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- The Buzz:Cataloging the Fire Hose: Tagging
- Web 2.0 In Action: Predicting the Fire Hose?…
- Products and Apps IBM Partners with UCLA, NC State…
The Buzz
Cataloging the Fire Hose: Tagging
Web 1.0 allowed us to replace mental hyperlinks with digital hyperlinks. Now, Web 2.0 helps us tag knowledge objects on the fly as a kind of personalized — and variable — cataloging. As we look ahead, the semantic Web, or «Web 3.0,» is emerging and semantic Web sites help us do the tagging.
Web 2.0 In Action
Predicting the Fire Hose? A Sampling of Predictions
Is there hope for surviving the fire hose of Web 2.0? Will we reach a tipping point in 2008 or 2009 where the creative burst will be balanced by organizing and managing technologies? It’s the tech award and prediction season, so let’s check out what’s going on.
Products and Apps
IBM Partners with UCLA, NC State on Web Development
In an effort to promote expertise in Web 2.0 application development among the next generation of IT professionals, IBM has teamed up with two universities–University of California, Los Angeles and North Carolina State University–to provide support for academic programs teaching programming using open technologies like Groovy and Java in conjunction with Eclipse and Ruby on Rails. IBM also said it will be providing its previously announced Lotus Mashups software free to the academic community later this year.
Lotus Mashups To Be Free for Academics
IBM announced Thursday that its commercial mashup software Lotus Mashups will be made free for academic users when it’s released later this year. The move is part of the company’s plan to expand its Academic Initiative in 2008.
Elluminate Builds Bridge to Moodle
Collaborative technology developer Elluminate has brought its Live! virtual classroom software to the Moodle platform. The company released a piece of software Tuesday called Elluminate Bridge for Moodle, which is designed to integrate Live! into the open-source learning management system.
Google, Microsoft, IBM, VeriSign, Yahoo Join OpenID Board
In a move that could help deliver single sign-on to the masses, Google, Microsoft, IBM, VeriSign and Yahoo have joined a consortium that backs a common federated identity specification. The vendors jointly announced their membership to the OpenID Foundation’s board Feb. 7. The OpenID spec allows individuals to create one user name, password, and other credentials for logging onto multiple Web sites that support the spec.
OpenDNS To Launch Free Web Filtering for Education
Just what is «people-powered security?» It’s how OpenDNS describes its forthcoming Web filtering solution targeted toward education. The service, set to launch later this month, taps into the expertise of IT professionals in schools (and in the private sector) to create a sort of reverse social tagging, blocking potentially dangerous sites based on users’ experiences. Like all of OpenDNS’ services, this new one is free, including support for deployment and integration in existing campus infrastructures.
JumpBox Brings PmWiki to Virtual Environments
JumpBox this week released JumpBox for PmWiki, a bundled software tool that combines support for virtual computing environments with open-source wiki functionality.
Online Resources
- Webcast: How to improve learning with class capture
Webcast: Transforming the teacher-student paradigm with class-capture technology
Enable students and faculty to create rich online content, access recorded lectures-anytime, anywhere-and quickly search content to find what they need for study and review. Attend this informative webcast to see how Yavapai Community College uses Tegrity’s flexible, easy-to-use tools and resources to create a better teaching and learning experience on their campus.
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