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Fred Wilson Imagines Drupal Organic Groups

Sun, 6 Jul 2008 12:17:00 -0500

And that sounds right to me in the groups market. Charlie says the least common denominator in the groups market are these three functions: 1. A customizable site to call their own, even if it just has information as to what the group does and how to sign up. 2. A [...]

Building Context for the CALI Website

Tue, 11 Mar 2008 15:48:52 -0500

Building Context for the CALI WebsiteOne of the most important aspects of building complex websites is to get the viewer’s context right. Context helps the viewer know where they are in the site and how they can navigate. It signals what is important and provides a consistent look and feel for a given [...]

Lots of Free Case Law, Now I Have Work To Do:)

Mon, 11 Feb 2008 18:48:50 -0600

As announced at public.resource.org, CC and public.resource.org have announced the first release of material to support our free law project. After raising a large chunk of change from great and generous sorts like David Boies, John Gilmore, the Omidyar Network and the Elbaz Foundation, we’ve purchased a database of a substantial part of all federal [...]

Course Listing Apps on Facebook

Mon, 10 Dec 2007 17:29:00 -0600

Now that Facebook has opened up its pages to independent software developers, there are plenty of course-listing applications like this one floating around. And none of those tools seem especially popular: According to VentureBeat, the most widely-used course-listing tool has less than 3,300 “daily active users.” Applications like Courses might be useful, but their success [...]

Being IN the Long Tail Not Profitable, But Fun Anyway

Wed, 28 Nov 2007 10:57:57 -0600

The blogs that they started live in the long tail of the blogosphere, however, and the reality is that it is difficult to make money in the long tail - Anderson’s point was that the money is to be made by selling to the long tail, not so much by existing in it. In this [...]

Public.Resource.Org, Fastcase In Deal To Free Case Law

Thu, 15 Nov 2007 10:45:21 -0600

Announcement Public.Resource.Org and Fastcase, Inc. announced today that they will release a large and free archive of federal case law, including all Courts of Appeals decisions from 1950 to the present and all Supreme Court decisions since 1754. The archive will be public domain and usable by anyone for any purpose.I’m pretty sure that [...]

Laszlo Webtop to Get CounterPath Softphone

Tue, 25 Sep 2007 12:00:15 -0500

Meanwhile, Laszlo, which is rooted in providing RIA software and solutions, and CounterPath Solutions, a Vancouver, British Columbia, provider of multimedia VOIP softphones and SIP (Session Initiation Protocol) applications, announced a strategic relationship to bring standards-based voice communications to Laszlo Webtop.The companies plan to join forces to build CMC (CounterPath Multimedia Communicator) WebPhone, a softphone [...]

Mass High Court Oral Arguments on Suffolk Website

Mon, 24 Sep 2007 07:24:02 -0500

Suffolk University Law School, in cooperation with the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, maintains this site in order to make oral arguments before the Supreme Judicial Court accessible to the general public and the legal community. Webcasts of Supreme Judicial Court oral arguments at the John Adams Courthouse are available live while the cases are [...]

Is that a Cluster in Your Pocket?

Fri, 31 Aug 2007 05:36:03 -0500

Microwulf is a personal, portable Beowulf cluster, providing over 26 Gflops of measured performance, for less than $2500. Its dimensions are just 11″ x 12″ x 17″, making it small enough to fit on one’s desktop or in a suitcase.Microwulf: A Personal, Portable Beowulf ClusterI so want ot build one of these. I can think [...]

Creative Commons is Looking for Open Education Resources

Tue, 28 Aug 2007 17:48:23 -0500

Open Education Search - The Hewlett Foundation is working with ccLearn to develop a web search portal of open education resources. And they are looking for material. I wonder how 4,000 hours of law school class lectures and summaries would work? I think we’re going to find out. [...]

Textbending Laws

Tue, 28 Aug 2007 05:24:29 -0500

Recombinant Text - 6.5 Law Making - Textbender is an interesting little project I’ve been keeping an eye on for a while. The idea is to create a collaborative editing/drafting environment that allows each author/editor access to all of the text used at all points in the process and to assemple, disassemble and reassemble the [...]

Used Casebooks Sold for a Good Cause

Wed, 22 Aug 2007 13:51:24 -0500

CUA Columbus School of Law - Used Textbooks Open New Possibilities - It seems the used case book market has at least this much of an upside: it helps schools and student orgs raise funds for interesting and worthwhile projects. I wonder what happens to this sort of thing if the traditional case book [...]

Add Instant Definitions, Explanations to Your Site

Thu, 26 Jul 2007 08:40:47 -0500

AnswerTipsTM are small information bubbles that define any word when double-clicked. An AnswerTips-enabled site or blog means visitors get fast facts on 4 million topics provided by Answers.com when they double-click on any word, without opening a new browser or following outbound links. AnswerTips deliver instant definitions, explanations and facts including biographies, tech terms, geography, [...]

Paragraph Level Embedded Comments for WordPress

Thu, 26 Jul 2007 06:38:47 -0500

CommentPress is an open source theme for the WordPress blogging engine that allows readers to comment paragraph by paragraph in the margins of a text.CommentPressThis remarkable Wordpress plugin is being developed by the Institute for the Future of the Book. It adds a high level of interactivity and coinversation to Wordpress blogs by allow for [...]

Recommendations for Discreet Voice Recorder

Sun, 1 Jul 2007 23:58:02 -0500

I am looking for any recommendations on a digital or tape (digital preferred) voice recorder that will allow me to discretely record a conversation in an office or a room. The recorder will likely be on my person.

Any recommendations?