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Digital grassroots: the Internet fights back

Sherrilynne Starkie

People can now create mashups without fear of reprisal. It started in 2004 when a legislative committee held a series of hearings on digital copyright reform. “A new copyright bill takes effect this week, and it’s much transformed (from the one originally tabled),” said Michael Geist. “It

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eLearning & Deliberative Moments: The present and future of Personal Learning Environments (PLE)

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Only a handful of articles have appeared in the academic and public press about PLEs since the term gained currency in 2004. A Mashup is like a WebTop, but the web services are combined much more tightly so that data from one is used to access information in another. A PLE could be implemented as a mashup.

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13 Reasons Why I Am an Obsessive Compulsive Facebook User Â?

Techipedia: Tamar Weinberg

It allows for Facebook widgets, mashups, and more. I had graduated college the previous year, so many of my classmates seemed to have “moved on&# from the social sites of my time (all of which have dissolved). (For Facebook has its own API. At the end of August of last year, Facebook announced that had it own API. What does this mean?

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