In my previous post (April 26) "Wassup with Web 2.0?" I noted two new tools, Joomla! and Zude that I believe to be of significant importance and very much worth having your checking out. Unfortunately, I spelled Joomla! wrong and thus put in the wrong link and directed you to a related but incorrect web site. Mea culpa and my apologies for any confusion.
Joomla! does NOT have a "B" in their name as I had mistyped, so please note that the correct URL is www.joomla.com and name is Joomla! I've fixed the link now in the blog posting (one of the many benefits of dynamic publishing!) and wanted to alert those of you who may have already tried it and were confused.
I've already had many of you express an interest in both Joomla! and Zude and as I noted in my earlier keynote posting:
"This is NOT an endorsement of either of these applications, but rather to provide you with what I believe to be GREAT examples of the tipping point that is developing around my theme of “MC2(squared): Mass Customization x Mass Contribution”. Have some “serious fun” spending some time to “play” with both of these and I’m convinced you will start to see how these enable and encourage almost anyone from your grandmother to your 4 year old nephew to be able to be both a content producer and consumer and do it all THEIR way. I am particularly intrigued by the combination of both these types of “applications” with something like Joomla!! providing the functionality for content management however formal or informal, and something like Zude providing the functionality for assembling just the right stuff, just the right way, just for me. Keep your eye on these types of functionality and I’ll be reporting more as I do so as well."
I'm particularly looking forward to the official release of Zude tomorrow (May 1st) If you didn't catch it in the previous post, rather than try to explain Zude I recommend that you check out the ZDNet posting, "Zude’s drag-n-drop Web authoring/remixing make it the Switzerland of the social Web" that this posting with a video interview with Zude founders and a product demo. AND for those of you who would like to do some experiential learning or "serious play" then be sure to get over to the www.zude.com, have some serious fun with it, and report back with your reactions and responses.
UPDATE: Can't wait till tomorrow to get started? Good news, David Berlind over at ZDNet just posted the code (9833) to let you in to the Zude site as an "early adopter" so you can get started RIGHT NOW! David also put up some of his initial reactions and comments which completely match my experience to date and I'd recommend that you read his posting; "Zude offers ZDNet readers early preview code in advance of May 1 beta launch"
In the hope that it will stimulate more of you to share your experiences, here are some of my very brief and very early reactions and thoughts so far:
Joomla!!
• Is intriguing as a powerful, open source “content management system” for the rest of us
• Completely separates content from the “presentation layer”
• Seems to be tremendously flexible in the way almost anyone (low skills like me) can create any form of content and have it show up however you like it
• Works on a “repository” type of model where all of the “articles” (content) and the applets, widgets, etc. are available for you to call up, display, layout or interact with
• enables “rules” to be easily created such as interactions between the individual objects and enable the site to dynamically determine how and what content is displayed for example
Part of my interest in Joomla! is that in the past month, several of my “trusted advisers” have independently decided to start using Joomla!! Believing in synchronicity and serendipity rather than coincidence, I take great note of this “pattern” as being significant. Having said that, I am also hearing and reading good things about another open source CMS called Drupal and there are many more available as well. I’ve heard from some that Drupal creates much better code and was designed more bottom up as an application, whereas Joomla! is developed more “top down”, meaning that functionality is where they started (doing stuff with content) and then kept building up code by adding features over time.
Zude:
• Is a very new and very different way of working with content. (goes live as of May 1, 2007)
• I’m intrigued by its potential to be a truly universal content aggregator that let’s anyone and everyone have it “just right” and just their way.
• Zude appears to be COMPLETELY independent of the operating system or browser
• AND completely independent of the source of the content that you drag and drop onto your “pages”—anything from content that is from your local hard drive to server based content to web-based content
• Best explanation is probably in this short video and demo
I've always had huge respect and admiration for Alvin Toffler, one of the true futurists of our time and author of prescient books, such as Future Shock and The Third Wave. Toffler coined a great term "ProSumer" to indicate a future he predicted back in the 1960's where we would be both Producers and Consumers at the same time, and I see this coming true here and now. I’m specifically interested in how these two technologies (Zude and Joomla!) might work well together with Joomla! being the choice when we are in “Producer mode” serving as a central CMS for everyone from average individuals up through huge organizations, and then Zude being the tool for “Consumer mode” when I or anyone else is wanting to have more control over the content they are consuming and sharing. All of this enabling what I've been referring to as "The Snowflake Effect" of just the right content at just the right time in just the right way, etc. etc.
What I’m interested in getting from any of you (in all your spare time!) is some initial reactions, technical evaluation and your overall rating of where you would rate each of these relative to their importance for the future and worthiness of more of my and perhaps your time and attention?? Are these important new tools and methods of working with content or nothing new? Will this type of capability be a catalyst for massive change along the lines of how blogs have changed behavior and content? Will this catch on with "the rest of us" from grandparents to grandchildren" or it is just for geeks and the technically proficient?
IF you get any time to have some “serious fun” playing with these I’d be MOST appreciative of your thoughts and reactions. More to follow here on Off Course - On Target as we all get some time to do more of this critical kind of serious play. See you in the sandbox of life and learning!
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