Comments on: Pennvibes http://meredith.wolfwater.com/wordpress/2007/11/09/pennvibes/ A librarian, writer and tech geek reflecting on the profession and the tools we use to serve our patrons Tue, 09 Mar 2010 13:59:34 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Michael Winkler http://meredith.wolfwater.com/wordpress/2007/11/09/pennvibes/comment-page-1/#comment-182937 Michael Winkler Wed, 14 Nov 2007 02:29:14 +0000 http://meredith.wolfwater.com/wordpress/index.php/2007/11/09/pennvibes/#comment-182937 Thanks for the interest and kind words. PennVibes really is an exercise in how to deliver tools and content as widgets, individually addressable and configurable. The framework we demonstrated exists as a platform for delivery to the Penn community. But then you go to sleep, and the world changes... During DLF Google made the OpenSocial announcement (http://code.google.com/apis/opensocial/). OpenSocial provides a common API for social software widgets across several popular Web2.0 frameworks like Netvibes, iGoogle, MySpace and Friendster. Apparently missing or not in the announcements are Facebook and MS Live - another front in the war for eyes between Google and Microsoft, perhaps. Still, OpenSocial goes a long way to addressing the interoperability issue. Maybe, with tools like this, we can get out of the "Library Website" business and begin delivering tools and content to where our users live and work. This is the investment that we are making... Thanks for the interest and kind words. PennVibes really is an exercise in how to deliver tools and content as widgets, individually addressable and configurable. The framework we demonstrated exists as a platform for delivery to the Penn community.

But then you go to sleep, and the world changes…

During DLF Google made the OpenSocial announcement (http://code.google.com/apis/opensocial/). OpenSocial provides a common API for social software widgets across several popular Web2.0 frameworks like Netvibes, iGoogle, MySpace and Friendster. Apparently missing or not in the announcements are Facebook and MS Live – another front in the war for eyes between Google and Microsoft, perhaps. Still, OpenSocial goes a long way to addressing the interoperability issue. Maybe, with tools like this, we can get out of the “Library Website” business and begin delivering tools and content to where our users live and work.

This is the investment that we are making…

]]> By: WoW!ter http://meredith.wolfwater.com/wordpress/2007/11/09/pennvibes/comment-page-1/#comment-182935 WoW!ter Tue, 13 Nov 2007 23:22:07 +0000 http://meredith.wolfwater.com/wordpress/index.php/2007/11/09/pennvibes/#comment-182935 Some bits and pieces are already available for a larger public http://wowter.net/2007/11/13/after-penntags-there-is-pennvibes/ Some bits and pieces are already available for a larger public http://wowter.net/2007/11/13/after-penntags-there-is-pennvibes/

]]> By: Wow!ter http://meredith.wolfwater.com/wordpress/2007/11/09/pennvibes/comment-page-1/#comment-182898 Wow!ter Sun, 11 Nov 2007 15:40:09 +0000 http://meredith.wolfwater.com/wordpress/index.php/2007/11/09/pennvibes/#comment-182898 Thanks for blogging this. I took it over on my <a href="http://www.woter.nl/blog" rel="nofollow">Dutch blog</a> (which your can translate with the Google translate widget), since Netvibes is really popular in the Netherlands. Thanks for blogging this. I took it over on my Dutch blog (which your can translate with the Google translate widget), since Netvibes is really popular in the Netherlands.

]]> By: Richard Akerman http://meredith.wolfwater.com/wordpress/2007/11/09/pennvibes/comment-page-1/#comment-182884 Richard Akerman Fri, 09 Nov 2007 22:16:27 +0000 http://meredith.wolfwater.com/wordpress/index.php/2007/11/09/pennvibes/#comment-182884 I guess the main thing to note is that it's currently a completely internal Penn page-creation tool. If I understood the presentation correctly, it allows a single user to quickly assemble a set of objects together to create a page. Unfortunately those objects are Penn-internal, but they did indicate that an interesting future direction would be widget interoperability - ideally write-widget-once and deploy to PageFlakes, iGoogle etc. etc. They said they haven't found any standards to make this possible yet, and maybe one needs to be created. I guess the main thing to note is that it’s currently a completely internal Penn page-creation tool. If I understood the presentation correctly, it allows a single user to quickly assemble a set of objects together to create a page. Unfortunately those objects are Penn-internal, but they did indicate that an interesting future direction would be widget interoperability – ideally write-widget-once and deploy to PageFlakes, iGoogle etc. etc. They said they haven’t found any standards to make this possible yet, and maybe one needs to be created.

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