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April 30, 2009 in Social Networking, Technology | 1 comment
As promised, former Elgg developer Ben Werdmuller, has announced a new social networking project. He is working on a social mapping project called OutMap. In addition, he is beginning a web consulting service. He alluded to a third project that he is keeping under wraps.
OutMap appears to be a social geographic information system in which a user can create a map space and invite others to contribute. Initial release is slated for June. Meanwhile, you can leave your email address on the OutMap site if you are interested in participating in beta testing.
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Ben Werdmuller on May 1, 2009 at 6:42 am
Thanks for this post. The unnamed project will be open source and relates to some of my core interests while working on Elgg – but won’t be a social networking product. The best way to think about it is an evolution of blogging. Because it’s an open source project I’ll be releasing the initial code as early as possible: probably not long after OutMap.
November 26, 2009 in open knowledge, presentations
Slides from my presentation. This is a large QuickTime file, so it will take a minute to load.
Open Knowledge
Audio:
Recording of presentation
Links:
Creative Commons Site
Lessig: The Network We Need Highly A must view presentation
Flickr Commons (from archives)
Flickr Creative Commons
MediaWiki Commons
Gutenberg Project
Library of Congress Digital Collection
Community College Consortium for Open Educational Resources
WikiBooks
Connexions Educational Modules
Curriki: Collection shared educational resources
Open [...]
November 23, 2009 in Social Networking
I just finished Day 2 at the NYSCATE Annual Conference in Rochester, NY. I had a great time presenting twice on topics that I am passionate about and enjoyed all our Keynote speakers. I’ve met some great folks and have had wonderful conversations.
Plan on an more active blog as I’ll be writing and reflecting more [...]
November 1, 2009 in Policies, Technology
Last April, the New York State Department of Education (NYSED) embarked on an outreach campaign seeking input on their new draft technology plan. They started with a meeting leaders of major professional organizations. They set up a survey on their website and met with educational technology leaders at the NYSCATE leadership summit this summer. As [...]
October 7, 2009 in Uncategorized
I had the privilege of presenting at our school’s Future Business Leaders of America’s District Meeting in Greenwich, NY today. I had a great time presenting and meeting students and faculty. I hope to participate again.
As promised, I am uploading and displaying the contents of my presentations here.
There there is a lot of content on [...]
July 29, 2009 in Policies, Technology
The NYSED Technology Plan’s first goal addresses digital content:
Standards-based, accessible digital content supports all curricula for all learners.
Accessible is defined as: content available anywhere, easy to retrieve using multiple technology devices, and content is universally designed. Aligning digital content to the New York State learning standards is how we will ensure quality and relevance in [...]
July 27, 2009 in Policies, Social Networking, Technology
While I attended the NYSCATE Leadership Summit last week for a variety of reasons, the main motivation was to hear the New York State Education Department’s (NYSED) presentation on their proposed state technology plan. Beyond the presentation there were roundtable discussions to provide input and feedback followed by an opportunity to ask questions.
When the opportunity to [...]
May 4, 2009 in Social Networking, buddypress, open source
In honor of the release of BuddyPress 1.0, I trashed my previous installation and created a new one from scratch. The new version of BuddyPress requires WordPressMu 2.7.1 and bbPress 1.0 alpha. The process, while simplified, is still out of the reach of many who are accustomed to the standard, upload, create database, and browser [...]
May 2, 2009 in Uncategorized
Lawrence Lessig, legal scholar and Creative Commons founder was hit with a Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DCMA) take down notice on a recent presentation on copyright law in the digital age. Lessig writes on his blog:
Received a notice that Warner Music had objected to its being posted on copyright grounds. Apparently, YouTube’s content-ID algorithm had [...]
April 30, 2009 in Social Networking, Technology
As promised, former Elgg developer Ben Werdmuller, has announced a new social networking project. He is working on a social mapping project called OutMap. In addition, he is beginning a web consulting service. He alluded to a third project that he is keeping under wraps.
OutMap appears to be a social geographic information system in which a user [...]
April 30, 2009 in Elgg, buddypress, wordpress
WPMu was just updated to a long awaited Version 2.7.1 which has, in turn, triggered events in the BuddyPress realm. The new WPMu version offers a number of important improvements making it a significant improvement. As a consequence, BuddyPress has finally been able to release Version 1.o.
Upgrading from WPMu 2.7 to 2.7.1 was a cinch. [...]
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