links for 2008-02-29
February 29th, 2008
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some interesting musical anomolies – no audio files (they’re flogging off a CD of the sounds here), but the scors of a few are online – worth playing around with
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1 – Install and use DVDFab HD Decrypter (will run under Linux with wine)
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attempting to catalog the 1.8 million species known to science. 30,000 up, 1,770,000 to go. CC license, currently being slashdotted to death.
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a social media extension for mediawiki sites. Features for profile creation, avatar upload, friending (and “foeing”), and a Facebook-”Wall” style messaging system for individual and group friend messaging called the Board
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ebay for craft workers and artists – one to keep an eye on (and show the art department?)
links for 2008-02-28
February 28th, 2008
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a way for people to quickly send Twitter messages about your blog post or websiteby clicking on the TwitThis button or link. Takes the URL and creates a TinyURL ready to send to friends on Twitter. Also available as a wordpress plugin
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a complete code library for twitter using PHP
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the cream of the Twitter crop. Find out how to flag words, track phrases and use automated bots to simplify your life. Plus some of the third party apps out there that remove the need for you to even use the Twitter website.
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The social network web browser recompiled for portable (USB) use
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takes PDF, Word, plain text, PowerPoint files, ,RSS news feeds, emails and web pages, and converts them to speech. You can download your recording as an iPod book or mp3 file. And every member gets a personal podcast URL
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free web-based service for recording screencasts, uploading your recorded clip picking up an embed code to post the screencast on your site. Windows only at present
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a platform for creating your own social content website. Mix and mash the tools needed to create unique, social content sites
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another kick-as wordpress theme – this one free
links for 2008-02-27
February 27th, 2008
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an open source programming language and environment for people who want to program images, animation, and interactions – and with a linux version
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QUT student electronic portfolio(tags: eportfolio portfolio)
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not free (as in beer or libre) social learning environment – worth a look for inspiration perhaps
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provides scaffolding to help users create records of learning, achievement and aspiration and has a reflective structure underpinning all of its core elements. Again not free (libre or beer) but interesting
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a wordpress blog based course about using a variety of “web 2.0″ technologies including blogs, RSS, wikis, social bookmarking tools, photo sharing tools, mapping tools, audio and video podcasts, and screencasts.
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for just $55 you too can become a wordpress CMS upgrade god
links for 2008-02-26
February 26th, 2008
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a sweet little wordpress plugin that searches for Creative Commons licensed photos on flickr and lets you drop them into your posts from your dashboard with just 1 click.
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a simulation of the process of gaining attention online (acquiring more readers, friends, hits, etc.) – for people who are new to online social networks, can also be used to teach learn about the role of hubs or connectors in scale-free networks.
links for 2008-02-23
February 23rd, 2008
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once i get my mando playing skills back up to scratch this will be the first new tune that I learn
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how to avoid spam on your media wiki
links for 2008-02-22
February 22nd, 2008
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when I need to teach actionscript this will be our text
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in case you’re not getting enough tweets, you can search for other people’s allows you to filter your search to a specific username
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a not-too-intimidating list of useful and interesting tools and links for educators dipping their toes into the wild and wolley web2.0
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An offline Wikipedia reader for the iPhone or iPod Touch with source code and lots of potential for other mobile platforms
links for 2008-02-21
February 21st, 2008
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one person’s experience introducing social media tools to a large company – a blog that’s well worth reading from the start (August 2007)
links for 2008-02-20
February 20th, 2008
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here’s an interesting device for the visually impaired (and literacy challenged) – a combo of digital camera, pda and text to speech engine. I wonder if our disabilities officer has some cash in the budget for a trial? knfb also have a version that works
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interestingly, I spend most of my time trying to get my student to understand and apply these 4 things – I suspect that we, like the ‘animals’, are mostly operating using the “laster beam” intelligence mentioned in this release.
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create, customize, and share your own Social Network for free in seconds. A semi-open source social networking platform
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a flex/flash based document sharing site touting themselves as the pdf killers of the web 2.0 world – could be worth taking for a spin if the TAFE firewall doesn’t lock it out first
links for 2008-02-18
February 18th, 2008
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worth1000 is releasing a suite of collaborative internet media applications for artists. The first of the 14 tools to be released through Aviary is the online image editor: Phoenix.
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art for techos
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a flash based browser game from Radio 4, where you attempt to solve mysteries in 18th-century London – dark, seamy, and violent. Gameplay is a mix of point-and-click mystery with role-playing. Static exploratory scenes alternate with live-action video.
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The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems, and the Economic World – “The world of our own making has become so complicated that we must turn to the world of the born to understand how to manage it.”
