Things are a little quiet

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

Microsoft does weblogging (and how to cut weblog posts)

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

More little features

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

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Online forum

Dave and I are participating in a forum at Maricopa College all this week, where we'll be answering questions about Elgg and discussing our vision for the future. Meanwhile, I'm drinking not a small amount of coffee and continuing to develop the system. More features to

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System messages

I've just re-enabled system messages within Elgg. We're in the process of upgrading the templates, but within a couple of hours you should start to see acknowledgement / error messages. A couple of other things have also been fixed (for example, uploading a file without clicking the

Embedding images

I'm really pleased that a number of people using Elgg have already been cooking up their own templates. In particular, Ashley Parker and Alison Wong have really done nice jobs, and have realised that it's possible to include images in your file repository in the layout

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Thank you!

I'd like to echo Dave's thank you to everyone who signed up for the alpha testing. After a year of thinking about the ideas involved, writing papers, thinking some more and settling down into programming it all, it's really great to see everyone using

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Testing ... testing ...

We're still getting the system ready at the moment. It looks like the people on our alpha test list will receive their invitation emails this evening, which will be exciting to say the least.