http://openedweb.com/blog Education and Technology Tue, 27 Dec 2011 22:47:04 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://openedweb.com/blog/2010/08/22/oxwall-ning-alternative/ http://openedweb.com/blog/2010/08/22/oxwall-ning-alternative/#comments Sun, 22 Aug 2010 18:19:50 +0000 Steve http://openedweb.com/blog/?p=1791 I recently found another social networking server app through Twitter. As we know Ning recently changed its terms of service and is no longer offering free social networks. This sent a wave of panic throughout the educational technology community, accustomed to having “free” apps at their disposal. People immediately sought alternatives to Ning. Of course [...]]]> http://openedweb.com/blog/2010/08/22/oxwall-ning-alternative/feed/ 17 http://openedweb.com/blog/2010/08/09/corporate-web-2-0/ http://openedweb.com/blog/2010/08/09/corporate-web-2-0/#comments Mon, 09 Aug 2010 15:30:20 +0000 Steve http://openedweb.com/blog/?p=1719 Jim Groom just got me fired up again. Groom, in conjunction with Brian Lamb, wrote an important article in Educause entitled Never Mind the Edupunks; or, The Great Web 2.0 Swindle. The article laments the corporatization of  Web 2.0 in education.  The authors acknowledge the appeal and power of free online services offered by Google and [...]]]> http://openedweb.com/blog/2010/08/09/corporate-web-2-0/feed/ 3 http://openedweb.com/blog/2010/06/19/buddypress-installation-for-the-masses-2/ http://openedweb.com/blog/2010/06/19/buddypress-installation-for-the-masses-2/#comments Sat, 19 Jun 2010 18:48:26 +0000 Steve http://openedweb.com/blog/?p=1436 I recently created another BuddyPress test site and I am pleased with how much the procedure has been simplified. I blogged about the difficulty in the past, so it is only fair that I note vast improvements. I never fully succeeded installing BP the first time I tried. It involved a long process of manually uploading a [...]]]> http://openedweb.com/blog/2010/06/19/buddypress-installation-for-the-masses-2/feed/ 5 http://openedweb.com/blog/2010/06/13/sharing-isnt-simple-ii/ http://openedweb.com/blog/2010/06/13/sharing-isnt-simple-ii/#comments Sun, 13 Jun 2010 17:03:57 +0000 Steve http://openedweb.com/blog/2010/06/06/sharing-isnt-simple-ii/ Copyright issues are not the only obstacles to sharing content with others. Some of the obstacles are my choice of software and platform. Although I am an advocate of open source software, my focus in this area has been server based applications. When it comes to desktop computing, I run a Mac. I like the [...]]]> http://openedweb.com/blog/2010/06/13/sharing-isnt-simple-ii/feed/ 0 http://openedweb.com/blog/2009/05/04/buddypress-installation-somewhat-simplified/ http://openedweb.com/blog/2009/05/04/buddypress-installation-somewhat-simplified/#comments Mon, 04 May 2009 11:12:44 +0000 Steve http://openedweb.com/blog/?p=1304 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 [...]]]> http://openedweb.com/blog/2009/05/04/buddypress-installation-somewhat-simplified/feed/ 2 http://openedweb.com/blog/2009/04/20/ben-werdmuller-leaves-curverider/ http://openedweb.com/blog/2009/04/20/ben-werdmuller-leaves-curverider/#comments Mon, 20 Apr 2009 20:48:52 +0000 Steve http://openedweb.com/blog/?p=1280 Elgg co-founder Ben Werdmuller has left Curverider as of April 15.  On his blog he refers to Team Elgg positively calling them, “…a first-class team of brilliantly intelligent, creative peope.” When asked why he left Elgg, he replied, “I’ve got some other ideas I’d like to persue. Nothing sinister.” Ben intimates that he has some [...]]]> http://openedweb.com/blog/2009/04/20/ben-werdmuller-leaves-curverider/feed/ 7 http://openedweb.com/blog/2009/04/06/wpmu-271-beta-1-released/ http://openedweb.com/blog/2009/04/06/wpmu-271-beta-1-released/#comments Mon, 06 Apr 2009 20:33:01 +0000 Steve http://openedweb.com/blog/?p=1274 WordPressMu version 2.7.1 beta1 is now available. Released on April 2, this marks an important landmark for its companion BuddyPress. BuddyPress has rested on RC1 waiting for changes to the core WordPress Mu application. According to core developer Andy Peatling’s blog post of February 11, the release of BuddyPress stable has been predicated upon the release [...]]]> http://openedweb.com/blog/2009/04/06/wpmu-271-beta-1-released/feed/ 4 http://openedweb.com/blog/2009/03/22/elgg-15-includes-a-few-more-admin-features/ http://openedweb.com/blog/2009/03/22/elgg-15-includes-a-few-more-admin-features/#comments Sun, 22 Mar 2009 16:40:58 +0000 Steve http://openedweb.com/blog/?p=1263 One feature I didn’t see when testing beta Elgg 1.5 is the admin’s ability to set default widgets in both user profiles and dashboards. These tools, included in the Elgg 1.5 “full” package. Elgg adopters have asked for this feature since the initial release and there have been plugins that provided such functionality, but had [...]]]> http://openedweb.com/blog/2009/03/22/elgg-15-includes-a-few-more-admin-features/feed/ 8 http://openedweb.com/blog/2009/03/21/opengoo-web-office/ http://openedweb.com/blog/2009/03/21/opengoo-web-office/#comments Sat, 21 Mar 2009 20:31:03 +0000 Steve http://openedweb.com/blog/?p=1253 My search for a decent online word processor has led me to another potential solution: OpenGoo. OpenGoo is an open source web office suite that also has some characteristics off a project manager. Version 1.3 has just been released. It includes the following tools: Word Processor Presentation Task Lists E-mail client Calendars Web Links Contacts [...]]]> http://openedweb.com/blog/2009/03/21/opengoo-web-office/feed/ 10 http://openedweb.com/blog/2009/03/14/eyeing-eyeos/ http://openedweb.com/blog/2009/03/14/eyeing-eyeos/#comments Sat, 14 Mar 2009 14:48:44 +0000 Steve http://openedweb.com/blog/?p=1228 I continue to look for an online word processor that we could host from a server and dug up a few new items. One was eyeOS, a server based open source linux desktop with some bare bones applications. They describe it as a Cloud Computing Operating System. eyeOS has no database so it only requires [...]]]> http://openedweb.com/blog/2009/03/14/eyeing-eyeos/feed/ 10 http://openedweb.com/blog/2009/03/13/elgg-15-released/ http://openedweb.com/blog/2009/03/13/elgg-15-released/#comments Fri, 13 Mar 2009 15:54:44 +0000 Steve http://openedweb.com/blog/?p=1247 Elgg 1.5 has been released by Curverider. Over the past few days, Elgg’s revisions to their Subversion repository had slowed as they put the finishing touches on the new release.  Elgg 1.5 is available as a package or from the subversion repository. This development means that I will return to my comparisons of Elgg and [...]]]> http://openedweb.com/blog/2009/03/13/elgg-15-released/feed/ 2 http://openedweb.com/blog/2009/03/09/curverider-releases-elgg-15-rc2/ http://openedweb.com/blog/2009/03/09/curverider-releases-elgg-15-rc2/#comments Mon, 09 Mar 2009 16:28:44 +0000 Steve http://openedweb.com/blog/?p=1225 Curverider released a second release candidate for Elgg 1.5 today. It can be downloaded as a tarball from their site, or you can get it from the subversion library. Release Candidate 2 brings about 40 new revisions to Elgg code since the release of the first Release Candidate last week.]]> http://openedweb.com/blog/2009/03/09/curverider-releases-elgg-15-rc2/feed/ 2