Readers of my book know that I'm an avid user of social bookmarking and online bibliographic systems. As a big fan of Zotero ("a free, easy-to-use Firefox extension to help you collect, manage, and cite your research sources"), I have been looking for ways to further integrate Zotero (both the client and the web front […]
Tagged ZoteroI'm looking forward to having the chance to teach my "Mixing and Remixing information" course for the fourth time In January 2009. Since I plan to use my book on mashups as one of the primary texts, I'm going to have to update it. Even though the book was published in February, a fair amount […]
Tagged del.icio.us, name changeI was going to try Google Presentation, the new Powerpoint-like subsystem of Google Docs, until I learned that it doesn't export presentations to Powerpoint or OpenDocument. (See Can I download a presentation to my local computer?.) Now, I might create my PPT or OpenDocument presentation and then upload it to see how good the importing […]
I posted today first drafts of 5 more chapters for my book.  Take a look — I'd love to get some feedback on these drafts.  (Send me email at raymondyee AT mashupguide DOT net.): Chapter 3: "Tagging and Folksonomies." (2007-05-02 07:58:41) Chapter 4: "RSS and Atom and syndication; integration with news readers" (2007-04-24 17:52:20) […]
If I weren't sick with a cold, I'd be energetically plowing away on Chapter 14 on the topic of social bookmarks. I'm trying to get through a first pass of the chapter this afternoon, which is likely to be way too optimistic. Fortunately, I am drawing from some work that I've already assembled: first of […]