Masters thesis on social software (e.g., blogs, wikis, social bookmarking services)...and how they support learning, knowledge management, and communities of practice.
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wOW! Search on 'metabolic AND syndrome' came up at zero, but shifting to 'metabolic,' I got SKILLIONS of articles related to "metabolic syndrome." GOOD ones!
Today, we have web systems that allow you to do all of your web authoring right from within the website itself. This means, no backup! Luckily, there is not only an easy but automatic way to back up your website files.
This article outlines the process involved in transforming the del.icio.us user API XML document into an HTML fragment. Because the XSLT processor is compiled, and therefore runs significantly faster than interpreted Javascript in the browser, I push as m
...Meanwhile, Microsoft announced Silverlight, their latest attempt to recreate the web in their own image. ...Sun is working on an alternative to AJAX...Adobe introduced Apollo...The web just got richer? Well, somebody's getting richer, but I doubt it'll
Teachers and students from 10 European schools are working on tools regarding ELECTRONIC LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS like ejournals, webquests, weblogs, websites, video conferences, voip, photo imaging et cetera. It turns out that platforms like Dokeos, Lo-net,
Metaweb holds the promise of all connected humankind weaving a tapestry of connections that more and more of us will be able to stand back and say, "Hmmm....I see a pattern here" and thus be able to invent ever higher value, solve deeper and more profound
“Are you my friend? Yes or no?” This question, while fundamentally odd, is a key component of social network sites. Participants must select who on the system they deem to be ‘Friends.’ Their choice is publicly displayed for all to see and becomes
Just as colonies of social insects such as ants and bees are able to perform intelligent collective behaviors without centralized control, the millions, or even billions, of humans and programs roaming independently through the Semantic Web, selectively r
Several hundred lectures are now available in mp3 format at BC Recordings. This current selection is from our old catalog, and is of much lower audio quality than our new mp3 lecture collection.
Google Web Toolkit (GWT) is an open source Java software development framework that makes writing AJAX applications like Google Maps and Gmail easy for developers who don't speak browser quirks as a second language. Writing dynamic web applications today
"Using Flash as the engine, Goowy (a play on GUI, get it?) pretends to be a desktop OS. There's a little "dock" at the bottom (apps even bounce as they "launch"). There's a moderately decent little RSS app, pictured above. You have stickies, a calendar, e
Some folks want to create authoritative sources so that they don’t have to think about things…don’t have to consider the source and the context of life. Down with Wikipedia because it’s not authoritative! Down with Digg because it is gamed! Down w
GCS - Global Citation Score shows the Citation Frequency based on the total count in the Web of Science. LCR - Local Cited References shows the count of cited papers within the collection. LCS - Local Citation Score shows the Citation Frequency within the
Senator Wyden, joined by Senator Brownback, today introduced a bill designed to nullify the Copyright Royalty Board’s recent ruling, which raises music licensing fees precipitously and threatens to put a lot of webcasters out of business. The bill, call
The hacker mind-set is not confined to this software-hacker culture. There are people who apply the hacker attitude to other things, like electronics or music — actually, you can find it at the highest levels of any science or art. Software hackers reco
We need solutions that can help the many people whose terms and vocabulary are left out of the taxonomy... The simple idea that people’s actions model meaning better than a directory (even a flexible directory) is a critical step forward in thinking ab
Clickable article giving an overview of history, distinctions and definitions, potential uses, current manifestations, and permutations of this thing called (conveniently, but not accurately) 'Web 2.0.'
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Mashable invites you to produce “Top 10″-style posts with a length of between 600 and 1300 words. Images aren’t required, but they are useful. Think “10 Latino Social Sites” or “10 Blogging Platforms Head to Head”. And since months of bloggi
It’s now only a few days until 2007, and a good time for the yearly prediction posts to start rolling out - including one from Mashable. To add a more interesting spin, we’ll throw in a mini-game of blog tag - a few people “tagged” at the end of t
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With due respect, I think you, and even more aggresiously Clay Shirkey, have been misrepresenting what the Semantic Web is, and critiquing based on that misunderstanding, not on the reality. Folks like Danny Hillis and Nova Spivack who were listening got
some time now, I’ve wanted to increase my understanding of microformats. If you’re unfamilar with the term or want to understand the basic purpose of this technology better, I suggest reading Phil Windley’s Microformats: Paving the Cowpaths. I read
Technorati has been a strong supporter of open microformats standards for quite some time. We launched the first implementation that indexes and searches posts tagged with rel-tag. We support XOXO for lists and outlines throughout the site, our member's f
microformats are, just as importantly, defined by what they are not: not a new language; not infinitely extensible and open-ended; not an attempt to get everyone to change their behavior and rewrite their tools; not a whole new approach that throw
Web Ontology Language (OWL) is a markup language for publishing and sharing data using ontologies on the Internet. OWL is a vocabulary extension of the Resource Description Framework (RDF) and is derived from the DAML+OIL Web Ontology Language (see also D
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A. Ankolekar, M. Krötzsch, T. Tran, и D. Vrandecic. WWW '07: Proceedings of the 16th international conference on World Wide Web, стр. 825--834. New York, NY, USA, ACM Press, (2007)