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Category Archives: me.edu.au


me.edu.au blogs: A blogging system for Australian educators

We’ve just launched blogs for all me.edu.au users, as part of the edna suite of services. I have some more technical details on my me.edu.au blog.

The social graph: claims and verfication

The latest version of me.edu.au adds support for XFN: The XHTML Friends Network. This makes it possible for tools to automagically link your multiple online identities together.
XFN uses a system of claims and verifications to determine how online identities are linked together. Claims are made using HTML links, using the rel=”me” attribute. If the […]

New me.edu.au release

I’ve just done a new release of me.edu.au. This doesn’t have any large new features (we want to give it a chance to bed down before adding stuff), but there are a couple of minor enhancements which are worth highlighting.
Firstly, as previously mentioned we’ve changed the “Browse Communities” screen so that communities with activity are […]

me.edu.au feedback

me.edu.au seems to have had a pretty good response, with lots of useful feedback coming in.
A small disclaimer: this only represents my opinions, not necessarily the opinions of the whole me.edu.au team at education.au. Any time I say I’d like me.edu.au to include a feature it means only that -I’d like it to. As a […]

Two small me.edu.au easter eggs: RSS and APML support

It’s Christmas tomorrow, which makes it the perfect time to mention two easter eggs [1] in me.edu.au.
Firstly, RSS output support for your activities. This lets someone else subscribe to what you are doing on me.edu.au. To see this go to your public profile (mine is http://me.edu.au/p/nlothian) and then append “/rss” to the address (eg, http://me.edu.au/p/nlothian/rss).
Secondly, […]