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Are you interested in social networks? We're talking about virtual communities here. Community builders use tools and techniques. We'll discuss them here in the Community Corral
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http://www.managingonlineforums.com/ 3 Replies
I just started reading the book, Managing Online Forums: Everything You Need to Know to Create and Run Successful Community Discussion Boards and the author provided a link to his website, so I tho...
Tagged: networking, discussion, community, websites
Started by John Dargan. Last reply by Patrick O'Keefe Nov 11.
Friending people on twitter 2 Replies
I have noticed that whereas someone would normally search for their friends on twitter for purpose of following them, it is also possible to use twitter as a marketing tool and a community building...
Started by John Dargan. Last reply by John Dargan Nov 9.
FOAF and SSL 4 Replies
(photo of the recent Social Web Barcamp in Paris from Henry Story's website) I was chatting with Henry Story, creator of Babelfish, the translation engine, just after he presented his current wor...
Tagged: ssl, web2.0, HAR2009, web, story
Started by Michael Levin. Last reply by Michael Levin Sep 25.
The Art of Community
I've just started reading The Art of Community, by Jono Bacon. Jono is involved with the Ubuntu community. He promises to describe the social psychology and mechanics of building and managing comm...
Tagged: building, oreilly, community, of, jono
Started by Michael Levin Sep 18.
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EyeWriter Initiative
The EyeWriter project is an ongoing collaborative research effort to empower people who are suffering from ALS with creative technologies. It is a low-cost eye-tracking apparatus & custom software that allows graffiti writers and artists with paralysis resulting from Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis to draw using only their eyes.Spyware targeted: For first time, feds go after amateur-spyware software company that uses keylogging -- OrlandoSentinel.com
The federal agency said RemoteSpy customers were given detailed instructions on how to disguise the spyware as an innocuous file — such as a photo — that could be attached to an e-mail. When the file was opened, the keylogger software would be secretly installed.Google Offers a Peek at the Chrome Operating System - NYTimes.com
Google began lifting the veil on its planned Chrome operating system on Thursday, but it said that computers powered by the software would not be available for a year.Twitter-equipped bathroom scale tells the world how much you weigh | Technology | Los Angeles Times
Today the French company behind the scale, Withings, announced it has added Twitter capability to the scale, enabling the user to automatically tweet the weight/fat info to followers. In a news release, Withings declared the Twitter function would be a great help to users, "further motivating them by sharing their progress with followers."The Go Programming Language
A systems programming language from Google that is expressive, concurrent, garbage-collected. Here's an example: package main import "fmt" func main() { fmt.Printf("Hello, 世界\n") }Groovy and Grails Training Online Course by Sang Shin
The 1st session of "Groovy and Grails Programming (with Passion!)" online course will start from Jan. 10th, 2010.Dean Wampler's Blog If You Want a Job Tomorrow, Cultivate Your Career Today
Useful tips about keeping your skills up in software development to stay employed .. and employableJava Platform, Enterprise Edition - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Java Platform, Enterprise Edition or Java EE is a widely used platform for server programming in the Java programming language. The Java platform (Enterprise Edition) differs from the Java Standard Edition Platform (Java SE) in that it adds libraries which provide functionality to deploy fault-tolerant, distributed, multi-tier Java software, based largely on modular components running on an application server.Java EE at a Glance
Java Platform, Enterprise Edition (Java EE) builds on the solid foundation of Java Platform, Standard Edition (Java SE) and is the industry standard for implementing enterprise-class service-oriented architecture (SOA) and next-generation web applications. The SDKs contain Sun GlassFish Enterprise Server, previously named Sun Java System Application Server, and provide support for Java EE 5 specifications.CodeIgniter - Open source PHP web application framework
CodeIgniter is a powerful PHP framework with a very small footprint, built for PHP coders who need a simple and elegant toolkit to create full-featured web applications. If you're a developer who lives in the real world of shared hosting accounts and clients with deadlines, and if you're tired of ponderously large and thoroughly undocumented frameworks...The Future of Web Apps!
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