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Curverider status update

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Follow-up on the state of e-learning

It's worth checking out the comments to my last post, which include contributions from Martin Dougiamas and Christopher Mackie from the Mellon Foundation. Thanks to everyone who commented on what was a deliberately contentious post.

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Elgg, funding, and the state of e-learning

Alas, Elgg was unsuccessful in its bid to the Andrew W Mellon Foundation Awards for Technology Collaboration, which awarded $650,000 in prizes on Monday. I've got to confess that I'm a little disappointed that some of the awards included things like a $50,000 prize

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Specialised sites and the problem of eyeballs

http://theinternetispeople.com/2006/12/04/specialised-sites-and-the-problem-of-eyeballs/ One of the issues with the web’s prevailing business model is that it’s eyeball-led: sites make money largely by getting users to watch advertisements. Each advertisement view, or impression, makes a very small amount

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Elgg on BBC Click Online

BBC Click Online features Atif Sattar, a Bangladeshi student, talking about Elgg.net. (Click on the article and then 'view the whole interview'.) We're all really impressed here at the Curverider offices, and thank both Atif and the BBC for the exposure!

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Elgg support with Bitwine

Experimentally, I've made myself available for support calls via the Bitwine service. If this is successful, I'll keep it up; it seems like a good way to provide live help with Elgg to people that need it while leaving time for developments and other commitments. Incidentally,

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Elgg 0.67 has left the building

I'm pleased to announce that we've let loose a new release: Elgg 0.67 is available, as always, to download from Elgg.org. There's a lot in this new release, and particularly if you're running on 0.65 or below, we strongly

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Youtube

http://theinternetispeople.com/2006/12/01/youtubes-year/ I love Youtube. The site has become more and more integrated into our culture over the past year. Here are some important moments that might not have reached the international consciousness had the site not existed: Iraqi kid runs for water. Soldiers

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Facebook abuse

http://theinternetispeople.com/2006/12/01/facebook-abuse/ A little while ago I discovered that my Facebook account had been disabled. Logging in with my email address revealed the stark message: Your account has been disabled by an administrator. Please contact  info@facebook.com for more information. So far, so

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Amazon S3, Elgg and external file handling

For the last couple of days I've been playing with two things: * An API to allow you to use external file services with your Elgg site * Amazon's Simple Storage Service Amazon S3 is a simple grid storage service with REST and SOAP interfaces. Essentially it means

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Audition for Big Brother via a social network

http://theinternetispeople.com/2006/11/29/audition-for-big-brother-via-a-social-network/ Channel 4’s digital entertainment channel E4 will shortly have its website revamped as a social network. Rather than sift through audition tapes, submissions for the next freakfest series of Big Brother will be via a

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BitTorrent, Bram Cohen and me

http://theinternetispeople.com/2006/11/29/bittorrent-bram-cohen-and-me/ BitTorrent has raised $25 million dollars and lost its founder. Bram Cohen is the guy who developed the protocol, the software and the company, yet they’ve found themselves looking for a new CEO. Comments in the TechCrunch article