -
EdTechPost: Blackboard Patent and Prior Art: edutools =excellent wayback links 'see, for instance in this comparison from 1998, that Blackboard (here called Courseinfo) and WebCT show up in this apples to apples comparison with 4 other systems at the time
'at Edutools we can show a continuous development of the feature set that we use to compare these products from 1996 onwards - with changes and modifications over time, but it has been a relatively consistent point of comparison for almost 10 years now
/blackboard goodguys quotable recommended resources/collections resources/comparison resources/documentation vle/prior-art webtech/history -
Goggles :: The Google Maps flight sim - sweet mashup: control low-level flyovers through London, Paris etc
how cute is this! arrow keys to bank, dive and climb, a-z to control speed, space to fire :o)
/for:alharris for:rgedwards google googlemaps recommended webtech/MASHUP whimsy -
Game Maker [windows-only]: Using easy to learn drag-and-drop actions, create professional looking games in very little time: with backgrounds, animated graphics, music, sound fx, 3d ...scrolling shooters, platform games, puzzle games, isometric games
..when you've become more experienced, there is a built-in programming language, which gives you the full flexibility of creating games with Game Maker. Game Maker can be used free of charge. Do anything you want with the games you produce, even sell them
/code-tech/tools elearning/authoring elearning/gaming elearning/tools for:opendock structured-editing -
July 1998 comparison of VLE features [archived in the wayback machine: landonline from now-defunct UBC Centre for Curriculum, Transfer and Technology ] -- Integrated Application Feature/Tool Comparison Table
Highlighted features definitely include some later claimed in the blackboard patent! Compares Learning Space, Virtual-U, WebCT, Top Class, Web Course in a Box, CourseInfo (which became Blackboard)
/blackboard elearning/VLE goodguys quotable recommended resources/collections resources/comparison resources/documentation vle/prior-art webtech/history -
People Aggregator - social network web service - PeopleAggregator is an Identity Hub. At the center of all great Live Web software will be one’s digital identity. Users will control who has access to their data & be able to move data to other systems
We’ve designed the PeopleAggregator to lay the groundwork of a foundation platform we call an Identity Hub. We plan on supporting major open ID systems to create federated authentication layer. We then plan on layering on top of that platform import/
/architectures/service-oriented architectures/tiered identity2.0 knotes-issues services/identity social-startup standards/identity to-do webtech/MUST-WATCH webtech/identity webtech/people
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