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Dave's already announced this one, but it needs to be reiterated: every Explode account is an OpenID. What is OpenID? OpenID is a simple standard that allows you to log on to multiple sites and services using one identity that follows you around the Internet. The idea is
Explode users can now configure their Javascript widget in a number of ways. We're going to be adding more themes as time goes on - but for now there's four to choose from, and you can pick the size of the icons, the number of rows
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Okay, so we all know that Google just launched Google Apps Premier, which is basically their rival to Microsoft Office. At $50 per seat per year, with no install costs and next to no compatibility issues, this is going to be cheaper for a lot of people than the incumbent.
Every so often I come across a product or service that seems to have had a Web 2.0 epiphany. Presumably someone at the company stuck their head out, had a look around, saw the buzzwords and stuck their head back in before they'd fully researched what was
This makes me really, really want a Nintendo Wii. Now, if we could network together console users, no matter whether they were using a Wii, an Xbox, a PS3, etc?
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Steve O'Hear featured Explode in his excellent Social Web blog last night, Techcrunch followed, and our user figures are rocketing. It's very gratifying to see, although humbling that after three years of working on an open source social networking framework with all the trimmings, something this
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The eagle-eyed among you will have seen a new widget appear at the bottom of Dave and my sidebars. We've been playing with a new service (okay, okay, hack), based on the Elgg framework, that explodes the social networking paradigm and allows you to list your friends wherever
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We've been spending all day populating the shiny new Elgg documentation page over on Elgg.org. This is a MediaWiki integration, which represents one of the wiki choices available to Elgg users. The other one is Nathan Garrett's wiki plugin, which we're going to
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Over at Elgg.org, our main software site, Dave invites you to list your Elgg installation. It'd be great if a couple of you could go along and add yours to the list; we're going to be using this as a basis for a portal later
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Check out the slickness of our editing. Some bits were added later - but it's impossible to tell which! {{video:http://www.youtube.com/v/_X-rxMAm4ps}}
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Richard MacManus has a poll over at Read/Write Web about web innovation, and whether it's unique to Silicon Valley. I left a long comment, but what do you think? If we pin it down further to the e-learning sphere, where is the real innovation happening? (And by