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Apple - Support - Downloads - Broadband Tuner 1.0
Fascinating, makes your broadband go faster. Assumes high capacity with high latency. I wonder how this impacts terminal applications vs things like web browsers.
Bud posted this on November 28, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Slashdot | Is Wi-Fi Ruining College?
"It seems a bit of a stretch to impute a causal relationship, but it's certainly possible that the kind of brain that can handle multiple channels of information is also the kind of brain that earns A's."
Bud posted this on November 19, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Blog-Spotting With IBM
Not entirely clear how this works. It's not a service. It seems like it is a software that you install and then I suppose set it loose on some set of blogs. Wouldnt' it be better if it were a service, for scalability if nothing else?
Bud posted this on November 9, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Stephen's Web ~ WordPress 1.6 + Flickr Integrated into Media Manager
"Stuff like this is going to be big. Very big. Combine Web 2.0 style access to remote content, RSS feeds, and whatever to Ajax style authoring tools and you get... magic! This is how students will write essays in the very near future" Wordpress is good?
Bud posted this on November 7, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Ning | Home: Front Page
Ning is a social software development platform. Basically, you build an application and others sign up to be part of it. But, they are also signing up to be part of the whole platform. Your application becomes part of a whole ecology to attract users.
Bud posted this on October 4, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Slashdot | Dutch to Open Electronic Files on Children
Is this big brother or just a better way to service these people as they go through life.
Bud posted this on September 16, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
findability.org | ambient findability + the design of findable objects | a blog by Peter Morville
Peter Morville lives right in Ann Arbor and is interested in this class. Perhaps we should get him in.
Bud posted this on September 14, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
The Current State of Ajax
"He also points out that Ajax will inadvertently end up being a driving force for Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) for many organizations since it requires high performance back-end XML services."
Bud posted this on August 19, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Why Is Tagging So Hard?
"So TypePad is faced with the fact that many of their users want Web 2.0 style integration and they need to build it themself. That's a lot of work without much benefit to them."
Bud posted this on August 12, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
In Defense of Free
Because free is a great way to make money. You just have to know how you are going to get paid for being free.
Bud posted this on July 24, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
First Two Laws of Commons-Based Peer Production (Ross Mayfield)
I'm reminded of the observation that the collective judgment of 60 college educated people can equal 1 domain expert. Britannica = domain expert. The challenge for wikipedia is to get enough collective judgers.
Bud posted this on February 27, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Craigslist is a Community, Not an Application
So the value is in the community, not in the software used to create it.
Bud posted this on February 21, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
elise.com: On the Job: Weblog Tools Market - Update February 2005
An in-depth study of weblog authoring tools. Original source for what I linked to earlier through Read/Write Web.
Bud posted this on February 20, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
SourceForge.net: Project Info - Sarissa
More on XML over HTTP plus javascript. This is a cross-platform js library that enables it.
Bud posted this on February 19, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Employing the publish/subscribe model for greater effect
Bud posted this on February 18, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Raising ambitions: Developments to change our thinking
I like the non top-down nature of KM here. However, my experience is that these ecologies need animators. How is that different from top-down. May be subtle for some.
Bud posted this on February 18, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
What Is The Data Matrix? Machines and Humans Coexist
Content aggregation is heading toward more machine aggregation. My cut is that it has to make sense and be novel. People are looking for new things, not rehashes.
Bud posted this on February 18, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (2) | TrackBack (0)
Playlist: A Podcast of Your Own
Software you can use to create playlists
Bud posted this on February 18, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Online Groups: participation coaching
An important point about the need for facilitation in the group. I wonder if the participation coach ever goes away. Most real groups need communication facilitators, and they get paid a lot.
Bud posted this on February 16, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Emergent Learning: Social Networks and Learning Networks - Stephen Downes
The real point here is to use open protocols to construct things as the need arises. A lot of vendors want to lock you into their tools. I don't think there is a tools market. There is a place market maybe.
Bud posted this on February 16, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Transparency and the Turning Tide
Will Solaris 10 turn the tide for Sun. They're launching on a viral strategy that could be termed "adopt for free, then upgrade for money"
Bud posted this on February 12, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Why Social Software Makes for Poor Recommendations
This post is off base. Social networks are not just friends networks but authority networks, knowledge networks, etc. You do not have to be friends to be in a network, just connected.
Bud posted this on February 3, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
One-Click Subscription
Wants to put where subscriptions are stored in the hands of the user. Sort of assumes users are working on their own personal machines.
Bud posted this on January 29, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Gillmor Gang Explores RSS and Content Business
Tells me I must listen to the Gillmor Gang. This discussion of RSS as an event-driven technology is great. Udell is right about RSS's fungibility.
Bud posted this on January 28, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Hurricane Electric Offers Bit Torrent Service
Here's a way to get your media files automatically distributed by bit torrent. If your download becomes popular, you will not be killed by ISP costs.
Bud posted this on January 26, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
BBS 05: Picking a Platform: Blogging Engines Compared
Basically, most people lack a fundamental understanding of what it takes to start blogging, even attendees at this elite conference.
Bud posted this on January 24, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Report: Google to Put Kibosh on Blog Comment Spam
This is a technical solution to comment spam that requires the cooperation of weblog publishers. Does the approach require too much collaboration to work? This solution seems to put humans back into the equation, driving down scalability.
Bud posted this on January 17, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
portable firefox breaks 100,000 downlaods
Browsers are the interface to all things web. Organizations have a hell of a time migrating login profiles for people as they move from station to station. This seems like a nice non-proprietary, decentralized way of achieving that purpose.
Bud posted this on January 17, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
monkey methods research group
Many claim that peer-to-peer distribution is distributed. However, alot of centralization occurs as people look for the source to get things. Decentralization seems to happen only at the margins.
Bud posted this on January 16, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Alternative views on Apple's Shuffle
How to get more out of ipods when listening to podcasts. Seems one needs to do a little teaching on his site if he is going to do this.
Bud posted this on January 16, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Problems with podcasts on generic MP3 players
Podcasts are catching on, but the problem is that MP3s are one binary unsearchable blob.
Bud posted this on January 15, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Like podcasts? Pass on the iPod Shuffle
A good view on how MP3 players could better support podcasting. Some of these requirements are obvious on your first attempt to listen to one.
Bud posted this on January 15, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
The Future of the Internet in Education
So, will universities continue to offer courses or just manage students' learning?
Bud posted this on January 13, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Netcraft: Infrastructure A Driver In Six Apart-LiveJournal Deal
An interesting under the hood look at the SA Live Journal acquisition
Bud posted this on January 12, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)
Adrian doesn't get Technorati
Nice comparison of technorati and pubsub
Bud posted this on January 12, 2005 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)