<story><title>Google and Pearson Announce Free LMS Service to Compete with Blackboard/Moodle </title><url>http://chronicle.com/blogs/wiredcampus/pearson-and-google-jump-into-learning-management-systems/33636?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+chronicle%2Fwiredcampus+%28The+Chronicle%3A+Wired+Campus%29</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>anon1385</author><text>A free service from Google? Is the source code available or are institutions going to be screwed if/when it gets canned?&lt;p&gt;For those who have forgotten: Code Search, Google Video, Wave, Buzz, Google Labs, Google Desktop, Google Notebook, Google Sets, Google Squared, Google Catalogs, Google Answers, Audio Ads, Google Base, Browser Sync, City Tours, Click-to-Call, Google Dashboard Widgets, Dodgeball, Jaiku, Google Mashup Editor, Google Directory, GOOG-411, Joga Bonito, Aardvark, Lively, Music Trends, Ride Finder, Google Shared Stuff, Sidewiki, FastFlip, Google Translate API, Writely, Google Health, PowerMeter, Google University Search, U.S. Government Search, Slide products (Disco, Pool Party, Video Inbox, Photovine, Slideshow, SuperPoke! Pets), Google Pack, Image Labeller and Google Dictionary. I&apos;m sure I have missed a few things, but you get the idea.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>wslh</author><text>You missed the Google Search API :-) deprecated twice:&lt;p&gt;- &lt;a href=&quot;http://googlecode.blogspot.com/2009/08/well-earned-retirement-for-soap-search.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://googlecode.blogspot.com/2009/08/well-earned-retiremen...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;- &lt;a href=&quot;http://googleajaxsearchapi.blogspot.com/2010/11/fall-housekeeping.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://googleajaxsearchapi.blogspot.com/2010/11/fall-houseke...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>Google and Pearson Announce Free LMS Service to Compete with Blackboard/Moodle </title><url>http://chronicle.com/blogs/wiredcampus/pearson-and-google-jump-into-learning-management-systems/33636?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+chronicle%2Fwiredcampus+%28The+Chronicle%3A+Wired+Campus%29</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>anon1385</author><text>A free service from Google? Is the source code available or are institutions going to be screwed if/when it gets canned?&lt;p&gt;For those who have forgotten: Code Search, Google Video, Wave, Buzz, Google Labs, Google Desktop, Google Notebook, Google Sets, Google Squared, Google Catalogs, Google Answers, Audio Ads, Google Base, Browser Sync, City Tours, Click-to-Call, Google Dashboard Widgets, Dodgeball, Jaiku, Google Mashup Editor, Google Directory, GOOG-411, Joga Bonito, Aardvark, Lively, Music Trends, Ride Finder, Google Shared Stuff, Sidewiki, FastFlip, Google Translate API, Writely, Google Health, PowerMeter, Google University Search, U.S. Government Search, Slide products (Disco, Pool Party, Video Inbox, Photovine, Slideshow, SuperPoke! Pets), Google Pack, Image Labeller and Google Dictionary. I&apos;m sure I have missed a few things, but you get the idea.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>ytNumbers</author><text>The code appears to be open source. You can checkout the code using git as described here:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://code.google.com/p/openclass/source/checkout&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://code.google.com/p/openclass/source/checkout&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>