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Curverider update: February 2007

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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Shorn

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Does location matter for web startups?

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

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Elgg 0.7 Release Candidate 2

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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The browser goes offline

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

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Marc Canter came back at me, and all I got was this lousy T-shirt

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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What does Elgg stand for?

I'm pleased to announce the return of the Elgg name generator.

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Elgg 0.7 has left the building

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,

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Myspace in a box: make your own social network

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

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The technological issues you need to know

I don't count myself among the edtech blogging scene, which is just as well, because my pedagogical insight is next to nil. I'm a technologist, not an e-learning technologist: I can talk about the social implications of the read/write web until the cows come

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Web 2.0 in less than five minutes

{{video:http://www.youtube.com/v/6gmP4nk0EOE}} This is really good. Worth a watch if you've got some time to spare.

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Elgg was never covered by the Blackboard patent

From Blackboard's new patent FAQ: Blackboard recognizes that Open Source Software may at times incorporate certain proprietary elements to enhance functionality within the software. Therefore, in addition to the pledge above, Blackboard hereby irrevocably agrees not to assert the listed U.S. patents, as well as all counterparts