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Business Week has an article from a couple of days ago about the masses of investment money being poured into social networking systems in the wake of Myspace's sale (and we all know what I think about that). A piece of Facebook costs a mean $25 million; Bebo
Shunning Dave's wise advice, I'm waiting for a brand new Dell laptop to be delivered. The machine I type this on has been a very useful workhorse for the past few years, and I'd recommend it to anyone after a laptop on a budget,
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Slate have an interesting hack that allows for 'textcasting' - basically a way to read text from a feed on an iPod.
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
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.
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Don't worry, we won't implement this in Elgg.
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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 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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http://cheese.blartwendo.com/web21-demo.html
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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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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
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