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Campfire
http://www.campfirenow.com/ "Easy group chat for business has arrived." Not just for business, I'd wager. I've set up a test chat room to try it out: http://benwerd.campfirenow.com/room/2905
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Importing external content into your blog
This is all a bit experimental, but I've just asked Elgg to post any new items from my del.icio.us feed with the keyword "linklog" to my main blog. When the RSS gets grabbed later on tonight, you should see a link to Wired News.
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The perils of text-based communication
http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,70179-0.html "Those who sent the messages predicted that nearly 80 percent of the time their partners would correctly interpret the tone. In fact the recipients got it right just over 50 percent of the time."
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Open GUI library
Yahoo have released their user interface library free under the open source BSD license. Their bid to become darlings of the blogger set continues apace.
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Speak for free
Goodbye Skype, it was nice knowing you: the eBay-owned Voice over IP firm has agreed to cripple their software on non-Intel machines. If you log in with a PC based on an AMD chip, as many are, the number of people you can conference with is halved, for
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Using your resource tab
The resource tab is one of the most powerful features in Elgg. Each resource is a feed of information from either within Elgg or elsewhere on the web, which you can view on its own or together on an aggregated page that looks a bit like a weblog. How does
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Embedded chat
3Bubbles - another daffy Web 2.0 name - is a way to embed chat rooms in blog posts, using a small piece of code. The interface itself is AJAX-based, so you don't need any extra plugins; just the browser It's in closed beta at the moment,
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Ubiquitous computing
I'm writing this on the 5.32 oxford to london. Literally half the carriage - including me - is glued to their mobile phone. They're communicating, but at the same time sitting in a kind of eery silence. Is technology destroying our sense of community? Or is it
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Online safety, MySpace and Elgg
Ken Yarmosh is talking about safety and MySpace. Recently there's been a bit of a media furore over the social networking site, and some parents and teachers are correspondingly worried about web technologies their children might be using at school. This, in part, means Elgg, so I thought
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Web design in e-learning
Web design from scratch has a good overview of current web style. I love all these pages, with perhaps the exception of LinkedIn; the site it's hosted on isn't bad either. In fact, I actually really like the style of the moment in general: big text,
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The value of being an underdog
I'm just saying, but after looking at this photo blog of food eaten at Google, I'd like to invite them to buy us out. Like, right now, no consultation required. I'll figure out a way to pay Dave off. Hunger does strange things to
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Open source VoIP
OpenZoep is a GPL-licensed open source VoIP client for Windows, Mac and Linux. They're promoting an extension to the XMPP/Jabber spec that would allow for SIP calls using XMPP networks, which would finally allow for an interoperable peer to peer voice system. XMPP really does seem