RSS Builder – Build News Feeds and Podcasts
http://home.hetnet.nl/mr_2/43/bsoft/rssbuilder/

RSS Builder is an easy to use program to create RSS news feeds and podcasts for your web site. It provides a simple interface that lets you add topics, links, content, and enclosures, then publish the RSS (v2.0) feed to your web server, using the built-in FTP client. RSS Builder is a free program. This has been added to the tools section of Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This has been added to Bots, Blogs and News Aggregators presentation resource page.

Context Discovery – Text Summarization and Knowledge Discovery Tool
http://www.contextdiscovery.com/

Context Discovery organizes amd summarizes web pages and documents in order to pinpoint relevant information. Features include: 1) Get to the point – Speed-up reading by condensing web pages, emails and documents into keywords and summaries presented in context; 2) Accelerate Search – Search the web with relevant keywords. Summarize results – in context, for rapid understanding; 3) Take Notes – Quickly collect topics and sentences. Send them to WordPad or Word. Share notes – send them by e-mail; and 4) Visualize – View summaries in context as Mindjet MindManager maps. This has been added to the tools section of Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This has been added to Knowledge Discovery Subject Tracer™ Information Blog.

JAP – Anonymity and Privacy
http://anon.inf.tu-dresden.de/index_en.html

JAP (called JonDo in the scope of the new commercial service JonDonym – AN.ON remains free of charge) makes it possible to surf the internet anonymously and unobservably. Without Anonymization, every computer in the internet communicates using a traceable Address. That means: a) the website visited, b) the internet service provider (ISP), and c) any eavesdropper on the internet connection can determine which websites the user of a specific computer visits. Even the information which the user calls up can be intercepted and seen if encryption is not used. JAP uses a single static address which is shared by many JAP users. That way neither the visited website, nor an eavesdropper can determine which user visited which website. Instead of connecting directly to a webserver, users take a detour, connecting with encryption through several intermediaries, so-called Mixes. JAP uses a predetermined sequence for the mixes. Such a sequence of linked mixes is called a Mix Cascade. Users can choose between different mix cascades. Since many users use these intermediaries at the same time, the internet connection of any one single user is hidden among the connections of all the other users. No one, not anyone from outside, not any of the other users, not even the provider of the intermediary service can determine which connection belongs to which user. A relationship between a connection and its user could only be determined if all intermediaries worked together to sabotage the anonymization. The intermediaries (mix providers) are generally provided by independent institutions which officially declare, that they do not keep connection log files or exchange such data with other mix providers. JAP shows the identity and number of organisations in each Mix cascade in detail, and verifies this information by cryptographic means. The users are thus able to selectively choose trustable mix cascades. JAP is a software development within the Project Anonymity in the Internet sponsored by the German Research Foundation and the Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology. This has been added to Privacy Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog.

RSS Builder – Build News Feeds and Podcasts
http://home.hetnet.nl/mr_2/43/bsoft/rssbuilder/

RSS Builder is an easy to use program to create RSS news feeds and podcasts for your web site. It provides a simple interface that lets you add topics, links, content, and enclosures, then publish the RSS (v2.0) feed to your web server, using the built-in FTP client. RSS Builder is a free program. This has been added to the tools section of Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This has been added to Bots, Blogs and News Aggregators presentation resource page.

Context Discovery – Text Summarization and Knowledge Discovery Tool
http://www.contextdiscovery.com/

Context Discovery organizes amd summarizes web pages and documents in order to pinpoint relevant information. Features include: 1) Get to the point – Speed-up reading by condensing web pages, emails and documents into keywords and summaries presented in context; 2) Accelerate Search – Search the web with relevant keywords. Summarize results – in context, for rapid understanding; 3) Take Notes – Quickly collect topics and sentences. Send them to WordPad or Word. Share notes – send them by e-mail; and 4) Visualize – View summaries in context as Mindjet MindManager maps. This has been added to the tools section of Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This has been added to Knowledge Discovery Subject Tracer™ Information Blog.

JAP – Anonymity and Privacy
http://anon.inf.tu-dresden.de/index_en.html

JAP (called JonDo in the scope of the new commercial service JonDonym – AN.ON remains free of charge) makes it possible to surf the internet anonymously and unobservably. Without Anonymization, every computer in the internet communicates using a traceable Address. That means: a) the website visited, b) the internet service provider (ISP), and c) any eavesdropper on the internet connection can determine which websites the user of a specific computer visits. Even the information which the user calls up can be intercepted and seen if encryption is not used. JAP uses a single static address which is shared by many JAP users. That way neither the visited website, nor an eavesdropper can determine which user visited which website. Instead of connecting directly to a webserver, users take a detour, connecting with encryption through several intermediaries, so-called Mixes. JAP uses a predetermined sequence for the mixes. Such a sequence of linked mixes is called a Mix Cascade. Users can choose between different mix cascades. Since many users use these intermediaries at the same time, the internet connection of any one single user is hidden among the connections of all the other users. No one, not anyone from outside, not any of the other users, not even the provider of the intermediary service can determine which connection belongs to which user. A relationship between a connection and its user could only be determined if all intermediaries worked together to sabotage the anonymization. The intermediaries (mix providers) are generally provided by independent institutions which officially declare, that they do not keep connection log files or exchange such data with other mix providers. JAP shows the identity and number of organisations in each Mix cascade in detail, and verifies this information by cryptographic means. The users are thus able to selectively choose trustable mix cascades. JAP is a software development within the Project Anonymity in the Internet sponsored by the German Research Foundation and the Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology. This has been added to Privacy Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog.

FatFreeCart – Free Version of E-junkie Shopping Cart
http://www.fatfreecart.com/

FatFreeCart is the free version of E-junkie shopping cart. It works inside your website, your blog and will even work from your MySpace page. It is simply a copy-paste cart and does not require you to register with them or install anything. It works with PayPal and Google Checkout. It supports product variations, shipping, handling and sales tax. If you are already using PayPal shopping cart, you will find the button code is similar. On top of being certified by PayPal and Google, it has been successfully tested on humans and they absolutely love it (which means higher conversion rates for you). This has been added to eCommerce Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog.

American Journal of Distance Education
http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/0892-3647.asp

The American Journal of Distance Education (AJDE) is the internationally recognized journal of research and scholarship in the field of American distance education. Distance education describes teaching-learning relationships where the actors are geographically separated and communication between them is through technologies such as audio and video broadcasts, teleconferences and recordings; printed study guides; and multimedia systems. The principal technology of current research interest is the World Wide Web, and subfields of distance education therefore include on-line learning, e-learning, distributed learning, asynchronous learning and blended learning. With increasing numbers of individuals and institutions becoming involved in these various forms of distance education, the AJDE offers a solid foundation of valuable research-based knowledge about all aspects of the pedagogy of the field. Peer reviewed articles provide reports on the latest findings in such areas as:

* building and sustaining effective delivery systems;
* course design and application of instructional design theories
* facilitating interaction between students and with instructors;
* factors influencing student achievement and satisfaction;
* the changing roles of faculty and changes in institutional culture;
* administrative and policy issues including cost-effectiveness and copyright.

AJDE encourages the submission of articles about methods and techniques of teaching at a distance, about learning, and about management and administration but also encourages authors to write about policies, theories, and values that drive distance education. Articles should be based on research, although all methods and approaches to research are welcome. Authors are advised to ensure that their work is appropriately grounded in a review of existing literature.