I just returned from EDUCAUSE where I met with several people from Xythos. Xythos has just announced Developer at Xythos – a collaboration web site aimed at helping users do creative things with the Xythos software. Kevin Wiggen, the CTO for Xythos, also announced a new initiative to spawn open source development around the Xythos … Continue reading
### Attendees: George Brett, Steve Olshanski, John-Paul Robinson, Jim Phelps George: Opening comment about presentation “Identity 2.0″ at OSCON 2005 ### Shift in Identity discusion Students provide a lot of personal information on Facebook but they also turn on the FERPA flags to protect their information from “the institution”. Steve asked about Linked In. Movement … Continue reading
Integration of Free/Open-Source Communication and Collaboration Tools for the Internet2 Community
My Presentation can be downloaded from the Internet2 Fall Member Meeting site as a PDF . My opening comments are included in my PDF. George Brett’s opening comments: 1. The recent Wizards Meeting used wiki’s for real-time posting of notes and documents. This was a shift from the usual – mailing list and weekly phone … Continue reading
Why did I build this blog now? To demonstrate the power of tagging and of folksonomy as an enterprise collaboration and communication tool. There are several key parts of this integration picture that have finally come together (at least for me). The first element is the growth of tagging – the ability of users to … Continue reading
