PLE development means to make mashups from institutional and external web services. At ProgrammableWeb a how-to explains to beginners how to tackle with mashups construction. Besides, a very useful list of API tutorials and introductions of well-known services (Google Search, Flickr, YouTube, …) is given.
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December 22, 2007
Also known as Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) or Software On-demand, online software is a new way to use software applications. In the online Software model, data and functionality are accessed via the Internet.
Online software offers significant advantages such as:
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Foreseeable and fixed cost: pay per user monthly. Forget unexpected maintenance costs and incidents linked to software systems.
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Reduce your IT structure: use the IT resources within your organization to support other key objectives.
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Reduce implementation time: in a few hours, you can have your new software-based process up and running.
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Increase your productivity: at a very low cost, apply professional solutions to the management of your sales activity.
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Universal access: you can work whenever and wherever you wish via the Internet. All that is required is to have access to a browser and to have an Internet connection.
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Constant update: our developers’ team works continuously to upgrade our software, improving its functionality and usability without the need for you to neither install nor upgrade anything.
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Affordable access to the best technology on the market: with the old licensing costs, small and medium enterprises found it impossible to automate some critical business processes. Online software offers professional solutions with the latest technology to any company, at an affordable price.
clipped from www.b-kin.com
December 13, 2007
With the proliferation of online services these days, you probably have many different usernames and passwords that you have to remember. Maybe you do use unique passwords, and get around the problem of remembering them by saving them in your browser, or storing them in a spreadsheet or other file – which is very insecure – or even writing/printing them on a piece of paper and taping it to your computer display. Maybe you even use one of the many password managers that are available. We need not even mention the security risks inherent with that solution. Even if you trust the company storing the passwords, you can be sure every hacker in the world is drooling over the prospect of accessing their database. Ideally, you should use a unique, strong password for each of your accounts.
What if you could use passwords that are as unique as fingerprints for each and every one of your accounts, yet not have to remember them? PasswordMaker allows you to do just that. By using complex mathematical formulae, called hashing algorithms, PasswordMaker outputs the same unique passwords for you each and every time, provided you give it the same input. And these passwords are unique across the globe (providing they are of sufficient length). Don’t write them down on sticky notes for others to find; no, PasswordMaker calculates them for you over and over again — as needed — without storing them so they can’t be stolen. And if you use more than one computer (for example, one at work and one at home), it’s child’s play to synchronize them. There’s even an on-line version for times when you are at a public computer and can’t install any software.
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Posted on passwordmaker.org
November 19, 2007
Scott Leslie mentioned that one option for the PLE is to enhance the browser into a complete personal learning toolkit using plugins and other technologies such as Mozilla’s XUL. Something we’ve seen recently with Flock.
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Posted in the personal learning environments blog on 2006/04/11
November 15, 2007
Delegation is the simplest way to get up and running with OpenID and Sam Ruby wrote a great tutorial. Delegation requires nothing more than an OpenID Provider and some basic HTML. If you’re wanting to host your own OpenID Provider, you’ll also need some coding experience. phpMyID is a simple open source PHP script that lets you fully host your own Provider.
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Posted in OpenID.net
