Archive for March, 2008

Portals and LMSs (and Collaboration, SIS, Library, and other Suites)

Monday, March 31st, 2008

Clay from Georgia Tech shot me an email recently which spurred me to try and put to words how my thinking has evolved about the relationship of an enterprise portal and Sakai, and where these technologies and communities are heading.

In general I think the focus of “enterprise portals” has always been one of integration and [...]

“Blackboard may lose its patent…”

Monday, March 31st, 2008

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office issued a preliminary decision Tuesday that would invalidate Blackboard Inc.’s patent on its e-learning management systems.

(Via Washington Business Journal.)

Dominos Gets Actionable Intelligence

Friday, March 14th, 2008

So I was ordering a pizza today from Dominos (been a while, but being car-less around lunch tends to limit options) and noticed that they have just about the coolest web feedback system for an order I’ve seen:

So, not only can I see an estimated delivery time, but if I leave the browser open (which [...]

JSR-286 is Official - Does it matter?

Monday, March 10th, 2008

JSR-286 (the next generation Portlet specification) was approved last week.

The major new features of version 2.0 include:

* Events – enabling a portlet to send and receive events and perform state changes or send further events as a result of processing an event * Public render parameters – allowing portlets to share parameters with other [...]

Made an Offer on a House

Sunday, March 9th, 2008

We made (and the seller accepted) an offer on a house today. 4 Bedrooms, a basement for the kiddies — promoting sanity for the parents, and a 15 person hot tub are the highlights. Of course, now the real work of actually getting the details, legal, financing, and other bits worked out starts but it’s [...]

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