INFRALLABS is the name given to the project of building up an EU overall Research Infrastructure dedicated to User-centred and Multidisciplinary Research also known as "Experience and Application Research" (EAR). The acronym EAR has been created by the ISTAG committee and the concept is described in the EAR ISTAG Report 2004.

Sometime ago, almost 2 years ago (time is passing so fast....), I've been turning inside-out the concept of Collaborative Working Environments (CWE) into Collaborative Web Environments.

The first good point is that one can realise they have the same acronym: "CWE", so not necessarily a big revolution....

The second one, beside having the same acronym, is that "Collaborative Working Environme

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Netvibes is pushing UWA (Universal Widget API) on the social-networking stage.....are users/members communities going to adopt it?

The Google initiated OpenSocial highly strategic movement is still the current hot topic emerging as a potential standard for sharing people networks, profiles and much more....which might be a great initiative if sufficiently opened to become a real standard that e

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Here is a short note, written into the CWE (Collaborative Working Environments) NewsBlog, about OpenSocial, the Google initiated open API to share people networks, profiles and much more among social networking tools to enable users/members to create new "social" applications.

Take a look here 

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