Joe Corneli gave a demo of GravPad at WikiSym 2010 in Gdansk, Poland. GravPad uses the Firefox Greasemonkey extension to attach an Etherpad to every page on the web. This mashup of web-plus-Etherpad, together with a “real-time recent changes page”, facilitates the discovery of interesting content and conversations. If you have Greasemonkey installed, you can…
Compendium 2.0 (beta 1) contains many exciting new features that expand the boundaries of what you can do with the software, as well as enhance its existing capabilities. Movie Maps: You can bring videos directly into a new kind of Compendium view, called a "Movie Map". With this you can add nodes and links on…
In recent work with psychotherapists, we’ve been using Compendium to convert their usual notes from analytic group sessions, into maps that reflect key aspects of the group dynamics. The Compendium design team has always envisaged the tool as analogous to spreadsheets for ideas: “Excel for Knowledge” if you will. Instead of handy tools for working…
Yesterday afternoon Paul Hogan called KMi using the ERA Portable WLAN Toolkit. Paul’s visiting Masaya volcano in Nicaragua, where he has been carrying out a number of field tests for his iPhone applications and backhaul trials for the JANET funded Portable WLAN project. Paul connected up with us using a BGAN (Broadband Global Area Network)…
Today saw the first release of an OU App for iPhone and iPod Touch from our Marketing Department into the Apple App store. Apple’s online location for mobile applications has proved very popular, with over two billion downloads of over a hundred thousand apps; so we will not get too excited about our ability to…
Dance, up till now one of the most ephemeral of art forms, has new ways to experiment with time and space via digital media. The e-Dance Project (2007-09) is investigating how researchers in e-Science and Choreography can collaborate to learn from each other, and innovate new tools for researchers, practitioners and students. As part of…
The newest release of the FlashMeeting project software on our main experimental server (which serves the European Association of Technology Enhanced Learning community EATEL) now produces podcast recordings of events that can be replayed in Apple’s iTunes and other podcast media browsers. Users have been able to use our new "groups" feature for some time…
Last week saw the major Apple World Wide Developer Conference 2009 in San Francisco – and I was there for the Open University. With a great new iPhone release, for v3.0 and a new device, the 3Gs – an exciting mobile community was clearly forming around the more classic OSX developer niches. There were many…
With a bit of help from KMi technology, researchers at the University of Bologna have developed a new decision support system, which helps neurologists measure the disability caused to a patient by the onset of multiple sclerosis. The system, which is called AEDSS (Automatic EDSS), assesses the Expanded Disability Status Scale (EDSS) in a patient,…
Amongst a swathe a new features released on the EATEL FM server today, is the ability to visualize the community in which you meet online. Just log in to the server, click on ‘my contacts’ and then view a map of your ‘top contacts’. The swirling blue view will provide a view of who you…
