Rocket Science

OERRecommender got a facelift to include the folksemantic sort of notion of social web and interconnectedness. It’s now Folksemantic.com.

All of the code is open-source and available (it always has been), but *news flash* it’s now a lot easier for us to setup. They’ve rejiggered the code to a “single” ruby project available from: http://github.com/jbasdf/muck/tree/master with an instructions-like page.

I missed the presentation at OpenEd 2009 (they changed rooms on me), but watched the uStream video.

In addition to the resource-to-resource recommendation from the repositories that the system knows about, users can now:

• See a Folksemantic frame around any resource that you follow from a recommendation (I don’t particularly like this).
• Make a comment on a recommended page (because it’s framed).
• Follow other users (see followers, and who you’re following via the website).
• Realtime recommendations for any page to pages that it knows about (when using the GreaseMonkey plugin) < - this is kinda cool, but may get to be annoying. (Load up Greasemonkey and the script, and go to whatever site you want, give it a few seconds and recommendations pop up.)
• Near term (within existing funding) Invite system, publish to facebook and twitter, groups, register “attention metadata feeds”, blog, bookmark feeds, browser history streams, personalized recommendations.
• Long term (need funding for this) remix ala send2wiki, sequencing ala makeapath, rating ala annorate.

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