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http://theinternetispeople.com/2006/08/16/facebook-opens-its-api/ Marc Canter is virtually climbing up the walls over at Marc’s Voice: Facebook is now offering open APIs for people, friends, hptos and events! Can life get any better than that! Think of all teh cooliop things that can
Technology and learning has an article about Elgg online today: Klein, an early adopter who licensed the free software for Saugus USD last year, says his school district's self-contained Elgg community has 169 members. Some teachers share lesson plans and photos through the file depository; others have
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http://theinternetispeople.com/2006/08/15/apple-red-hat-microsoft-dive-into-social-software/ As reported on Bokardo and Crunchgear, Apple is including a number of more social tools into the next release of its operating system. The headliner is a wiki server, but they’re also adding more social
http://theinternetispeople.com/2006/08/15/the-semantic-web-is-automatons/ A lot has been said over the past few years about the semantic web, which is a way of assigning machine-readable meaning to information on the Internet. In theory, were this to work and be widely used, the
This is something of an aside. For a while now I've had an idea for a game system, which is extensible enough to have uses in education, but would also have uses elsewhere. I haven't really played games since the demise of the LucasArts SCUMM adventures
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http://theinternetispeople.com/2006/08/14/websites-for-the-third-world-placebo-or-instrument-of-change/ Shailaja Neelakantan holds forth on a recent headline that an Indian village has ‘uploaded itself’ to the Internet. Translation: it got a website. Which is all very well, but does it have an Internet
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http://theinternetispeople.com/2006/08/14/youtube-the-napster-of-video-or-the-shape-of-things-to-come/ John C. Dvorak thinks we’re all missing the point about Youtube. There certainly have been a lot of naysayers in the industry, and it’s been observed that there’s a
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As much as I hate to admit it, Live Writer could actually be a very useful tool for beginners to weblogs. It's got a nice, simple
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Elgg 0.65 left the building on Friday; as ever, head over to Elgg.org for all Elgg software-related resources. There are a ton of improvements in this one, including better internationalisation support, the filters you see on the Elgg.net all weblogs page and more. For interested developers,
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Following Steve O'Hear's earlier post on E-learning 2.0, he's again contributed to Read/Write Web, this time with an article entirely devoted to Elgg. Dave: Click here to read the full entry.
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http://theinternetispeople.com/2006/08/11/is-flock-right/ Richard MacManus has an interesting interview with Flock’s co-founder Geoffrey Arone over at ZDnet. This is worth a listen, and Richard asks some pertinent questions. Geoffrey’s product adds photos, search, news, blogging and favourites to the open source
http://theinternetispeople.com/2006/08/11/the-mystery-of-the-online-community/ John C. Dvorak is on the case in PC Magazine, wondering if there’s a hard and fast way to prevent the “fakes and vandals” from ruining online communities. Other systems such as Metafilter are also information-driven,