elearning2.0 linklog

the captions were a hilarious surprise- a direct english translation of the chinese interpretation of what the script was saying. it varied from being somewhat close to the script to being 'far far away'....

knotes provides a comprehensive suite of new functionalities to Plone sites: a very fast and effective discussion system and a complementary web-log publishing system, both fully supporting the major weblogging standards: trackback, the MetaWeblog, Blogge

Google Sightseeing is brought to you by Alex, James & Olly who take you to the best tourist spots in the world via satellite images from Google Maps & Google Earth.

Welcome to flickRate! This is an attempt to enhance flickr's favorites system. This is beta, everything may change, and data can be lost.

Bookmarklets generally try to cram all of the code into a 255 character space A megamark, on the other hand, doesn’t try to actually do all of the work in the code. Rather, it uses the 255 character URL field in the bookmark as a bootstrap loader to pul

a one-year, AUD$15million national strategy... provides the VET system with e-learning skills, professional development opportunities, products, resources and support networks to meet today's increasingly technology-driven learning environment.

Good links [[ In February 2004 the Australian Flexible Learning Framework (AFLC) began an Online Forum, "Getting Started in Flexible Learning", moderated by Judy Fawcett, targeted especially for practitioners who were new to flexible learning and wished t

allows you to easily develop and deliver peer evaluations to your students. You can compile evaluation results by student or group and this greatly simplifies instructor workflow.

iEvents is a powerful client-side tool for quickly creating custom calendar websites that can then be easily uploaded to any internet server or iDisk. It is ideal for individuals, schools, user groups, or any organization that wants to share their calenda

Smart, intuitive, and highly configurable, Daikini Photon gives you the power to manage your Movable Type™, TypePad™, Blojsom and WordPress photo-blogs in the familiar surrounds of Apple iPhoto.

7 simple steps in easy workflow from finder into flickr

incorporate blogs as key, task driven, elements; use assessment tasks that incorporate subversion; use blogs for what they are good for;

good intro to flickr; os-x specific power tips; good links

Driving awareness of the Flickr API, projects that use it and those incredible ideas that programmatically exposed systems produce. Think Google API + Amazon API + Flickr API with a bit of GMail thrown in.

Flickr Secrets & Arcana; Non-API ways to get the most out of Flickr; Greasemonkey scripts & other cool third-party tools.

opensourceeln.org is the home of the Open Source Electronic Lab Notebook (OS-ELN) project, a community initiative initiated by Amphora Research Systems to develop a web-based, Open Source ELN.

Thoughts on social bookmarks, folksonomies, tag-based aggregated blog portals…a quick outline on some of the unique features …these are based on some of the tagging services I have covered, too many to keep up with…

The change does not affect on-screen Flickr IDs. But it means Flickr account holders with no Yahoo login will see their presence and photos disappear in 2006 unless they sign up with Yahoo.

A growing number of "social content" applications such as Flickr, del.icio.us, audioscrobbler, and AllConsuming are making open web services part of their core offering to end users. Based on a brief review of the common features of a selection of these s

iTunes isn't the end-all, be-all podcasting application - and iPodderX proves it. There are many more power user features to be found in iPodderX, yet it's simple enough that a podcasting newbie could pick it up as easily as they pick up their portable me

at Podcast.net you can find podcasts on your favorite topics via tags as well. You can navigate our tags via the "Browse Tags" feature at the top of each page (just below the search bar) or by clicking on Keyword/Tag links found throughout the directory.

Welcome! This Road Map contains hand-picked links from the last 6 Road Maps, including our newly released 2005 edition.

online journal publishing ed-tech, reviews and elarning experiences; also big links lists

site designed to help K-12 teachers integrate technology into the classroom. over 5,800 annotated links to educational sites with free resources, all organized by theme pages and keyword search.

National newspaper article on a plone site [ ...the diocese is discovering that Web content management is a vital part of working together. It has also discovered that an open source tool called "Plone" is just the software for the job

[special markup]...Everybody loves rounded corners. A plethora of articles have been written about how to do it, but this is going to be different. This article is going to show you how to make rounded corners without images. That’s right. Without image

Startplane is an attempt at a directory based on the popular del.icio.us bookmarking application. Categories are determined by the most commonly used tags, and sites are ranked based on how many unique users used the tags of the current category to descri

coolest is clustering of 'expert' users Del.icio.us users who bookmark helpful/timely URLs (as evidenced by others subsequently bookmarking those URLs) will be rewarded with higher CollaborativeRank, which means that they will have greater influence on s

Experts in plone: 1. dehora, 2. jemisa, 3. winjer, 4. miziodel, 5. sports_betting, 6. pwaring, 7. jyap, 8. moriwaka, 9. markthomas

good review of API, intro to service, python wrapper [ The del.icio.us-space has three major axes: users, tags, and URLs. These axes are reflected in the clean URL design used by the site:

The Open Source Portfolio Initiative (OSPI) is a community of individuals and organizations collaborating on the development of the leading non-proprietary, open source electronic portfolio software available. ormed in January 2003, the Open Source Portfo

There are quite a number of tools out there to help you build rich user interfaces using Javascript and HTML. Some are free and others are commercial. Here's a short list i compiled a while back:

Yahoo! is currently searching for XUL developers (rumours said they want to deliver their PhotoMail application on a XUL based UI). There are some fancy and fantastic XUL applications out there, for example Bloxor or the Mozilla Amazon Browser.

A JetPak is a little bundle of content on a particular topic, which can include links to sites and images from around the Web, plus your own comments. You can build JetPaks quickly by pointing and clicking, share them with other JetEye users, and view the

Closures are one of the most powerful features of ECMAScript (javascript) but they cannot be property exploited without understanding them. They are, however, relatively easy to create, even accidentally, and their creation has potentially harmful consequ

Instead of throwing messages at people, messages are sent back and forth across secure RSS feeds. How it works (FAQ) FeedMail sets up an individual, encrypted, private RSS feeds between you and each of your contacts.

This week I've been noticing a lot of Web 2.0-style Office apps coming out. Here's a selection of some of them...But really the most interesting web-based Office apps are the current crop of Web 2.0-style apps, built by small start-ups or open source deve

Rojo is a FREE web-based service that lets you efficiently read RSS feeds: unique features: the only social network for content; TAGS & COMMENTS; recommeded links based on subscriptions

Server-side RSS feed aggregator written in PHP and heavily based on XmlHttpRequest and related technologies for user interface and operation.

Launched six months ago, the live question-and-answer service (http://www.wondir.com) has attracted 175,000 members who ask and answer the kinds of questions that stump regular search engines.

What we're trying to do: Wondir is trying to find a way to help people who are posting questions as blog posts get those questions answered (via our pool of answerers at Wondir)

the first question is, what the structure of the MicroContent is on Wondir. One of the central things is a question, a piece of text posted at a date by a user. Answers are attached to questions and consist of a piece of text, a username and a posting dat

Instead of designing instruction (which we assume will lead to learning), we should be focusing on designing ecologies in which learners can forage for knowledge, information, and derive meaning.

October 2001 issue [ CIVIL ENGINEERING ] -- A major hurricane could swamp New Orleans under 20 feet of water, killing thousands. Human activities along the Mississippi River have dramatically increased the risk, and now only massive reengineering of sout

with the new system, I can put the format where my mouth is... In my old system I could create some structure, but it was limited to six fields. Now I have an unlimited number of fields. For my review blog I am using 12 fields and impromptu fields will en

reviews of librarian / library-scientist bloggers [ this is an informal study of a “top 50” library-people blogs, including some metrics.

thoroughly realised spoof site occupying 'whitehouse.org'. Looks like loads of well considered parody and pastiche as well as a lot of the kind of cheap gag that pleases people like me :O)

[also good eg of amazon advanced search :o) ... either people are in a big rush to learn about computers, or that computers are somehow fabulously easier to learn than anything else. There are no books on how to learn Beethoven, or Quantum Physics, or eve

Enter your recipient's email address, choose a file to store on YouSendIt server, click on Send It button to send a link. Your privacy is guaranteed.

Secret shortcuts. Hidden helpers. Mysterious menus. You could spend months tracking down all the undocumented features tucked away in Mac OS X 10.4, Apple’s newest operating system. But chances are, you’re too busy using Tiger for more-important tasks

If you bookmark the Ping-O-Matic ping results page you can simply load that directly and have fast pinging of almost a dozen services a single click away.

The WiredReach Platform, built on a set of open standards and technologies, allows users to selectively and securely share “content” with others in a completely decentralized manner. That means your content does not have to be uploaded to any central

This presentation is a brief introduction describing the emerging class of software collectively labeled 'social software,' examining several implementations, and also taking a look at where this might be leading.

This week in The Talk of the Town, The New Yorker reprints an excerpt from this piece, from 1987, on the Army Corps of Engineers’ efforts to tame the waters of Louisiana. Here is the full text of the article.

jenny et al... this is my tag for clients for reading RSS

[highly skinned plone site] Raise cash for a shared beach house, a group skydiving trip or a communal margarita machine by creating an all-or-nothing fundraising campaign at fundable.org. Set a economic goal--say, $1,000 to rent a house--and ask pals to c

[commerce-trading plone site] Open Portfolios is a free, powerful tool for charting the performance of your investment accounts. Open Portfolios lets investors see the performance of their accounts, and share their information with others. Most sites only

I've never gone through the Explore section on Flickr before. I just checked it out, and holy crap! Interestingness everywhere! There are some absolutely amazing photos on Flickr! What they’ve done is come up with a great way to mine user-generated

Now anyone will be able to benefit from Skype’s platform and will be able to integrate both presence and instant messaging features into websites and applications. By opening up its platform to the web, Skype will instantly be creating the largest open

Skype API for Mac OS X has currently Cocoa, Carbon and AppleScript interfaces. Cocoa and Carbon interfaces are implemented in Skype.framework. The recommended way to use the Skype framework is to include it in your application as an embedded framework. Co

OLAT is a web-based Open Source Learning Management System (LMS) / Learning Content Management System (LCMS) used in the public sector of Switzerland. The initial development started at the University of Zuerich, Switzerland where it is deployed on the ma

MetaWishlist.com is a community built around the things you want. This is a place to gather your wish list items from anywhere on the net and keep them all in one, convenient place. Sign up, add the bookmarklet to your browser, and you'll be on your way t

social software for organising lists of your own books [ Enter 200 books for free; enter as many as you like with a $10 lifetime membership.

hackers are combining the data and features of two or more Web sites, creating entirely new, independent Web mash-ups that in the best cases transcend either of their forebears. Heralding a new Web in which users call the shots, most mash-ups are free, no

This chart is a companion to the article "Time to check: Are you using the right blogging tool?," published July 14, 2005 in the USC Annenberg Online Journalism Review. Do note that this chart reflects only standard features of the tools' installation, an

FreeMind is a premier free mind-mapping software written in Java. The recent development has hopefully turned it into high productivity tool. We are proud that the operation and navigation of FreeMind is faster than that of MindManager because of one-clic

ka-Map ("ka" as in ka-boom!) is an open source project that is aimed at providing a javascript API for developing highly interactive web-mapping interfaces using features available in modern web browsers

Ubuntu is a complete Linux-based operating system, freely available with both community and professional support.

a free and open educational resource for faculty, students, and self-learners around the world. OCW supports MIT's mission to advance knowledge and education, and serve the world in the 21st century. It is true to MIT's values of excellence, innovation, a

eWeek.com and internetnews.com report that RSS just became more secure and thus more appropriate for wider enterprise use.

Slow, featureless online calendars are so Web 1.0. Kiko Calendar provides all of the functionality of offline calendar software, and all the convenience of online access. Plus, it's free!

USP seems to be it's more searchable than delicious? [ RawSugar lets you save and tag your favorite Web pages and create your personal searchable Web page to share with your friends. Tagging is a quick and flexible way to categorize your favorites.

browser-based instant messaging client. It uses the XMLHTTPRequest object in JavaScript to send and receive commands to and from the server. No refreshing of the page is ever needed for this "web application" to work, as everything is updated in real-time

yes - they host the rss-to-js for you! --People are pounding our little old server pretty hard... as of April 2005, we are looking for other sites willing to become public Feed2JS mirror sites

fetches 80 compact results from two leading authorities on web search and shows you what BOTH of them think are good results (the STARS). These are the most relevant results from their mutual agreement. It also shows you were they conflict (the ORPHANS).

eg bookmarklet for clippings and saving pages [ Nextaris is an entirely new concept; an all- in-one set of web-based tools for searching the Web, capturing content, saving/sharing files, publishing blogs,

reference-collection for the NGRF in the connotea social-citation service from Nature

Recent papers added to NGRF's library. You can also search NGRF's library or view all of NGRF's authors and tags.

This extension adds OpenURL 0.1 buttons to the results of a search in Google Scholar. The purpose is to enable users at an institution that has an OpenURL link-resolver to use that resolver to locate the full text of articles found in Google Scholar, ins

mike's ongoing collection of google-scholar information and 3rd-party mashup tools

We are going to let you in on the ground floor of an exciting, not so new technology... No this is not a get-rich-quick scheme; it is more like a get-informed-quick strategy. This technology, "RSS," allows you to choose specific sources of information fro

RSS feeds come in lots of formats, and ways you find them on web sites. It starts out confusing because they are typically direct links to the XML formatted file, and if you actually click the link, what you see looks like gobbledy gook.

This is not intended to be a comprehensive guide to RSS Feeds, but the following resources may be of assistance.

Results 1 - 10 of about 31,500,000 for introduction rss

These are basic-intro links Mike is collecting which explain RSS to the general public

Plone 2.1 was officially released today. Congratulations to all the folks who worked so hard to make this release “not suck.” It definitely doesn’t.

This release of Plone focuses on Archetypes-based default content types, user interface improvements, speed improvements and new navigation tree/site map.

Click upon your area of interest and a marker will appear showing the estimated water depth at that location. If this value reflects "0.0 ft" no standing water should be expected. A value of "4.5 ft" means that approximately 4.5 feet of standing water sho

friendly rant on why / how web professionals can force the standards issue [ Standards can be hard, but they’re not impossible;What they don’t know won’t hurt them;Conversion of legacy code; Pride

TechCrunch is a weblog dedicated to obsessively profiling and reviewing every newly launched web 2.0 business, product and service. In addition to new companies, we will profile existing companies that are making an impact (commercial and/or cultural) on

Wikipedia, the Web encyclopedia written and edited by Internet users from all over the world, plans to impose stricter editorial rules to prevent vandalism of its content, founder Jimmy Wales was quoted as saying Friday.

exemplary Plone skinning [ Like all of the websites we do, Snowleopard.org is powered by Plone, the most powerful and easy-to-use open-source content management system around. Plone makes it easy for Snow Leopard Trust staff to maintain a large, complex s

Is your business or non-profit gaining the benefits of using the latest website technologies?

My brilliant colleagues at ONE/Northwest and our talented collaborators at LightSky Designs and RagingWeb just helped Snow Leopard Trust launch their new website. It’s a beautiful site, with a ton of great content and some eye-popping photos of these ma

ever since she got her acceptance letter she's been meeting her future classmates virtually. They're easy to find on Vassar's Web site as well as at Thefacebook.com, the online phenomenon that's probably sucked up more free time than videogames Halo 2 and

VERY HIGH UPTAKE! [ The Facebook is an online directory that connects people through social networks at schools. Now there are two Facebooks: one for people in college and one for people in high school.

While working on Particletree’s shopping cart system for our magazine, we decided that we wanted to create a flawless user experience for all users without having to sacrifice the added user interface benefits provided by Ajax goodness. A lot of places

Last night was a big night for numbers with the release of Shaun Inman's Mint. To celebrate, I thought I'd gather a few other ways to help you obsess over your site's status on the web

Over the last several years I've been asked by many web designers and developers about how to best get started with building web sites using CSS and standards. Usually, I'll just send them 300 links and wish them a lot of luck. This overview is sort of my

Our implementation loads the XML file and draws a polyline between each point on a small delay to give the animated effect and route taken. We thought it would be cool to spice it up and added some other calculations like total time, total distance, pace,

TargetAlert is an extension for the Firefox web browser that provides visual cues for the destinations of hyperlinks. If a hyperlink points to a something that is not a web page, then TargetAlert will try to append an icon to the hyperlink that represents

js required for 'hot' to exclude bots... sophisticated interface...Mint provides a fresh look at your site. It is concise, flexible and timely. And to sweeten the deal, this delicious little bundle of PHP, MySQL, and JavaScript joy is referrer-spam-proof.

AWStats is a free powerful and featureful tool that generates advanced web, streaming, ftp or mail server statistics, graphically. This log analyzer works as a CGI or from command line and shows you all possible information your log contains, in few graph

very fast ZOPE site running SILVA

faces is a powerful and flexible project management tool. It not only offers many extraordinary features like multiple resource balancing algorithms and multi scenario planing, but can also be easily extended and customized. Faces consists of a Python cla

This document describes TrackBack, a framework for peer-to-peer communication and notifications between web sites. The central idea behind TrackBack is the idea of a TrackBack ping, a request saying, essentially, "resource A is related/linked to resource

Movable Type's TrackBack system allows peer-to-peer communication and conversations between weblogs. Imagine that you write about a movie you just saw in an entry on your Movable Type-powered weblog. Another MT weblogger reads your entry, and wants to wri

Running on any OSX machine in your network (from a Mac Mini up to powerful Xserve configurations), SeeFile lets you put your filesystem up on the Web, live. SeeFile lets you make specified areas visible to one or more colleagues, each with their own login

thoughtful analysis and visionware scoping covering ed-tech standards, open and oersonal learning and open standards

Blogging platform built with PHP, designed with maximum customizability, speed and ease of use in mind. Forums and bugs reports can be found at http://www.plogworld.net/

On paid assignment for one of the companies competing in this field, I have taken to test the major multi-user and group blog publishing tools for an independent comparative review. In this introduction to the public release of this report, I want to clar

DrupalED is a Drupal-based distribution optimized for use in educational contexts.

Being asked to put together my reflections on why do the MA in Careers, Education and Guidance for this newsletter has been an interesting exercise, not least because when I think about why I did it in the first place I have to truthfully record it was qu

[Tim Bray writes} Since Scott McNealy doesn’t have his own blog, I’ll post the email he sent to the Commonwealth of Massachusetts today.

we analyze the structure of collaborative tagging systems as well as their dynamical aspects. ...we discovered regularities in user activity, tag frequencies, kinds of tags used, bursts of popularity in bookmarking and a remarkable stability in the relati

[lovely] This started as a project to see if Google Maps could be made better using Flash — and it ended up exceeding my own expectations.

[ good up-to-date links] Social bookmarking is an activity performed over a computer network that allows users to save and categorize (see folksonomy) a personal collection of bookmarks and share them with others. Users may also take bookmarks saved by ot

Rooted in constructivist theory, BlinkList is designed to act as a facilitator, providing users with the tools to chunk, scaffold, and organize knowledge in a format that best suits them. In a nutshell, BlinkList opens the path to knowledge instead of bei

Blended Edu is dedicated to providing web-based social media resources and curriculum materials for teachers, students, researchers, and others interested in the convergence of cyberculture, social software technologies, and e-learning.

Organize Your Web, Your Way. Organize all the web pages you find into groups of easily manageable lists of things to buy, music to download, blogs to read...you name it. It's Fun, Free and Saves You Time. Get started by signing up for an account and impor

DataBlogging is the notion that traditional blog entries have extended data fields appended to them to track various things.

Join us October 5-7, 2005 at the Argent Hotel located in beautiful San Francisco for the second annual Web 2.0 Conference.

Welcome! This is a community effort to create a list of all APIs and web services that are publicly available for people to play with.

Welcome! This is a community effort to create a list of all APIs and web services that are publicly available for people to play with.

Leigh Dodds wrote a survey of web services APIs for XTech 2005. Speaking as the author of one of the surveyed APIs, you do this kind of work in a vacuum, and I found his survey incredibly useful. I'm going to respond in detail here

The next generation of identity architecture is emerging. Identity 2.0 will provide the online mechanism for authenticating and managing real-world user-centric identities.

weblog of Marc Cantor, covering toppics including microcontent / microformat, web2.0, structured blogging.. Apparently collaborating with Dave Winer on structured blogging

article on overloading html attributes or coining new ones to control markup-script triggering

succinct arguments why xhtml constrains richness and ease of maintenance of web interfaces [ Here are my top eight reasons on why XHTML is Considered Harmful

beta temporarily suspended, so do not know how well it works. Not open-source. Docucentric. Insert-image supprot. Multiple simultaneous editors - changes automatically sync'd every few seconds.

very useful top 10 + extensive runners-up free, compelling AJAX apps. Comments in the entry seem to be collecting even more suggestions. From a venture-captial perspective.

Backbase provides Rich Internet Application (RIA) software that radically improves the usability and effectiveness of online applications, and increases developer productivity. With Backbase you can build web applications with a richer and more responsive

good, cleare intro examples to the 'A' in AJAX - client-server interactions

commercial, windows-only... Capture and organize scholarly research and references in one step. Store PDFs and references together in searchable local collections. Synchronize with Endnote®. Includes all Onfolio Professional features.

Web 2.0 API Reference is a database of Web 2.0 APIs. Organized into a structured format for easy reference.

Web 2.0 is a term often applied to a perceived ongoing transition of the World Wide Web from a collection of websites to a full-fledged computing platform serving web applications to end users. The proponents of this thinking expect that ultimately Web 2.

The reason that the term "Web 2.0" has been bandied about so much is because it does capture the widespread sense that there's something qualitatively different about today's web.

Displaying tags as a mindmap tree was an obvious fit. I figured it wouldn't be too hard to transform an xml format from del.icio.us to the Freemind file format. A great benefit I found when I was researching, I discovered the mindmap format could also inc

Form to send a TrackBack ping to one url from another. Useful for tests and demos! Trackback freely hosted by BrutalHugs.com

As the tag is not suited for sending large amounts of email from within Zope, and this fact has generated quite some traffic on the mailing list, *and* I was in need of such a bulkmailer myself, I looked at the matter a bit more closely.

Zope source documentation is quite good; Python provides good introsp