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Video journal

Video is, after all, another way to express yourself online. This one's streamed from Youtube, but I'll see if I can work out a way to even have video embedded straight from Elgg. {{video:http://www.youtube.com/v/EMhaRAmzKH0}}

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Embedded videos

You can now embed videos from popular sites like Google Video, Youtube and Photobucket in your Elgg blog. To do this, you'll need to find the 'embed HTML' code for the video site you're looking at, and extract the URL inside the src tag.

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Moving

We've been looking at new offices for Curverider, but hadn't quite reckoned on how painful the experience would be. Dave remarked that it's like finding student digs, with exactly the same range of quality from both accommodation and landlords. One particularly memorable space we

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Any budding cartoonists?

Dave and I have a project idea and are looking for a cartoonist to draw a couple of reusable frames. Anyone out there good at drawing?

Elgg translations

If you are interested in translating Elgg or using Elgg in another language, Elgg's Rosetta page is going strong; head over there to participate in collaborative translations or grab the latest language file. Rosetta describes itself as a Web-based system for translating open source software into any language.

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ePortfolio 2006 reactions

We've set up an Elgg Spaces community for ePortfolio 2006, and most of the content being put up is public - so if you're interested, do go along. My conference blog is here, and you may be interested in some of the brief reaction videos we&

Sitting in the ePortfolio 2006 conference

My overriding thought is that it's not good enough to simply provide ePortfolio functionality. If your aim is to provide a "traditional" ePortfolio, great - but if you're simply ticking boxes to please institutions, you're not going to engage students and your

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A raft of upgrades for Elgg.net

Elgg.net is now running on the latest development version of Elgg, plus a handful of plugins we think are cool. Some improvements you can expect to see as you navigate around the site: The dashboard. This is a customisable area where you can add as many content widgets as

A final reminder: we're going to the pub

Here's a map to the Eagle and Child, where Dave and I will be sitting from 4pm until 9pm. We'd love it if you could join us.

Interview with Elgg

Josie Fraser has posted an interview with Dave and I. If you're curious about who's behind Elgg, where we're going next or about our attitude to the e-learning sphere, go take a peek.

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A new place for Elgg users

Developers have had a mailing list for some time to discuss system code (it's here, if you'd like to join) but we're pleased to announce that as of today there's a similar community for users. The Elgg users mailing list is for

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IE7 lurks around the corner

Internet Explorer 7 is being released this month. Web developers around the world are treating this news with a certain amount of anxiety. I, for one, am not. I mean, it can't be much worse, right?