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Embedding videos easily
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More on the presentation tool and using Elgg as an ePortfolio
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Web sources and educational blogging
I've posted over here about educational blogging and web 2.0 resources. I'd be interested to hear any comments you might have. Incidentally, the Emerge project is a JISC funded project exploring the use of web 2.0 for collaboration. It goes without saying that they&
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Presentation tool
The University of Brighton funded development of the presentation tool we've been conceptualising for the last year. It's now in testing, and we've uploaded it on this site for you to try out. Here's my sample presentation: the history of Elgg development.
Changes on Elgg.net
If you're an Elgg.net user, this is an essential read. In brief: we're changing its name, because people get confused about what Elgg actually is. It's not really going to affect you much, but you should know what's going to happen.
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Looking for a professional coder?
This isn't a usual kind of post for me, but an old friend of mine just nudged me because he is seeking new employment. If anyone's after a first-rate programmer whose CV contains just about anything you could wish for (PDF), Marcus comes with a very
Open source and arguing over the Internet
I'm generally reluctant to wade into arguments, but there's been a war of words between Dave and Stephen Downes over the weekend - and unlike the slightly jovial sparring I had with Marc Canter a while back, this one has made us both quite upset. Dave&
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Cross-network search
This is a heads up. It's unlinked from anywhere but this blog post for now - but this is a ping-based person search, designed to work across all social networks. We're going to do a lot more with the results (as well as paginate them), but
The Great Firewall checker
This service checks whether your website is banned in China. Clever idea.
More on spyware
After my thoughts yesterday about web spyware, this post about email spam caught my eye. The author owns his own email domain, so creates a new email address he signs up to; Company A gets companya@domain, Service B gets serviceb@domain, etc. These email addresses are unique and never
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The napkin fiction project
I love stuff like this. Esquire sent 250 napkins to various writers across America, and got nearly 100 of them back, from established novelists to first-time authors. Some of them are fantastic. There was a collaborative art project on the web around five years ago where people sent notebooks out,
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Is MyBlogLog spyware?
There's been a flurry of activity over the last few days over MyBlogLog, and specifically, whether it secretly tracks advertising clicks. Now owned by Yahoo, the allegation is that the tool is being covertly used to optimise their contextual search product against Google's Adsense (which we