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A final reminder: we're going to the pub
Here's a map to the Eagle and Child, where Dave and I will be sitting from 4pm until 9pm. We'd love it if you could join us.
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Interview with Elgg
Josie Fraser has posted an interview with Dave and I. If you're curious about who's behind Elgg, where we're going next or about our attitude to the e-learning sphere, go take a peek.
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A new place for Elgg users
Developers have had a mailing list for some time to discuss system code (it's here, if you'd like to join) but we're pleased to announce that as of today there's a similar community for users. The Elgg users mailing list is for
IE7 lurks around the corner
Internet Explorer 7 is being released this month. Web developers around the world are treating this news with a certain amount of anxiety. I, for one, am not. I mean, it can't be much worse, right?
Ubiquitous connectivity
I'm sometimes surprised by how easy it actually is to get on the Internet. Dave and I are both in transit, but I spoke to him on MSN chat as he sat on the train. Meanwhile, I'm on the Oxford Tube coach to London, with rolling
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YouTube is wildly popular
http://theinternetispeople.com/2006/10/05/youtube-is-wildly-popular/ HipMojo is running a compelling argument that YouTube isn’t going anywhere anytime soon. Despite numerous naysayers, and various threats from the media industry, sites like YouTube are the beginning of a giant sea change in media. Combine it with TiVo and other
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Webcameron
http://theinternetispeople.com/2006/09/30/webcameron/ As much as Conservative Party leader David Cameron gives me shivers up my spine and makes my hair stand on end, I think his latest venture will probably work well for him. Webcameron is a series of video blogs that are just unblatantly
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The challenge of multiple contexts
http://theinternetispeople.com/2006/09/29/the-challenge-of-multiple-contexts/ danah boyd has this to say about Facebook’s recent opening to the general public: MySpace allegedly has something like 100 million users (although there has recently been controversy about this and other user figures). How on earth do you sort through that
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We'd like to invite you into our Spaces
Boy, building out a fully-featured online service turns out to be a lot of hard work, even on top of the two and a half years we've already put into Elgg. Frankly, it's taken longer than we thought to get everything in place. But we'
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In Search of the Valley: some prominent Internet people
http://theinternetispeople.com/2006/09/28/ in-search-of-the-valley-some-prominent-internet-people/ Steve O’Hear emailed us earlier today to let us know that his movie, In Search of the Valley, has just been released on DVD. From the write-up on Read/Write Web: I have my own opinions about the people involved, largely obtained
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Just a reminder
In the Silicon Valley Web 2.0 scene, they host wild and raucous tech parties where Kevin Rose signs people's chests and the cocktails flow all night long. Everyone gets a free T-shirt and somewhere, a Valleywag hack is on hand to post incriminating photos to Flickr. In
Apparently the mobile shake-up has started
http://theinternetispeople.com/2006/09/26/apparently-the-mobile-shake-up-has-started/ According to the BBC, “the mobile web is about to receive the biggest shake-up in years with the start of open registration for mobile phone-specific website addresses. The .mobi top level domain is intended for sites catering to mobile phone users.” There are