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I've just found two of the coolest web apps I've seen in a while. There's a little-known facility in the HTTP standard that allows a client to connect to a server and stay connected (as opposed to most web browser transactions, which are of
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People seem to have gotten into the keywording habit. It'll be very interesting to see how this progresses now that we've enabled keywords on weblog posts and will shortly do so on files ... Here's the almost-obligatory "random tags" page. Pretty much useless,
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Weblog posts can now be tagged with category keywords. As is the standard, keywords are comma-separated; once you've added a couple, these can be searched. For example, if you click on "elgg features" at the bottom of this post, you can see every post I'
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Technorati is an interesting site for exploring what's semi-ironically known as the Blogosphere; furthermore, it has tags for categorising weblogs, and an API so you can plug stuff into it. Book Talk is an interesting application that picks out the books webloggers are talking about at the moment.
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To reiterate what's been said in both Dave's and the news blog, we're looking for programmers to help us develop the system. If you've got some experience with PHP, HTML and SQL and fancy helping out, please contact either of us and
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There's a rumour going round that Six Apart, the owners of Movable Type, have agreed to buy LiveJournal. (Update: it's not a rumour any more; eWeek has the full story.) This is absolutely huge for a number of reasons. LiveJournal is the largest open source weblogging
I hope everyone in Elggland had a good holiday period. I've been with my family in California since mid-December, and it's been fun catching up and wryly noticing the cultural differences between here and the UK. Development is back in hand - weblog archives are enabled,
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The buttons at the bottom of the weblog screens have been turned into links, so that Firefox and Opera users can open them in new tabs. More to come ...
For the past couple of weeks, people have been complaining about random logouts. This should now be a thing of the past - if anyone is still experiencing these, please let me know. (If you're online as I'm posting this message, you may need to log
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There haven't been any updates for the past couple of days, because I'm getting ready to go to California for seven weeks. Once I'm there I'll be working on the system as ever, but I just wanted to apologise for the quiet
Via a ton of other places (not least MetaFilter and Slashdot) comes the news that Microsoft have broken into the weblogging market with MSN Spaces. {{cut}}According to the front page, the only feature that breaks out of the very standard weblogging format is the ability to upload pictures straight
Another note about something you may have missed: the friends box on the sidebar (although not the full friends screen) changes order depending on who last updated their weblog. The person who most recently updated is first, and so on, making it easy to know if your Friends Weblog has