Open Social How To

It’s Like Open Mic Only Different Here’s how it works. It’s like any rambling conversation. Don’t try to read it all. Jump in whenever you get here. Just go to the end and start talking. EVERYONE is WELCOME. The rules are simple — be nice. There are always first timers and new things to talk about. It’s sort of half “Cheers” part “Friends” and part video game. You don’t know how much fun it is until you try it. Oh Look! Surely, you’ve heard of Shiny Object Syndrome — that behavior

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Oh Look at . . . Surely, you’ve heard of Shiny Object Syndrome — that behavior that allows any small change to be a distraction. Are you plagued by it? Shiny objects seem to be everywhere these days. Do you get distracted easily? Is it getting harder and harder to hold people’s attention? Do you think shiny objects are a bigger problem than they once were? Is shiny object syndrome only found on the Internet? ahem . . . Oh, and bring example links to share — shiny objects are fun.

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Performance Challenges for the Open Web Stanford CS193H: High Performance Web Sites Stanford, CA September 29, 2008 Download PPT (6.8 MB) Web site performance guru Steve Souders is teaching a class at Stanford this fall on High Performance Web Sites (CS193H). He invited me to give a guest lecture to his class on the new performance challenges emerging from our work to open up the social web. As a recent Stanford alum (SSP ‘02, co-term ‘03), it was a thrill to get to teach a class at my alm

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No matter your flavour of instant messenger (IM) client, Linux has you covered. With the open source program Pidgin you can talk freely.

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Via Richard Akerman on Science Library Pad I note that a presentation made to a British Library Board awayday (on 23rd Sept), The Future of Research (Science and Technology), by Carole Goble is now available on Slideshare: The presentation looks at the way in which scientific and technology-related research is changing, particularly thru the use of the Web to support open, data-driven research - essentially enabling a more immediate, transparent and repeatable approach to science. The ideas

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I’m looking forward to attending this year’s Education Unbound event, organised by digital agency Online Creative Communications. I’ll be joining Futurelab learning researcher Dan Sutch, teacher and web 2.0 advocate David Noble, and co-founder of the “School of Everything”, Andy Gibson, on the speakers’ panel for the evening event. Channel 4’s Matt Locke will be cat-herding, ahem, moderating what I’m sure will be a very lively discussion on all things related to learning and social media. Last

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Blinkered by its profit-driven viewpoint, Microsoft can only see open source as a *business model*, when that is merely a by-product of the distinguishing feature of free software, which is its unique ethos. Free software is about sharing and collaborating.

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Adeona is the first Open Source system for tracking the location of your lost or stolen laptop that does not rely on a proprietary, central service.

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Acquia ,which has been putting together a commercially supported version of the popular open source Drupal content management system, is going live with Acquia Drupal-the commercially supported version-and …

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Sun sponsored awards program recognizes open source technology innovation with winners sharing $175,000 prize SAO PAULO, BRAZIL: Sun Microsystems Inc.

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