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Links for 2008 04 03
- MediaWiki Extension – Kaltura’s Collaborative Video xml tag extension
Allows wiki users to embed Collaborative Video widgets on any article page. The flash-based widget serves as a player for the collaborative video and also allows wiki users to add rich media to the video and edit the video collaboratively. - Extension:SocialProfile – MediaWiki
The following package of extensions will incorporate a social profile, user board, and basic profile information into MediaWiki, specifically Avatars, Friending, Foeing, User Board, Board Blast, and basic Profile Information. The package also notifies use
Links for 2008 04 02
- Linux.com :: Web 2.0 tossed aside in favor of Web3.14159265358979323846…
;-) O’Really has copyrighted the term, "Web3.14159265358979323846…," and says he will "vigorously defend our exclusive use of it in court, no matter how many rounds we have to fight with the ‘information wants to be free’ pukes who use the Web to run ro
Links for 2008 03 31
- Wikis Home – wikis.sun.com
An example of openess and transparency from a corporation. Sun Wiki. This is where contributors inside and outside of Sun Microsystems can share information with each other, and with the world.
Links for 2008 03 29
Links for 2008 03 26
- JAMA — Abstract: Tracing a Syphilis Outbreak Through Cyberspace, July 26, 2000, Klausner et al. 284 (4): 447
Authors found syphilis outbreak was tied to a network of sexual contacts meeting via chat rooms. The public health department started an electronic awareness and partner notification campaign using the same Web-based sexual network; 42% of named partners - First Rule of Usability? Don’t Listen to Users (Alertbox)
To design an easy-to-use interface, pay attention to what users do, not what they say. Self-reported claims are unreliable, as are user speculations about future behavior.
Links for 2008 03 24
- OpenSpime » ETech presentation (video and slides)
David Orban’s presentation of OpenSpime at Etech (video and slides). Sterling: "These guys are a tech start-up from Torino who chose to name themselves “OpenSpime.†They’re into ubiquitous computation in the service of sustainability" - Enterprise Wikis Seen As a Way to End ‘Reply-All’ E-Mail Threads
- OpenSpime
Infrastructure for an open Internet of Things. From Italian minds! "Bruce Sterling suggested the creation of a new type of technological device, called "spime", that through pervasive RFID communications and GPS navigation can track its history and intera
Links for 2008 03 20
- Google Visualization API Gadget Gallery – Google Visualization API – Google Code
For visualizing structured data, with also a set of visualization gadgets. Google wow as usual.
Links for 2008 03 22
- Wikia Open Sources Social Networking – Focused Networking Now Open to All – ReadWriteWeb
Wikia, the independent commercial wiki site founded by Wikipedia’s Jimmy Wales and Angela Beesley, is releasing components of its very nice social networking toolset under the GNU General Public License 2.0. - Rethinking Recommendation Engines – ReadWriteWeb
In this post we argue that the improvement in recommendation engines is not an algorithmic problem, but rather a presentation issue. Respinning recommendations as filters and delivering them without setting high expectations is more likely to yield progre - Social Innovation Camp » Welcome
What happens when you get a bunch of software developers and social innovators together, give them a set of social problems and only 48 hours to solve them? 4th April 2008 – London
Links for 2008 03 18
- Scientists shun Web 2.0 | The Register
A panel of science web publishers said scientists had consistently shunned wikis, tagging, and social networks, and have even proven reticent to leave comments on web pages. - Bench Marks » Blog Archive » Why Web 2.0 is failing in Biology
Very interesting long post about Web2.0 and Biology - Crowdsourcing for reporting live illegal immigration across the border
In January 2008, the State of Texas will install 200 mobile cameras along the Texas-Mexico border, which will allow anyone with an internet connection to watch the border and report sightings of alleged illegal immigrants to border patrol agents. - Crowdsourcing – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Crowdsourcing is a neologism for the act of taking a task traditionally performed by an employee or contractor, and outsourcing it to an undefined, generally large group of people, in the form of an open call. - Citizen science – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Jump to: navigation, search Citizen science is a term used for a project or ongoing program of scientific work in which a network of volunteers, many of whom may have no specific scientific training, perform or manage research-related tasks such as o