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http://theinternetispeople.com/2006/12/04/specialised-sites-and-the-problem-of-eyeballs/ One of the issues with the web’s prevailing business model is that it’s eyeball-led: sites make money largely by getting users to watch advertisements. Each advertisement view, or impression, makes a very small amount of money, so the only way to
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BBC Click Online features Atif Sattar, a Bangladeshi student, talking about Elgg.net. (Click on the article and then 'view the whole interview'.) We're all really impressed here at the Curverider offices, and thank both Atif and the BBC for the exposure!
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Experimentally, I've made myself available for support calls via the Bitwine service. If this is successful, I'll keep it up; it seems like a good way to provide live help with Elgg to people that need it while leaving time for developments and other commitments. Incidentally,
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I'm pleased to announce that we've let loose a new release: Elgg 0.67 is available, as always, to download from Elgg.org. There's a lot in this new release, and particularly if you're running on 0.65 or below, we strongly
http://theinternetispeople.com/2006/12/01/youtubes-year/ I love Youtube. The site has become more and more integrated into our culture over the past year. Here are some important moments that might not have reached the international consciousness had the site not existed: Iraqi kid runs for water. Soldiers giving
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http://theinternetispeople.com/2006/12/01/facebook-abuse/ A little while ago I discovered that my Facebook account had been disabled. Logging in with my email address revealed the stark message: Your account has been disabled by an administrator. Please contact info@facebook.com for more information. So far, so unfriendly.
For the last couple of days I've been playing with two things: * An API to allow you to use external file services with your Elgg site * Amazon's Simple Storage Service Amazon S3 is a simple grid storage service with REST and SOAP interfaces. Essentially it means
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http://theinternetispeople.com/2006/11/29/audition-for-big-brother-via-a-social-network/ Channel 4’s digital entertainment channel E4 will shortly have its website revamped as a social network. Rather than sift through audition tapes, submissions for the next freakfest series of Big Brother will be via a Youtube-style community video service; presumably they will
http://theinternetispeople.com/2006/11/29/bittorrent-bram-cohen-and-me/ BitTorrent has raised $25 million dollars and lost its founder. Bram Cohen is the guy who developed the protocol, the software and the company, yet they’ve found themselves looking for a new CEO. Comments in the TechCrunch article suggest that it may
http://theinternetispeople.com/2006/11/29/opera-mini-targets-social-networking-users/ I’m a several-times-a-day Opera Mini user (it works much better on my Nokia than either the built-in browser or other downloadable options), so I was delighted to see Mashable’s post on version 3. This one emphasises social networking users and more,
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http://theinternetispeople.com/2006/11/28/selling-books-online/ 37 Signals have some social networking inspired ideas for promoting books. One of these is quite smart: However, the article also talks about a mass effort to “hack” the Amazon bestseller list by getting customers to all buy the book at once. This
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Dave and I have been hearing rumours (coming out of JISC) that we're going to commercialise Elgg. We would like to state, for the record, that Elgg will always be free and open source. This is a core component of our ethos and business model, and will never