Cambridge now has made a “My Sakai” widget available that provisions information on recent activities, resources, and announcements from a Sakai installation into a Facebook application or a widget in iGoogle, Google Desktop, a Mac OS X desktop, or a Windows Vista desktop. This is somewhat the inverse to the idea of making the LMS a container for gadgets that I posted about earlier. (Incidentally, there are some good comments from a couple of Sakai developers on that previous post.)
In an ideal world, you’d have both, i.e., you’d be able to project stuff from the rest of the world into an LMS via gadgets and project stuff out into the rest of the world from the LMS via gadgets.
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I checked it out and its a really cool widget. Im an intern at Clearspring, and the methods they use are really similar to the widget platform we implement so its certainly something to look at.
[…] I have mentioned before Cambridge’s My Sakai project which, writ large, can be seen as an attempt to make Sakai more compatible with Web 2.0 by supporting development of widgets, gadgets, Facebook applications, and so on. Well, they’ve made some substantial progress of late, inspired in part by the Apache Shindig implementation of Google’s OpenSocial API. They’ve created a development paradigm that mostly eschews Java in favor of the HTML, Javascript, and RESTful web services that most Web 2.0 developers will find very familiar. The work, still very much in the experimental stage, recently culminated in a four-day workshop in which 4 Sakai schools (Cambridge, Michigan, Georgia Tech, and U of Toronto) created a new and more user-friendly interface for file sharing within Sakai. […]