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The eagle-eyed among you will have seen a new widget appear at the bottom of Dave and my sidebars. We've been playing with a new service (okay, okay, hack), based on the Elgg framework, that explodes the social networking paradigm and allows you to list your friends wherever
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We've been spending all day populating the shiny new Elgg documentation page over on Elgg.org. This is a MediaWiki integration, which represents one of the wiki choices available to Elgg users. The other one is Nathan Garrett's wiki plugin, which we're going to
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Over at Elgg.org, our main software site, Dave invites you to list your Elgg installation. It'd be great if a couple of you could go along and add yours to the list; we're going to be using this as a basis for a portal later
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Check out the slickness of our editing. Some bits were added later - but it's impossible to tell which! {{video:http://www.youtube.com/v/_X-rxMAm4ps}}
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Richard MacManus has a poll over at Read/Write Web about web innovation, and whether it's unique to Silicon Valley. I left a long comment, but what do you think? If we pin it down further to the e-learning sphere, where is the real innovation happening? (And by
We just released Elgg 0.7 RC2; as ever, you can get it from over at Elgg.org. The big change for this one is a much more robust configuration panel, which wasn't really ready for primetime in previous Elggs. You can now also use it to actually
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http://theinternetispeople.com/2007/02/12/the-browser-goes-offline/ It’s interesting to see how, just as computing moved from central servers to the desktop over two decades ago, the web is moving from a network of centrally-hosted tools to being a collection of applications hosted on individual comptuers. First came Adobe
Whoops, I incurred the wrath of Marc Canter, who responded to my post singing Elgg's praises with one entitled, coming back at Ben Werdmuller. Marc is the founder of Macromedia (formerly MacroMind, now part of Adobe), and one of the giants of modern computing, not to mention an
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I'm pleased to announce the return of the Elgg name generator.
We've just made Elgg 0.7 Release Candidate 1 available to download from the usual place. We've actually been having a hard time trying to remember all the changes that have made it into this release. There are a lot! So rather than a full summary,
Marc Canter complains that People Aggregator was left out of a post on white label social networks. Complain he might, but here's a couple of reasons why Elgg is better than any of the systems mentioned in the post, as well as People Aggregator: Elgg is free. Free