Curiouser and Curiouser! on socialtext http://matt.blogs.it/ RSS feed for topic socialtext Copyright 2006 Matt Mower Squib/0.1 self@mattmower.com self@mattmower.com en-gb Socialising with the SocialText crew Tue, 25 Feb 2003 20:28:11 +0000 <P>Good conference call today between <A href="http://radio.weblogs.com/0114726/">Ross</A> and <A href="http://alevin.com/weblog/">Adina</A> of <A href="http://www.socialtext.com/">SocialText</A> and <A href="http://paolo.evectors.it/">Paolo</A> and I.&nbsp; We all shared of our vision and our plans for the future which seem to be quite complementary.&nbsp; It's good to talk to other people doing interesting things in this space and I hope that we get an opportunity to work together.&nbsp; Certainly we both believe in the importance of supporting standards which, for us, means a big focus on <A href="http://backend.userland.com/rss">RSS2.0</A> and <A href="http://www.topicmaps.org/xtm/1.0/">XTM</A>.</P> http://matt.blogs.it/entries/00001209.html Social Software Alliance is announced Thu, 17 Apr 2003 14:36:58 +0100 <P align=center><A href="http://www.socialtext.net/ssa/"><IMG src="http://www.socialtext.net/ssa/ssaMedium.gif" border=0></A></P> <P align=center>We are proud to announce the launch of the Social Software Alliance</P> <P>The brainchild of the pioneers at <A href="http://www.socialtext.com/">SocialText</A> the alliance is intended to be a place where the developers & users of social software can come together&nbsp;to create open standards, and, contribute industry best practices.&nbsp; Our initial aims are:</P> <UL> <LI>aid discovery of developers working on synergistic projects and standards <LI>assist in shaping open standards that mesh well with other alliance and Internet standards <LI>help promote each standard to gain wider adoption</LI></UL> <P>Quoting from the call for discussion:</P> <BLOCKQUOTE dir=ltr style="MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"> <P>"The fast-paced nature of the social software space now argues for developing light-weight, easy-to-implement standards, following the Internet tradition of rough consensus and running code, but perhaps moving faster than the larger standards bodies. It is expected that those standards promulgated by the alliance which become widely adopted will be proposed to the appropriate general standards body or bodies: W3C, IETF, ISO, etc. "</P></BLOCKQUOTE> <P>There will be a SocialText sponsored <EM>Happening</EM> tomorrow (see the site for more details) and we hope that anyone who is interested in the development of social software will come and get involved.</P> http://matt.blogs.it/entries/00001407.html Getting Wiki Sat, 01 May 2004 13:08:37 +0100 <blockquote><a href="http://www.steptwo.com.au/columntwo/archives/001230.html">Wikis described in Plain English</a>. Lee LeFever has made an excellent effort to describe wikis in plain terms. To quote: Ultimately, a wiki is a specific type of website. A wiki is special because it allows a group of people to build, edit and modify... [<a href="http://www.steptwo.com.au/columntwo/">Column Two</a>]<br> </blockquote> <br> I wish Lee had posted this before my PCKM presentation earlier this week - it would have saved me some time. I gave a very brief description and there was definitely some interest from the audience at the time and, later, in discussions.&nbsp; Whilst I mentioned that there were many free packages available I referred people to <a href="http://www.socialtext.com/">SocialText</a> because I think the challenge is not buying or installing the software but to find the right partners to help you use & sell it internally.<br> http://matt.blogs.it/entries/00002169.html