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

Stay N' Alive

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

Buzz Marketing for Technology

What I like most is the combination of RSS feeds, bookmarks and widgets in one tab (section) according to a context. Each channel is implemented with existing components, including html and link components and widgets. because of these features: * Canvas view support: allows the easy development of powerful full-page widgets.

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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.