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Elgg 0.65 left the building on Friday; as ever, head over to Elgg.org for all Elgg software-related resources. There are a ton of improvements in this one, including better internationalisation support, the filters you see on the Elgg.net all weblogs page and more. For interested developers,
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Following Steve O'Hear's earlier post on E-learning 2.0, he's again contributed to Read/Write Web, this time with an article entirely devoted to Elgg. Dave: Click here to read the full entry.
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http://theinternetispeople.com/2006/08/11/is-flock-right/ Richard MacManus has an interesting interview with Flock’s co-founder Geoffrey Arone over at ZDnet. This is worth a listen, and Richard asks some pertinent questions. Geoffrey’s product adds photos, search, news, blogging and favourites to the open source
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http://theinternetispeople.com/2006/08/11/the-mystery-of-the-online-community/ John C. Dvorak is on the case in PC Magazine, wondering if there’s a hard and fast way to prevent the “fakes and vandals” from ruining online communities. Other systems such as Metafilter are also information-driven,
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http://theinternetispeople.com/2006/08/10/no-moblogging-is-not-the-future/ This evening’s GigaOm headline: SixApart bets that future is MoBlogging. Actually, I’m pretty sure they’re betting on no such thing - or at least, they’d better not be, because the future isn’t moblogging at
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Dave's already written about it, but because I'm totally psyched - that's a technical term - about the project, I thought I'd also put down a few words. Elgg Spaces will be a turnkey solution that allows anyone to sign up and, there and
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http://theinternetispeople.com/2006/08/09/wikiality-the-revolution-will-not-be-verified/ There’s been a bit of a kerfuffle over at Wikipedia about the satirist Stephen Colbert. In an item on his Colbert Report show last week, he coined the term wikiality - a wiki take on reality, that
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Steve O'Hear has written a piece on e-learning 2.0 for Richard MacManus's Read/Write Web. Elgg is briefly mentioned, with the promise of more to follow in part 2. This is a good article, and already there has been quite a useful comment: This
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The entirety of one of the best documentaries I've seen on media, journalism and the Iraq war is available to view for free, courtesy of Google Video. I'm blown away that they have this; if you have an hour and twenty five minutes to spare, this
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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;