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Firefox
Mozilla Firefox 1.5 is out - I upgraded this morning and haven't found any problems. The thing is, I haven't found any exciting new features either; there's an easy-to-find "delete all private data" button that would be useful were I
Ben Werdmuller
Ben Werdmuller helps leaders at newsrooms, non-profits, and mission-driven organizations to navigate their biggest technology challenges.
Drink, karaoke, disorder
In other news, English alcohol licensing laws change today, which means pubs and clubs can open much later (morbidly enough, on the same day George Best is going to die from alcohol abuse). I happen to live three houses down from a drinking establishment of less than shining repute; I&
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Integration and interoperability
Lately - every since the ePlugfest in Cambridge last month, in fact - I've been thinking about standards and interoperability between web applications. The ideal is that Elgg, Moodle, Gmail, 43things, Upcoming, Match, your university's intranet portal, LUSID and Microsoft Outlook can all interact with each other, sharing
SSE
I think it was Misja who pointed me towards Microsoft's Simple Sharing Extensions draft. SSE provides a minimal XML data structure to allow better collaboration using RSS and OPML feeds - e.g. using RSS to synchronise events between two calendar systems. This possibly represents a bit of a
I'm finding myself trapped by a problem that's often been expressed to me in the past - who can you legitimately call a 'contact'? On a system like Elgg I'm happy to add anyone I'm interested in, but LinkedIn's
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The Internet Is People
As Dave will confirm, before we embarked upon Elgg I had an idea for a book called The Internet is People about running a web business. The thesis was that the only web businesses that would ever succeed were ones that looked at the Internet as a collection of people
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Sharing your reflections to a wider world
I was lucky enough today to meet Evan Williams, the founder of Blogger and Odeo, the podcasting creation service and directory. Podcasting is much more than downloadable radio over the Internet, although it does that very well; Evan has a vision that encompasses personal reflection, collaboration, voicemail-like services and
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Commercial tagging
Amazon is trialling tagging to enable users to find resources (in this case, items to buy) using a bottom-up ontology. You can view tags used by people you know, and automatic connections are made, Flickr cluster style, between tags that are commonly used together. From the screenshot above it&
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iReekie
It's truly the Internet age. If Dave and I are ever feeling homesick for Edinburgh, we can download MP3 tours of the city from the VisitScotland website. Although they're really intended for people actually walking around with their iPods, I'm sure they'll
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(Untitled)
The Critical Advocate at Learning Rocks has a rather nice couple of posts on Elgg: see part one and part two.
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Teacher abuse
From BBC News Online: The teacher targeted by the obscene messages is not a member of the National Union of Teachers. However, the union said the incident showed that teachers now needed to be protected not merely from physical or verbal abuse, but also from new forms which developments in
Facebook penetration
According to TechCrunch today, 85% of students at supported colleges are members of Facebook. That's massive - 882 US colleges support Facebook, with more to come. Very shortly the vast majority of students will be familiar with social networking software - but more than that, 60% of users log in