Ben Werdmuller helps leaders at newsrooms, non-profits, and mission-driven organizations to navigate their biggest technology challenges.
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3Bubbles - another daffy Web 2.0 name - is a way to embed chat rooms in blog posts, using a small piece of code. The interface itself is AJAX-based, so you don't need any extra plugins; just the browser It's in closed beta at the
I'm writing this on the 5.32 oxford to london. Literally half the carriage - including me - is glued to their mobile phone. They're communicating, but at the same time sitting in a kind of eery silence. Is technology destroying our sense of community? Or
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Ken Yarmosh is talking about safety and MySpace. Recently there's been a bit of a media furore over the social networking site, and some parents and teachers are correspondingly worried about web technologies their children might be using at school. This, in part, means Elgg, so I thought
Web design from scratch has a good overview of current web style. I love all these pages, with perhaps the exception of LinkedIn; the site it's hosted on isn't bad either. In fact, I actually really like the style of the moment in general: big text,
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I'm just saying, but after looking at this photo blog of food eaten at Google, I'd like to invite them to buy us out. Like, right now, no consultation required. I'll figure out a way to pay Dave off. Hunger does strange things to
OpenZoep is a GPL-licensed open source VoIP client for Windows, Mac and Linux. They're promoting an extension to the XMPP/Jabber spec that would allow for SIP calls using XMPP networks, which would finally allow for an interoperable peer to peer voice system. XMPP really does seem like
The State of the Blogosphere for February 2006 has been released. Of course, it relates more to the blogs that the search engine / aggregator Technorati tracks than the sum total of blogs in the world, but it still makes interesting reading. The service is now tracking more than 50,000
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Dave Winer: How RSS can bust through. I'm tempted to disagree with him here. RSS itself will never bust through; neither will FOAF, RDF, OPML or any other XML-based format. And using a centralised service run by a commercial company? Forget it. It's an easy mistake
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Elgg v0.4 has a bug where default icons might not be displayed on some screens. This patch fixes it; simply replace the included files. Update: This has been changed as of 9:26am GMT. Thanks to Misja for pointing out the problem.
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This is a web developer post, which I'm making because we're going to be retooling some of the edit interfaces shortly to become more user friendly. The programming work hasn't been done yet, and it's looking like some of the interface mechanics
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There's a lot going on at Elgg Towers at the moment, but I can't talk about any of it - so here's something completely different. The trouble with blogging as a medium is that we're likely to highlight new things, that in
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As Lars has pointed out, Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 is out on public beta. Here's the download link; the above picture is my friends page within its natty confines. (Click for a larger version.) I haven't yet checked what IE7 fixes; there was a lot IE6