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Category Archives: OpenSocial


so Google wants to crawl Facebook

May 2, 2008 – 11:27 am

From ZDNet comes a post reporting of Google’s CEO pleading to crawl Facebook.  Quoted as saying “If it’s not searchable by Google, it’s not open, and open is best for the consumer,”.  Hmmm, best for the consumer or marketer?  Eric Schmidt is quoted as then going on to say that people should be able to […]

By Jerry Leeson | Also posted in Educationau, google, facebook | Comments (1)

nice post on ePortfolio standards

April 29, 2008 – 9:07 am

From the Learning Futures Eiffel team blog here’s a nice introduction on standards to consider for ePortfolios. It gives a nice summary of the major ePortfolio specific standards to consider and importantly, mentions related specifications such as OpenSocial which I believe those interested in ePortfolios should start to at a minimum, become familiar with. […]

By Jerry Leeson | Also posted in Educationau, interoperability, e-portfolio, standards | Comments (0)

a building block for ePortfolios

November 14, 2007 – 1:13 pm

In an earlier post I asked whether Google could be my ePortfolio. While I can find out quite a bit about me and other people who share my name using a Google search, its not really an ePortfolio application (then again, what is?).
As a participant in a number of social networking services, […]

By Jerry Leeson | Also posted in Educationau, e-portfolio, google | Comments (1)