Steve Jobs
October 7, 2011 Leave a comment
An amazing person. A beautiful mind. He’ll certainly be missed.
ROLE widget contest
June 23, 2011 Leave a comment
The ROLE project (Responsive Open Learning Environments) is organising a Widget Enchantment Contest. Build a widget using ROLE technologies, make it available through the ROLE widget store and win a prize worth 500EUR 
The contest will run till July 15th and the winner will be announced on July 31st.
UPDATE: The contest has been extended till August 31st.
Linked Data at the Open University and the ROLE project
April 14, 2011 Leave a comment
The Open University and the Lucero project have recently launched data.open.ac.uk, an RDF repository of metadata from Open University datasets, such as podcasts, courses, and more. The metadata from these datasets are interlinked and accessible through SPARQL queries.
Needless to say, this initiative provides excellent opportunities for harvesting previously disconnected datasets and providing new services to Open University learners. So, I’ve reused some code kindly provided by Fouad Zablith, in order to produce a widget for the ROLE project. The widget has been built as a Moodle block for recommending learning material inside OpenLearn courses. The widget queries data.open.ac.uk and displays a list of Open University courses, iTunesU podcasts, as well as OpenLearn tags related to the course that the user is currently viewing. You can try it out by logging in as guest at PlaySpace.
Here is also the blog post at the Lucero project: http://lucero-project.info/lb/2011/04/role-widget-consumes-linked-data/
Google launches Gmail Motion
April 1, 2011 1 Comment
Tired of sitting on your desk, typing and clicking? Well, Google is changing this! Try the new Gmail Motion and you’ll never go back to the keyboard and mouse!
…but also look closer at this post’s date
