links for 2010-09-28
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ThinkUp captures your posts, replies, retweets, friends, followers, and links on social networks like Twitter and Facebook. We'll be adding more networks in the future. ThinkUp stores your social data in a database you control, and makes it easy to search, sort, filter, export, and visualize in useful ways.
links for 2010-09-27
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DragonDisk is a file-management system for the Amazon S3 Service.
DragonDisk will backup, share and organize your data thanks to an intuitive
interface similar to Windows Explorer's.
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DocumentCloud is an index of primary source documents and a tool for annotating, organizing and publishing them on the web.
Includes open source code in Ruby for distributed document processing.
links for 2010-09-19
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Growl notifications is a module which provides a method for sending certain system notifications to a Growl server. This means that you can receive Drupal messages on your computer through Growl.
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Provides splitting up long Drupal content into sub pages by number of characters/words or by a placeholder HTML tag. generates URl of format http://www.example.com/node/1/page/0/0 , http://www.example.com/node/1/page/0/1, etc.
Guess What? Diaspora Not Bug Free and Totally Secure
The code release was accompanied by a warning that it is by no means bug free. “We know there are security holes and bugs, and your data is not yet fully exportable,” Diaspora said in announcing the Alpha release.
Even with that caveat, though, early reviewers have been unsparing in their criticism of Diaspora’s security features — or lack thereof.
via Facebook wannabe Diaspora hit on security issues – Computerworld.
OK, so the initial release of Diaspora for developers is out and it isn’t ready for prime time. Hmm, let’s take 4 college students give them $200K and 90 days and see if they can create a “better” Facebook. Really? C’mon, lighten up. This project is just in its infancy, of course the code is a bit dodgy. But remember it’s an open source project now, so don’t just complain, join the community and contribute.
links for 2010-09-16
links for 2010-09-15
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Not SIMPLE specific.
Open Educational Resources (OER) are learning materials that are freely available for use, modification and redistribution under a Creative Commons Licence. This website collects simulation resources from multiple disciplines for shared use by the community.Use this website to search for simulation resources or to share your own simulation resources with the wider community. Engage with the simulation learning community through your personal profile and increase your knowledge of good practice in simulation learning.