Right now Joyent is giving away free Accelerator accounts to Facebook developers. I love free stuff so this is so cool I could just cry. Free hosting with one of the premier Ruby on Rails hosts. I normally have to eat bags of M&Ms to be this happy. Not all is roses. There is a…
Category: Web2.0
Facebook as an Authentication System
I have been playing with OpenID for about a year now. It is a very cool, distributed authentication system. The concept is great and I love that I don’t have to create accounts everywhere. Instead, I just log in with OpenID and away I go. The biggest shortcoming for OpenID from a user perspective however…
Have 51weeks feedback?
This morning at the Open Education 2007 conference David Wiley announced our new conference application 51weeks. I wrote the code so if you have any feedback or run into problems feel free to post comments here and we’ll get right on it.
Flickr as Web 2.0, bla, The Soviets were like Nuke 2.0 way back in the 70s
I watched Dr Strangelove late at night a couple of weeks ago. It is dark humor and a movie in classical Kubrick style. The irony in the movie has so much to teach modern society. In a sick twist of fiction meeting fact we have to learn to love the bomb all over again. There…
iPhone App
I have an iPhone. It is an awesome little toy. I couldn’t just own one. I need a reason to play with it so I wrote an application. igag.us It lets you gather your favorite news sources – rss/atom under one aggregation. Thus it is easy for me to gather up a number of cycling…
igag.us updated
Just updated igag.us so that it supports aggregation via tag. Go to ‘manage aggregations’ then select ‘Add’ after that select ‘Tag’. Enter a tag that you want to track and viola you get data from technorati, flickr, delicious etc that match your tag.
Social Software is for the Young
An interesting study by business week shows who is doing what on line. The visualization helps to show what is in many ways obvious – young people are more likely to do social things online. I don’t think this is bad. I think it means that over the next decade social software is going to…
New Website for Academic Types
We have started a new site for those who are academic in nature. As part of what we do at COSL we have Brian Lamb helping us out with research. As we searched for good research questions our we had to ask ourselves if the questions had already been asked which means that we started…
ozmozr is out there
We (COSL) just spent the last three months putting together a piece of software called Ozmozr. I figured that since know one knows us and since we don’t market it would be a while before anyone found us. I was wrong. We have people signing up every hour or so now. That is nothing for…
Something Scrumdidilyumptious
Just short of a year ago I hacked together a project that we loving called scrumdidilyumptio.us. I and Wiley managed to finish it at about 2 in the morning in a hotel in NY during the Mellon meeting. (I actually worked on it during the meeting which resulted in terrible embarsement when my system speaker…