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Signing off 8 Aug 2010 | 09:35 pm
The Barnraiser project is now frozen. All code is still available for free. A number of forks of the code projects have launched. To find out why, read on.... Barnraiser started back in 2003 when I
Dutch; our knowledge sharing network tool released. 30 Sep 2008 | 04:21 pm
I am very happy to announce the release of Dutch; our knowledge sharing network tool. We stumbled across the idea of Dutch when we were playing a few weeks ago. We were looking at a way to share sn
Prairie; our OpenID based Internet identity server released. 25 Sep 2008 | 07:53 pm
Prairie is a lightweight OpenID based Internet identity server. Instead of registering at every web site with different username and password combinations you use your identity server to log you in.
RSS/ATOM feed aggregation into a single webpage 18 Aug 2008 | 04:42 am
I wanted to find a simple RSS feed aggregation tool that allows people to add RSS and ATOM feeds to a social tool that would aggregate them into a simple web page for a workshop I was running. SIDA
OpenID usability part 2: The authentication workflow 8 Aug 2008 | 10:41 pm
In this article I continue to publish the results of our usability tests along with recommendations for our software development surrounding OpenID implementation. This is a simplified workflow cha
OpenID usability part 1: The email address versus the OpenID URi 5 Aug 2008 | 07:54 pm
I've never been presented to a person who forgot their email address. Quite a claim you may say, but when one presents themselves in business one tends to shake hands and hand over a business card wit
Website updates 4 Aug 2008 | 06:58 pm
We have moved our web site today to use Roundhouse; our new social blogging tool. The community is also moved to http://build.barnraiser.org/ and is now built on Dutch; our knowledge sharing environme
Roundhouse and optimization for Googles search 2 Aug 2008 | 02:03 am
One of Roundhouse's features (our social blogging tool) is that the content is optimized for Googles search. I just wanted to explain what this means. When Google opened up their search site in the
Advertising on the Barnraiser website 30 Jul 2008 | 03:45 am
I've rejected advertising in the past because of two simple reasons. Firstly anyone creating a social website should not have advertising as their primary revenue generator and secondly it does not wo
Creating knowledge sharing networks 30 Jul 2008 | 03:24 am
Many people either working or volunteering for the organisation find useful snippets of information on the web. They in a moment of excitement send out an email to their colleges after which it is pro
