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Textcasting?

Slate have an interesting hack that allows for 'textcasting' - basically a way to read text from a feed on an iPod.

Whose Space?

In April 2005, the New York State Attorney General alleged that Intermix Media, an Internet marketing firm, was the source for illegally installed spyware that quietly launched ads on millions of computers across the country.  They had created a website that allowed users to change their mouse cursor to one

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In the Guardian

Miles Berry is in today's Guardian talking about his use of Elgg at St Ives school as part of an interesting wider article on encouraging writing through computer use. The full article is here - thanks go to all involved for the mention.

Everyone needs a hug

Don't worry, we won't implement this in Elgg.

Windows Live @ edu: a step too far?

I must admit to being appalled at the recent news that 72 colleges have agreed to use Microsoft Windows Live   (aka Hotmail) as their main student email service.  The only differences are the domains associated with email messages (the service is using the school's domain) and the lack

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The essence of web 2.0

The principles of web 2.0 make more sense if you change the order: "Harnessing Collective Intelligence" is the root principle of Web 2.0, and the others make sense to the extent that you understand how they feed into (and draw from) this one. Or, to put

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Web 2.1 is finally with us

http://cheese.blartwendo.com/web21-demo.html

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AOL to open up AIM

http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/04/20/more-details-on-aols-myspace-killer/ Sounds like they're adding an API and all kinds of things. Could be interesting - do they see a threat from Gtalk and Jabber?

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As old as publishing

I just caught this today via my del.icio.us inbox and O'Reilly Radar in turn: a New York Times editorial from yesterday   about the similarities between the English "Free Press" circa 1918, as described by Hilaire Belloc in his book of the same name, and

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Why does Elgg run PHP and MySQL?

Eagle-eyed readers from the development mailing list will notice a flaw in my title. The latest Elgg (the one you can now download from Subversion, which will be available to download as Elgg 0.6 at the end of the month) uses a standard database library and can switch to

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Elgg on TechSoup

Elgg has been added to TechSoup, a site about technology for non-profit organisations, which also hosts the excellent NetSquared. If those of you who have downloaded and installed Elgg could visit this page and give the software an honest (and anonymous) rating, I'd be much obliged.

Open standards

PICT3746, originally uploaded by Stuart Yeates. OSS Watch / JISC is hosting a conference round the corner from me on open source and sustainability. I'm intrigued to hear about which open standards and products they're backing and how they're going to promote them within the