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Google releases open source browser

Jay Cross

Google just brought out an open source browser. It’s the web world being turned upside down. The online learner’s favorite tool of all time, Firefox, will never look the same. Actually, it will be out in twelve minutes.

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Internet Time Blog » Google releases open source browser

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LearnTrends Live: Jane Hart

Jay Cross

Open source. Installs social learning system based on ELGG. Customization. Supporting infrastructure. Created a site where learning professionals could experiment with using ELGG. At first, people came to network. Now the system hosts courseware. It’s become SoLearn (short to Social Learning) because that’s what it’s about.

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WordCamp!

Jay Cross

The continuous progress in power and ease of use testify to the power of open source software development. This is a WordPress blog, as is the Informal Learning Blog , the Learning Irregulars Blog , the togetherLearn Blog , and several blogs I keep to myself. It is simply amazing that WordPress is only six years old.

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Opening plenary at Online Educa

Jay Cross

Roger Larsen , of Fronter, is promoting open-source collaboration tools. Roger talks of open source as a concept but sells a closed system. secure area as well as open. '98 Nonetheless, listening to Bolz repeat other people's ideas, professor-style, is a jarring difference. Operating system for learning.

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DevLearn 08 LIVE

Jay Cross

Organized meeting where term “open source&# was adopted in 1998. O’Reilly’s mission is to change the world by spreading the knowledge of innovators. 1992: first book on the net, The Whole Internet Users Guide, when there were but 200 sites on the web. Started the first commercial web site, GNN. Coined term Web 2.0

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Top posts on Working Smarter for April 2014

Jay Cross

nextweb] The Open Source Bank of Brewster DAVID WEINBERGER | FRIDAY, APRIL 25, 2014. Data Science: from Half-Baked Ideas to Data-Driven Insights IRVING WLADAWSKY-BERGER | WEDNESDAY, APRIL 9, 2014. Small changes to make a big difference and modernise workplace learning JANE HART | MONDAY, APRIL 28, 2014.

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