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It isn't perfect yet, but personal tag clouds are available at: your username So for example, mine is at http://elgg.net/bwerdmuller/tags/ and Dave's is at http://elgg.net/dtosh/tags. I'm keeping them unlinked until they're how I want
Okay, so I was probably overoptimistic about the personal tag clouds and geographic details, but this week they will definitely appear. I'm also seriously looking at WebDAV - the ability to mount your file repository as a drive is incredibly attractive. Shouldn't be too hard to
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Around the corner from my office they're holding the Moodle Moot 2005 - the UK & Ireland Moodle conference. I wonder if there are any Elgg users present?
Hidden away in this Guardian article is a mention of one of the Wikimedia Foundation's upcoming projects post-Wikipedia: a free, online curriculum stretching from kindergarten to university. I know about WikiBooks, but this ounds like something more - I'll definitely be keeping an eye out for
I'm building a 'recent activity' page that will allow you to view activity on your account performed by other users - for example comments left on weblog posts, friends and unfriends. I'm also going to build a personal 'tag cloud' page, which
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Elgg currently outputs some very simply DOT code at elgg.net/_dotty. I originally had the script include the "news" user, which most people have retained on their friends list, which yielded the following friendship diagram: {{file:1294}} I've since removed it, and the results -
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Dave's been doing a great job importing some cool themes and getting the software ready for internationalisation. Neither Dave nor I speak anything other than English, but we've got a development installation running in a delightful shade of Babelfish French. Once we've got the
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Worth reading if you have any interest in Elgg specifically or learning software in general: What is Elgg?
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This was originally a handful of posts on my personal weblog @ apcala.com, but I thought I'd repost here to see what Elgg.net members think. Poor old Dave Winer. Obviously times have been a little hard of late for the RSS and podcasting pioneer, who recently declared
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A quick reminder: the Elgg logo competition only has a couple more days left! Have a go!
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We've had a couple of changes today, courtesy of Mr Tosh - 'Templates' are now known as 'Themes', and you'll find your friends groups under 'Access'. We think these terms are less confusing and more closely describe the functionality in
We're really keen for people to try out their own Elgg installations, which is why we've created this hosting deal - we'll give you a gigabyte of server space and install the latest version of the software for you, so you can mess about