Tom Smith
Tom Smith is now helping improve collaboration at the University of York.
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The Tools
We started looking for suitable collaborative tools by looking at Gartners Magic Quadrant for Social Software in the Workplace – a lovely chart that plots all the movers and shakers in the social media space. We could quickly rule out … Continue reading
Wonderful ZuiPrezi presentation
Recently, a GeekUp message rekindled my long-standing appreciation of all things zoomable. One of the problems with many zooming demos is just that, they’re only demos. Like many visualisation examples, zooming works best when you it’s a tool rather than … Continue reading
Your Space isn’t My Space
I love the idea of collaboration. I love drawing. Collaborative drawing is a rare thing… it hardly ever works…. for me at least… and one of the main reasons is because of the lack of ownership within the collaboration. Collaboration … Continue reading
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5 tips to help you choose a CMS based on the editing interface alone
One man’s WYSIWYG……is another’s botch job. WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) editors are starting to replace textareas in web forms. The openwysiyg initiative makes it easy and cheap for all developer to use these tool.This in itself … Continue reading
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Wikis vs The Usability of Online Document Editors
I have just had a quick play with site builder WetPaint, and made this… everythingability page. I was impressed with the tools but it really got me thinking about the future of wikis. Do wikis have a future at all … Continue reading
Tabblo
I recently asked a question on the Django list and discovered a flame war about Ajax toolkits with such gems as … Frankly, you should just learn it because it will benefit you. It€™s not rocket science. That you refuse … Continue reading
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Scratch Research
Richard pointed to Scratch Research, a visual and educational programming environment…. which looks really cool (like lots of things written in Squeak) but I can’t see how to download it. Go watch the video, then maybe make your own guitar … Continue reading
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VoodooPad life
Michael talks about his VoodooPad life and I can understand what he means. I’ve been using it for a few days now to create content, adding Applescripts to try to use VP as an editor for an online wiki (almost … Continue reading
Onlife
Another attempt at a temporally-ordered LifeStreams interface (I think) in Onlife. The last one I tried, called browseback (I think again) didn’t quite do it. The screenshot of this looks interesting.
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MicroWiki
For a day or so, I have used MicroWiki, but found that after 4 days nobody has replied to my support questions which for me are all show stoppers. What I really liked about microwiki was how well it could … Continue reading
VoodooPadtastic
I’ve been using VoodooPad for day now and it’s bloody brilliant. I have managed to get an AppleScript and a Python plugin working that takes the content of a wiki and publishes it on Blogger which I think has lots … Continue reading
Wikis and the evolution and development of ideas
As I write, I realise the writing tool I am using is not what I should be writing in. Most documents I write start with a Sticky and quickly migrate to BBEdit, which keeps up with the speed I sometimes … Continue reading