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Apr 24th, 2007 by Prof Connected Open
In 2004 three of us, Alan Levine, D’Arcy Norman , and Brian Lamb, presented a concept of decentralized connecting web content with RSS — “Small Technologies Loosely Joined”, playing off of the book title by David Weinberger. Looking back at what we might call “Web 1.5″, using RSS to interconnect blogs, wikis, and chat seem rather simple. At that time, flickr and del.icio.us were still truly unknown betas, Google was just a search engine, folksonomy might not even had been coined as a term, podcasting did not exist, online videos were relegated to basic downloading to view– what a long way the web has come since then. However, underneath the shiny hood of the new tools, RSS remains a key integration factor. Now we sit in 2007 with an explosion and continued expansion, of “small tools” leaving many educators overwhelmed and excited at the same time.