06 February 2009, 21:32

URL:  http://www.scribd.com/

TYPE:  Document Sharing

SIZE:  Very popular

eg EMBED CODE:  http://www.scribd.com/word/embed/6378292?slag=101-Ways-to-Help-Planet-Earth

06 February 2009, 21:44

URL:  http://www.screencast-o-matic.com

TYPE:  screencasts

SIZE:  picking up.... still in beta

EMBED:   eg Links in left panel here: http://www.screencast-o-matic.com/watch/cieiYnfy

06 February 2009, 21:46

URL:  http://www.podomatic.com

TYPE: Podcasts and Vodcasts

SIZE: Popular

EMBED CODE: eg http://www.podomatic.com/podcast/embed/terminatorscc

06 February 2009, 21:58

URL:  http://www.slideshare.net/charleneli/the-future-of-social-networks-presentation

TYPE: Sharing Presentations

SIZE:  Pretty big

EMBED CODE:  eg http://www.slideshare.net/charleneli/the-future-of-social-networks-presentation

06 February 2009, 22:11

Something unsettles me with all these Web2.0 SaaS sites, though.   By using these sites we are giving our suppliers the right to infer from the data we supply them.   At what cost to:

a. our personal privacy?

b. our right to maintain control over our own data??

Eben Moglen makes the case for protecting our own privacy by storing our own data for ourselves (in open formats) better than i ever could here:

http://itc.conversationsnetwork.org/shows/detail1897.html

I like Mahara because it offers a free software alternative to all these SaaS options.  Colleges, Unis, businesses, etc. can all respond to Moglen's call to "Store it yourselves".

 I understand completely the drive to give Mahara extensibility by linking out to these sites, though, don't get me wrong.  (THat is why I have been providing some links).  I just reckon that it is in both individual users' and actually also in Mahara's long-term interest to let people know what they are letting themselves in for when they join up to these sites.    The sites themselves are not going to explicitly reveal their nature "On the tin", as it were.

23 February 2009, 16:49

Hi Nigel...

 I thought i saw something about a "white list" of approved embed sites. One that would allow the administrator to add approved sites? Is that something that is coming? One application that we have looked at for an internal "YouTube-like" service under our control is PHPMotion (www.phpmotion.com).  It too has an embed code for videos submitted to it.That might be nice to add to the list of embed tags that would work.

23 February 2009, 19:54

I don't think there will be an option in the UI to allow people to input sites that they want to allow, at least not yet. But a filter for phpmotion.com could certainly be written.

25 January 2010, 3:12

Hi Nigel

We're implementing Mahara with two primary aged classes this year and I would like our kids to be able to embed Google Apps presentations into Mahara.

• docs.google.com
• Presentation
• Taking over the universe!
• Example of embed code:
• <iframe src="http://docs.google.com/a/bk.ac.nz/present/embed?id=ddksbxw2_4gpkj6xgr" frameborder="0" width="410" height="342"></iframe>

24 February 2010, 9:56

• Site: BBC Learning Zone Class Clips
• Type: video
• Popularity: popular with UK schools
• URL:  http://www.bbc.co.uk/learningzone/clips/

Also see http://www.bbc.co.uk/learningzone/clips/help.shtml