http://openedweb.com/blog Education and Technology Tue, 27 Dec 2011 22:47:04 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://openedweb.com/blog/2009/02/03/dark-clouds/ http://openedweb.com/blog/2009/02/03/dark-clouds/#comments Tue, 03 Feb 2009 16:50:00 +0000 Steve http://openedweb.com/blog/?p=1074 A few clouds darkened on the Internet late last week. According to Cnet, Pageflakes and Revver abruptly went off line Thursday followed by Magnolia on Friday. PageFlakes is an ajax widget based personal portal and Revver is a video sharing site. Both are owned by Liveuniverse. Magnolia is a social bookmarking site. On Friday, Liveuniverse [...]]]> http://openedweb.com/blog/2009/02/03/dark-clouds/feed/ 7 http://openedweb.com/blog/2008/07/26/making-more-posh-widgets/ http://openedweb.com/blog/2008/07/26/making-more-posh-widgets/#comments Sat, 26 Jul 2008 21:39:05 +0000 Steve http://openedweb.com/blog/?p=122 Posh, the open source portal page resembling PageFlakes, comes with a few widgets in its default installation. A handful of other widgets can be found on the Portaneo website. In order to make this software as appealing and as functional as PageFlakes for student, class, or school use, it would be great to have more [...]]]> http://openedweb.com/blog/2008/07/26/making-more-posh-widgets/feed/ 0 http://openedweb.com/blog/2008/07/23/posh-open-source-pageflakes/ http://openedweb.com/blog/2008/07/23/posh-open-source-pageflakes/#comments Wed, 23 Jul 2008 17:34:19 +0000 Steve http://openedweb.com/blog/?p=62 There was a request for an online organizer for a special needs student through which assignments and schedules can be managed. It also needs to allow input or interaction by the student’s resource teacher. PageFlakes came to mind with its slick flexible interface complete with calendars, to-do lists, and rss feeds. The interface would be [...]]]> http://openedweb.com/blog/2008/07/23/posh-open-source-pageflakes/feed/ 7