General

Tag suggestions

When you click on a keyword, some screens will now show automatic tag suggestions at the bottom. This is currently a full word search, so "photography" yields "digital photography", but not "photos" (yet).

Getting away from it all

We've had a bit of a frenetic week here - it's been very exciting to finally add the tag functionality and see how that ties together. There's more to come, but I hope you've enjoyed playing with it as much as I&

Ad-hoc communities

So here's a thought. By the end of today, the Elgg software will have keywords attached to files and folders. That means you'll be able to (for example) click on the keyword "social learning" and you'll find links to everybody interested in

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Elgg, Switzerland and auto-complete

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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Tags and everybody's weblog posts

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 keywords

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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Book Talk

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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Programmers needed!

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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Livejournal buyout

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

Holidays

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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Tiny update

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 ...

Random logouts

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