Best wishes to everyone in Kathmandu, including my friend @praymurray, who I hope is safe.
Dedicating the morning to chatting with old friends. Who cares if it's a long way? The Internet is amazing.
@macleodan We certainly do. I should experiment with it!
In the future, will Apple cyborgs be able to talk to Google cyborgs?
Try not to think about this. http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2015/04/23/401723235/thoughts-can-fuel-some-deadly-brain-cancers
Pretty excited about this insomnia thing I've got going here. It might catch on. It's definitely trending with me this week. I was going to go to the gym this morning, but I think I might nudge the alarm clock off by a few hours and hope for the best ...
Writing my own HTML5 audio player from scratch. #thuglife
I grew up in this house. You should buy it. Yes, you. http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-51793775.html #oxford #property
So #milifandom has made me feel a lot better about this "Ben looks like Ed Miliband" thing.
@threadgillian I don't know. I assume so? I hadn't spent too many cycles thinking about it. Could be like a tote bag?
An easy solution is to not delete your IdnoPlugins folder when upgrading, but rather update the folders that sit inside it. If you're using other custom plugins, you'll find you need to do that, too.
We switched to Convoy because most people found the social media plugins too cumbersome to set up. Our figuring was that technical users would also have the technology knowhow to grab the other plugins from GitHub.
To be completely transparent, the support burden for the social media plugins was untenable - particularly as self-hosters typically aren't customers. (Usually self-hosters will pay another company for their hosting, but we don't see any of that.) Another option we're exploring is support for self-hosted users, although that would likely run to more than Convoy's $5.
Right now, Convoy contains social media functionality, which we've heard from a lot of people is important. Due to requirements imposed on us by Google, it will be the only way self-hosted users can syndicate to Google+ Pages. But over time we'll be adding things like real-time updates and better search, which would be impossible to enable for most self-hosted users running on shared hosts.
We continue to have a commitment to open source, and all functionality in Convoy will be available via plugins, unless we're prohibited from open sourcing something (as is true with Google+). As it becomes available, you'll be able to find it all on GitHub.
Ten years ago last November, we released the first version of Elgg. An open source social networking platform originally designed for higher education, where it was used by Harvard and Stanford, it spread to organizations like Oxfam, Orange, Hill & Knowlton and the World Bank, as well as national governments in countries like Australia, Canada and the Netherlands.
Not bad for a couple of industry outsiders based in Scotland.
Elgg is still in wide use today. I credit that to a technical emphasis on extensibility and ease of use, as well as our focus on being responsive to the needs of the community - but not too responsive. We never veered from the vision we had of an open social networking infrastructure for organizations.
The web has changed unrecognizably since 2004, and Known takes those changes into account: mobile-first, with an emphasis on streams and shorter bursts of content. You can still run it in an organization, but you can run it as a personal platform, too. Higher education institutions are using it to give self-reflective websites to all their students, and more and more private companies are using it to create social feeds internally, too. Design thinking is core to our process, which helps us stay responsive and build tools that truly solve a deep user need.
Known, Inc goes beyond Known the platform: we're exploring new applications that use design thinking, and our deep community platform knowledge, to solve problems in different verticals.
Most importantly, we offer that experience and toolset to other organizations. If you need platform strategy advice, or even to build a new social website or app for your organization, we can help. We have over a decade of experience in building organizational social platforms, and you can put it to work. To get started, get in touch via our website.
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Here's a post about open source startups that I wrote four years ago and forgot about: http://benwerd.com/2011/05/21/why-you-should-not-build-an-open-source-startup/
@into_technology That awkward moment when you realize you have a typo in the URL in your promoted tweet.
@johnnybrackett If you find yourself asking "is it a startup?" in this town, the answer is always yes.
(It is. But I forgot which one.)
LIVE on #Periscope: a deep human desire for connection, momentarily sated by the Internet as a placebo that lets us forget how alone we are
I don't understand why you'd want "the best of Twitter every day". Twitter is a real-time stream of status updates. Misses its core value.
I'm not very good at it, but sometimes you've got to let yourself be angry at other people. This is one of those annoying cryptic non-work-related letting-off-steam status updates, but for the record: I am.
Need technical advice to push your project forward? I'd love to help. Get in touch! https://withknown.com/team/
@ken_bauer I think that subclause gets to the heart of it. Me too!
@ken_bauer Strongly agree. Actually I'm only really getting a feel for living in the US four years in.
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