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From the website:
Fluid is a worldwide collaborative project to help improve the usability and accessibility of community open source projects with a focus on academic software for universities. We are developing and will freely distribute a library of sharable customizable user interfaces designed to improve the user experience of web applications.
This could be a helpful org for penntags
Eric Raymond's white paper on the lessons learned from open source software production. I capture these to assist in my thinking as we go forward with PennTags development. The Cathedral model represents a closed, commercial approach to software development while the Bazaar represents the OSS model of development.
- Every good work of software starts by scratching a developer's personal itch.
- Good programmers know what to write. Great ones know what to rewrite (and reuse).
- "Plan to throw one away; you will, anyhow." (Fred Brooks, "The Mythical Man-Month", Chapter 11)
Or, to put it another way, you often don't really understand the problem until after the first time you implement a solution. The second time, maybe you know enough to do it right. So if you want to get it right, be ready to start over at least once. - If you have the right attitude, interesting problems will find you.
- When you lose interest in a program, your last duty to it is to hand it off to a competent successor.
- Treating your users as co-developers is your least-hassle route to rapid code improvement and effective debugging.
- Release early. Release often. And listen to your customers.
- Given a large enough beta-tester and co-developer base, almost every problem will be characterized quickly and the fix obvious to someone.
Or, less formally, "Given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow." I dub this: "Linus's Law". - Smart data structures and dumb code works a lot better than the other way around.
- If you treat your beta-testers as if they're your most valuable resource, they will respond by becoming your most valuable resource.
Penntags as a 'popular' social bookmarking site.
Introducing Bookmarkz!By now everyone is quite familiar with the concept of social bookmarking.
I'm sure you have your favorite bookmarking website just like everyone else .. but do you have an easy way to encourage your website or blog visitors to socially bookmark your content?
Use Bookmarkz (beta) to easily add "one-click social bookmarking" links for one to
thirty fiveninety four popular social bookmarking websites and what's even better is it's all done with virtually no setup! How could it get any easier?
What's so great about SOCIAL bookmarks is that it creates a people powered search engine. Even if you don't use these services to bookmark you can use these for searching, the more a web page is bookmarked the more popular!
Used on some Blogsites to assist folks in posting to their favorite Social Bookmarking site such as delicious, fark, magnolia, and PennTags!
Plum is similar to Kaboodle and Stylehive in that it is a social bookmarking site that allows users to add a lot of metadata about bookmarks (including images). Bookmarked items can tagged and be added to a public, private or shared “collection” (there are a number of defaul collections and more can be added).
One key way that Plum is different than other bookmarking site is that it allows users to bookmark items on their computer, not just on the web. A file that is open in certain desktop applications (things like photos, power point presentations, iTunes playlists, address book entries, email, etc) can be added to Plum by clicking a button on the Plummer, a small downloadable application for Windows or Mac. See the last screen shot below for a look at the Plummer.
Gee...projects and local resource tagging! How are we to ever keep up?