Wired News: Web Software Challenges Microsoft

“NEW YORK — A quiet revolution is transforming life on the internet: New, agile software now lets people quickly check flight options, see stock prices fluctuate and better manage their online photos and e-mail.

Such tools make computing less of a chore because they sit on distant web servers and run over standard browsers. Users thus don’t have to worry about installing software or moving data when they switch computers. And that could bode ill for Microsoft and its flagship Office suite, which packs together word processing, spreadsheets and other applications.”

BlogRolling - The best link manager for your weblog and more!

“Welcome to BlogRolling!

A webservice designed to make your blogging life easier.

BlogRolling is a one-stop linklist manager for your blog or journal, helping you manage your ever-evolving linklist with ease. There are a lot of tools out there to help you blog without getting your hands dirty - but managing your linklist still means having to crawl through the HTML in your template every time you want to add or remove a link. No more! Now it’s as simple as clicking a link or making a pit stop at BlogRolling.”

About Drupal | drupal.org

“About Drupal

Drupal is software that allows an individual or a community of users to easily publish, manage and organize a great variety of content on a website. Tens of thousands of people and organizations have used Drupal to set up scores of different kinds of web sites”

Plone: A user-friendly and powerful open source Content Management System — plone.org

“Plone: A user-friendly and powerful open source Content Management System

This is the development and community site for Plone, a content management system with strong multilingual support. You’ll find news about Plone and its related products, documentation, links to downloads, and information about the non-profit Plone Foundation.”

eLearn magazine - e-learning 2.0

E-learning 2.0

By Stephen Downes, National Research Council of Canada
E-learning as we know it has been around for ten years or so. During that time, it has emerged from being a radical idea—the effectiveness of which was yet to be proven—to something that is widely regarded as mainstream. It’s the core to numerous business plans and a service offered by most colleges and universities.

And now, e-learning is evolving with the World Wide Web as a whole and it’s changing to a degree significant enough to warrant a new name: E-learning 2.0.

Advanced browser gives taste of Web 2.0: ZDNet Australia: News: Software

“A cutting edge Firefox-based Web browser dubbed ‘Flock’, which integrates next-generation Web technologies such as RSS content feeds, blogs and bookmark and photo sharing, was launched today.”

Wired News: Cliff Notes From the Blog World

“‘Memeorandum is as much about aggregating reader intelligence as it is about aggregating articles,’ Torkington said in an e-mail. ‘It’s a great step toward a tool that can turn a flood of grapes into a trickle of fine wine. Google News aggregates the editorial judgment from newspapers, but Memeorandum treats blogs and newspapers equally, which means it’s tapped into the collective zeitgeist of the net.’”

Wired News: The Media Player of My Dreams

Unsatisfied promiscuity is often the fate of romantics in search of their one true love, and so it goes with my quest for the perfect media player.

I’ve tried Winamp. I’ve tried iTunes. I’ve tried a half-dozen other players, often side by side.

Between all of them, I have glimpsed the media player holy grail; in none have I found stand-alone perfection. My dream player remains an unattainable composite: It would look and behave a lot like Winamp. But it would also have the simple interface, speediness and playlist capabilities of iTunes. “

CHECKpoint-elearning.de

Die 17 Systeme von CampusSource
Open Source-Software für Bildungseinrichtungen

Hagen, Oktober 2005 – Seit April 2001 bündelt die Open Source-Inititative CampusSource Kompetenzen und Projekte im Bereich Open Source-Software für eLearning. Unter dem Dach der CampusSource-Börse finden sich acht Plattformen und zahlreiche Module, die die Kernfunktionalität eines virtuellen Lehrbetriebs abdecken. Die Systeme kurz vorgestellt.

ILIAS open source

“Mit der Open Source Lernplattform ILIAS können Sie internet-basierte Lehr- und Lernmaterialien kostenlos erstellen und verfügbar machen. ILIAS erleichtert das kooperative Arbeiten in Internet und verbessert die Kommunikation zwischen Lehrenden und Lernenden.”