Day: August 2, 2006

  • Learning Systems Management Patent

    I’m not sure how I missed this, but apparently the US Patent office, in their infininte wisdom, granted Blackboard a paton on “Internet-based education support system and methods”.    Michael Feldstein on the e-Literate blog notes that: As I read it, Blackboard basically owns the patent on any sort of groupware at all that is used…

  • MarcEdit 5.0 updates

    I’ve posted an update.  Some of the highlights of the change: New functions added to the MarcEngine/COM objects that allow for the streaming of text into the MARCEngine for direct translation to MARC.  Traditionally, MarcEdit has been a file based tool (i.e., you send it a file and it prints the results to a new…