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StatusNet is the open source microblogging platform that helps you share and connect in real-time within your own domain.
With StatusNet you can encourage collaboration, build and engage your community, and be in command of your brand.
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BIgBlueButton is a web-based conferencing system geared toward the .edu crowd. Think gotowebinar. This module give you access to the scheduling components of the API.
links for 2010-03-08
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Add a few lines ot settings.php to get single sign-on across multiple sites in the same domain.
links for 2010-03-07
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Google supports the OAuth standard for API authentication. By using this module, web applications can access a user's Google Apps account without needing the user's login details. The user logs into the site with their Drupal username and password. Once authenticated, they are then immediately redirected to the Google login page where they must confirm (or reject) that the website is allowed to use an authorization token to access their Google account.
Administrators of Google Apps Premier and Education editions can also use a special type of OAuth, called 2-legged OAuth. Unlike standard OAuth, the user is not actually authenticated with Google, but the site is able to act on their behalf to pull in or update their account data. Currently this authentication is implemented, but no APIs make use of it yet.
links for 2010-03-06
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drag image to share on social networks
137 Years of Popular Science Now Available for Search and Reading
We’ve partnered with Google to offer our entire 137-year archive for free browsing. Each issue appears just as it did at its original time of publication, complete with period advertisements. It’s an amazing resource that beautifully encapsulates our ongoing fascination with the future, and science and technology’s incredible potential to improve our lives. We hope you enjoy it as much as we do.
This is a pretty cool archive and it’s nice to see a magazine decide to make its archives open for search rather than throwing the whole thing behind a pay wall.
links for 2010-03-04
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eGovernment refers to the use of the Web or other information technologies by governing bodies to interact with the citizenry, between departments and divisions, and between governments themselves.
links for 2010-03-03
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includes search by content-type configuration.
links for 2010-03-02
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Monit is a free open source utility for managing and monitoring, processes, files, directories and filesystems on a UNIX system. Monit conducts automatic maintenance and repair and can execute meaningful causal actions in error situations.
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Munin is a networked resource monitoring tool that can help analyze resource trends and "what just happened to kill our performance?" problems. It is designed to be very plug and play. A default installation provides a lot of graphs with almost no work.
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includes sync LinkedIn profiles with the profile tab in Drupal.
Tutorial on Building iPhone OS and Android Web Apps With AJAX
Developing for mobile devices has been a high cost, low return proposition for many years, despite the hype around it. The latest generation of smartphones powered by the iPhone OS and Google’s Android provide a much simplified solution: just build Web applications. This gives you a one build for all devices approach, which can lower the cost. Even better, these high-end devices all offer ultra-modern browsers supporting advanced HTML, JavaScript, and CSS. In this article, learn how to build Asynchronous JavaScript and XML (Ajax)-heavy applications that take full advantage of the capabilities of modern smartphones. You will learn not only how to get the most out of these devices, but also how to deal with the subtle differences between them.
via IBM developerWorks: Create Ajax applications for the mobile Web.
Good tutorial. It starts out with a trivial Java app to create content, but any other server side tech, like PHP, could be used. The mobile portion relies on HTML 5 and AJAX in iPhone OS 3.x+ and Android 2.x+ browsers. You’ll need the most recent Adroid and iPhone SDKs to put this together.
This article provides a good starting point to start looking at how to build basic mobile apps.