http://jay.shao.org Thoughts and Ruminations, where I write about personal things, Rutgers, eLearning, JA-SIG, uPortal, Sakai, and other topics or commentary as it takes my fancy. Thu, 10 Jul 2008 04:32:12 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en So... the exhaustion that was the combined CampusEAI Portlets2008 and Annual conference is now behind us, and it seems like time for some reflections and observations. Hopefully some of these items will be items which I expand upon at a future date, but in no particular order, dumped straight from ... http://jay.shao.org/archives/2008/06/02/portlets2008-and-campuseai-annual-conference-recap A week or so ago, I got an email from a friend: ????????Just in case you haven't noticed this yet, Google links to jay.shao.org now include warnings about malware: Jason E. Shao » Blog Archive » Sakai SVN Vendor Branch Outcome This site may harm your computer. Jul 17, 2007 ... Soo… yesterday I ... http://jay.shao.org/archives/2008/05/27/on-googles-malware-list Ira Fuchs from Mellon is talking about Community Source, and the larger dynamic within the community -- successes, attitudes, opportunities, and risks. zotero is interesting, both as an example of an open-source project that like Firefox has had viral adoption, with a strong community marketing and communications effort. I also wonder ... http://jay.shao.org/archives/2008/04/29/ira-from-mellon-community-source I started this entry while I was riding a train back from the Laguardia ePortfolio Conference I'm endeavoring to reflect upon and synthesize threads from various (enlightening) presentations I've seen, and discussions I've had the privilege of participating in. First a brief plug: the content from the conference was fantastic ... http://jay.shao.org/archives/2008/04/27/osp-eportfolios-sakai-courseware uPortal 3.0 GA (General Availability) was released recently, congratulations to the entire team (and especially Eric from UW-Madison) for all their hard work and efforts. http://jay.shao.org/archives/2008/04/22/uportal-30-ga-released Desire2Blog: Sakai Seems to Think It's Over: Maybe Sakai thinks they are finished with this thing, but I'm pretty sure that D2L, SFLC, Blackboard, and all the other players are expecting it to continue on for quite some time. It could very well be that their input from this point forward ... http://jay.shao.org/archives/2008/04/08/desire2blog-sakai-seems-to-think-its-over 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 ... http://jay.shao.org/archives/2008/03/31/portals-and-lmss-and-collaboration-sis-library-and-other-suites 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.) http://jay.shao.org/archives/2008/03/31/blackboard-may-lose-its-patent 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 ... http://jay.shao.org/archives/2008/03/14/dominos-gets-actionable-intelligence 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 ... http://jay.shao.org/archives/2008/03/10/jsr-286-is-official-does-it-matter