Comments on: Who’s doing web 2.0 well? http://blogs.educationau.edu.au/tcotton/2007/08/22/whos-doing-web-20-well/ ...learning a8out the wor1d 0f di9ital learning. Thu, 08 Jan 2009 16:30:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.4 by: Tom Cotton http://blogs.educationau.edu.au/tcotton/2007/08/22/whos-doing-web-20-well/#comment-5683 Thu, 23 Aug 2007 07:59:38 +0000 http://blogs.educationau.edu.au/tcotton/2007/08/22/whos-doing-web-20-well/#comment-5683 Yep totally agree. MAMs would be creating another walled garden - potentially broad acreage for educators. As you say hopefully AAF will learn from the problems. That said it could form part of basic educational identity management infrastructure to enable other web infrastructure for education. On the other hand there will always be a need for educators not to use their official identity when they feel they need to take an educational personal/professional risk. Tangent: Wikipedia is a great example of how to participate, share and liberate knowledge. An innovative use of Wikipedia is by Cerulean Studio's product Trillian which finds phrases in instant messenger chat and automatically creastes a link. The link's rollover displays a text version of the Wikipedia article, allowing me to learn background info mid conversion. Yep totally agree. MAMs would be creating another walled garden - potentially broad acreage for educators. As you say hopefully AAF will learn from the problems.

That said it could form part of basic educational identity management infrastructure to enable other web infrastructure for education.

On the other hand there will always be a need for educators not to use their official identity when they feel they need to take an educational personal/professional risk.

Tangent: Wikipedia is a great example of how to participate, share and liberate knowledge. An innovative use of Wikipedia is by Cerulean Studio’s product Trillian which finds phrases in instant messenger chat and automatically creastes a link. The link’s rollover displays a text version of the Wikipedia article, allowing me to learn background info mid conversion.

]]> by: Nick L http://blogs.educationau.edu.au/tcotton/2007/08/22/whos-doing-web-20-well/#comment-5676 Thu, 23 Aug 2007 04:03:48 +0000 http://blogs.educationau.edu.au/tcotton/2007/08/22/whos-doing-web-20-well/#comment-5676 MAMS is quite possibly the least "web 2.0"-like system it is possible to imagine while still having a website. It's a centrally designed and administered system, built to solve theoretical problems for website administrators, rather than practical problems for users. Compare the approach of MAMS to that of OpenID, and compare the adoption each approach has seen. Hopefully AAF will learn from some of the problems MAMS seen and build a system which is usable as well as well though-out. MAMS is quite possibly the least “web 2.0″-like system it is possible to imagine while still having a website.

It’s a centrally designed and administered system, built to solve theoretical problems for website administrators, rather than practical problems for users.

Compare the approach of MAMS to that of OpenID, and compare the adoption each approach has seen.

Hopefully AAF will learn from some of the problems MAMS seen and build a system which is usable as well as well though-out.

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