Sakai | Jason E. Shao

“Blackboard may lose its patent…”

Mar

31

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

Blackboard Won. Making the case for open source

Feb

24

2008

Blackboard Won:This just in A Texas jury has found Kitchener software company Desire2Learn Inc. guilty of infringing on an American competitorâ€™s patent.The verdict, announced this afternoon, allows Blackboard Inc. to demand a ban on sales of Desire2Learnâ€™s products in the United States. (Via e-Literate.)Michael F. isn’t the only one who’s speechless at this decision. The ...

Jason’s Employment 2.0

Feb

17

2008

Well the questions are pouring in (mostly due to my tardiness in writing this kind of announcement) and so, without farther ado… ## What Happened? While it still feels a little strange to say it, as of 2 Fridays ago (2/8) I am no longer employed at Rutgers University. Over the last 9 years as ...

Twitter Stats

Jan

3

2008

Continuing the meme of looking at twitter usage, here’s mine: Heavily JA-SIG slanted, but Sakai is starting to gain…

Back on PlanetSakai

Dec

20

2007

Should be showing up on planetsakai.org again. Guess my URLs aren’t cool, since they changed…