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Building communities with software
Small software implementation details result in big differences in the way the community develops. Interesting reading.
Ben Werdmuller
Ben Werdmuller helps leaders at newsrooms, non-profits, and mission-driven organizations to navigate their biggest technology challenges.
Some audio thoughts
{{file:3231}} Apologies for rambling :-) As I talk about the WYSIWYG editor and RSS cache specifically, I think it's important to credit the programmers involved: Misja Hoebe and Sven Edge respectively did the work required to bring those features to Elgg.
MoodleDocs
Moodle have just released a documentation wiki which, like our very own Elgg Info, is presumably designed to be a living document that grows with time.
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Web authoring survey
Excuse me while I geek out: this set of web authoring statistics is required reading for web developers. Google sampled over a billion documents and discovered the kind of markup being used, and how it relates to the proposed HTML5 standards.
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Elgg in your hand
Please excuse my dodgy camerawork, but this is Elgg on my Nokia: Pretty cool. Opera Mini is a great browser, and the new CSS/div based template engine makes life very easy for it.
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Internet users have larger core social networks
From the Pew Internet & American Life Project: Internet users have somewhat larger social networks than non-users. The median size of an American’s network of core and significant ties is 35. For internet users, the median network size is 37; for non-users it is 30. This survey (PDF) concentrates
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Oxford Internet Institute
The Oxford Internet Institute website is worth a look. Their mandate is to "focus on Internet-related research and education that will shape policy and practice". Some things worth a look include: * Stop Badware, the first anti-spyware site run by a university (in fact two: Oxford and Harvard) that
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New technology matters
Via Om Malik, a recent survey (PDF) of key Silicon Valley players revealed that over 90% of them believed that unique technology was an important asset of start-up companies in the current market. Interesting stuff, because honestly, how much new technology is there? They say there are seven main storylines,
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Mini me
Oh, and for good measure, here's an entry posted from my nokia. I'm using opera mini, which is a tiny java download and really quite fast. Much better than built in phone browsers, and free, to boot.
Where next - a statement of intent
Pardon me while I blow our trumpet for a little while. I think this is the best release we've done, and the closest we've come to fulfilling the original vision. If you don't mind me saying, Elgg is pretty damn good web software, and
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0.4 has left the building
We've released it! Click here to download Elgg 0.4 from Eduforge.
New releases
The eagle-eyed among you will have spotted that Elgg v0.4 hasn't been released yet; we're working on a couple of small issues to do with the wysiwyg editor, which should be resolved shortly. It does make me wonder why there isn't a wysiwyg