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Lately I've been doing all my Elgg posting in w.bloggar, a small Windows client that sits in my taskbar next to the system clock. It's not that the Elgg interface is in any way bad (although I would say that); however, being able to post
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Why Wikipedia isn't always a great research tool.
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Google are paying $1 for every user switched to Firefox from Microsoft Internet Explorer. Why would they do this? Any web developer will tell you - IE is buggy, standards-incompliant, sometimes radically different from version to version and ultimately, frankly, a pain in the bum. The linked page isn'
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We're looking to start a development open-access mailing list. Can anyone recommend / offer reliable hosting? We're open to commercial services, university-affiliated servers, as long as it's going to stick around for a while.
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The Playstation Portable is now a fully capable podcasting client. A host of big players seem to be getting into podcasting at the ground level - right now it's basically a hack that sits on top of weblog technology, but where will it be in five years? This is
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I think, before too long, RSS feeds aggregated like this will be common practice. Users are all familiar with email, and placing the aggregator in a message-based context actually provides new functionality for content providers too - they can save bandwidth by letting people pull in the new content they&
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Mozilla Firefox 1.5 is out - I upgraded this morning and haven't found any problems. The thing is, I haven't found any exciting new features either; there's an easy-to-find "delete all private data" button that would be useful were I
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In other news, English alcohol licensing laws change today, which means pubs and clubs can open much later (morbidly enough, on the same day George Best is going to die from alcohol abuse). I happen to live three houses down from a drinking establishment of less than shining repute; I&
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Lately - every since the ePlugfest in Cambridge last month, in fact - I've been thinking about standards and interoperability between web applications. The ideal is that Elgg, Moodle, Gmail, 43things, Upcoming, Match, your university's intranet portal, LUSID and Microsoft Outlook can all interact with each other, sharing
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I think it was Misja who pointed me towards Microsoft's Simple Sharing Extensions draft. SSE provides a minimal XML data structure to allow better collaboration using RSS and OPML feeds - e.g. using RSS to synchronise events between two calendar systems. This possibly represents a bit of a
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I'm finding myself trapped by a problem that's often been expressed to me in the past - who can you legitimately call a 'contact'? On a system like Elgg I'm happy to add anyone I'm interested in, but LinkedIn's
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As Dave will confirm, before we embarked upon Elgg I had an idea for a book called The Internet is People about running a web business. The thesis was that the only web businesses that would ever succeed were ones that looked at the Internet as a collection of people