As web-based applications become more widely available, however, more specialized and customizable operating environments will be available to users. Smith, 2008) Meanwhile, Nintendo is making the Wii gaming system a web application that streams videos from the BBC. A widget is a piece of code – typically written in Flash or Javascript – that resides on a desktop or web page and performs a specific function. The second is the concept of ‘Web 2.0’ Web 2.0 MORE

Apple should buy out BusyMac to enable over-the-air iPhone syncing. Posted by: MK | March 10, 2008 at 02:42 PM It seems that Microsoft Exchange is not the only implementation of Exchange ActiveSync on the server side: It's supported by both Scalix and Zimbra (I don't know to what extent though), and there's an open source implementation called Z-Push. but calendars and contacts lack any largely adopted sync protocol for consumers. MORE

e-Clippings (Learning As Art) Home Archives Subscribe About My Social Networks « "The Name of the Game Is Work" (Business Week) | Main | Someone buy me this poster » August 28, 2007 Wikipatterns: A How-To Site on Driving the Adoption of Wikis Within Your Organization What a great resource. books futures Web 2.0 MORE

However, open source initiatives like Moodle offer reasonable alternatives. Web 2.0 Very little consideration was given to the strategic adoption of technology. Over the last eight years, the market has experience enormous change (web 2.0, Why buy an LMS when you can buy the educational process? Blackboard did not buy into the synchronous education market with the Elluminate and Wimba purchase – they bought the market. MORE

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Some schools are comfortable encouraging students, faculty, and adminstratoin to use consumer apps on the open web. A handful of universities have adopted some aspects of web 2.0 It simplifies and streamlines the transactional aspects of administration, it encourages open communication and shared decision-making, and it provides a learning ecosystem that enables students to co-learn in order to supplement the formal aspects of their education. MORE

Diversity University started out as an educational MUD; Walden University was also an early adopter, and a whole bunch more. 1995 – The Web Also: Plato, the Home Page In 1995 I started at Assiniboine Community College. With a year of so we had created our first web-based course, 'Introduction to Instruction', with professor Shirley Chapman. I also took a massive open email course (MOEC?) I experimented with Javascript-based comment forms embedded in web pages. MORE

Grows - But Creating "eLearning 2.0 Open Educational Resources Matures 4. open up exciting opportunities for people to access relevant information where and when they require it. When everyone has a mobile device with web access, clearly there are opportunities to provide content in new ways. Corollary => Open Source Video Technologies I'm dealing right now with delivery of video on mobile devices. MORE

Photo of Andrew McAfee Home Blog About RSS Andrew McAfees Blog The Business Impact of IT Tweet The Enterprise 2.0 In other words, Enterprise 2.0 They do require users to adopt a particular philosophy about sharing information and interacting with each other, and this philosophy can seem strange at first. How would I know if Enterprise 2.0 12 comments… read them below or add one } johnny won December 1, 2008 at 8:01 pm I think your ideas of Enterprise 2.0 MORE

Different departments could buy their own systems. This flexibility, coupled with the much improved graphical user interfaces (GUI) made possible by the use of PCs and workstation as client devices, ushered an explosion of innovative new applications in the ‘80s and ‘90s, including the exciting new class of web-based applications which any user could access with a PC, a browser and an Internet connection. We also saw the rise of Web 2.0 MORE

which even amnesiacs can remember games.students get connected and wikis get adopted. » March 05, 2008 Big Basket of Stuff #1: Wikis, IMs, and 3D Pardon this hodge podge but I have waaayyy too many items to get through them individually and quite frankly the number of tabs I have open is getting a little scary. This will allow people to integrate a Meebo Room into their own Web site. books futures Web 2.0 MORE