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http://www.kubisoft.com/

“Kubi Client extends existing Email infrastructure investments by using the existing Exchange and Domino messaging platforms and proven SMTP infrastructure. Unlike traditional collaboration tools, Kubi Client uses existing corporate Email directories and authentication mechanisms, providing single sign-on and simple, accurate addressing of user names.”

Now this seems exciting to me. We have a distributed project team that uses heterogenous email environments (Exchange/Outlook, Notes/Domino). Project collaboration has proven to be an ongoing struggle because of this. Separate collaboration environments (at least ones that acts as ‘containers’ and not ‘conduits’) don’t feel like an option. This on ecould be. now if only I could aggregate RSS in here, and if people with neither client could still interact with this through a web space, and I could stream out materials from the various servers in other standards compliant formats, I would have found project collaboration nirvana. I really must get some work done. – SWL 

– via [Online Community Report]

http://www.onlinecommunityreport.com/features/10

I just found this site (Online Community Report) and just started subscribing to the RSS feed. I’m not sure how regular the postings are, but there was some great material in the archives. This was an interesting piece on the types of online communities that seem to be ‘working’ by which he means mostly commercial communities. Kind of sad, isn’t it, that we look at communities as business models. – SWL

http://www.hypernews.org/HyperNews/
get/hypernews/history/53.html

This was a blast from the past. Back in 1995 or ’96 we used hypermail to create a web-based archive and interface to majordomo lists. This seems pretty dull until you see the number of mailing list packages or threaded discussion packages that still consider these two mechanisms to communication to somehow be mutually exclusive. Ever since this first time using hypernews, I have refused to consider any mailing list software that does not also present a web-based archive and interface, and vice versa, any threaded discussion software that does not support interactions through email. It’s the communications that are ultimately important, and email or web browsers are just the means of facilitating this, each with its strength and weakness.

Continue reading “HyperNews 1.11 released”

http://www.kdnuggets.com/software/visualization.html

While it’s not really an edtech topic, I have a pet interest in visualization software that goes back to a project I worked on at the start of my career. This site presents a treasure trove of software for visualization – lots of good things to try out. – SWL

http://edtechdev.org/blog/archives/001025.html

“Tiki 1.5 (Regulus) has been released. Tiki is a PHP & MySQL-based Wiki/CMS/blog tool. Version 1.5 adds numerous new features,… ”

I can’t wait to see this for myself. The collision of Wikis and blogs (and Zope-like CMSes) seemed at once both an obvious thing, and yet until I actually see it I’m not sure what it will herald, as I am still trying to wrap my head around the unique properties of each of these on their own. – SWL

– via [Ed Tech Dev]

http://www.marcprensky.com/default.asp

Came across this site because this fellow is going to be one of the keynotes at the online elearning conference mentioned below being hosted out of U of C. There is a mass of resources here on game-based simulations. This is kind of a pet interest because of a project to develop an online environmental assessment simulation game I was involved with years ago. If only I had know about this guy and this mass of materials back then – SWL

http://elearn.ucalgary.ca/conference/about.html

“The focus of the conference is on the best practices in e-Learning in both education and training. The latest e-Learning technologies and practices will be used in this conference to make this event accessible to more people then a traditional face-to-face conference could be.”

Now I have the wriggly 3 1/2 year old on my lap, but I wanted to post this as a reminder to self, and also because it sounds interesting. – SWL

-Via [Online Learning Update]

http://www.workforce-connections.com/

A site from the U.S. Department of Labor that “provides an interactive on-line knowledge exchange environment. Multiple Federal agencies are using Workforce Connections to support knowledge transfer in a Section 508 compliant, SCORM conformant environment.”

The longer document I received by email (and am not sure how public it is) describes this further as “Workforce Connections is a flexible environment that enables personnel without programming expertise to create, acquire, and share knowledge.  This knowledge-based environment can be presented as a traditional web site, as an on-line self-paced course or presentation, or as a community of practice/interest web site.”

Now this sounds pretty cool.

– SWL

http://www.internalmemos.com/memos/memodetails.php?memo_id=1321

This may be getting larger play and I’m just not hearing about it – I haven’t been keeping as close tabs on many of my news sources for the past two weeks as I normally do. For any one who’s worked a bit with Java there’s actually nothing that shocking here, but this internal memo from Sun’s own engineering team affirms what everyone kind of thought but so far was, for me at least, just anecdotal conjecture. Stunning. – SWL

This is pretty far off the EdTech map (probably completely off) but I wanted to include this here as it is ammunition in the ever unfolding religious debate about Java versus .NET – this page has a huge “list of programming languages for the Java virtual machine aside of Java itself.” – SWL