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http://theinternetispeople.com/2006/11/28/selling-books-online/ 37 Signals have some social networking inspired ideas for promoting books. One of these is quite smart: However, the article also talks about a mass effort to “hack” the Amazon bestseller list by getting customers to all buy the book at
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Dave and I have been hearing rumours (coming out of JISC) that we're going to commercialise Elgg. We would like to state, for the record, that Elgg will always be free and open source. This is a core component of our ethos and business model, and will never
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http://theinternetispeople.com/2006/11/21/silicon-valley-came-to-oxford-oxford-asked-which-school-it-went-to/ Dave Tosh and I attended the Silicon Valley Comes to Oxford event at Oxford University’s Sa
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When we visited MIT earlier in the year, everybody was surprised to meet us because they somehow assumed from our user icons that we'd be very short. As you can see from this joint video, Dave actually is: {{video:http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?docId=-2959806081722097762&
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One of the best bits of this new office is the extra collaboration I can have with Dave. Traditionally, for most of the time we've been at separate ends of the country: he in Edinburgh, me in Oxford. But now we're at the other end of
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http://theinternetispeople.com/2006/11/14/existing-hierarchies-still-exist/ Nicholas Carr says that links aren’t messy anymore: Carr goes on to say that we can no longer say that hierarchies aren’t squashed by linking, citing Doc Searls’s coverage of AOL vice chairman Ted Leonsis’s ability
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http://theinternetispeople.com/2006/11/14/the-internet-is-people-people-need-food/ I’m a regular reader of Cooking for Engineers, an awesome recipe blog that, for example, tells you how to harness the crystalline structure of chocolate in order to melt it perfectly. While reading (and salivating) at
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Curverider has a new address! You can now mail us at: Curverider Ltd Prama House 267 Banbury Road Oxford OX2 7HT My direct telephone number is 01865 339313 (that's +44 1865 339313 if you're calling from overseas). If you have sales related questions about Elgg, Elgg
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I've been offline all weekend, and here's what I discovered on my return: Java is now open source, licensed under the GPL (the same as Elgg). Hopefully we can expect a raft of improvements - Java has made itself useful on mobile and embedded platforms, but is
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http://theinternetispeople.com/2006/11/10/run-your-own-myspace-with-elgg-spaces/ Elgg Spaces is featured on ZDNet’s Social Web blog today, including an interview with Elgg’s technical director: Writer Steve O’Hear includes our thoughts behind both Elgg and Elgg Spaces, and where we see social
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Starting a community is difficult. You can't just throw up a site and hope for the best; you've got to constantly lead by example, keep tabs on activity and make sure there's something for new users to keep coming back for. So I was
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http://theinternetispeople.com/2006/11/10/how-to-fund-your-startup/ A guide to the various types of funding sources, from Valleywag. Also see this New York Times article about low-budget startups. Curverider hasn’t taken funding, but the subject has come up. I think a lot of companies