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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 users
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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
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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.
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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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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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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?
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I'm sometimes surprised by how easy it actually is to get on the Internet. Dave and I are both in transit, but I spoke to him on MSN chat as he sat on the train. Meanwhile, I'm on the Oxford Tube coach to London, with rolling
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http://theinternetispeople.com/2006/10/05/youtube-is-wildly-popular/ HipMojo is running a compelling argument that YouTube isn’t going anywhere anytime soon. Despite numerous naysayers, and various threats from the media industry, sites like YouTube are the beginning of a giant sea change in media. Combine it with
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http://theinternetispeople.com/2006/09/30/webcameron/ As much as Conservative Party leader David Cameron gives me shivers up my spine and makes my hair stand on end, I think his latest venture will probably work well for him. Webcameron is a series of video blogs that are just unblatantly
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http://theinternetispeople.com/2006/09/29/the-challenge-of-multiple-contexts/ danah boyd has this to say about Facebook’s recent opening to the general public: MySpace allegedly has something like 100 million users (although there has recently been controversy about this and other user figures). How on earth do
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Boy, building out a fully-featured online service turns out to be a lot of hard work, even on top of the two and a half years we've already put into Elgg. Frankly, it's taken longer than we thought to get everything in place. But we&
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http://theinternetispeople.com/2006/09/28/ in-search-of-the-valley-some-prominent-internet-people/ Steve O’Hear emailed us earlier today to let us know that his movie, In Search of the Valley, has just been released on DVD. From the write-up on Read/Write Web: I have