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Why as a Developer, I Switched to Blogger.com and Why I'm Staying With It

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OpenSocial Support. Wordpress has plugins, but Google uses the standardized OpenSocial API , along with Google Gadgets , to provide an interface to Widgets and other features within the blog. To code a customized feature, I just need to know a little OpenSocial (which works with many other sites), and boom!

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eLearning 2.0 Technologies and Concepts: Start Pages as Environments for Self-Organized Learners

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The XHTML editor will be the tool for writing the contents, while the content manager will be the tool for distributing those contents among the services of the "cloud". Interactive Instructional Content for Engineers. Content on this site is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 ► May. (1).

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Nuggets from Social Media workshops as of late. : Community Group Therapy

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A platform should have an extensibility model, a content management model, a user profiling/membership model, a rating/reputation system (for content and authors), and registration system, etc, etc, etc…you get the idea. Content still is king. the basics of XML)to develop a content strategy. yes, need to connect.

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Social Media U: Take a Class in Social Media - ReadWriteWeb

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sites have video tours of their features, and in this day and age of added broadband capacity and rich content, knowing how to teach others and communicate benefits of a product is terribly, severely important. opensocial. Also for extra credit or even an advanced course, Id emphasize "Make a video tutorial/screencast". So many Web 2.0

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Your Guide to the Crowdsourced Workforce - ReadWriteWeb

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We tried to figure out how to use some of these applications to generate unique content when building a travel portal and failed miserably. opensocial. Bitrix with their 7.0 release has set a high benchmark in CMS that should be part of your tool kit. Posted by: Ralph | May 13, 2008 6:46 AM. POPULAR TAGS. social networking. mobile web.

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The Next “Facebook Platform” for the Modern Web, and Why Twitter’s Running the Wrong Way

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Kevin Marks (who led the OpenSocial platform at Google) mentioned the irony in a tweet earlier today of installing the open source social network Diaspora as we were discussing Twitter’s very centralized real time streaming API and federated environments. That’s a really powerful concept!

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Social Search at LinkedIn Beats Google - ReadWriteWeb

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LinkedIn searches through a single source of content that they dont make fully available to 3rd parties, while Google searches the entire web and has to deal with the noise. So rather than LinkedIns search capability per se, it is their content and the way its indexed that makes it a valuable tool. opensocial. POPULAR TAGS.

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