Web 2.1 is finally with us
http://cheese.blartwendo.com/web21-demo.html
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AOL to open up AIM
http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/04/20/more-details-on-aols-myspace-killer/ Sounds like they're adding an API and all kinds of things. Could be interesting - do they see a threat from Gtalk and Jabber?
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As old as publishing
I just caught this today via my del.icio.us inbox and O'Reilly Radar in turn: a New York Times editorial from yesterday about the similarities between the English "Free Press" circa 1918, as described by Hilaire Belloc in his book of the same name, and
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Why does Elgg run PHP and MySQL?
Eagle-eyed readers from the development mailing list will notice a flaw in my title. The latest Elgg (the one you can now download from Subversion, which will be available to download as Elgg 0.6 at the end of the month) uses a standard database library and can switch to
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Elgg on TechSoup
Elgg has been added to TechSoup, a site about technology for non-profit organisations, which also hosts the excellent NetSquared. If those of you who have downloaded and installed Elgg could visit this page and give the software an honest (and anonymous) rating, I'd be much obliged.
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Open standards
PICT3746, originally uploaded by Stuart Yeates. OSS Watch / JISC is hosting a conference round the corner from me on open source and sustainability. I'm intrigued to hear about which open standards and products they're backing and how they're going to promote them within the
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Mind the gap
I can't believe it's almost Easter again - the weeks and months are flying by. I'm not sure if this is a good thing or a bad thing; they say that time flies when you're having fun, but there's also
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Elgg testing
Last week, very quietly so as to not attract attention, the architecturally redesigned version of Elgg slipped out onto Subversion. Since then there have been a number of updates; the code freeze is very much over, and we're now at the point where I'd really like
The Future of the Web: Sir Tim Berners-Lee
http://webcast.oii.ox.ac.uk/?view=Webcast&ID=20060314_139 An hour-long webcast with the inventor of the Web about its future.
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ePortfolios and the digital lifestyle
A TV remote control that can display XML-based widgets? Whatever next? People have been talking about things like fridges with flat panel displays for just about an eternity now, but I've never really seen the point. To-do lists are great, for sure, but I think most families would
Hive 7: a virtual world in a browser
Not to say I told you so, but This is only the beginning - ajax (and, I'm sure, other technologies that will peek out from around the corner before we know it) is on the up. I really don't think it'll be long before
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How accurate is Wikipedia?
Nature "cooked" its article on Wikipedia, the Encyclopaedia Britannica has claimed. It's worth noting that The Register, which hosts the linked article, isn't a bastion of balanced journalism (and often contains anti-web 2.0 invective), but it certainly sounds like something fishy may have