Zude


 * __1. Description__ **

Zude is the social computing platform that offers free and unlimited web pages to everyone. Zude makes it easy for users to create, consolidate, communicate, and share the web. One of Zude's unique features is an innovative use of   [|drag-and-drop]   technology which allows users to drag text, images, URLs,    [|RSS]   <span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">,<span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif">    <span style="FONT-SIZE: 120%; FONT-FAMILY: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif">[|widgets]      <span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 120%; FONT-FAMILY: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif"> <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif">and other content from <span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif">another browser onto their Zude pages. These content dropped in the Zude environment is rendered as a "Zude object" with a set of editable properties that allows control over the object's size, display properties and more. <span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif"> Zude provides several default objects so users can create their own content and display their profile and contact information on the page. Zude also provides built in tools to allow users to upload images and PDF documents from a local computer for display on their Zude page. <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'">Some Zude features are: <span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"> · <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'">Drag and drop everything · <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'">Move everything around · <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'">Unlimited pages (public, private, and personal) · <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'">Embed text, images, music, video, widgets, gadgets, and even whole web sites with drag and drop ease · <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'">Consolidate all of the places you visit in one place · <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'">Create the ultimate gateway to your world on the web · <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'">MySpace template compatible · <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'">Create advanced web applications with the Zude API
 * __2. History__ **

<span style="COLOR: rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'">- <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'">In 2006 Jim McNiel and Steve Repetti founded Fifth Generation Systems, Inc. with the idea of using Repetti’s Open5G technology platform, which he had developed over the past decade, as the technological foundation for a Web-based platform for personal expression. - <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif"> <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 110%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif">In April 2008 the  <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif">[|SocialMix™] <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 110%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif"> utility was added to Zude, allowing users to integrate content from their other social networking accounts, including  <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif">[|Myspace] <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 110%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif">,  <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif">[|Facebook] <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 110%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif">,  <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif">[|Bebo] <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 110%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif">, HI-5,  <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif">[|Orkut] <span style="FONT-SIZE: 110%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif">, and more. Zude's widespread support of mainstream web technologies facilitates its use as both a portal to existing web content and a container for personal content.

**__3. Impacts on Teaching and Learning__** <span style="COLOR: rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'">If teacher wants to emerge technology into teaching and make it easy for the students to learn, Zude is the right tool for drag and drop off homework assignments, post rubric or class announcements to inform students. <span style="FONT-SIZE: 9pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Verdana','sans-serif'"> <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'">By dragging anything from the Web (a page, image, etc.) into Zude, it automatically becomes a widget that teachers can manipulate with properties like mouseover text, click events, and so on. In this drag and drop respect and point and click programmability, the closest thing to Zude is probably zcubes.com. <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'"><span style="COLOR: rgb(0,0,0)"> <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'"><span style="COLOR: rgb(0,0,0)">With Zude, not only can teachers aggregate all of their disparate forms of personal expression into basically one window, they can also add software. In other words, whereas most PPEs offer users the ability to express themselves with text, audio, still images, and video, with Zude teachers can objectize pretty much any functionality on the Web (eg: a search box) by simply dragging and dropping it into Zude. This way, some search results (or some other software functionality) can become a part of the way they personal express themselves. **__4. Practical Applications__** <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'"><span style="COLOR: rgb(0,0,0)">Zude pages are typically built using content that can come from three sources: web pages, local hard drive, or Zude itself (native objects).

<span style="COLOR: rgb(54,19,201); FONT-FAMILY: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif">**__ a) Web Content __** <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'"><span style="COLOR: rgb(0,0,0)">Web Content consists of anything that originated from another web site. Zude allows the user to drag content from an adjacent browser window and drop it onto his Zude page, including text, images, <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: blue; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'">[|widgets] <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'"><span style="COLOR: rgb(0,0,0)"> and  <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: blue; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'">[|URLs] <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'"><span style="COLOR: rgb(0,0,0)">. Zude pages also support mainstream  <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: blue; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'">[|widgets] <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'"><span style="COLOR: rgb(0,0,0)"> and gadgets.<span style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: rgb(233,232,231)"> <span style="COLOR: rgb(86,55,241); FONT-FAMILY: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif"> <span style="FONT-SIZE: 110%; COLOR: rgb(74,26,183)"><span style="COLOR: rgb(60,14,190); FONT-FAMILY: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif"><span style="COLOR: rgb(86,55,241); FONT-FAMILY: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif">**__<span style="COLOR: rgb(42,99,239); FONT-FAMILY: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif">b) Local Content __** <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; BACKGROUND-COLOR: rgb(232,232,232)">Local content, including photos, media files, and PDF documents can be uploaded to Zude's own File Manager utility where they can be dragged and dropped onto a Zude page. Zude creates appropriate objects from this content, for example, dropping an  <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: blue; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'">[|mp3] <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'">file onto a Zude page creates a media player object with that file preloaded.

<span style="COLOR: rgb(35,0,255)">__**c) Zude Object**__ <span style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman','serif'">Zude includes over forty native objects for adding functionality, interactivity, decoration, and navigation features to Zude pages. For example, there are a number of text objects pre-customized for adding headlines, captions, notes, and HTML content to pages. All text objects fully are customizable in terms of content, color, size, and text position. __**5. Examples and Demonstrations**__

media type="custom" key="2078320" __**6. References**__ <span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif">http://www.zude.com/

1. http://zdnet.com.com/1606-2_2-6176625.html 2. http://gigaom.com/2007/09/27/zude-drag-drop-and-network/ **__7. About the Author__** Cam-Tu Trinh is a graduate student at University of Hawaii. This Wikipage was created for ETEC 602 Project.