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In the Silicon Valley Web 2.0 scene, they host wild and raucous tech parties where Kevin Rose signs people's chests and the cocktails flow all night long. Everyone gets a free T-shirt and somewhere, a Valleywag hack is on hand to post incriminating photos to Flickr.
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http://theinternetispeople.com/2006/09/26/apparently-the-mobile-shake-up-has-started/ According to the BBC, “the mobile web is about to receive the biggest shake-up in years with the start of open registration for mobile phone-specific website addresses. The .mobi top level domain is intended for
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NetworkWorld's 2006 Vendors to the All-Stars list features IBM, Cisco, Citrix Systems, Dell ... and Elgg. Jim Klein's Saugus Union School District installation of Elgg made the list: The district receives a 2006 Enterprise All-Star Award for creating this social network, an easy-to-use,
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Ahoy! Some of ye scurvy sea dogs may be wondering what lurks on ye horizon in Elgg World. Ye may have seen Skipper Dave's announcement of ye dashboard, which is making us dance ye hornpipe up on ye deck, but there be plenty more treasure in ye Elgg
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http://theinternetispeople.com/2006/09/17/lonelygirl15/ I can’t get over the Lonelygirl15 phenomenon, which particularly over the past week or so has been exploding. We now know that the actress involved is Jessica Rose, and that LG15 is a show related to some kind of Internet service. It’
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I'm a little late on linking to this due to spending a little while on the road, but on Friday I spoke to Leon Cych over the phone for half an hour or so. It was a little early in the morning, so please excuse my waffling for
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I thought I'd share this diagram of a PLE from a session at ALT-C this year; people went off into groups and each came back with their vision of what a PLE should be. I think this is a nice model, but what screams out at me
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Dave and I are planning a series of workshops on Elgg over the coming 4 months. We are looking to provide those interested in Elgg with a hands on session, some background to the software and time to ask questions about Elgg. The first event is scheduled for October 10th
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http://theinternetispeople.com/2006/09/06/community-spam/ This delightful job offer on Getafreelancer will pay for 50 hours of your time in order to crack a particular CAPTCHA solution. In other words, they want to break any site using that particular CAPTCHA so a script can automatically join and
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Dave Tosh and I are considering running an official Elgg half-day workshop in Oxford in October the day before the ePortfolio 2006 event (i.e., October 10), where interested people could come along and gain first-hand experience of Elgg environment from both of us. There would be a
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Thanks to everyone who came to the conference event yesterday, as well as to Andy Pryde for videotaping everything and Meri Tosh for invaluable organisational help. I'd like to plug the community I set up for attendees again - click here to continue the discussion. Couldn't attend?
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http://theinternetispeople.com/2006/09/01/celebrity-wtf/ First Samuel L Jackson uses the word “blogosphere” on the Daily Show, and now Paris Hilton’s hacking into Lindsay Lohan’s voicemail using Asterisk. Where will this celebrity-geek culture mashup end? When MC Hammer has not just a blog but