See this post for a great example of the power of simple standards and open architectures

02-November-2005

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Mike posted an interesting how-to in his new elearning2.0 blog yesterday, which shows how ordinary web authors can mix 'live' streams of links-lists from del.icio.us tags with their discursive content. This is a great example of how keeping it simple makes all sorts of unexpected features possible.

See this for a how-to for pulling links-lists into discursive content using just RSS, javascript, html and del.icio.us. Try to imagine how the IMS would have specified a standard for accomplishing the same thing :o)

The editors of the NGRF site have been 'getting' the power of social-bookmarking lately, and have started to assemble a useful resource at their del.icio.us account. While drafting an email to them about options for leveraging that resource within the NGRF site, it occurred to me that a very easy technique already exists for bringing 'live' links lists into discursive site content, using the javascript linkroll feature from del.icio.us itself. This post explains how to do that

elearning2.0 | So dumb it's smart: how to embed live lists from del.icio.us tags in your own textual content

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