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Via Dave Winer, I see that American Airlines now offers their fare deals and special offers via RSS. They're the first major non-tech company I know to do so, but they won't be the last. The reason? RSS is going mainstream. In a few months,
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http://theinternetispeople.com/2006/08/08/web-20-its-the-same-old-media/ Over at Techcrunch, Michael Arrington has posted a 24-minute documentary about Web 2.0. If you’re unsure about what the read-write web is or are new to the whole community, this may be an
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Browsespace and Schoolboredom are two sites that have sprung up to provide access to Myspace via a proxy server. In a nutshell, pupils can use these sites to completely bypass their institutional firewalls. Expect many more like this to spring up at least as fast as they can be blocked;
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This is all over the web, so sorry if you've read it a thousand times already today. However: Remember Google's Department of Justice victory, where the search corporation refused to hand our search details over to the US government? This was a combination of a principled
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I've just spent the weekend in Looe, Cornwall, where my sister is summer warden at a nature reserve. Needless to say I'm very proud of her - while I'm jetting all over the place and quietly ruining the environment with emissions and server electricity consumption,
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Quite a few people have sent me emails with links to the news that DOPA passed the House of Representatives by 410 to 15 votes, wondering how it affects Elgg. The Deleting Online Predators Act requires schools and libraries to prevent access to social networking sites. The big one the
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It's interesting to see the Slashdot take on what's been a contentious issue in the e-learning community in recent days. The consensus seems to be that the likes of Moodle and Sakai are better anyway - and a certain amount of anti-Blackboard bile has been
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Further to this morning's post comes news on Techcrunch about Zune, a portable, iPod-style entertainment device that will "show the full spectrum of audio and video content, as well as social networking". The social networking aspect may be important, because it implies some kind of
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Livejournal recently added a really neat feature: they're running an instant messaging server at livejournal.com. If you log in using a Jabber client with your standard site username and password, your buddy list is automatically comprised of people you've listed as a friend; because it&
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As Dave has just posted, next week we're relaunching Elgg.net as a fully-fledged community site for education. As part of this, there will be a number of sponsorship opportunities; more importantly, it represents a renewed focus on the site itself, and a commitment to maintain it
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This CBC report from 1993 on a new phenomenon known as 'Internet' is very interesting - particularly because we're still working on some of the same social issues. Fun to see how it's changed and developed so far though. (Youtube link, via Jason Kottke.)
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I feel compelled to reply to Helen Barrett's recent weblog post where she talks a little about Elgg and open source in general. Specifically, she says: Of course that is one problem with open source software... without a business model to support the development, it can take longer